President John F Kennedy answers a question put forward by a reporter during his election campaign, whether his loyalties would be divided between the Church and the President's office.
Election campaign advertisement for President John F Kennedy. Hand holds a banner that reads 'Kennedy'. Picture of John F Kennedy with signs that read 'Greatness', 'Leader for the 60's'. Collage with pictures of President Kennedy and other well known American leaders, and also with state and city names: 'Indiana', 'NewYork', 'Oregon', 'Illinois', 'Ohio', 'Michigan', 'Texas' and 'California'. Hands with banners that read, 'Kennedy for President'. Picture of President John F Kennedy with wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and daughter Caroline Kennedy. Ad features background chorus singing a two stanza jingle with "Kennedy" chorus including stanza lines, "Do you want a man for President who's seasoned through and through, but not so doggone seasoned that he won't try something new? A man who's old enough to know and young enough to do? Well it's up to you it's up to you, it's strictly up to you. Do you like a man who answers straight, a man who's always fair? Well measure him against the others and when you compare, you'll cast your vote for Kennedy and the change that's overdue, so it's up to you, it's up to you, it's strictly up to you." Campaign advertisement features vintage 1960's television advertising style.
Movie trailer propaganda advertisement for 'Ordnance for victory. The largest public exhibition of war material ever presented in the United States' during World War 2. Heroic depictions of tanks, ships, and other weapons with music and text. Some of text reads, 'Weapons the Sons of America are using to Win Victory for Freedom and Liberty. The exposition is free to everyone from everywhere. The venue is, the entire 8th floor John Wanamaker. Timing is 10 am to 5 pm except weekdays and Fridays when hours will be noon to 9pm. Huge tanks, tank destroyers, Amphibian jeeps....Thousands of other symbols of similar war accomplishments are displayed which demonstrate America's soldiers of protection of the whole nation.'
Film begins showing the Ford bomber aircraft factory at Willow Run, near Detroit, Michigan, during World War 2. Views of the heavy industrial plant with smoke rising from smoke stacks. Cranes loading ships at various docks. Modern looking administrative buildings at the Willow Run plant. A wheeled tractor pulls a train of flat cars filled with parts for the assembly line, next seen, where B-24 Liberator bombers are being assembled. Partially constructed bomber bodies and wings are seen on a production floor. In another section of the plant, war production workers assemble aircraft engines. View of and engine, enclosed in a nacelle, being lowered by a crane. A gunner's compartment being lowered by a crane. Women's Army Corps (WAC) members at work replacing men called to serve in the armed forces. A contingent of WAC practice donning gas masks. Women in uniforms of United States Women's Naval Reserve (WAVES). Two women attendants service a car at a gas station. Women not engaged in war effort are seen shopping and on a golf course and swimming. A woman hanging clothes to dry on a backyard line. A flight of three B-24 bombers flies overhead, causing women in various pursuits, to look up to the sky. Cars arrive at the Ford bomber plant in Willow Run, carrying women volunteers. One middle aged woman punches a time clock in the factory. More views of the B-24 production line, and parts being stamped by a man operating a press. Scene transitions showing the man gone, and a women replacing him at the press. Women war production workers working on aircraft frameworks. A woman, walking on a sidewalk, pauses to look at advertisements encouraging women to work in the war effort. One read: "Women at war, We can't win without them." A sign outside an office reading: "War Manpower Commission." The woman enters that office.
Sign on store 'War Manpower Commission. United States Employment Service'. Women receive training in engine shop during World War II. Women rivet in a training class. Women riveting in factory.
Young American woman walks past buildings of an American college. She is seen entering and working at a war production plant during World War 2. She works riveting a section of a warplane. View inside a factory at Willow Run, Michigan, where a line of incomplete B-17 bomber aircraft is seen. Another room contains B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. A woman in the plant holds up a set of electric lines welded together. A woman operates an overhead crane moving a crate of parts in the factory. View of her from below as her housing and the crane are operating. Another woman adjusts her protective helmet and then operates a machine-driven jig saw. Two women war workers set plexiglass sheets on a bombardier's canopy. Two other women operate a machine producing aircraft turret windshields. Women working on aircraft fuselages. View of workers getting meals at the war plant cafeteria and sitting at tables to eat. A woman returns a book to the war plant library. More views of women in various manufacturing jobs, like installing wiring in aircraft fuselages. Women employing assembly jigs. More views of B-24s partially completed. Women moving fully built up aircraft engine by overhead crane and installing such in aircraft air frames. Sections of aircraft being lowered by crane and guided by women. A tail section of a B-24 being assembled. View of completed B-24 Liberator bombers ready for final painting. Next B-24s are seen lined up on the factory ramp. Another glimpse of the B-24 production line. Series of views showing B-24 bombers in flight.
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