Three Towns

Duration:

Year Published: 1942

Complete Record: City of Norfolk. harbor. ferry boat shows harbor, industry, shipyard. new building sites for homes. blueprint reading. kids playing at construction site. discussing zoning. barrack like bungalows, new furniture being delivered there. kids playing with crates. a schoolroom. 2nd graders write on blackboard. wartime housing and children going to school. City of Detroit, night . plants working all night heavy industry, car plant, bomb factory. living in trailer home, trailer park to help war effort. kids at play in trailer park. dad tries to sleep after night shift, pillow over head. WPA office. folks mounting shacks on trucks. UAW, CIO sign on truck. building shacks. man hammers wearing t shirt reading willow run bomber plant. kids helping out to assemble better housing for workers. pre school. kids on swing. adults dancing to acoustic guitar music, square dancing. Ogden, Utah. freight train rounding curve, coming into terminal. construction, hangar. cranes. explosives sign. jeep in rail yard. forms. countryside of Utah, mountains background. chamber of commerce sign. army and business confer. rail station countryside. daughter and old dad on porch. young men play tennis. bus stops at night . bus arrives with workers, get on train at all the small stops. sing on train. disembarking from train to go to plant . boxes of rations , assault boats shovels being stacked . loading train with supplies. army watches tractor being loaded onto train. train thru