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Director
  
John Ford

Screenplay
  
Eleanor Roosevelt

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
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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
  
My Darling Clementine (1946), The Quiet Man (1952), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Informer (1935), How Green Was My Valley (1941)

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:

  • 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".

    References

    Women in Defense Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Women in Defense IMDb


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