Heritage for Victory
Heritage for Victory is a short film from ca. 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Some good shots to be logged.
Telephones World War II homefront
Man tells the story of American communications from Gray & Barton, Edison and Bell and the first companies of Western Electric and Bell up through the role of communication technology in World War II. Great historical reenactment footage of the early figures in telegraph and telephone technology.
19:01:25:22 MS bald man wearing a suit and round glasses addresses camera If you want the real story of what we re doing today, you ve got to look beyond the walls of factories and laboratories to people. People with ideas, skills, and experience. Yes, and something more. Something that is not easy to define but it s very real.
19:02:25:26 Scene set in 1869 woman walks into Western Union Telegraph Company office in Rochester, N.Y.
19:02:32:08 VS man in nineteenth century costume works on telegraph in Western Union office.
19:05:21:29 VS actors playing Gray and Barton demonstrating to Thomas Edison their telegraph.
19:10:39:07 CU printer telegraph is removed from tabletop and replaced by early telephone model mounted on wall.
19:12:31:04 VS Actor playing Alexander Graham Bell shows man his switchboard servicing about 900 telephones in the late nineteenth century.
19:13:17:19 Man unveils for three people first modern switchboard for the Bell Phone Co. but fumbles to patch the wires and remarks perhaps this board is too compact to which woman answers nothing of the kind. It s simply that your fingers aren t educated to this sort of thing. let me try. You should have had training with a needle and thread. Woman easily is able to patch calls. Man amazed has epiphany that women should be telephone operators.
19:14:38:03 VS woman working as telephone operators in the 1880s and men placing calls.
19:07:03:08 Two old businessmen discuss the financial crisis of 1907.
19:18:17:20 VS CU telephone models with years superimposed over shot: 1908 model, 1925, 1945.
19:18:30:04 Engineer fixing telephone switchboard.
19:18:24:13 Air traffic control operator on microphone; shot superimposed on upper half of frame shows airplane in sky.
19:18:55:02 1930s Family gathered around radio.
19:18:59:24 Logo for The New Western Electric Microphonic Sound System enlarges into frame; woman sings in a talkie.
19:19:16:04 Row of female telephone operators at work on switchboard.
19:20:00:03 1940s women in coats filing into Western Electric Co. building.
19:20:03:19 VS male engineers working on switchboard electronics; installing new lines.
19:20:43:15 Mother on telephone reaches into her child s crib.
19:20:47:23 Men working in factory; pull metal parts out of machine, assembly lines.
19:20:58:01 Large explosion with black smoke Sunday December 7 , superimposed on shot. Newspaper headlines on front pages superimposed over explosions: The Daily Tribune Pearl Harbor Bombed , Japs Attack Pearl Harbor Early Sunday Morning ; New York World Telegram 500 Dead in Hawaii , Congrees Votes War 470 to 1 .
19:21:09:06 VS army training for World War II: line of soldiers in training fall to ground with rifles and take aim; man trained to use bayonet; men in lines in gym do push-ups; marching army soldiers.
19:21:25:18 VS Western Electric wire on large reels in warehouse produced for U.S. Army communication in World War II.
19:21:41:17 High-angle tank producing factory.
19:21:46:03 VS army communication technology; men typing out message on telegraph; soldier receiving printed message from telegraph; officer takes phone call in woods; soldiers laying telegraph wire.
19:22:29:18 VS men and women at work in factory.
19:23:38:20 VS stock footage: U.S. Navy destroyer ships in battle on the Pacific; CU firing guns on board battleship.
19:23:48:09 VS World War II stock footage: fighter planes flying in line formation peel away from camera one by one; soldiers making amphibious assault wading through water to get on shore; VS bombs dropping from planes; bombs landing on targets over patches of farm land; guns firing on moving train.| Heritage for Victory | |
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| Produced by | Wilding Picture Productions |
Production company | Wilding Picture Productions |
| Distributed by | Wilding Picture Productions |
Release date | ca. 1940 |
Running time | 3 reels |
| Language | English |
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