Damage due to floods in the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. Aerial view of the flooded area. Houses and buildings along the sides of flooded streets. Rescue operations in progress. People are rescued in small boats.
A road to Dayton Ohio, crowded with cars of the 1930s. Men hitch-hiking near a sign reading: "Dayton 47." A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train,speeds past the camera. Arrows on map of Ohio, show areas around Dayton, from which defense workers are being drawn. Closeup of car wheel and tire. Another hitch-hiker at 48 miles from Dayton. Cars converging on the city of Dayton. A line of patrons extending out onto the sidewalk outside the Virginia Cafeteria at 28 East 3rd Street. Another queue of patrons with bags of clothes outside a laundry and dry cleaners establishment. A long line of patrons on the sidewalk outside of a motion picture theater, showing a Western movie starring Johnny Mack Brown and Tex Ritter. A woman places a "No Vacancies" notice over Plaza Apartments sign. Other "No Vacancies" signs posted elsewhere. Men and women war plant workers queue up to board buses to factories. Some men step over a rope line to get ahead of others. Closeup of workers crowding into the entrance of a commuter train. View from inside as workers (mostly women) try to board. A long line of men and women on the sidewalk outside a corner cafeteria in a large building. Woman removing "rooms to let" sign from her apartment wiindow. A man posting a "No Vacancy" sign. The office of the War Manpower Commission Area Director. Seated around a table are are seen members of The Dayton Local Labor Management Committee (Dayton War Manpower Committee). Inquiries being received by manufacturers hiring 8 persons or more, as well as personnel officers of the local Army Air Forces Air Fields, seen in uniform. Other employers answering the inquiries. Employers signing letters to the War Manpower Commission, pledging to stop hiring full-time workers, except those approved as war essential, with the understanding that part-time workers would be referred to them as substitutes. A woman in the War Manpower Commission office types a report to the Washington office. Draftsmen at work in an office. Two women going from house-to-house soliciting women war workers to work in the war effort. Views of various women being interviewed. One watching her young son climb on her porch railing, has to rescue him during the interview, and declined to participate. Next, a woman is seen taking small children to a building labeled "Day Nursery." View inside as women leave their small children in the care of other women providing care for them. Many children seated at tables having a meal. Closeups of some of the children. Street scene in busy downtown Dayton, Ohio with with many women pedestrians walking on sidewalks. A publication called "The War Worker," showing an illustration of a man and a woman side-by-side going to war jobs. It lists war jobs open to women (and men). A team of motion picture workers filming a woman operating a machine, in a publicity shot encouraging such war work. View of a finished film called "Dayton Women are Marching to War !." Men and women in a movie theater watching the film. Views of the faces and expressions of the people watching the movie, and views of the movie screen. Reporters for radio stations WHIO and WING, interviewing women in defense plants. View inside a local home where women playing bridge are listening to the interviews on a large console radio during card game. Views of the City of Dayton with large outdoor advertising billboards encouraging people to get jobs to help the war effort. Newspaper headlines related to the status of the ongoing World War 2. Closeup view of newspaper headlines and of advertisements inside the newspaper encouraging women to get wartime jobs. Glimpse of the city. Brief view of many women inside a war plant seating at a table filled with cylinder shaped instruments. A man moves a finished cylinder to a table. (These are possibly parts of aircraft bomb sights). Aerial view of the city of Dayton Ohio.
Hogs at a farm in Ohio. Farmer loads pigs into truck in order to transport them to the market. The truck gets stuck in a muddy road and the farmer is unable to free his truck. The hogs get tired and jump out of the truck adding to the farmer's complications. Demonstrates problems with low quality road system for farmers getting from farm to market. Federally financed road construction shows workers during the Great Depression as they reconstruct and level rugged roads under the Farm to Market Roads Program. Various machines used for the purpose of building new roads. A farm truck drives across a smooth road. A school bus approaches a new consolidated school building using the developed roads. View of an older rural school house in Ohio that is no longer used as a school due to school consolidation under the Works Progress Administration or WPA program. Two boys play on a see-saw in front of the school building. Children wearing shorts get off the school bus. View of main entrance of OYO Boy Scout Camp in West Portsmouth, Ohio. Boy Scouts view a knot tying demonstration as they sit outside the newly constructed Block House log cabin, built with federal funds under the Civil Works Administration, at the camp located in the Roosevelt Game Preserve. Views of the camp Headquarters building at Camp OYO. View of buildings of Old Fort Recovery, built by General 'Mad' Anthony Wayne, and restored by WPA.
