Opening scene shows supplementary census workers (enumerators) in a training class. They ask questions that are answered by the instructor. Cartographers preparing detailed standard accurate maps of urbanized areas. Mapmakers at work,kneeling over huge sheets of paper. Postal worker assisting by providing address information to the Census Bureau. Mailmen delivering postal mail. A woman census enumerator carrying a briefcase, with "census" written on it, visits homes. Enumerators visiting remote homes, by car, donkey,and dogsled. A late 1960's or 1970 ambulance approaching the camera position at high speed. A prison compound are shown as narrator discusses census including hospitalized and imprisoned persons. Views of a young child walking on a Native American Indian Reservation; migrant labor camp; a U.S. Air Force Base, and a merchant ship, whom the census must reach. Views of hotel and motel neon signs indicating where census enumerators must also visit. Temporary housing places, such as mobile home parks and shelters for homeless are shown.
Posters in Japanese and Spanish, illustrating efforts by U.S. Bureau of the Census, to reach all Americans. Such a non-English sign in a barbershop window. Census enumerators conversing in a District Field Office. A woman checking responses against a master list of residents. Staff members discuss individual cases. Newspaper headlines reporting preliminary census results for their respective localities. Census staff making corrections after preliminary results are disclosed. A forklift moving a stack of census documents at the central processing office in Jeffersonville, Indiana. View inside warehouse at Jeffersonville, containing 75 carloads of census questionnaires stacked in bins. Staff in the Central Processing office using special machinery to microfilm the paper forms. View of census workers microfilming in near darkness. Woman at Census Headquarters, with machine called "Fosdic" standing for Film Optical Sensing Device for Imput to Computer. The microfilm is seen being fed into a reader that converts citizens marks on questionnaires into computer-storable (digital) form. View of microfiche census record containing citizens marks. Mailman delivering letters of inquiry to the Census Bureau. census worker looking up information in response to inquiry.
Temporary census workers (enumerators) taking an oath not to disclose any information they collect. Computer-driven line printer producing many sheets of census data. Examples of data captured are illustrated bV: View of a machinist at work; parents and children at a picnic; a city neighborhood of homes and townhouses and brownstones; and children playing on a city neighborhood sidewalk. Back in the Bureau of the Census, a high speed printer produces confidential lists with categories of data. View of a person completing a census questionnaire. View of the U.S. Capitol. Animated map of the U.S.A. showing changes in Congressional seats resulting from the 1970 census. View of the U.S. Constitution highlighting the part calling for a decennial census. Cartoon illustrations of data groupings possible from census data.
View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.
Pedestrians walking in a city where Cranes and high rise buildings are under construction. Sign announces sidewalk temporarily closed. Children playing in a school yard. Temporary additional classrooms at a school. A college campus. Aerial view of large scale development and construction activity in a Southern State. A large boring machine working. A construction machine at a tunnel entrance. A BART (Bay Area Rapid transit) train in San Francisco.
Children at school cafeteria lunchroom in a school. A boy selects food from the lunch line offerings and puts it on his tray. Building of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A few buildings and homes of a small town along a rural road, as seen from a moving car or vehicle. A small power plant. Sign announcing future home of Loudoun County campus of the Northern Virginia Community College. A Childrens Hospital under construction. A new campus under construction for the Mercer County Community College. A mother and baby. A newborn baby being brought to car from hospital, by a nurse. Area of heavy industry. Contaminated beach in Mendocino County California. A working cowboy with rope lariat. A golfer on golf links. A farmer plowing behind a mule. A large piece of farm equipment in operation. A small ferry moving several cars across a river. Low aerial view of late 1960s and early 1970s cars on a network of highways.
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