Underplayed Gems

Campus on the March (1942)

Campus on the March poster
Genre
propaganda film
Country
United States
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This 1942 short film shows American colleges and universities training students for war-related work. It lists many schools and the military classes they offer like aviation, engineering, and cryptography. The movie presents this as a unified national effort to support the war.

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What happens

Campus on the March is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1942. The twenty-minute film exhaustively list the number of institutions of higher learning and many different war activities that have begun at each, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Harvard, Dartmouth College and the University of California. There are many different shots of ROTC units and auxiliary formations. Many men are in the military and in college at the same time. Among the war related classes and activities: Farm labor mechanical engineering International relations world languages chemical weapons preparations aviation wartime nutrition broadcast in Spanish to Latin America to further "understanding of the United Nations cause" cryptography celestial navigation and various war industrial related training (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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