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How They Saw Us: Proudly She Marches

1977 18 min
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A recruitment film made in 1943. Its words offer women the excitement and challenge of new kinds of work in the armed services. The visual message, however, suggests that this work is merely temporary and possibly even unnatural for women.

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A recruitment film made in 1943. Its words offer women the excitement and challenge of new kinds of work in the armed services. The visual message, however, suggests that this work is merely temporary and possibly even unnatural for women.
Women War, Conflict and Peace National Security and Defence All subjects
  • director
    Ann Pearson
  • series director
    Ann Pearson
  • series producer
    Yuki Yoshida
  • series executive producer
    Kathleen Shannon

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