BATTLE IS IN OUR HANDS

Duration: 30min

Year Published: 1942

Creator: Castle Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: A USDA film. "This documentary film opens with scenes of Alabama—negroes picking cotton, mules turning the cane press, negroes boiling sugar cane sap to form brown sugar. To an accompaniment of Paul Robeson's chant of 'The Walls of Jericho.' Then, amid rumblings of distant cannon, a battle field scene is shown, an air-raid warning is sounded, the battle comes closer to Childersburg, Alabama, and men line up for strange new war jobs." "Plans are completed for a $75,000,000 powder plant and people are beginning to work. People leave their farms so that the private buildings can be razed to make room for the military project. Soldiers, equipment come pouring into the town. A factory life must be transformed into existence as a witness of Paul Robeson's chant. A factory opens." Educational screen

Complete Record: Dewey number: 940.537 Audience level: sh-c-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-$25 Distributors / rental: Not shown in source

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946