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An officer of Selective Service System speaks about its requirement and functioning for quick mobilization of U.S. armed forces.

An officer of Selective Service System speaks about its requirement and functioning. The officer, sitting at his desk speaks about Selective Services System. He emphasizes need of strong armed forces and quick mobilization of forces. He lays stress on achievement of adequate arms strength.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036669
Military soldiers selected by Selective Service System march in a parade ground with rifles and their various activities.

An officer of Selective Service System speaks about its functioning and its effects. Military soldiers selected by Selective Service System march in a parade ground with rifles. Various activities by these soldiers. Two such soldiers sit on their beds in their barracks talk to each other.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 3 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036670
A dramatized presentation depicts efforts of an Indian and a woman to rescue her husband.

Sequences from a melodramatic presentation. A girl sits near her mother and weeps. A Native American Indian man arrives and takes the mother into a forest. In the forest a group of men walk with arrested husband of the woman. The Indian man and woman try to convince them that the husband is not a murderer.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1900
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036775
Glimpses into the lives of America's gilded age wealthy, early in the 20th Century

Immigrants on board a ship arriving in New York Harbor, circa 1905, see New York City buildings across the water. A couple walking along the avenue in New York City. The man buys a newspaper from a newsboy or newsie (newspaper boy). A trolley car passes in the center of the avenue. A sign on the trolley reads: "Broadway." Several automobiles drive along a street, each close behind the other. One is decorated with American flags. A school building at side of the street displays numerous American flags. Pedestrians walking along 5th Avenue in New York City. Some men are wearing top hats, and others bowlers. Women are wearing bonnets. Several high society gentlemen in formal attire seat seated at a banquet table. They smoke cigars and have after-dinner drinks. Flowers adorn the table and the men wear boutonnieres. They all sport mustaches and wear some sort of garlands of greens (or paper) on their heads. The scene expands to reveal more aristocracy men at the table,similarly attired, including the garlands. Scene of wealth at turn of the century with couples dancing in an elegant ballroom. Change of scene shows waiters serving guests at an outdoor dining venue. Most of the men wear straw boaters (hats) and the women wear summer dresses and bonnets. A gentleman in a top hat with two women at a fashionable outdoor affair. The women wear large-brimmed hats. Ann Harrison Vanderbilt (Mrs. Willian K Vanderbilt) seated in a rolling straw chair, pushed from behind, chats with a gentleman in Florida. Lady in striped jacket and white skirt, with tennis racquet under her arm talks to chauffeur, standing next to a Locomobile limousine, parked at the curb. The Vanderbilt home, "the Biltmore," in Asheville, North Carolina, viewed from the back of the mansion.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1905
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036799
Early 20th Century images show tension between U.S. business and workers over child labor, low wages, and labor unions

Girls and boys engaged in child labor working on machinery in textile mills. Boys working in coal mines, A boy working at blacksmith's forge and one in a machine shop. Lady and gentleman in riding habit on horseback. All members of a family engaged in needlework, at home. Closeups of miners and a woman worker. Workers including children, parade with American flags and a sign reading: "Give us A Living Wage, Not Charity." New York City Garment workers from various unions, such as Pants makers, marching with placards. Workers jammed in a Chicago city square to hear Hannah Shapiro, initiator of the garment workers strike against clothing firm, Hart, Schaffner, & Marx. Some carry signs. One reads: "Do you belong to a Union. If not, why not." Closeup of Hannah Shapiro, standing on a ladder, with a Union banner beside her. Large group of marching workers with many children in the front rank. They carry American flags. Mine owners' spokesman assuring workers about their rights and interests. Closeups of a decorated senior uniformed policeman on horseback and another policeman in uniform. Group of uniformed policemen armed with Browning shotguns. Contingent of policemen mounting their horses in formation, and several riding along a cobblestone city street containing trolley tracks. An early vintage car is following them. Policeman walking ahead of women marching with a banner about Union Contracts for New Yorkers. Mounted police dispersing an unruly crowd. Policeman taking a young man into custody. A 1910 Auburn automobile, with right-hand drive. Policemen taking protesting workers into custody.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036802
Conditions of American workers and the rise of labor unions, especially in garment industry, early in the 20th century

A large group of well-dressed men and women at an event in a park in Chicago, Illinois. Many men wear straw boater hats and many women wear bonnets. Men and women working at sewing machines in a factory of Hart Shaffner & Marx men's clothiers in Chicago, Illinois. Successive closeups of two foremen and one worker, posing for the camera. Pay envelope for a person named Herscowitz in the seaming department. Card shows pay of $1.78 for 23 hours & 20 minutes work. Men working as cutters in garment factory. Young girls, an older man, and mature women working in the factory. Several young women walking arm in arm, ostensibly in protest. Closeups of several factory workers. Group of labor protestors led by women, walking in a city street. Many workers in a protest parade in the snow as spectators watch from sidewalks. Gathering of workers dissatisfied with their union leadership. One carries a sign reading: "Our so called leaders say strike settled. This demonstration is contrary to their claims."

Location: Chicago United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036803
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