The Call For Women (1941)

Title reads: “The call for women - Pathe Gazette interviews the 20s and 21s“. Location of events unknown. Women in various occupations being interviewed on their views of the new conscription for women and talking about the kind of war work they want to do. C/U of interviewer talking to a young woman about female conscription scheme. M/S of hairdresser and woman customer in conversation. The hairdresser announces she will be joining the Women’s Land Army. When the woman asks who will do her hair, the hairdresser answers: “I suggest you wear it straight, like Hitler’s!“ M/S of interviewer talking to a woman by a newspaper kiosk. Woman explains she wants to help build Spitfires as “my boy’s in the RAF and I’d feel I was helping him“. A shop assistant in a milliners tells the interviewer she wants to join the services “because it’s the uniform that appeals“. C/Us of two more women being interviewed, they wear uniforms - could be shop workers? The first says she would like to work in a m
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