Victory Is Our Business General Motors At War

Shot List:

R1:00:00:15:00

Various scenes of a WWII WW2 defense plant defense factory. Brief image of welder person wearing welding helmet and using electric arc welder. Shift change at a WWII defense factory or defense plant; Men and women exiting and clocking in at the plant.

R1:00:00:28:17

Defense workers on factory floor using machine tools. Uniform guard at door to Engineering Department. Large number of engineers at work at drafting tables in Engineering Department. CU of engineering drawing. Management personnel in business suits looking at a drawing on a drafting table.

R1:00:00:59:11

Military truck assembly line at a General motors defense plant defense factory in WW2 WWII. Large crates marked Chevrolet on dock. Items produced by GM General Motors for war are shown first on an assembly line and later In their finished forms: diesel engines for tanks and submarines, liquid and air-cooled engines for fighter planes, and sub-assemblies for bombers.

R1:00:01:45:03

USS 0-4 SS-65 0-class United States submarine recommissioned January 29, 1941. Several United States tanks moving across a field.

R1:00:01:51:03

Factory workers manufacturing the components and assembling aircraft engines in a WW2 defense plant WWII defense factory.

R1:00:02:52:09

P-40 Warhawk fighter plane warming up and taking off. P-38 Lightning aircraft taking off and in flight. Flight of three aircraft, not able to identify model of planes. P-40 Warhawk with shark teeth nose art being fueled and loaded with belts of ammunition.

R1:00:03:35:08

Manufacture of air-cooled plane aircraft engines. Manufacture of plane parts and sub-assemblies. Aircraft assembly plant. Sign on plane fuselage reads Rush This Ship, Your Uncle Needs It. A North American B-25 Mitchell bomber towed from plant (factory), B-25 taking off.

R1:00:04:38:20

Details in the production of shells and cartridge cases. Women defense workers on cartridge case assemble line. Manufacturing of machine guns and antiaircraft guns, Armasteel castings, fire control instruments, machine gun mounts, propellers, electrical equipment, bearings, radios, and machine tools. Numerous scenes of women defense plant workers.

R1:00:08:09:21

Retooling of a General Motors plant to produce weapons of war. Old machine tools are removed and new equipment installed. GM workers attend a company training school, General Motors Institute of Technology.

R2:00:00:00:00

Performers, in the role of WWII factory workers, sing an industrial incentive song with a montage of WW2 industrial and combat activities shown.