Campus on the March
Encyclopedia
Campus on the March is a short propaganda film produced by the Office of War Information in 1942.
The twenty minute film exhaustively list the number of institutions of higher learning and many dirrerent war activities that have begun at each, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M
, Harvard, Dartmouth College
and the University of California
. There are many different shots of ROTC units and auxiliary formations. Many men are in the military and in college at the same time. Among the war related classes and activities:
The twenty minute film exhaustively list the number of institutions of higher learning and many dirrerent war activities that have begun at each, including the University of Texas, Texas A&M
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
, Harvard, Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
and the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
. There are many different shots of ROTC units and auxiliary formations. Many men are in the military and in college at the same time. Among the war related classes and activities:
- Farm labor
- mechanical engineeringMechanical engineeringMechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
- International relations
- world languages
- chemical weapons preparations
- aviationAviationAviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
- wartime nutrition
- broadcast in Spanish to Latin America to further "understanding of the United Nations cause"
- cryptographyCryptographyCryptography is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties...
- celestial navigationCelestial navigationCelestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is a position fixing technique that has evolved over several thousand years to help sailors cross oceans without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position...
- and various war industrial related training
See also
- List of American films of 1942
- List of Allied propaganda films of World War II
- United States home front during World War IIUnited States home front during World War IIThis page, United States home front during World War II, covers the developments within the United States, 1940–1945, to support its efforts during World War II.-Economics:...