They didn't stop working till the enemy bombers were right over head. They went home after a shift not knowing if their home was still there. They stood fire watches all night or tried to sleep in drafty damp crowded air raid shelters and still went to work the next day. They waited in line for everything, sometimes for hours. Nothing was taken for granted. They helped save the World and deserve our thanks. God Bless them.
When we talk about the heroes who helped bring victory to the Allies during WW2 we always talk about the soldier's, sailor's & airmen, but we forget about those who made the fight possible. Without the people in the factories, steel Mills & coal mines, (just to name a few), our brave boys wouldn't of been able to fight on & bring us that victory over the Axis power's. We've also got to remember that at the end of a very hard day's work hundreds, if not thousands, of these civilian workers changed out of their overalls & into the uniforms of ARP Wardens, Auxiliary Fireman, Home Guard soldiers & many other Civil Defence positions. Without them we could of lost the war & fell under the 'Nazi Jackboot'.
Britain just like USA cut off heavily combat armor production the nearer the D-Day came. In fact during latter part of the war UK used 50% of even more just building aircraft (without even their weapons and ammunition). Combat armor was not even near as vital and even less "crucial" as so many historians are still amazingly thinking. Even Germany used 7 times more for building aircraft than producing combat armor.
I know the narration is somewhat corny, but this video reveals the attitude our countries need to take to survive in this world against our enemies. A modern version of this type of propaganda would help us to feel less selfish and loyal to our country. Where are the videos that show us the civilians producing modern weapons of war? The ships, planes, vehicles, shells, guns, equipment, and other needs? We should honor those who produce our defensive hardware.
I notice that a lot of films (like this one) don't have black, don't have white, and everything is just foggy and somewhat out of focus shades of grey. What causes this? Was it the original way the original copies looked? That certainly seems unlikely to me, but maybe so. Was it lost in some transfer through NTSC video with its 85:1 (on a good day) contrast ratio? Or is it just a perhaps deliberate flattening of the contrast curve when pulling the digital copy from the film print?
The reason this film looks the way it does is that it is "dupey" -- during the war there was enormous pressure to make a lot of film prints quickly. To do that, many negatives were made and then prints struck. If you got a print from a first generation negative it would look sharp and not so contrasty...whereas a print from the 2nd or 3rd generation internegative etc. might look washed out or contrasty and out of focus.
dountful they were reserved ocupations they stayed in the factories and would act as supervisors and quality control specialists helping the women who were reletively unskilled as production expanded.
They didn't stop working till the enemy bombers were right over head. They went home after a shift not knowing if their home was still there. They stood fire watches all night or tried to sleep in drafty damp crowded air raid shelters and still went to work the next day. They waited in line for everything, sometimes for hours. Nothing was taken for granted. They helped save the World and deserve our thanks. God Bless them.
I've read about this kind of mobilization. This just makes it complete.
Love what you all are doing.
2:30. They tried to make steel working look so action packed
Thanks for posting
Double plus good newspeak.
10:55 they are a13 mk2 cruiser tanks
When we talk about the heroes who helped bring victory to the Allies during WW2 we always talk about the soldier's, sailor's & airmen, but we forget about those who made the fight possible.
Without the people in the factories, steel Mills & coal mines, (just to name a few), our brave boys wouldn't of been able to fight on & bring us that victory over the Axis power's.
We've also got to remember that at the end of a very hard day's work hundreds, if not thousands, of these civilian workers changed out of their overalls & into the uniforms of ARP Wardens, Auxiliary Fireman, Home Guard soldiers & many other Civil Defence positions.
Without them we could of lost the war & fell under the 'Nazi Jackboot'.
Britain just like USA cut off heavily combat armor production the nearer the D-Day came. In fact during latter part of the war UK used 50% of even more just building aircraft (without even their weapons and ammunition). Combat armor was not even near as vital and even less "crucial" as so many historians are still amazingly thinking. Even Germany used 7 times more for building aircraft than producing combat armor.
This is awesome back when Britain was all for skilled labor not cheap labour from different country's!
I know the narration is somewhat corny, but this video reveals the attitude our countries need to take to survive in this world against our enemies. A modern version of this type of propaganda would help us to feel less selfish and loyal to our country. Where are the videos that show us the civilians producing modern weapons of war? The ships, planes, vehicles, shells, guns, equipment, and other needs? We should honor those who produce our defensive hardware.
I notice that a lot of films (like this one) don't have black, don't have white, and everything is just foggy and somewhat out of focus shades of grey. What causes this? Was it the original way the original copies looked? That certainly seems unlikely to me, but maybe so. Was it lost in some transfer through NTSC video with its 85:1 (on a good day) contrast ratio? Or is it just a perhaps deliberate flattening of the contrast curve when pulling the digital copy from the film print?
The reason this film looks the way it does is that it is "dupey" -- during the war there was enormous pressure to make a lot of film prints quickly. To do that, many negatives were made and then prints struck. If you got a print from a first generation negative it would look sharp and not so contrasty...whereas a print from the 2nd or 3rd generation internegative etc. might look washed out or contrasty and out of focus.
The great engineering history, all gone now.
>> "Giant" music @ 7:00
Those lathes and milling machines are primitive even by the standard of 1940.
Bit late for this , but they pulled every old machine they had out of storage to achieve this.
This film must have made been very early in the war. Pretty soon 90% of those men would have been out on the front lines, replaced by women.
dountful they were reserved ocupations they stayed in the factories and would act as supervisors and quality control specialists helping the women who were reletively unskilled as production expanded.