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American women employed in factory jobs. Matching female candidate to correct job using job interview.

American women in the labor force of the United States. Working conditions for women in industries. A girl looks for a job in newspaper columns. She gets a job but proves to be a misfit. Male foreman on assembly line fires her from the job. Same woman shown in a job interview conducted upfront to assess skills and match the woman candidate to the right job. Two women in late 1920's and early 1930's fashions seated in an office for the job interview. Female hiring manager interviews the woman applicant. Early telephone on desk. The job seeker is shown in a factory assembly line job to which she has been matched. She smiles as she works at a factory machine. Foremen or manager men stop by her work area and remark on how well suited she is to the job.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048206
Need for clean, well ventilated and well light up rooms at industries in United States

Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries. A document named "Standards for employment of women in industry" stresses upon equal pay for equal work, for both men and women. View of a woman counting her pay in cash received from a male employer. Another document specifies the working hours for women employees. It also stipulates proper resting places in factories where women workers take a break. Women are showing relaxing in a lunch room, and then a sweeping scene over a city with women gathered on a building roof top where they can relax in sunshine. A woman throws a ball on the rooftop. Stipulation for clean, spacious and well ventilated and well light up working space. Women are shown doing detail work in a factory under good lighting. Provision of basic facility like a chair to sit. Clip includes scenes with women working in various factory and assembly jobs.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048207
Women work at a cigar factory in United States

Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries and improving industrial efficiency. Women wrap cigars manually at a factory in United States. Women work on machines to wrap cigars thus improving the efficiency.

Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048208
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 demonstration of safety devices for workers while working in a steel plant, rail roads and with machine tools

'Making of an American ' An immigrant comes to Gary, Indiana from South Central Europe. He gets employed as a laborer at Illinois steel company of United States Steel Corporation. A demonstration shows safety devices for workers while working at a railroad, steel plant and with machine tools. Men wear goggles while working to prevent chips from getting into the eye. Various other devices like locking of switches, guard for circulation saw, guard on emery wheels, guard over belt, pulley and a fan at the steel plant.

Date: 1913
Duration: 13 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048211