- Title: V-2389
- Summary: THE BIG CHANGE-OVER: REPORT ON WAR PRODUCTION. CONVERTING AUTOMOBILE FACTORY INTO ARMY DEFENSE PLANT. HOMEFRONT.
- Description:00:07:56 - LOW ANGLE SHOT OF TALL BUILDING WITH TRAFFIC GOING PAST IN DETROIT 00:08:09 - SMOKE BILLOWS FROM MANY SMOKESTACKS. PAN DOWN TO FACTORY-PLANT BUILDINGS. POLLUTION 00:08:24 - MEN IN FACTORY WORKING WITH RED HOT LENGTHS OF STEEL 00:08:31 - MAKING CAR DOOR PARTS ON ASSEMBLY LINE 00:08:40 - MEN BUILDING CARS ON ASSEMBLY LINE IN MOTOR CITY 00:08:53 - CU VARIOUS PIECES BEING PUT ON CAR: AXLE, CAR BUMPER, LOWERING BODY ONTO FRAME 00:09:05 - BRAND NEW SHINY 1930s CAR DRIVES OFF ASSEMBLY LINE UNDER HANGING AMERICAN FLAG 00:09:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS THROUGH EMPTY FACTORY, CLOSED DOWN WITH NO WORKERS 00:09:36 - VARIOUS SHOTS OF MACHINES IN FACTORY BEING BROKEN DOWN: BREAKING UP CONCRETE WITH JACK-HAMMER, LARGE METAL PIECES MOVED ALONG BY CEILING CRANE, PULLING MACHINES APART 00:10:09 - SMALL TRACTOR TOWS LARGE PIECES OF MACHINERY 00:10:13 - MACHINES PILED UP IN LARGE STORAGE ROOM 00:10:18 - LARGE PIECES OF MACHINERY BROUGHT OUT & LEFT OUTSIDE IN THE SNOW OUTSIDE FACTORY 00:10:35 - SOLDIER STANDS GUARD AT CHAINLINK FENCE GATE BY SIGN: "DEFENSE PLANT. PART OF THE ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY" 00:10:41 - HUGE PIECES OF MACHINERY INSTALLED IN PLANT. SPARKS FLY FROM SOLDERING IRON. PAN ALONG NEW MACHINES 00:11:41 - VIEW OF MEN'S SILHOUETTES AGAINST OVAL WINDOW AS THEY CLIMB UP STAIRS FOR TRAINING SCHOOL. WINTER OUTSIDE 00:11:53 - YOUNG MEN WORKING WITH NEW MACHINERY. IRON PRESSES, SANDERS, GRATERS, OILING CYLINDER 00:12:18 - ARMY MEN LEARNING IN CLASSROOM. CLASS DISMISSED, GET UP & LEAVE 00:12:31 - MEN GATHER AROUND MACHINE AS TEACHER SHOWS HOW IT WORKS 00:12:40 - IRON WORKERS TAKE RED-HOT STEEL OUT OF BURNER & PUT IT INTO HUGE IRON STAMPER WHICH POUNDS AWAY AT IT. 00:13:19 - SHINY AIRPLANE ENGINE WITH ALL LEVERS MOVING & TURNING 00:13:23 - WAR WORKERS PUSHING OUT AIRPLANE ENGINES 00:13:34 - BUFFING SHINY AIRPLANE PROPELLOR 00:13:40 - ROOM FILLED WITH PROPELLOR BLADES 00:13:44 - MEN PUSHING OUT COMPLETE PROPELLORS 00:13:48 - MEN SPINNING PROPELLOR BLADES & ASSEMBLING THEM 00:13:53 - PROPELLOR IS TESTED, SPINNNG 00:14:02 - MEN TAKING HELMETS OUT OF PRESS 00:14:09 - FEMALE WAR WORKER STAMPING LINING INTO HELMET 00:14:16 - MASS PRODUCTION AS WORKERS INSPECT HELMETS COMING OFF ASSEMBLY LINE 00:14:22 - ASSEMBLY LINE AS MEN MANUFACTURE MACHINE GUNS 00:14:26 - MACHINE GUNS MOVE ALONG CONVEYOR BELT 00:14:30 - TYPEWRITERS ON DISLPLAY 00:14:33 - LIPSTICKS ON DISPLAY 00:14:37 - SORTING MACHINE GUN SHELLS 00:14:41 - PULLING DOMED BOMB NOSES OUT OF MACHINE PRESS 00:14:47 - DISPLAY OF 1940s METAL LAMPS 00:14:49 - DISPLAY OF 1940s VACUUM CLEANERS 00:14:52 - DISPLAY OF 1940s ELECTRIC TOASTERS 00:14:55 - 1940s REFRIGERATORS, WASHING MACHINES 00:14:59 - DISPLAY OF GARDEN TOOLS, MANUAL PUSH MOWER & SHOVELS 00:15:01 - 75MM GUN SHELLS MOVING ALONG ASSEMBLY LINE 00:15:13 - HUNDREDS OF ARMY TRUCKS READY FOR SHIPPING IN LOT 00:15:35 - CU STEAM WHISTLE BLOWS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2389