Second clip of a documentary film exploring the training of women in the munitions factories during the Second World War. They are shown how to operate machinery safely and learn technical and mathematical information to compliment their practical skills.

This clip includes: Women students sit in class while a woman instructor draws a diagram on a blackboard. They work at desks, studying technical drawing and math. A manager sits at his desk in an engineering firm's office. He is brought a clip informing him he can employ women to do the jobs he needs done. We see detail of the article. He is hesitant to ask women to do the job, but eventually calls the employment office.

We see posters showing soldiers telling women students they can help build things to win the war effort. The Manager attends the employment engineering school and is shown some of the metalwork components the women have made. The manager is impressed and goes to see the women at work. We see them handling various machines. The manager signs up the girls to do the work he needs. In conversation, one of the girls carelessly leaves her hand in the machine is nearly injured. She is reminded: safety first. We see more machines, and components.

Outside the manager's factory, the women, dressed in factory uniforms, head to work and get busy, much to the admiration of the manager. They collect their pay as they leave.

Black and white, Silent

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