Anzacs in Overalls (1941)
- Directed by
- Ken G. Hall
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Australia
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short documentary from 1941 shows how Australian workers in factories and farms supported the war effort. It highlights their production of weapons, vehicles, and food, often cutting from the factory to those items being used by soldiers.
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What happens
Anzacs in Overalls is a 1941 Australian documentary film directed by Ken G. Hall. According to the National Film and Sound Archive it is: A propaganda and morale boosting production from WW2 that looks at the way the industrial and agricultural sectors of Australia helped the war effort. It emphasizes and encourages, through a narrator, the efforts put into production for the war effort by the Australian people through sacrifice, ingenuity, etc. It parallels production scenes with scenes of the items being used in war. There are scenes from: factories/foudaries; aircraft production; engine production; an Australian designed tank; gun and artillery production; production of the Owen gun; Universal carrier and other vehicle production; ship building; munitions production; and agricultural and food production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Moresby Under the Blitz (1942)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.