Campus on the March
1942 short film
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Campus on the March is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1942.[1]
| Campus on the March | |
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| Produced by | Office of War Information |
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Running time | 18:07 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
The twenty-minute film exhaustively list the number of institutions of higher learning and many different war activities that have begun at each, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Harvard, Dartmouth College and the University of California. There are many different shots of ROTC units and auxiliary formations. Many men are in the military and in college at the same time. Among the war related classes and activities:
- Farm labor
- mechanical engineering
- International relations
- world languages
- chemical weapons preparations
- aviation
- wartime nutrition
- broadcast in Spanish to Latin America to further "understanding of the United Nations cause"
- cryptography
- celestial navigation
- and various war industrial related training
