Overview
- Description
- A group of people, many of them teenagers. A woman in a W.A.A.C. uniform sits behind a desk outside a van labelled "U. S. Army Recruitment Mobile Station" and speaks with a group of women. The scene shifts to soldiers in a parade down a street, then recruitment posters and a chart illustrating the number of people who have enlisted in Muncie during the month. Men walk into the recruitment offices. Interior of recruiting office where young men talk to a recruiter, who sits behind a desk. Close-ups of the boys and of recruiter. Outside, draftees (not enlisted men) board a bus while another man checks off their names on a clipboard. Interior of a Navy recruiting office with officer and applicants.
01:21:08 Men sorting bags of V-Mail, or Victory Mail. Close-up of a letter from a father to his son. V-Mail were letters that were microfilmed to reduce their size and make it easier to ship the huge volume of mail. - Film Title
-
Mr. and Mrs. America
- Duration
- 00:11:15
- Date
-
Event:
October 1942
- Locale
-
Muncie, IN,
United States
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Director:
Black
Producer: March of Time, Inc.
Camera Operator: John Geisel
Physical Details
- Language
- Silent
- Genre/Form
- Outtakes.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 01:12:10:00 to 01:23:25:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2731 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2731 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in July 2004.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNS; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4284
Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 952 II,JJ - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:07:13
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