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WWII WAR BOND FILM 'THE LINE IS BUSY' 6th WAR LOAN 77874

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Channel: PeriscopeFilm · 2015 · Education

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Made in 1944 to promote the sale of War Bonds, THE LINE IS BUSY also doubles as an industrial incentive film — a film that attempts to motivate war workers to worker harder and smarter.  
In the film, a man receives a letter from his recently wounded brother on the front lines, who has undergone an amputation, as his carefree girlfriend telephones from a nightclub, attempting to persuade him to take the night off from his vital job at the factory.  The refrain "the line is busy" mirrors the busy assembly line at the war plant.

The film contains somewhat gruesome footage of an amputation in the field at the 1:30 mark.  

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