WAR JOBS FOR WOMEN

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Year
1942
Reference
F616
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1942
Reference
F616
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Newsreel
Duration
0:04:32
Production company
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT

This black and white film is part of the National Film Unit series of Weekly Review newsreels.

Title: New Zealand National Film Unit
Inter-Title: “War Jobs for Women”

This newsreel is introduced and narrated by a woman explaining the contribution women can make towards the war effort including making papier mache medical stores and spinning wool.
Women in jobs such as munitions manufacturing and nursing talk of the need for more women in such roles.
Servicewomen from the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) and the Women’s Royal New Zealand Naval Service (WRNZNS) speak of the jobs they perform and how that frees up manpower.
Montage of women performing various tasks such as manning aircraft detectors, receiving communications, serving pilots dinner, fuelling aircraft and servicing vehicles.
A woman then outlines how women working on the land are unseen but significant.
A woman talks about working on the land with 300 acres and 1,100 sheep and mentions how farmers wives all over the country are doing the same while their husbands are in camp.
The narrator closes by saying how there are war jobs for women.

Title: “The End. Government Film Studios Wellington NZ”