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Empty Rooms Mean Idle Machines

1942 2 min

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This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought in to work an idle machine at the munitions plant.

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This animated short produced during WWII shows how Plugger helped the war effort by renting out his spare room so that a new worker could be brought in to work an idle machine at the munitions plant.

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Credits

• producer
  Philip Ragan
  
• animation
  Philip Ragan
  

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