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Women work at an automobile cushion factory in United States

Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries and improving industrial efficiency. Women manually stuff and stitch automobile cushions at a factory in United States. Women operate machines and cushions being mechanically stitched thus leading to efficiency in production.

Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048209
Human skills and talents replaced due to the dawn of machine age in United States

Emphasizes upon the need to avoid waste of human skills and talents in industries due to the dawn of machine age in United States. Enlists the problems brought about due to mechanization of industries: loss of job, keeping pace with machines, loss of wages and monotony of work. Due to increase in dial telephone system and a reduction in manual telephone system displaced women workers being given other jobs such as information operators, special operators and switch board attendants. View of telephone switchboard operators and people using rotary telephones, talking on the phone. Close up view of face of a rotary dial telephone "JERome 8901" home location listed. Hand dialing the rotary telephone. A graph shows a decline in the need for human beings at industries due to coming of machine age.

Date: 1931
Duration: 7 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048210
A young boy gets acquaint about the process of weather forecast

' Back to weather forecasting ' . A boy along with his father visits weather bureau and the chief of the bureau acquaints him with the importance and method of forecasting weather. Scientific instruments used to forecast weather. Weather bureau in Richmond, Virginia.

Date: 1931
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058551
Weather Vane anemometer among scientific instruments used for weather forecasting

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast. Wind vane shows the direction of wind blow. An anemometer indicates speed of the wind.

Date: 1931
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058552
Thermometer among scientific instruments used for weather forecasting

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast. Thermometers used to record maximum and minimum temperatures. A man notes down the temperatures. Wet and dry bulbs of thermometers used to record humidity level.

Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058553
Barometer described among scientific instruments used for weather forecasting in United States

Scientific instruments used for weather forecast at a weather bureau in United States. A man uses a barometer to record atmospheric pressure.

Date: 1931
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058554