Anzacs in Overalls (1941)

Directed by

Ken G. Hall

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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