Summary

Footage Information

British Pathé
WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA (issue title is ON THE MARK)
Part of issue ON THE MARK.

Australia.

Australian women contribute to the war effort. Various shots of women in uniform (Australian Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)?). We see the women practising semaphore, working as motor mechanics and driving trucks. Various shots of Australian women's Land Army: girls are seen driving fleet of tractors over a field.

M/S of female conductor on board a bus. Various shots of women in Navy (Australian Women's Royal Navy Service (Wrens). We see women in "Senior Service" communicating in Morse code. Various shots of women translating foreign radio broadcasts at radio listening posts. Various shots of female scientists testing metals at laboratory. Various shots of explosions and guns firing, an image of three saintly looking nurses is superimposed over them.
British Pathe
1942
00:01:58:00
Black & White
sound
1546.15

Keywords

Australia war effort women work world war two Australian Auxiliary Territorial Service ATS A.T.S. women's land army mechanics driving tractors bus conductors Australian Women's Royal Navy Service WRENS morse code translation radio broadcasting science laboratories experiments explosions nurses HiDef
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