# Valley Town - A Study of Machines and Men

A documentary study of workers displaced by automatic machinery in a typical American steel town in the 1920's and 1930's. Follows the development of the town and depicts the life of its people as being bound up in the fortunes of the mill. Points out that with the introduction of labor-saving devices the men were no longer needed in the mill, and shows how war made such a demand on manpower that there was a scarcity of men adequately trained for the jobs. Suggests the need for the constant training of adults.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1940
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: New York University. Educational Film Institute
- Genres: Documentary, Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ValleyTown-AStudyOfMachinesAndMen)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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