This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
Narrator (voice)
Otis Bird
Vance Clark
Fred Baker
Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
General (uncredited)
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Helen (uncredited)
Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Businessman (uncredited)
Pop Denton (uncredited)
Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)
Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)
Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
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