March of Time -- outtakes -- Recruiting posters and drives in US
Creator(s)
- March of Time, Inc. (Producer)
- Black (Director)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- John Geisel (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
A group of people, many of them teenagers. A woman in a W.A.A.C. uniform sits behind a desk outside a van labelled "U. S. Army Recruitment Mobile Station" and speaks with a group of women. The scene shifts to soldiers in a parade down a street, then recruitment posters and a chart illustrating the number of people who have enlisted in Muncie during the month. Men walk into the recruitment offices. Interior of recruiting office where young men talk to a recruiter, who sits behind a desk. Close-ups of the boys and of recruiter. Outside, draftees (not enlisted men) board a bus while another man checks off their names on a clipboard. Interior of a Navy recruiting office with officer and applicants. 01:21:08 Men sorting bags of V-Mail, or Victory Mail. Close-up of a letter from a father to his son. V-Mail were letters that were microfilmed to reduce their size and make it easier to ship the huge volume of mail.
Subjects
- PARADES
- UNITED STATES
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- FLAGS (AMERICAN)
- MARCH OF TIME
- FLAGS
- WOMEN
Places
- Muncie, IN, United States
Genre
- Film
- Outtakes.