Description
Victory Is Our Business
This 1942 film shows men and women working in General Motors defense plants and factories producing weapons of war.
Brief image of welder (person) wearing welding helmet and using electric arc welder. Shift change at a defense factory or plant shows men and women exiting or “clocking in”. Shows workers on factory floor using machine tools. Shows uniform guard at door to Engineering Department. Shows large number of Engineers at work at drafting tables in Engineering Department. CU of engineering drawing. Management personnel in suites looking at a drawing on drafting table
Shows a military truck assembly line. Large crates marked “Chevrolet” on dock. Items produced by G. M. (General Motors) for war are shown first on an assembly line and later In their finished forms: diesel engines for tanks and submarines, liquid- and air-cooled engines for fighter planes, and sub-assemblies for bombers.
Shows a P-40 Warhawk fighter plane warming up and taking off. P-38 Lightning taking off and in flight. Shows P-40 Warhawk with shark teeth nose art being fueled and loaded with belts of ammunition. Shows manufacture of air-cooled plane engines. Shows manufacture of plane parts and sub-assemblies. Aircraft assembly plant. B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off and in flight.
Shows details in the production of shells and cartridge cases, machine guns and antiaircraft guns, “armasteel” castings, fire control instruments, machine gun mounts, propellers, electrical equipment, bearings, radios, and machine tools. Shows the retooling of a General Motors plant. G. M. workers attend a company school, General Motors Institute of Technology.
Runtime: 00:08:59
Sound: no
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
Also available in PAL. Please designate PAL at checkout. There is a PAL handling fee per order of $25.
