A documentary titled 'Women and the Community'. Aerial view of city of Monroe New York. A railroad train runs on track carrying commuters. Closeup, from outside, of engineer seen through window of the train. Two men working as City Planners in an office. One is pointing at a region of Monroe on a wall map. Both are looking at the map on the wall. A sanitation worker man dumps garbage into a garbage truck. Postman making deliveries to houses in a neighborhood. Snow is on the ground but cleared from sidewalks and streets. At one house, the mailman knocks on the door and delivers the mail personally to a Mrs. Carter, the occupant. View of Mr. and Mrs. Carter at breakfast table with their two small daughters (depiction is classic family of 1950s with husband and his wife in homemaker or housewife role). Mr. Carter, a lawyer, is reading the morning paper, while Mrs. Carter opens the morning mail that includes a sample ballot for the upcoming local elections. She shares it with her husband. Their oldest girl in the family reaches for the ballot and knocks over her glass of milk, which Mrs. Carter quickly mops up. The postman is seen on his route into the shopping district, View of local grocer placing purchases of a customer in a paper bag. The mailman gives him his mail. He also gives a letter to a Mrs. Brown, who is in the store, shopping. The local dentist meets the mailman as he enters his office, and takes the mail from him. Inside his office, patients are waiting. He gives the mail to his secretary. A Mrs. Gates and her son accompany the dentist into his inner office. An elderly couple collect the mail from their rural outdoor mailbox. The mailman enters the local high school to deliver mail. Inside. students are seen using microscopes in a science lab class. Student, Mary Collins focuses her microscope. The science teacher checks the image in Mary's instrument .As the postman continues his rounds, a bus carrying voters lets them off at Fireman's hall, the local polling place, where they line up, outside. Mrs. Carter is seen in the queue, discussing her sample ballot with others.
Mrs. Carter, a resident of Monroe, New York, is seen with other members of the Local League of Women Voters, as they prepare for upcoming local elections. Sign in background reads: "The League of Women Voters, non-partisan Voters Service League."The women assemble voting information packets. View of one member woman caring for several children of members, during the League meeting. League members distributing election information to homes of their neighbors. (One woman refuses to accept any voting information.) One woman places voting materials into the open window of a parked car. Another posts a campaign poster on a telephone pole. League members prepare voter lists and telephone voters. Candidates speaking at meetings arranged by the League of Women Voters. Varying reactions of women in the audience. Another view of voters in a line outside the polling place. Women of the Parent Teacher Association engaged in a local project to establish a Recreation Center for Teens. Youth square dancing at the new Teen Center and enjoying refreshments afterwards. Students viewing motion pictures about anatomy, birth and growth, provided by the Board of Education. View of faces of teenage boys and girls viewing film about human anatomy in an auditorium. Primary school children going through a cafeteria line and eating their lunch at tables. The local dentist checking teeth of school children during annual exams at school. The dentist's receptionist voluntarily looking after children in a local hospital.
A woman named Ann Collins is seen in a vacant lot, where she and others of the community work to clean it up so it can be made into a playground. They pick up trash and deposit it in a wheelbarrow that Ms Collins pushes to a 1947 Dodge pickup truck, parked nearby, where it is unloaded. Views of others working with rakes and shovels to prepare the ground. Some trash falls on Ms. Collins as she hands a bushel basket full to a man standing in the back of the open truck. She smiles and climbs into the cab of the truck, which has "John C. Hunter, Monroe, N.Y. Dial 2371" painted on its door. The truck drives away, with two young men steadying boxes of trash in the back. The truck proceeds along a street in the town, past parked cars of the period, such as a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Ms Collins waves from the truck cab as it drives past a street sign reading "No Littering." They pass people lined up outside a polling place, where election voting is taking place. Scene changes to the interior of a rummage shop run by local women to help the poor. Other women are seen working inside a greenhouse associated with a garden club. Next, a woman is seen handing publications to two girl scouts in uniform. A church choir, with many women, sings during a service. Closeups of the choir as they sing the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" by John B. Dykes. Scene shifts to a physician and nurse taking blood from a volunteer blood donor. Closeup of the blood being collected in a glass flask. Next, citizens are seen inside the polling place where volunteers register them to vote. A uniformed police officer stands nearby as the voters make their way to voting booths. Women enter curtained voting booth and vote.
A whaling vessel at a port in Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. Views of the buildings at the port. Men at work in the old sailing boat. Various statues are to be seen, a man is sewing. Interior of a blacksmith's house, man forging the metal. A large anchor outside a house. Views of Mystic Seaport area.
Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay. Aerial view of ships in New York Harbor. An airplane in flight. Airplane is flying over the New York Bay and the skyscrapers and tall buildings of the Manhattan skyline. Aerial view of New York harbor. 'Police' can be seen written on the aircraft.
Views of various boats and ship at New York harbor in Upper New York Bay. Good views of New York skyline and skyscraper buildings near the harbor, as seen from a New York City Police boat. Police officers on the police boat. The boat docks and name on back of boat reads, "Police New York City Lieutenant Ronaghan". A small row boat is then put into the water from the larger police boat, and two men board the small boat and row it towards shore. A gathering of onlookers at the docks as the rowboat comes in. Police officers hoist what appears to be a covered stretcher in the air (possible victim?) and load it into a waiting police van or paddy wagon on the dock.
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