Animated view of sun and description of a total eclipse. Animated picture of moon passing across the sun. Citizens preparing to watch an eclipse. Astronomers from all over the world watch the sight. Moon covers the image of sun with halo of light around it. (Solar Eclipse). Tongues of flame in the halo of light visible through telescope. Animated view of earth from the moon.
Man arrives at the offices of Cumberland Homesteads, a New Deal Community being built by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads. He speaks to another man in front of the Information Office. Sign "Cumberland Homesteads Information" visible. He walks down a dirt road and arrives at another office. Sign out front says, "Office. William Macy Stanton, Architecture - Land Planning and Construction. D. F. Folger, Personnel and Purchasing." he enters the office and is seen seated at a table with another man (likely Stanton or Folger), filling out forms to apply for one of the homesteads. He exits the office together with the other man.
Summer work camps in Flint, Michigan organized by the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). College student volunteers clean in Oak Knoll Park. Two men dig around a tree and uproot it. Man chopping a tree with an axe. Two men reaping tall grass with a scythe. Men uproot and dig out stumps, and carry cut trees and branches to a pile. Black smoke rises from a heap of burning brush. Children play in the park, coordinated by American Friends Service Committee members in Community Planning and City Planning roles. Families with boys and girls attend United Auto Workers (UAW) picnic.
Trip of American Friends Service Committee members (Quakers) to the Saline Valley Farms outside Saline, Michigan, founded by Harold Gray. Sign in parking lot of the cooperative (co-op) farm reads, "Saline Valley Farms. Office. Hostel. Store. Dairy. Recreation Hall. Canning Factory. All visitors please register." View of the main farm house. Panoramic view of the farmland from a high bluff. A boy riding a pony or small horse. View of chickens pecking at feed outside chicken coops. Friends gathered for a picnic near a large shade tree. View of the table preparations and people enjoying the picnic. Man pushes a boy on a tree swing. Man seated on the swing eating watermelon. Men playing horseshoes. View of William Simkin, Director, along with two small children beside him.
Camping weekend of members of the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). Man climbs out of canoe bow at a dock on Fenton Lake. Man at stern of canoe remains. A different man climbs back into the bow of the canoe. View of a man throwing large darts at a dart board in a campsite.
Film 'The Fight for Life' dramatizes experience of a physician in obstetric practice at a Chicago hospital. View of engraved stone reading: City Hospital, 1932, over archway, at entrance to a Chicago hospital. Medical staff walk in hallway. A nurse enters maternity center where doctors stand beside a woman in labor on a table.The principal doctor monitors the fetus heartbeat. The mother becomes stressed and the anesthesiolgist helps her. Physician places newborn infant on cart and nurse rolls it away. View of baby. Nurse and doctors attending the mother express alarm over her blood pressure.They administer oxygen and several doses of medicine by hypodermic. But the patient dies. One of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) is clearly moved by the event, and seems deep in thought as he leaves the hospital, not even noticing the receptionist who bids him good evening as he passes her.
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