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Film summarizing efforts by City of Dayton, Ohio to overcome labor shortage and meet defense production goals in World War II

The City of Dayton, Ohio's local war manpower and emergency committee members are seen gathered around a table to discuss what other than just more workers is needed to meet the war production goals set for the city during World War 2. An animated diagram superimposed on a drawing of a factory, charts the labor needs vs. labor supply. For the management side, the chart cites matters that need to be addressed, including: personnel management; plant layout; reduction in turnover, and absenteeism; and better working conditions, Regarding labor itself, the chart cites the following as needed: additional women; transfers from non-essential jobs; minority groups; part-time workers; and handicapped workers. Next, the emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. They are being addressed by Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, who notes that Dayton has partially solved its manpower shortage and expects to meet its war production goals.Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. Mr. Allyn discusses further work to be done with as much emphasis on human relations as on the mechanics of production. An animated map shows Dayton and other areas of labor shortage, all over the United States. Workers in a factory are seen moving propeller blades across the floor by twirling them on end. Propellers assembled on their hubs are moved across the factory floor on wheeled stands. Artillery shells are seen protruding from containers. Browning aircraft machine guns moving along a conveyor belt. M3 Lee tanks being completed and moving across a factory floor. Glimpse of bombers in production. Army trucks lined up in formation at a factory yard. Closeups of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Narrator notes importance Eisenhower places on full support from the home front as essential to the war effort.)

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029535
German airplane shot down after it attacked an observation balloon near Montfaucon in France on October 3, 1918.

German airplane attacks an observation balloon near Montfaucon in France on October 3, 1918 . The observer drops in a parachute from the balloon. Antiaircraft guns and machines guns are fired at the approaching enemy plane to protect the balloon. The balloon explodes in flames and crashes to earth. The German air plane is shot down. Shows the wrecked plane and its pilot under officer Hans Heinrick Marwede. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Location: Montfaucon France
Date: 1918, October 3
Duration: 5 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029598
Men lay telephone lines across countryside in United States.

Horse carriages move down a road at countryside in United States. Telephone cables are transported in a circular box on a tracked vehicle. Man on a telephone pole works on telephone lines. Man splices the telephones cables and joins them. He applies hot lead at the wire-joints. Man tests for air holes in the cables to prevent moisture to enter.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1928
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029613
U.S. naval fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

General MacArthur maps the drive on Leyte with field commanders. Guarding the operation in the Philippines is a vast naval force. Battle map shows location of U.S. 7th fleet (Kinkaid) and U.S. 3rd fleet (Halsey). The air and sea Battle of Leyte Gulf. Aircraft carrier operation, planes land and take-off. Japanese plane shot down; hit by anti-aircraft fire Japanese plane cartwheels through the sky and crashes into the ocean. The USS Princeton is loss in battle. Aerial view of damage and later view of Princeton magazine exploding. Damaged plane landing on carrier deck on one landing gear. Admiral Nimitz reports on battle. (World War II period).

Location: Leyte Gulf Philippines
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029662
Mummers stage a traditional New Year's Day parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Thousands of mummers stage a traditional New Year's Day parade in their colorful costumes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Many performers are men in drag (men dressed as women). Ornate floats pass by in the parade, including an "invasion from Mars" scene and a ship being tossed on the ocean. A car weighed down by a heavy cart attached to it drives with its front wheels up in the air. Crowd of Mummers parade participants dancing in street, including some in blackface.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1939, January 3
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029685
Visit of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy to the Signal Laboratory, Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey

Exteriors of Fort Monmouth and its Camp Evans Signal Laboratory in New Jersey. Radar dishes revolving in fenced area. Visit of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman of Senate Subcommittee investigating "Army Signal Corps Subversion and Espionage.". Among those accompanying Senator McCarthy are Roy Cohn, chief counsel to the Senate Subcommittee , Senator H. Alexander Smith, of New Jersey, Robert T. Stevens,Secretary of the Army, Congressman James O. Auchincloss, of New Jersey, and Major General K.B.Lawton, Commanding General of Fort Monmouth. McCarthy and companions board a Military Air Transport C-47 aircraft to depart.

Location: New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1953, October 20
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029711
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