Working American women at home using modern conveniences in the post war era. American woman puts meat loaf in oven. Man screws a towel rack into place. Housewife at oven as daughter comes in kitchen, talks to mother, then leaves. Girl and boy children in 1950s era family set dinner table. Sign 'Fellowship House YWCA'. Girl walks up path towards house. Girl irons dress. Other girl enters and she crosses room and sits on sofa. A man’s photograph is displayed behind the girl ironing clothes. College banners from Columbia, NYU and Fordham decorate the living room. Girl files her nails. A framed college graduation photo on display. Woman walks up path into house. Father sits in easy chair as she walks in and kisses him on forehead. Woman enters kitchen and takes cookie from jar. She walks to mother at sink and kisses her. Woman inserts eggbeater attachment to Mixmaster mixer, pushes button and eggbeater spins. A woman sits on her desk. Woman reads her family’s monthly bills before writing checks. A music appreciation group comprised of young people listen to music in a living room. A man talks to a woman knitting. Music record spins on vinyl LP phonograph record player. Couple sits on couch. Girl strokes a kitten in lap as they listen to music. Kitten jumps up. View of a living room console radio and a man seated in the same room reading the newspaper. Woman knits. View of a Movie theater marquee advertising movies "Angel on the Amazon" and "The Last Bandit." Young woman and young woman couple on a date stand in front of theater at the ticket box office. Boy steps to movie theater box office ticket window then takes the girl’s hand as they walk in. Scenes return to house, with young woman as she reads in bed, puts book away, turns off radio and light, and goes to sleep. Husband and wife are asleep. Wife turns in her sleep.
An alarm clock atop a radio. Young woman reaches with her hand and turns off alarm clock. Woman stretching in bed gets up, gives girl in other bed a poke, pulls cover off, puts on robe and walks out as other young woman gets up. Woman opens venetian blinds and rubs her eyes. Woman's feet getting in to slippers. Woman seated on edge of bed. She stands, stretches, yawns and walks out. Women workers busy in factory as they assemble and check tiny parts for hearing aids. Working women on break in rest room sit and read, some talk. One girl primps and adjusts her hair at a mirror, and smokes a cigarette. Nurse bandages a young woman's finger in the company infirmary.
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.
Discusses importance of American women as workers in the professional work force in the United States. View of Sloan Kettering institute. Female researcher works with white mice in boxes. She walks over to male researcher talks to him as he injects white mice. Nurses assists at an operation, teacher writes on blackboard, beautician or hairdresser does a girl's hair, girl climbs on farm tractor and drives off, young woman wearing industrial welder face mask works in a factory, girl models dress fashions at a beauty pageant. Air hostess, stewardess, or airline flight attendants line up for inspection. Mother bandages son's knee in bathroom. Girl and boyfriend cross wooden bridge over brook in woods, they stop and lean on railing. Waterfall in background.
Jack Dempsey, former boxing heavyweight champion, makes ice cream cones from a big ice cream cone, possibly the world's largest one, for orphan children of Protestant Home in Brooklyn. Children eat coned ice cream. Jack Dempsey and an orphan child eat coned ice cream.
A pier made of bales of natural rubber on fire in Staten Island, United States. Flames of fire rise. Firefighters arrive on site. Firemen hamper water pressure to blow fire. Cloud of smoke arises from pier. A ship splashes water over fire. A helicopter in flight. Aerial view of burning pier.
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