UNITED AIRCRAFT VOUGHT DIVISION CORSAIR FACTORY PRODUCTION FILM 87854

Support Our Channel : / periscopefilm
Made during WWII by Wilding for Pratt & Whitney, "It's Our Job" was intended to be seen by the foremen of wartime industrial plants, who were vital for the success of home front factory production. Here, the problems foremen must meet and means of solving them and shown, from introducing new workers to job responsibilities, to cooperating with other foremen, to preventing safety issues on the assembly line. The film features shots of the F4U-1 Corsair, produced by United Aircraft at this time. The plant shown may be in Dallas, Texas or East Hartford, Connecticut, where in total Vought produced 6,600 Corsairs during the war.
The United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was formed in 1929, when William Boeing of the Boeing firms teamed up with Frederick Rentschler of Pratt & Whitney to form a large, vertically-integrated, amalgamated firm, uniting business interests in all aspects of aviation-a combination of aircraft engine and airframe manufacturer and airline business, to serve all aviation markets, both civil aviation (cargo, passenger, private, air mail) and military aviation.
We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example like: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."
This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit www.PeriscopeFilm.com

[@JR-qz3zt]

I'm considering forwarding this to my GM. Technology changes. Everything changes. This, this is gold. This will always be relevant. Love this channel!

[@jasons44]

Love old military documentary

[@recnepsgnitnarb6530]

I seriously wish I had this film to show some really dense foremen how to do their job right. Their position went right to their heads and fouled up so many things.

[@1944GPW]

Like other WWII aircraft enthusiasts comments I too was intrigued and hooked by the title, which has little to do with the content of the film. However, it was a very interesting discourse on how to manage a disparate group of people to do the best job they can. You could change the setting, technology and production purposes from that of the film to today's industries and still have the underlying messages presented here of good value. Whether the 'benevolent, determined and thoughtful Joe the foreman' in this film was an actual experienced person or whether the film production company made him up as an amalgamation of what the best and worst practices were, we'll never know exactly, but it certainly wasn't a waste of time watching this.

[@robcombs2439]

My FAVORITE site on the WEB!!!!

[@MrZorro3250]

Let's boil this down to it's essential theme. Respect of the individual worker, belief in all aspects of training that person, finding problems and trying to solve them, and the end product must be perfect for all to benefit. Effective communication, and mutual respect between management and the workforce, are essential for production. The application of these processes is simple: Respect, communication, and follow through of the process. It works every time. A break down in any of these functions causes waste, loss of production, and low morale. A killer of any business.

[@JuanAdam12]

Got real excited based on the title, which is not what this film as (as noted in first comment). That said, this was a pretty interesting film about managing people, told from the point of view of an imperfect but well-meaning and introspective shop foreman at Pratt & Whitney. Good acting, some funny lines, and what may have been considered adult-content language ("hell" and "damn").

[@BrassLock]

Similar skills of design & manufacturing were available in USA and other countries like Canada, Australia, and the UK, but sadly they evaporated with the turn of the century. Now keen collectors cram their basements and garages full of famous-name lathes and metal-shapers and dream of the days when such machines hummed under the watchful eyes of locally trained craftsmen and women. Even in a tiny village like Oxted, UK in 1952 I could wander into the small scale factory next door and see a dozen lathes working to capacity.

[@elvisjonesus]

I have worked on Pratt & Whitney machinery from that era . Now management wants everything made in China.

[@alextallen8019]

To be fair there are still tons of lathes being used.

[@88mike42]

Holy crap! No safety glasses.

[@jackdooley8732]

Eye balls were much tougher then.

[@deankay4434]

Cows when grilled normally where not tough and chewy. I am a farm boy and my wife is a city mouse. After great grilling steaks One night, we found them tough. My wife said “They don’t make cows the way they used too”. I almost did a “Spit-Take”. It would be an older bovine served and sold by the store. Milk cow do quit producing and go to slaughter, same with older Bulls that don’t perform. But normally, it’s the steer, that had its nads removed at a younger age, gain weight and go to market. Bulls make more cattle, while cows make more cattle plus milk. Cow-Hide is an incorrect term. Leather can come from either, but barb wire in the US leave marks. Europe has fields made by brush, bushes and field stone. Ear tags where used to I.D. the farmers cattle in Europe, so they hay better hides. Kobe beef are pampered for the meat but hides bring a premium as well. KS. Farm boy!

