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Young African American women prepare dinner, press and mend clothes, and do cleaning job in National Youth Administration Center in Alabama.

Campus of Slossfield Work Center, a National Youth Administration (NYA) Center in Alabama. African American girls in a waiting room reading books on a table. Few others sit on a bench. A lady interviews a girl for NYA jobs. African American children play in a circle. Dinner is cooked in the kitchen. It is provided to NYA youth at a cost of 5 cents. NYA youth sitting on tables as dinner is served. Girls clean the center. They press and mend clothes. Winner of the College Scholarship shows clothes she made and wears one. Women attend arts and crafts class

Date: 1957
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024041
African Americans learn to paint, catalog manuscripts and make equipment for library in a National Youth Administration center in Alabama

A girl paints window blue. A woman works on plants in beds. A boy works in a wood factory. NYA (National Youth Administration) youths preparing equipment for library at Slossfield Work Center, a NYA center in Alabama. NYA girls learn to catalog manuscripts. Two boys paint roof and wall.

Date: 1957
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024042
The funeral of Arturo Toscanini at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

Funeral of Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in New York City. Street level, exterior view of St. Patrick's Cathedral. View of interior of the cathedral, as the funeral mass is being conducted. The altar and numerous candles lit for the famed conductor. A statue of the Virgin Mary and candles in an altar. Pallbearers carry the coffin from the cathedral and place it into a hearse. The back of the hearse covered with floral tributes.

Date: 1957, January 16
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025690
Three babies with families belonging to different social classes in Morristown, New Jersey.

Film titled 'Social Class in America' about factors influencing vertical social mobility in United States. Babies in nursery at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Three babies are introduced named Guilford Ames, Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper, middle and lower). Different roles are shown for the husband and father in each family. Father of the upper class boy at his executive desk with secretary. Father of the middle class boy shown doing book keeping at his office. Father of the lower class boy working as an unskilled worker, pours liquid from a bucket at a factory. The housing for the different family types is shown, including an estate, a single family home, and a row house.

Date: 1957
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026700
FBI training film about three boys struggle for vertical social mobility in Madison, New Jersey.

Training film about factors influencing vertical social mobility and class in the United States. Shows classic 1950s roles of husbands, wives (as homemaker or housewife) and children growing up in the family. Three boys named Guilford Ames,Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper class, middle class, and lower class) in Madison, New Jersey. Families of various races gather at the viewing window of a hospital nursery. Babies in cribs seen in the nursery. Three boys stop in front of Madison High School to converse following their graduation. Their parents greet each other as well. Scenes of boys at home after graduation. First, the boy from the upper class, Guilford, speaks to his parents in their living room, with a maid present. Middle class boy, Ted, at the dinner table with his parents and sister. Lower class boy, Dave, with extended family to celebrate graduation. Dave pumps gas at an Amoco gasoline station. He wears a white t-shirt and baseball cap. "Amoco no lead" is seen on the gas pump or petrol pump. Guilford, dressed in a suit and driving a 1956 Cadillac, pulls into the Amoco service station and talks to Dave. At his father's office, Guilford shakes hands with Ted. Ted in a suit walks in downtown Madison, New Jersey while thinking. In New York, Ted works at the art department in an advertising firm. Ted draws an advertisement for a refrigerator at his desk. A door with a sign on it, "Art Department, Theodore Eastwood, Director" Ted with other men at a golf course wearing latest mens golf fashions. Ted tees off at the golf course. Ted arrives home at the Convent Station, New Jersey railroad station. Many 1950s American automobiles seen in the car parking lot. He talks to a woman sitting in a convertible and to her husband, Guilford. At the Amoco gas station in Madison, Dave, now dressed in a mechanic's coveralls, shakes Teds hand. Close up of identification card for a baby at a hospital. The card reads "Benton Baby" and has an image of a stork on it. Nurse takes baby from mother in a hospital bed and puts the baby in a crib. She rolls the baby crib into the hospital nursery.

Date: 1957
Duration: 11 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026701
Atlas missile prototype destroyed shortly after lift-off due to booster fuel system failure.

First launch of Atlas prototype in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Missile at launch pad. Ignition and then smoke seen during launch. Missile climbs several thousand feet and then loses control because of booster fuel system failure and blows up. Some debris falls slowly to ground in flames.

Date: 1957, June 11
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021386