Film 'Lights and Shadows in a city of Millions' shows poor foreigners and immigrants being taught by community workers in Detroit. Visiting nurses going on their daily rounds. Nurse gets into a house where community aid is required. Sick child lying in bed. Nurse wipes sick child's face with wet cloth. Number of children being taken care by the community. Views of the waiting room of a community health clinic, and views of a hospital ward for children, with many children in hospital beds and nurses atending to their needs. A disabled man who has benefited from community programs rolls down a ramp in a wheel chair. Inexperienced housewives are trained by community women. They teach a housewife how to bake muffins. A woman removes finished muffins from a early 1900s oven and inspects them. Two women bake together and remove more muffins form the oven.
Character building education for young men in Detroit. Group of young boys swimming. Young men dressed in uniform seated during a class. A Community member holds an orphan baby in hand. Young girl on bed with a doll in hand.
Community members teaching various things and help new immigrants in Detroit Michigan. Community women workers instruct foreign immigrant women and teach them to how to sew. Immigrant children seated in the instruction room with their mothers as they take a class. Immigrants and poor people sitting in front of tenement shacks on an empty street in a slum and poverty area. Two African American men come out of a parked car on St Antoine street where they have spent the night.
Community members take care of thousands of orphans in Detroit. Car halts in front of an orphanage. Board on the building reads 'Child Welfare Building'. Women and children enter the building. Young children playing in the orphanage.
Community members teach blind people to become self supporters in Detroit. Blind boy operates typewriter and Dictaphone machine. Baby siting and smiling in a crib.
View of a statue of American General Ulysses S Grant. Scene changes to show the former estate home of General Robert E Lee (Arlington House, or the Custis-Lee Mansion, and later the Robert E. Lee Memorial) seen on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, with grave markers nearby. A view of many graves on a sloping hillside of the cemetery. Flowers adorn an area inside the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater at the cemetery. A small group of visitors stands near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Brief view of a horse-drawn Caisson underway on a road in Arlington National Cemetery, carrying a coffin for a burial ceremony. View of the Washington monument faintly in the distance, and the Potomac River in the distance. Flowers placed at the tomb.
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