Conquer By The Clock (1942, sound)

Description: "Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Pathé in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquer_by_the_Clock (accessed 5/7/2024)
Archives owns several prints of this film, all transferred in quest for the best-quality copy.
Can notes: "OWI - Conquer By Clock - OWI" (OWI: Office of War Information)
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Subjects: 1940s, Industry, Labor, World War II, Women's history and culture, Patriotism, Manufacturing
Tags: industrial production; wartime; soldiers; uniforms; clocks; newspapers; assembly lines; manager; guns; bullets; cartridges; baseball game; baseball diamond; secretary; ships; calendars; lifeboats; torpedoes; wristwatches; smoke; spinning globes; airplanes; machine guns; face shields; mallets; drills; sparks; goggles; montages; V for Victory; martial music; women in the workplace; workers inspecting gun cartridges; weapons; munitions; postal telegraph; welding; welders; shipyards; sparks; factories; military industrial complex; music; narration; hands picking up tools; double exposure of clocks and labor; lifeboat provisions; the end title; pendulum; worldwide temporal simultaneity; timeclocks; dial time recorder; recording dial clock
Film Sponsor:
Creator: "Frederic Ullman, Jr."
Credits: Produced by Frederic Ullman, Jr.
Directed by Slavko Vorkapich
Written by Phil Reisman, Jr.
Photographed by Larry O'Reilly
Edited by John Hoffman
Musical Score by Erno Rapee
Distributor: RKO-Pathé and War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry
Contributor: Prelinger Archives
Source Collection: Prelinger Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive
Production Date:
Release Date: 1942
Geographical Location: USA
Genre/Form: government, short
Language: eng
Rights:
Film Format: 16mm film
Element: release print
Color: b&w
Color Process: Dupont
Sound or Silent: sound
Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area
Edge Code:
Frame Rate: 24 fps
Length (feet): 409