[Franklin Lakes, NJ] : Clarity Educational Productions, [c2007]
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Notes:
- DVD NTSC.
- Access to educator’s guide requires DVD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat Reader software.
- Featuring: Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs, Gladys Belcher, Wanita Allen.
- Cinematographers, Cathy Zheutlin, Bonnie Friedman, Robert Handley, Emiko Omori editors, Lucy Massie Phenix, Connie Field sound, Marilyn Mulford, Chat Gunter, Clyde Stringer musical adaptation, David Litwin, Larry Morton.
- Originally produced in 1980.
- Five women, who worked in the shipyards and defense plants during World War II, recount their experiences at work and offer comments on society’s expectations of them during the war effort and after the war. Their narratives are interspersed with sequences from war department films, newsreels, and Hollywood movies made during that time which concerned women working outside the home.
- Special features : News interviews with director and Rosies Q&A with director and Lola Weixel educator’s guide in PDF format.
- Named to the National Film Registry in 1996 by the National Film Preservation Board, USA.
Subjects:
- World War, 1939-1945 — Women — United States.
- World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American.
- Women — Employment — United States — History — 20th century.
- Documentary films. lcgft
- Nonfiction films. lcgft
Requested by deVries, J. & Wittenbreer, B