Women in Defense

Women in Defense

Infobox Film
name = Women in Defense


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director = John Ford
producer = John Ford
writer = Eleanor Roosevelt
narrator = Katharine Hepburn
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distributor = War Activities Committee
released = 24 December 1941
runtime = 18
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0034400

"Women in Defense" is a 1941 short film produced by the Office of Emergency Management shortly before the United States entered the Second World War.

ynopsis

Opening with a shot of a statue of "the pioneer woman who helped win a continent", the film briefly outlines the way in which women could help prepare the country for the possibility of war. Among the various way women could help were:

*working in a war materials manufacturing plant
*sewing parachutes for US servicemen
*attending free lectures on how to prepare nutritious meals on presumably rationed food
*Joining the WAC or the Red Cross
*donating blood

There is also a segment on the types of costumes women would wear while engaged in war work. At the end of the film, the narrator explains women are vital to securing a healthy American home life and raising children "which has always been the first line of defense".

See also

*List of Allied Propaganda Films of World War 2
*United States home front during World War II

External links

* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2663960729037656405 Complete film at Google video. Starts at 20:42]
*imdb title|id=0034400


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