A film titled 'Social Security for nation' about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Exteriors of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. A picture of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Exterior view of Empire State Building in New York City, panning upward. A passenger train and locomotive underway at high speed toward camera position. Cars and buses on a busy city street. Women at work as telephone switchboard operators, with a woman supervisor pacing behind them. Elevated view of pedestrians in busy city street intersection, crossing a street. Children on a playground swing set in a park. A copy of the Social Security Plan. A chart depicts how the social security administration works. A sign reads 'Social Security Board'. Members of the board at a desk including Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, Allan S. Woodward and George G. Biggy.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Unemployment compensation'. A dramatization shows a man searching for a job in a newspaper during the Great Depression. He reads a board. A map of the United states. A sign on a door reads 'State employment office'. A man gets himself registered for a job at the office. Another man enters the office. He receives his unemployment compensation. He carries a box of food items purchased with the compensation amount.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Old age insurance'. People fill out old age insurance forms. Men work at a factory. A social security card of John Marshall. A building in Baltimore where old age insurance records are maintained. Drawers inside the building where records are kept. Men and women work on machines as they type and print wage reports, ledger sheets. A sign on a door reads 'Office of the President'. A man at a desk. Wage details being tabulated and posted on each ledger sheet. A map of the United States depicts the regional offices of the old age insurance. People at various offices. An old woman reads while another woman knits. An old couple seated in a park and a man smokes a cigar. Old men and women get cheques under the old age insurance scheme.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to the needy aged'. An old woman and an old man. An old couple seated in a park. An old man reads a newspaper. A sign reads 'Aid to needy blind'. A blind man wearing dark glasses.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to dependent children'. Children seated on a bench in a park. A girl helps a woman to hang clothes on a line. A boy paints a staircase. A woman with two boys.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Basic aims of the Social Security Act include: unemployment compensation, old age insurance, aid to needy aged, aid to needy blind and aid to dependent children. American people walking on a crowded city street in the late 1930s. Pedestrians walk on busy sidewalks beside traffic on downtown city streets. A group of American boy and girl children assembled together, likely posing for a picture and looking happy. Montage of various scenes of men working on farms and in factories in the United States. Narrator notes, "A little money coming in when earnings stop helps maintain purchasing power, and so keeps the wheels of industry turning; pooling the risk for joint protection is the method of our democracy. It benefits the individual, the family, the community, and the nation. The goal is security for all." Men assembling chassis of a car on assembly line of an automotive plant. A young couple holding and walking with their two children, one of whom is holding a balloon. Closeup of a father holding his young, smiling son. View of the United States Capitol dome in Washington DC, then seal of the Social Security Board superimposed over the Capitol image.
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