Women in Blue
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1993.1.140
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hubbard, Bernard R. (Bernard Rosecrans), 1888-1962
label: Collection Creator
content: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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content: Father Bernard Hubbard collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (black-and-white sound; 317 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is a theatrical short produced for "The World Today." Film documents a group of women in the Navy named "the Waves." Film includes footage of women recruits learning about the Navy, receiving their uniforms and barrack assignments, exercising, taking aviation maintenance courses, eating in the Navy mess hall and graduating as Navy Waves. The narrator, Hugh James, discusses the importance of the Waves in the Navy and their duty to "release a man from his duties at home to fight at sea."  Directed by Vyvyan Donner.  

Legacy Keywords: United States Armed Forces Women