Shipbuilders work at the Whyalla shipyards for Australia’s war effort. A woman shakes out a broom over a veranda with the ship visible to the left. Men walk through the streets to or from work.

In this dramatised sequence, a mining family hears on the wireless that Singapore has fallen to the Japanese.

A man is ready to leave for his night shift at the munitions factory when his young daughter, Topsy, runs up to him.

A family sits around the breakfast table after son Ted has finished his night shift at the munitions factory.

After complaining to her mother (Bobbie Hunt) about not being able to borrow money to go out for a night with the girls, Grace (Dorothy Dickson) sulks in her room.