[@ericwarren7719]

Wow, I really hope some senior management from Norfolk Southern R.R. views and understands this film...

[@johnmarlin4661]

Little did anybody know that F4U Corsairs were powered by Pratt and Whitney engines R2800 's .

[@silentotto5099]

The guy in the screen cap on the KZbin browser page looks enough like Glenn Beck that I after a glance I almost skipped right over this video. Glad I took a closer look.

[@kkteutsch6416]

How wonderfull the globalysation is... the same discurse was thaught to us here in Brazil at same time, a lot of traditional enterprises - a lot of employees left, too - were sold to international corporative firms and , now, we buy eletronics and mechanics goodies from China, too cheap but, about the quality ??? So poor !!!

[@klepper00]

Has Nothing to do with Vought Division Corsair Factory . Should read "United Aircraft Pratt&Whitney Factory Production".

[@jrgogol]

Exactly.

[@4thstooge75]

They did show one flying by in the beginning.

[@dukainmanning7246]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft#Business_units

[@frederickwise5238]

31:06, gag with the air hose. In 1944 at Curtiss Wright Colo Oh, in my dad's dept someone "goosed " another with an air hose. Blew the guys insides up and killed him on the spot!!!!

[@PeriscopeFilm]

This is a story that's been told before ... and I suspect it's actually a phony story...1940s urban legend. Then again: nypost.com/2018/03/20/worker-dies-after-bully-shoves-compressed-air-hose-up-his-backside/

[@waterheaterservices]

@@PeriscopeFilm Poor guy got San Francisco'd

[@Aristocrat1cs]

Where's the documentary about them making supes

[@radioguy1620]

where was the corsair

[@applesucks2633]

The “Bent Wing Bastard”.

[@onazram1]

East Hartford plant...

[@hckyplyr9285]

Yes definitely not Dallas.I know that facility and this ain’t it.

[@bull1234]

My uncle, grandfather and cousin worked in that plant.

[@paulloveless9180]

Are "formans* what we call managers now?

[@WilliamPayneNZ]

Foreman is the old school name. Still used in many places.

[@mikeburch2998]

A great people manager is a total saint. It takes a really special type of person. You will only see them periodically through your work career. The rest are just wannabe's.

[@pizzafrenzyman]

yup, let the women work it out among themselves. what could go wrong?

[@ridein]

Too many ads, 2 ads within less than 2 minutes. :(

[@Happy11807]

Common sense TREAT INDIVIDUALS AS ASSETS NOT LIABILITY!

[@rapman5363]

I get a kick out of the lady worker, the only thing she can do when the two guys get hurt is let out a scream. Instead of a calming and helpful manner it’s a screech and panicked look. 🤷‍♀️

[@Will-fn7bz]

11:15 "He's got five daughters. But he's hoping for better luck in a couple of months." God forbid he has a son and he turns out ta be one o' them fairies... or the daughters don't get married by age 20 and end up old maids. At least the misses takes care of her wifely duties.

[@coldgold49]

wow women in the work force sucked back then to

[@mikeburch2998]

So a gender studies degree is not super helpful here? :-)

[@andyharman3022]

No. More like real-world studies in human relations. It's called life. Does anybody really need to know more than The Golden Rule?

[@kellyreim6627]

What happened to freedom of the skies guess free for tax payer trained Air Force people flying over regulated over priced air liners.

[@jameskeyes1131]

Oh geeez! The attitude is so smarmy you just gotta work to keep from puking. The propaganda factor is overwhelming.

[@stickman3214]

Cool story

[@marstondavis]

Let's boil this down to it's essential theme. Respect of the individual worker, belief in all aspects of training that person, finding problems and trying to solve them, and the end product must be perfect for all to benefit. Effective communication, and mutual respect between management and the workforce, are essential for production. The application of these processes is simple: Respect, communication, and follow through of the process. It works every time. A break down in any of these functions causes waste, loss of production, and low morale. A killer of any business.

[@recnepsgnitnarb6530]

You hit the nail right on the head. I wish some managers I had working for me would have understood those simple concepts.