Glamour Girls of 1943
Glamour Girls of 1943
The United States Government presents a wartime propaganda film lauding war work for white women during World War Two. Distributed & exhibited under the auspices of the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry. (Rosie the riveter)
Glamour Girls of 1943
TLS/MSs long line of Caucasian civilian women marching into recruitment center, a US Navy Chief Petty Officer accompanying them; MSs women marching out in naval dress uniform-- the WAVES. MSs US WACs marching in formation on campus. MS several Caucasian women screwing rivets into wing of B-24 plane in factory; MSs white women riveting, pressing, and cutting metal in munitions factories; MSs women working w/ molded fiberglass for airplane windows. MS woman placing metal gears into steaming pot for cleaning. MSs woman taking apart propeller motor. MSs woman using radio transmitter to communicate w/ pilot in Link test flight machine. MSs 4 women assembling dashboard of Jeep in factory. MSs woman working w/ empty metal cartridge cases. MS/CUs women sewing silk parachutes in factory, supervisors inspecting work. MS/CUs woman rolling, molding glass test tubes at work station. TLS ship in dry dock in shipyard; MSs white women riveting, tightening bolts, tossing heated rivets in shipyard. MSs women war workers talking about the cause: "I have two sons in the Army & now I'm in the Army, in a way"; "I wanted to bring my Dad home"; "Because my husband's in the Navy & I want to do a job that means more than working in a department store."
Glamour Girls of 1943
MS Caucasian woman walking to a building directory; CU sign-- "United States Employment Service." TLS/MSs inside bustling employment office. MSs employment agency worker interviewing another woman, asking questions about her employable skills. CU sign-- "Free War Training Courses"; MS/CUs white women studying in classrooms, learning from white male instructors; MS/CU woman using magnifying glass in classroom; MS/CUs woman working in drafting room; MSs four woman donning welder's mask (welding mask, face protection), learning how to weld; MS young woman learning to use drill press; VO compares tasks to domestic work skills, an effort to assure that the nation's women won't be ruined as housewives once the war is over, as though they will gladly return to house & kitchen; MSs woman learning to use lathe, easing protective visor over face (note the Bendix Aviation patch on her sleeve).
Glamour Girls of 1943
Decommissioned civilian jobs: TLS woman directing twin-propeller commercial plane taxiing & turning on runway; MSs women cleaning & polishing plane in hangar; MS group of white woman walking at rail yard, followed by MSs women cleaning train; MS woman bus driver picking up fare; MS messenger girls in telegram office: MSs female elevator operator; MS uniformed woman delivering milk to suburban home (milkman, only it s a milkwoman); TLS/MSs women operating tractors, combines & other farm equipment; TLSs woman steering mule team pulling old manual combine through grain field. Cut to great MSs young Caucasian men voicing their concerns about their women working while on lunch break: "If my wife works, the people think I can't support her"; "I don't mind my wife working, but who's going to run my home?"; "It's okay now, but what about after the war? The women will have all the jobs!"
Glamour Girls of 1943
World War One (WWI) montage: TLS/MSs of AEF soldiers (doughboys) marching in parade; MSs Red Cross nurses working at a hospital, attending to wounded soldiers on patio; TLSs Caucasian women working in rail yard during wartime; TLS women plowing field with two horse team, other women picking dirt in BG (support the war, labor shortage, war work). Newsreel of women in uniform-- yeomanettes -- being inspected by then-Secretary of Navy JOSEPHUS DANIELS and Asst. Sec. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. Cut to 1943, LSs U.S. Army WACs marching in formation. Great closing montage regaling the work of women in wartime.