https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9eda3a7b-82a6-4e58-bfd2-b1adc2d66248 Made in 1942 and nominated for an Academy Award, this MGM short is entitled DON'T TALK. It was part of the so-called "Crime does not Pay" series, and focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a material plant, the FBI try to find out how information on the manganese shipment was found out. They get a lead on one of the plotters, Beulah Anderson, who as a waitress in a café gets to pick up all kinds of scuttlebutt from the innocent but loose talking clients. Once they figure out how she is sending the information she gathers, the FBI sets a trap. The moral of the story is: Don't Talk! MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series got started in an interesting way. After the Production Code ax fell most gangster pictures were no longer viable. The same thing happened to horror films, for other reasons. Warner Bros. took the lead by making a crime film. In this new type of film, former Public Enemy James Cagney played one of J. Edgar Hoover's "G-Men" and hunted down gangsters, while still behaving a bit like a gangster himself, at least in terms of swagger and style. MGM caught the lawman-hero bandwagon by inaugurating Crime Does Not Pay, an anti-crime, pro- good citizen series that would serve as sort of a consumer guide to warn middle America against the evils springing up around them. 0:37-0:44: Introduction to the "Crime Does Not Pay" series by the MGM crime reporter. 0:47-1:02: Introduction of Mr. Jack Sampson, Special Agent in Charge of a field office of the FBI, discussing the unprecedented production efforts and defense against enemy agents. 1:09-1:17: Description of a case starting on November 29, 1941, involving a large industrial plant and a shipment of federal manganese. 1:39-1:53: Discussion about the sabotage attempt and the partial destruction of the manganese shipment. 2:03-2:14: Mr. Sampson and Mr. Harmon discuss the secret nature of the manganese shipment and the need to interview five dependable men. 2:19-2:39: Investigation into the possible leak of information at local bars and cafes. 2:42-2:54: Authorities suspect sabotage at the Harmon factory plant. 3:24-3:34: A saboteur describes planting a charge in the storage bins and the FBI's presence at the plant. 4:15-4:30: Discussion about continuing the sabotage work with caution. 4:34-5:08: Introduction of Beulah Anderson, a waitress at the Elite Cafe, as a key lead in the investigation. 5:14-5:29: Analysis of a snapshot found in Beulah's room, linking her to subversive activities in Istanbul. 6:00-6:20: Surveillance of Beulah and her connections. 6:51-7:47: Discovery of a plan to use a demolition bomb to sabotage machine tools. 8:01-8:18: Beulah's interaction with a truck driver about the plant using his trucks. 9:29-9:42: Surveillance of Beulah and her movements. 10:17-10:31: Analysis of a menu with transposed lines, leading to a breakthrough in the investigation. 11:00-11:22: Discussion about the importance of gear grinders for airplane production. 12:06-12:23: Preparation for a shipment of gear grinders by truck. 13:04-13:28: Surveillance of Beulah as she leaves work early. 14:39-15:00: Beulah's meeting at a darkened store and the discovery of a change in plans for the gear grinders. 15:26-15:34: FBI's plan to intercept the trucks carrying the gear grinders. 16:13-16:31: Surveillance of Beulah and her interactions. 17:19-17:33: FBI's efforts to stop the trucks and prevent the sabotage. 18:16-18:32: Communication between FBI agents about the truck schedule. 19:09-19:27: FBI's interception of the saboteurs. 20:52-21:17: Conclusion with a message about the importance of industrial defense and vigilance. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f_qZrYoYv4 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:23:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/9eda3a7b-82a6-4e58-bfd2-b1adc2d66248 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.