# NYA Train Women For War Prod 1942

The NYA trains girls to sew, to make military and civil defense posters and signs, to prepare food, and to assist in hospital work (feeding and massaging patients, sterilizing instruments, making x-ray pictures, etc.). Women learn to operate machine tools (drill presses, lathes, etc) in an airplane plant, to weld sheet metal, to solder and drill radio parts, and to inspect finished work. Eleanor Roosevelt introduces and narrates the film. National Archives Identifier: 37236 Local Identifier: 119.15 * Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. War Manpower Commission. Bureau of Training. National Youth Administration. (09/17/1942 - 01/01/1944) (Most Recent) * From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled ca. 1937 - 1942 * Record Group 119: Records of the National Youth Administration, 1934 - 1945 * Level of Description: Item * Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images * This item was produced or created: 1942 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: ca. 1937 - 1942 * General Note(s): Credits: Photography, F.B. Hyde, D. Nichols. * Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted * Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Sound * Accession Number(s): 1518 * Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): Federal Security Agency. National Youth Administration. (07/01/1939 - 09/17/1942), Producer

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1942
- By: Office for Emergency Management. War Manpower Commission. Bureau of Training. National Youth Administration
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/NYATrainWomenForWarProd1942)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.