A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Unemployment compensation'. A dramatization shows a man searching for a job in a newspaper during the Great Depression. He reads a board. A map of the United states. A sign on a door reads 'State employment office'. A man gets himself registered for a job at the office. Another man enters the office. He receives his unemployment compensation. He carries a box of food items purchased with the compensation amount.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Old age insurance'. People fill out old age insurance forms. Men work at a factory. A social security card of John Marshall. A building in Baltimore where old age insurance records are maintained. Drawers inside the building where records are kept. Men and women work on machines as they type and print wage reports, ledger sheets. A sign on a door reads 'Office of the President'. A man at a desk. Wage details being tabulated and posted on each ledger sheet. A map of the United States depicts the regional offices of the old age insurance. People at various offices. An old woman reads while another woman knits. An old couple seated in a park and a man smokes a cigar. Old men and women get cheques under the old age insurance scheme.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to the needy aged'. An old woman and an old man. An old couple seated in a park. An old man reads a newspaper. A sign reads 'Aid to needy blind'. A blind man wearing dark glasses.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to dependent children'. Children seated on a bench in a park. A girl helps a woman to hang clothes on a line. A boy paints a staircase. A woman with two boys.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Basic aims of the Social Security Act include: unemployment compensation, old age insurance, aid to needy aged, aid to needy blind and aid to dependent children. American people walking on a crowded city street in the late 1930s. A group of American boy and girl children assembled together. Various scenes of men working on farms and in factories. A young couple holding and walking with their two children, one of whom is holding a balloon. The United States Capitol in Washington DC.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler in Germany. A car pulls up at a building and officials get off the car and enter the building. Various officials, including Marshal Goering, arrive and enter the building as a Nazi guard salutes them. Soldiers lined up. A military band plays. Civilians lined up along a sidewalk. People raise their hand in Nazi salute as German Chancellor Adolf Hitler arrives. German soldiers march down a road. Soldiers lined up as Hitler reviews them on New Year's day.