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'Suggestion Box' is a short propaganda film produced in 1943 by the Office of War Information. Its purpose was to encourage workers to send in suggestions for more effective war production.
The film opens with a standard factory suggestion box and the many workers who slip pieces of paper in it as they walk by. The suggestions are then gathered and sent to Washington DC where a board of experts examines each one to find its merits for more efficient and speedy war production. A few examples are given:
*a worker who was working on iron tubes finds a way to increase his production by lining them up all together
*a black janitor suggests a way to save oil from being spilled
*and a woman uses her Grandmother's method of button making to make better rivets.
Some of these people whose ideas are taken up by the committee are given awards for helping war production.
The film's message to use suggestion boxes was also spread through propaganda posters at the time.
File:Break the Bottlenecks with Ideas. Use the Suggestion Box - NARA - 534150.jpg|Propaganda poster, 194243
File:Drop Your Ideas in the Suggestion Box - NARA - 534241.jpg|Propaganda poster, 1942
File:"Here Lies a Good Idea. Don't Let Your Idea Die. Put it in the Suggestion Box Today" - NARA - 514482.jpg|Propaganda poster, 1943
File:The Idea Round Table. Put Yours In the Suggestion Box - NARA - 534146.jpg|Propaganda poster, 194243
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