Manpower

FDR Presidential Library

Video 8

Manpower

Office of War Information. The battle for industrial production in World War II brings Americans into factories. Training is provided and agencies are formed to help people into the right jobs. Women join the workforce and mechanical accommodations are made for them. Factories that previously made peacetime products re tool to make war materials

, Presents the problems and confusions now existing--labor pirating, the shortage of skilled workers, living conditions of migrant workers and their families, lack of housing in war industrial areas. Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, introduces the problem and suggests voluntary steps to be followed.

Credits

Directed by
Raoul Walsh
Written by
Jerry Wald
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Paul Panzer, Frank McHugh, Joyce Compton, Eve Arden, Nella Walker, Faye Emerson, Jane Randolph, Edward G. Robinson, Friedrich Hollaender, George Raft, Joseph Crehan, Ralph Dunn, Roland Drew, William Gould, William Newell, Diana Barrymore, Harry Holman …
Produced by
Hal B. Wallis, Mark Hellinger
Cinematography
Ernest Haller
Music
Adolph Deutsch
Edited by
Ralph Dawson
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