V-2 rocket transported from the assembling area to firing range on a miler wagon.Trailers carrying equipment used for launch can be seen behind the miler wagon. Technicians place the launching platform and raises the rocket in vertical position for launch. 1947.
Men gather at the bank of Niagara river. George L Stathakis enters a large, customized barrel along with his small pet turtle. The lid of the barrel is tightly closed. The barrel is then released in the river close to the Niagara Falls waterfall. Barrel moves in the water and enters the water fall. It drops down along the falls. After crossing the waterfall the barrel is taken out to the river bank. George Stathakis does not emerge. He has died, smothered in the barrel during the stunt. A man takes out the 150 year old turtle from the barrel and shows it to the crowd. It is unharmed.
'Working American Women' is a dramatic enactment that shows daily activities of working women in America as members of the work force and in housewife and homemaker roles. Women work in Sonotone hearing aid manufacturing factory. Women workers freshen up and put on makeup after work. Factory workers punch their timecards before they leave the factory. Female bank secretary prepares to leave bank at 5 PM. Secretary meets her boyfriend outside the bank. A lab assistant puts away a box of mice and tidies the laboratory before leaving. American factory worker picks up her husband from another factory. American man and woman both reach home along with their two children.
Film compares the lives of four American working woman who have different jobs. American woman homemaker or housewife makes dinner as her husband helps around the home. Children help out with simple house hold chores. Two American women stay together in a Fellowship House of YWCA. American woman in her home helped by her mother. The woman checks her bank and insurance papers. Woman and her husband listen to music played on a phonograph record player. American woman sleeps in her YWCA home.
American women get up in the morning at 7AM to get ready for work. Women work in a hearing aid factory. American women at work are given mandatory facilities like medical checkup room, washroom and rooms to take a break. Woman worker at break smokes a cigarette. A nurse checks up on a woman worker in the manufacturing facility.
Personal secretary takes down notes dictated by her boss.Personal secretary guides an American woman to boss's office. American woman has a meeting with the boss. Woman shops at a clothes store helped out by saleswomen.
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