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Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “B-29’s Over Dixie” is a first hand account of the huge Boeing B-29 facility built from scratch in Marietta, Georgia as part of the WWII war mobilization efforts during the early 1940s. Despite the fact that the B-29 was designed by Boeing, this film was presented by Bell Aircraft Corporation's Georgia Division. This is due to the fact that Bell built B-29 and Consolidated B-24 Liberators under license from other aircraft companies at a factory near Marietta, Georgia, just northwest of Atlanta. Online by mid-1943, the plant produced hundreds of aircraft. This black-and-white film includes detailed views of new and innovative production techniques, assembly line work, and the training and care of the vast workforce which was made up of men and women from all walks of life. Chattahoochee River (1:10). Pine-covered hills (1:18). Newton County Georgia Civil War Confederate Memorial Statue (1:22). Roswell Mill (1:24). Newton County Covington Clock Tower (1:33). Trolleybuses downtown Atlanta (1:36). Pacific Freight Express (PFE) train pulls into train yard (1:46). Man stands on top of freight car, Union Pacific's “Road of The Streamliners” (1:56). Freight train in rural Marietta; shadow of Kennesaw Mountain in background (2:00) Military guard stands below wing of B-29 (2:16). Exterior Marietta Plant; factory workers are small specks, emphasize size of plant (2:20). Plant’s exterior walls (2:25). Garage doors lift at night, lights of bustling plant (2:50). B-29 slowly exits from hangar (3:01). Construction site - breaking ground for Marietta Plant (3:11). Military engineers direct crane operators delivering steel (3:29). Workforce: portraits of men and women, all ages, taken from plant parking lot (4:08). Trainee lecture: Military engineer stands in front of diorama of B-29 (4:31). Two young women work on B-29 engine (4:45). Rows of work stations (4:50). Perhaps propellor-powered P-39s (4:59). Perhaps P-39s flying in unison (5:01). Trainees hunched over work table (5:10). Two women welding iron (5:16). Trainees add rivets to B-29 body (5:30). Office secretary lists names of people looking to join workforce (5:48). Elderly woman sews together uniform (6:05). Blind workers use hands to feel their work (6:08). Teacher explains geometry problem while interpreter relays lecture in sign language (6:11). Montage of trainees assigned to different jobs and tasks at work: jotting notes during lecture, welding iron to body of plane (6:22). Lofting system: Bell engineers lay metal on template and trace out lines (6:53). Metal templates hang from storage racks in plant (7:17). Plant workers trace lines according to metal template (7:36). Women place temporary fasteners onto metal exterior (8:25). Workers tend to wings on large-scale assembly line, rows delineated by wings spanning width of plant interior (8:36). Second floor of the assembly line (9:12). Inspector inspects for imperfections (9:24). Pressurized water milling machine (9:48). Female worker watches as plexiglass rises and is formed into domed shape (10:03). Completed plexiglass molds (10:16). Train carrying materials moves into plant interior (10:37). Two men feed pipe-like piece through machine (10:48). Assembly sections across the factory floor, synchronized production, stacked completed parts (10:56). Exterior of Antebellum-style home on plant grounds (11:58). Workers stand at counter of Employee Service Division desk (12:03). Workers leave for the day carpooling, public transport pulls right up to plant (12:09). Workers make their way through canteen for lunch (12:25). Bluegrass music troupe performs (12:38). Workers play volleyball (12:57). Red Cross blood donation center (13:11). War Bond office (13:15). Last phase of production: Female crane operator lowers wing with nacelles and wing flaps (13:36). Rows of B-29s in hangar (13:49). Workers connect parts of crew oxygen supply (14:01). Crane move an 18-cylinder radial engine (14:26). 16.5 foot propeller attached to plane (14:47). Workers climb scaffolding to reach tail of plane (15:34). Various angles of completed B-29 body (16:07). Residential homes built for factory workers, kids play on lawns (17:15). Housewife tastes food over electric stove (17:29). Building churches on compound (17:39). Young children in nursery school class (17:52). Recreational center community pool packed with youth (18:05). B-29 takes flight (18:29). 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, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
