All Out for Victory

This 1940s propaganda film, likely produced during WWII, underscores the vital role of wartime production through personal stories of Firestone plant workers. Filmed in black-and-white, it opens with a stirring narration—“Victory is won through the sweat of workers and the blood of soldiers”—tying factory floors to battlefields. The footage showcases Firestone’s plants retooled for war: assembly lines churn out truck tires, tank tracks, machine gun ammunition, gasoline tanks, anti-aircraft guns, barrage balloons, and life vests. Workers, many with kin in the military, are spotlighted—a father crafting tank parts for his son’s unit, a sister sewing life vests with care—hammering home their personal stakes in quality and speed. A unique angle celebrates physically handicapped workers, originally hired for self-reliance, now aiding the war effort with grit. Scenes of refitted machinery and bustling shifts blend with patriotic fervor, emphasizing that no worker, like no soldier, is unimportant. A rousing call to “all out” effort, it’s a snapshot of industrial resolve and human connection in crisis.