View of Harvard University. View of statue of Harvard university founder, John Harvard. View of pages of newspapers College Daily and the Harvard Crimson, newspapers Franklin Roosevelt served as editor for during his college years. Franklin Roosevelt’s name in paperwork associated with the Harvard Crimson. View of Charles river in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Railroad train running beside the Charles river, full of students from Harvard and Yale. Students from Harvard and Yale Universities watch the annual boating duels on the Charles River between their universities. View of locomotive train full of Harvard and Yale students running. Regatta in the Charles River. View of a busy street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A stadium with many football game spectators. Male cheerleader uses Yale Megaphone before football game. Football between Harvard and Yale. Crowd in stadium forms an “H”. Exhausted football players in field after match. Image of the Senior Year Group Graduation photo from Franklin Roosevelt’s class.
Opening scene shows workers arriving for a shift at a war plant in Dayton, Ohio, during World War 2. The arrive in cars and public transport (not seen) to stream across the road in front of the defense plant, as they enter. Others are seen leaving defense plants, in large numbers as their shifts end. A sign at a war plant advocating ride sharing or car pooling to conserve resources shows a cartoon of Adolf Hitler riding in the empty back seat of a man's car. It reads, "Hitler rides in the empty seat. Double Up!" Men and women are seen standing at a designated Transportation Center to arrange for sharing rides with others. A man steps from a sidewalk, in town, to get into a car that stops to pick him up as part of that activity. People gathering for buses under newly built shelters. A sign on a bus reads: We deliver the war workers. They deliver the goods." Buses moving through the city. One stops and many workers exit, in a town center. Other workers are seen lined up to board rail road trains. Workers entering their private cars in a crowded parking lot at a war plant. Workers crowd into the entrances of a defense plant, where their identification badges are evident on their work clothes. Large numbers of workers leave at the same time others arrive when a shift change occurs. Plant managers discuss ways to minimize absenteeism. View of workers in a crowded cafeteria providing hot meals. A sign reading: "Ladies Dining Room." outside a room filled with women workers having a meal. Men at work in a National Cash Register (NCR) factory assembling 60 pound magazines for 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, used by the U.S. Navy, and built by National Cash Register in Dayton Ohio. A factory steam whistle blows, signaling a rest period, as workers take a break for a snack or a smoke. Worker eats an apple and other smoke cigarettes. Narrator describes health and logistical services offered on-site at production plants for workers to minimize time away from work. A sign on a door identifies the "Ladies Health Department." Hours posted on the door correspond to various shifts operating at the plant. Another worker health service is that of a dentist on the premises. View of dentist and nurse working on a patient. Another service area in a war plant shows clerks helping workers to obtain ration books, auto and driver licenses, dealing with Selective Service (draft) matters, income tax questions, ride sharing, and telephone and light utilities. Scene shifts to the Headquarters Building of the National Cash Register Company in Dayton. Ohio Inside, a company manager is interviewing a worker who plans to quit. They discuss the workers reasons and seemingly resolve some problem, because they shake hands and the film narrator implies that the worker is going to remain on the job. A factory building lit up at night. Inside men and women night shift workers are seen performing war work on machines, just as in the daytime. Next, a group of plant managers are seen being trained in particular skills required at their jobs. A view of the city from across a river. A radio announcer with station WHIO. A montage of newspaper clipping related to war workers.
View of Goodyear Hall in Akron Ohio, and downtown streets of Akron Ohio from an elevated view. Goodyear Hall and clock tower with flags of different nations hanging from its walls. Scene change to a village across the Pacific and native workers extracting and collecting rubber from rubber trees with hand tools. Workers picking cotton at an Arizona cotton plantation and finished bales of cotton. Scene change again back to Akron Ohio, where spectators enjoy a Goodyear Company baseball game at Seiberling Athletic Field. Well dressed men, women, and children seated in the stands at the baseball game for the Goodyear Wingfoots. Women War production workers manufacture gas masks with rubber pipes at a Goodyear factory early in World War 2, before America's entry into the war. They are seen exiting the factory after the work day is over. Aircraft parts for Britain and America being manufactured at a Goodyear factory that houses the company airship dock, 3 blocks long and 30 stories high. Exterior views of clearing and construction work beginning for two more aircraft construction facilities near the Airship dock. Two men test low pressure aircraft tires and brakes of a Good Year plane. View of many cars parked as employment and facilites expand at Goodyear facilities.
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