Film "American Working Women" Clock above Exit sign in Sonotone factory. Women, including Hazel Kennedy, assembling hearing aids. Women in wash room checking hair in mirror and applying lipstick. Women clocking out at Sonotone factory. Wide shot workers leaving Sonotone hearing aid factory, 2269 Saw Mill River Road Elmsford, NY 10523. Bank teller at White Plains Federal Savings and Loan, 182 East Post Road White Plains, NY 10601 puts away money at end of day. Man in suit who is bank Vice President looks at his watch and says goodbye to his secretary as he leaves the office. Secretary Joan Morgan applies lipstick while looking into her compact mirror and then puts on her coat. A man paces outside bank building, looking at watch. He greets his girlfriend Joan and the couple hold hands. Cancer researcher Martha Hanson puts white mice into a cage in her lab at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, 1275 York Ave. New York, NY 10065. View of numbers on elevator at Sloan-Kettering as doors open. Martha passes through lobby at Sloan-Kettering. Wall engraving in background reads, "Within these walls a few labor unceasingly that many may live" Ann Maloney puts away Silver Slipper hosiery boxes at Marie's Lingerie shop. Sign on wall reads, "First Quality 54 Gauge Nylons". A tall model of a woman's leg is on the counter top. Ann puts money into cash register drawer. Woman (Hazel) driving her 1941 DeSoto Custom automobile. She picks up her husband in front of the hardware factory where he works. Husband and wife kiss in automobile. Close up honking car horn. Children run out of house and into car. Hazel parks car at 12 Curry Road Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 at the intersection of Curry Road and Ronny Circle and the family enters front door of house.
American woman works as a secretary. Bank executive dictates to secretary,she picks up phone, hands it to him and walks out to front of bank, She greets woman and escorts her into office then walks out. Girl purchases slip from salesclerk.
View from train through New York city. 'Kelly Tires' building. View of railway tracks. View of Hippodrome theater in New York. Signs of the theatre read 'Hippodrome' and 'The Big Show'.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is handed a baseball and throws out the ceremonial first pitch from his seat. Seen at left is first lady Edith Wilson; seen at right is Wilson's physician and personal aide Cary T. Grayson. Unidentified baseball player (presumably of Washington Senators team) holds a ball signed by " Woodrow Wilson." Location is Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. Date is uncertain, but no later than 1918, which is the last time Wilson is recorded to have attended a baseball game.
Glimpse of automobiles parked outside the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan. Camera pans up to the top of the hotel. Then the scene fades to a busy street outside Ford Motor Company plant during shift change.
Arturo Toscanini conducts orchestra and chorus in Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, at NBC's Studio 8-H, New York City. The NBC Symphony orchestra includes typical instruments plus harp. Tenor Jan Peerce is joined by the Westminster Choir onstage. Among other national themes, the performance includes British and American national anthems, concluding with the latter. (Note: This film was produced by the U.S. Office of War Information.)
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