Summary: Illustrates the way in which peacetime craftsmanship is used in wartime.
Description: Each sequence shows normal job, wartime adaptation, and wartime need. Examples used: jewellers produce gauges used to measure tank parts; the skill of engraved design by engine turning is used to produce a navigational calculator (Battenberg course indicator); watchmakers produce time fuses for AA shells; a fishing rod maker now makes machine gun parts (film of test-firing BESA mg); a company that made luxury river craft now makes RAF tenders; Mr. Crevin, model engineer, turns from model railways to shell parts; fishermen's skill in net making used for camouflage netting.
Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor)
Shell (Production company)
Bell, Geoffrey (Production individual)
Elton, Arthur19061973-01-01 (Production individual)
Mander, Kay (Production individual)
Hillier, Erwin (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: economics, British national - employment: wartime skill redeployment (object name)
society, British - precautionary: war work (object name)
GB, England (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 902 ft; Running time: 10 mins
