| Trailer: ANY QUESTIONS - RECRUITING WOMEN recruitment drive to get women to join the armed forces. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5701 |
| Catalog #: | 320123 | |
| Clip Number: | 320123-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 43/9 | |
| Timecode: | 01:48:03 - 01:49:34 | |
| Location: | United Kingdom | |
| Year Shot: | 1943 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Gender roles COMMERCIALS: Military Recruiting COMMERCIALS: Public Service LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK MILITARY: Women WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: War Work WORLD WAR TWO, MILITARY: Recruits | |
| Description: | Trailer: ANY QUESTIONS - RECRUITING WOMEN recruitment drive to get women to join the armed forces. Recruitment trailer for WRENS, ATS, WAAF. "EVERY WOMAN WHO CAN BE SPARED IS NEEDED NOW - WRNS, ATS, WAAF". Intertitle superimposed over shots of civilian women shopping and servicewomen marching. MS women looking at poster, question mark superimposed. She wonders if she can chose the service she joins. Question mark superimposed over image. Dramatised sequence: Gleeful woman comes home and is greeted by a friend. Young woman meets her friend and tells her that she has just volunteered for the WAAFS, she suggests to her friend that she does the same. The friend asks: "Do you think we could stay together?" Superimposed question mark. Dramatised sequence: Another greets a truck driving girlfriend wearing a uniform in the street. Woman driving army truck stops to talk to her civilian friend in the street. Civilian friend says she would like to join the ATS but is unable to drive, she asks if she could learn whilst in the service? Superimposed question mark. Stirring music over scenes of women working for the war effort. End title: "ALL THESE QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED! ENQUIRE AT YOUR NEAREST RECRUITING CENTRE OR EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE". (WRNS = Women's Royal Navel Service. ATS = Auxiliary Territorial Service. WAAF = Women's Auxiliary Air Force.) | |
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