Women from Goodyear rubber company show new use of Pliofilm in Akron Ohio. Man gives pliofilm bags to women. The pliofilm bags serve as waterproof purses for the women's things. Women in swimsuits walk towards the lake on a dock. They swim and then later apply make-up. They swing on a swing set above the water. Narrator describes how Pliofilm is also used for defense purposes, in parachutes, food packages and bandages.
Views of Goodyear's Powder Manufacturing Plant being built in Charlestown Indiana. Colonel Hardy, Roland Gray and other Goodyear Company and U.S. military officials are seen discussing the project blueprints. Views of roads, buildings, "igloos" for storing powder. Earth moving machinery at work including "earth movers" and bulldozers. Women workers seated near administration offices. Workers gathered around a bus labeled the "Pay Wagon" to receive pay. Workers training to sew powder bags, and training with cracked corn to fill the bags. Views of new fire department and police cruisers in the town. Firemen do a demonstration with water hoses and form a "V" for victory with water jets. Management team for Goodyear emerges from building down stairs. Car traffic on surrounding roads exiting after day's work. Goodyear managers examining powder bag samples. (World War II period).
Rural Electrification Administration (REA) supplies electricity and improve the conditions of farmers in St. Clairsville,Ohio. Smoke and pollution exhaust from stacks near factories. Smoke passing through electricity transmission towers near the factories. REA workers erect poles and install electrical transformers. View of electrical wires leading into home. A farmer switches on a light switch and points to light turning on and off. Farm women rings dinner bell. Farmer drives tractor towards farm house. Woman shows new electric oven to husband. Pies are put into oven to bake. Man goes into basement and connects electrical well pump and demonstrates water pressure by turning shower faucets. Close up view of hand of a boy as he tunes the dial on a radio and listens to the radio in the family living room. His father enters and turns on a table lamp as they listen to the radio. Man examines electrical water pump in the basement located beside hot water heater. He plugs in the water pump. Close up view of the belt-driven pump running. Man tests pressure of water coming from shower. Girl fills ice cube tray at faucet and puts ice cube tray into freezer. Woman puts away hurricane lamp in a cupboard now that house has electricity for night time lights. Boy takes a shower. Man washes his hands at a sink.
German General Erwin Rommel inspects German bunkers and fortifications in North Africa. The General talks to a soldier and walks away. The German Army soldiers stand with their military tanks near their bunkers. General Rommel in a tank, having conversation with another officer. (Scenes are from 1941, but narrator is noting that Rommel has died, indicating that this is news form 1944, but is showing scenes from several years prior.)
Citizen National Guard, known as Volkssturm, being registered, armed, and seen marching in Germany late in World War 2. Registration for young and old in National Guard and Hitler Youth participants. Eager young boys shown in recruitment, and elderly Germany men are seen signing up. New National Guards sign some papers and shake hands with Nazi officials. Hitler Youth registration. Heinrich Himmler gives speech from a platform in a hall in Insterburg, East Prussia. German swastika flags covers war memorials. Large outdoor rally in Annaberg Germany with Nazi leaders, National Guard members, Hitler Youth, and citizens listening to the speech. Large banner hung from buildings in Annaberg. Nazi soldiers and National Guardsmen with guns and weapons including panzerfaust on shoulders march in the streets. Civilians salute as the Soldiers, Volkssturm and Hitler Youth march with German swastika flags.
Opens with "back the attack" 5th War Loan fundraising message of World War 2. Film title "Target Berlin" seen along with sound and images of impact of bombardment. Scenes from an aircraft manufacturing plant in Canada. A man seen in office over a telephone conversation getting news to build the bombers. Canadian men and women war production workers working in the plant talk about the manufacturing of the Lancaster Bomber. Designers,engineers and officers engage in discussion about the blueprints and drawings of the aircraft for production. Workers, engineers, and technicians manufacturing and assembling various parts of the aircraft in Victory Aircraft Limited, an aircraft production company. "KB-700" painted on the fuselage of the nearly completed aircraft.
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