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Vignette about importance and value of family members working together
Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.
Soviet Ambassador to United Nations Jacob Malik says the conflict in Korea can be settled.
Soviet Ambassador to United Nations Jacob Malik says the conflict in Korea can be settled and asks for cease-fire negotiations among the belligerents. He expresses confidence that a settlement can be reached, with both sides withdrawing from thirty-eighth parallel. (Korean War period.)
A housewife changes into fashionable clothes according to time of the day in Darien, Connecticut
Suburban women change into fashionable dresses according to time of the day. Suburban housewives from Darien, Connecticut wear designer clothes at home. A woman wearing a long gown opens a cupboard in a kitchen. A housewife puts on a striped skirt over a romper suit in the kitchen. The housewife talks with her friend, wearing a flower pattern shirt and a skirt, for lunch. Housewife pours coffee for her friend. Woman in floral blouse sips a cup of coffee. Blond housewife in cocktail dress by Tina Leser sips a martini. Housewife wears a bouffant skirt over her Tina Leser dress. Her friend wears a dress by Oleg Cassini. Roast chicken turning on a spit in a fireplace. Housewife, neighbor and other men and women guests in dresses and suits pouring cocktail drinks at dinner.
Advertisement for Longines Wittnauer watches.
Sponsors advertisement for Longines watches shows a television announcer speaking about Longines watches. Gold medals won by the company. Longines watches on the revolving stand. Emblem of Longines Wittnauer watches company.
Longines clock on top of a scoreboard at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Host Frank Knight in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Baseball game played at Yankee stadium in New York. Longines clock on the top of a scoreboard. Frank Knight talks about the accuracy of Longines watches.
Petroleum Advisor Max W Thornburg talks with Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie in Longines Chronoscope.
Host Frank Knight speaks in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Max W Thornburg, Petroleum Adviser, Department of State, interviewed by Henry Hazlitt and William Bradford Huie. Thornburg talks about his experience in the Middle East oil industry and credentials as Petroleum Adviser, causes of the oil nationalization crisis in Iran and British interference in Iranian politics. Further he speaks about failure of effective Anglo-Iranian oil policy, and lack of U.S. corporate initiatives in developing realistic oil agreements in the Middle East.