This black & white educational film is about how people may experience interruption in their travels as essential people will receive preferential treatment due to wartime. No copyright but this is circa the early 1940s.

Opening: RIGHT OF WAY (:06-:20). An announcement is made to people waiting for a train that it is delayed. On a train, there’s nowhere to sit. A woman can’t get a ticket. A man can’t get a taxi and buses are crowded. A car has a flat tire. A sign reads “No Gas” (:21-1:09). Sign: Office of Defense Transportation: Joseph B. Eastman. Mr. Eastman speaks to the viewer. In Washington, D.C. office, teletype machines give train statuses. A man uses the teletype machine. he speaks to a co-worker in front of a map of the U.S. A man working at a train station talks with a co-worker. A train goes quickly by. An express train waits. One train waits and another passes. A train engineer blows his horn and drives onward (1:10-3:41). A central power room for the trains where a board is. A train goes by a station. A truck drives on. A skipper for a ship waits with his ship behind him. A man on the phone, he then talks to a few men. Merchant seaman board a plane. The plane takes off. A freight train on the tracks. The engineer drives at night. The truck also drives at night (3:42-5:29). A freight train goes by on the tracks. A man on patrol at night. The plane lands. The truck arrives at a shipping port, the driver is happy they made it. The train comes to a stop (5:30-6:38). People exit the train. Mr. Eastman speaks to the public about essential travel (6:39-7:24). End credits (7:25-7:31).

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