Women in Defense
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Director John Ford Screenplay Eleanor Roosevelt Duration Country United States | 6.2/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short, War Narrated by Katharine Hepburn Writer Eleanor Roosevelt Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 24 December 1941 Genres Short Film, Propaganda film Related John Ford movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Women in defense 1941
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.
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Women in defense 1941
Synopsis
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:
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".
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Women in Defense Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Women in Defense IMDb