Curtiss-Wright Shorts (7 Subjects)
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Curtiss-Wright Shorts (7 Subjects) is a short film from 1944 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Theatrical "minute movies" -- advertising films -- produced to recruit workers for service in Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical plants during World War II. Pictures women working in factories; couples who both work at Wright; assembly-line and production scenes; aircraft being built; precision machining of airplane propellers; combat and aircraft stock footage. Several of the shorts are introduced by Lowell Thomas, who sits at a desk and uses a world globe as a prop to show the importance of air power in winning the war.
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Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1944 |
Running time | 8:58 |
Language | English |
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