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 invasion of Poland during World War II. German cavalry and infantry units advance across Bromberg, Poland (Bydgoszcz Poland). Soldiers on motorcycles advance. Soldiers crawl on the ground in a wooded area. Tanks roll across an area. German troops enter a city. German population welcome them. A man removes a Polish sign from a wall. Tanks and troops advance across an area. Damaged bridges across a river. German soldiers rebuild wrecked bridges. German soldiers in carts and tanks move across a bridge.
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.
A gas mask factory in England during World War II. British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Department Geoffrey Lloyd at the gas mask factory. Women workers manufacture gas masks. Lloyd and others inspect the plant. Lloyd puts on a gas mask. Men wear gas masks and demonstrate their use. A wounded being placed on a stretcher during the demonstration.
A Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp in Hardeeville, South Carolina. Three young men at the CCC camp. The men march around an area. They get onto trucks parked on a field. African American boys get onto trucks, Trucks loaded with African American CCC volunteers pull away. (Great Depression period)