Conquer by the Clock

  • Documentary
10/27/1942
10

Time wasted is time given to the enemy...

Conquer by the Clock was a short dramatic propaganda film produced by the RKO Pathé in 1942 to encourage wartime industrial production. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.

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      • Geronimo1967

        Im not sure the clock actually manufactures time nor am I sure that the overly laboured message here would achieve much more than a society of exhausted, nervous wrecks. The premise is that every second counts, and so if you sneak out for a cigarette or go to a ball game on your day off, or even go to the toilet, then you are essentially a saboteur! Yes, the message is ridiculously over-delivered and actually quite dangerous as many of the tasks it uses as examples could not be safely carried out by people who are seeing double whilst standing for hours on end with sore feet and fatigue. There is plenty of industrial archive included to illustrate just how joined up everything is, and just how inter-dependant production and distribution can...

        March 5, 2025

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