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1942 World War 2: US population making small sacrifices as they build for victory
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3:29Now PlayingDate: 26th January 1942
Location: Germany, Usa, Japan, France, United Kingdom
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION: The Victory Way! Mr and Mrs American Consumer cheerfully face the facts...
USA:
EXT
Crowd of people gathered
INT
Golf balls being placed in boxes / tennis balls being taken from container / legs of woman in changing cubicle taking off girdle and putting it on the back of a chair / woman looking around shower curtain / women rolling down stocking on one leg and rolling up one on the other leg
EXT
Air view (aerial) of traffic along road
INT
Assembly line in car plant
EXT
Car showroom on street corner
INT
Buick cars displayed in showroom / man having application for tyres turned down by rationing board / factory where old tyres are retreaded
SLATE INFORMATION: Contrasts. In the dark lands...
JAPAN:
EXT
Bus along road / baskets of charcoal / charcoal emptied into hopper on bus to provide power
ENGLAND:
INT
Ration books
FRANCE:
EXT
People queueing outside shop to buy food / sign in French on chalkboard with caption translating it into English "No More Meat" / sign in French with caption translating it into English "No Eggs, No Rabbits, No Poultry. Don't Wait"
SLATE INFORMATION: Over Here
USA:
Used cars for sale standing in snow / horses standing at roadside
INT
Horse being shoed by blacksmith
EXT
Horses pulling wagon out onto road / people riding bicycles along road past man inflating tyre of car
AT NIGHT
Man calling for woman who sits on the crossbar of his cycle and they cycle away
SLATE INFORMATION: The Job Ahead
Washington DC:
DAY
Government building
INT
Donald Nelson (Chairman, War Production Board) speaking SOT
- Talks of getting public cooperation
Location unknown:
EXT
Workers along at factory / large factory buildings with smoke rising from multiple chimneys
INT
Steel plant
EXT
Ship under construction
INT
Aircraft under construction
JAPAN:
EXT
Emperor Hirohito
ITALY:
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
GERMANY:
German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler
SLATE INFORMATION: Tanks Arms Planes Ships
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