WORLD WAR II VICTORY BOND PROMOTIONAL FILM

Year Published: 1945

Format: 16mm

Description: Made to promote the 6th War Loan in 1945, SILENCE shows the aftermath of war, with shattered harbors and factories, but no troops or machines of war present — just silence. "But a war cannot be won this way," says the narrator, and then the film erupts into a loud, incredible montage of violence and mayhem. And, a new announcer continues at 2:00, we must have another noise -- the noise of busy factories and assembly lines producing tanks, trucks, tires, guns, ammunition and more. The film ends with a deceased American soldier and the message, Let's Buy More War Bonds!

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is this a battlefield no roar of guns the whining shells the strange field of battle is this a wartime port where's the activity why is everything still is this the backdrop for combat in the sky where the fortresses the blockbusters and this an inpatient beach but no ships no Amtrak's no trucks no men no fighting only silence but we're not fighting the war this way it can't be fought this way it can't be won this way we've got to have noise battle noise and here in America we've got to have noise the noise that only America can make the noise of the world's greatest industrial workshop democracies dynamite the noise that makes tanks trucks tires gun ammunition forgings plane that millions of war bond buyers make to avenge this silent american boy battle dr. fo b USA Oh

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