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Researchers test household equipment like washing machines, electrical ovens and home freezers.

Research work by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture). Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about domestic science research in the field of household equipment. A researcher put clothes into a washing machine. Another woman takes notes. Fabric sample are uniformly soiled, cut and sown onto muslin. The researcher records temperature while putting the clothes in. A woman checks the amount of dirt removed by measuring the reflected light before and after the laundry. Cooking: A woman researcher develops a standardized cake recipe to test baking performance of an electric oven. She lays the batter in pans into the oven. Judges measure the upper and lower limits of browning compared to a reference cake. Engineering test of home freezers in a laboratory. The researchers load freezer with filled cartons. Some have thermocouples inserted. A researcher checks meters and time clocks for current, energy consumption and freezer motor measurements. Researchers compare the amount of two fuels used to cook a farm family meal. (Some scenes with camera closeups have the look of 1940s and 1950s era "housewife" or homemaker scenes)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031185
Space requirement tests and approval of housing plans as a part of the housing research.

Research work by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture). Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about housing research. Domestic science tests on space requirements for kitchen work in the experimental housing laboratory. A researcher checks for the amount of space required to do an efficient job of home canning. An architect completes the perspective drawing for a farm house. The Regional Committee selects a group of plans. Architects and draftsmen prepare the working drawings. Architects and housing specialists check the drawings for functionality.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031186
Home Economics and Family Economics functions, research, surveys, and publications; views of late 1940s homemakers

Research work by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture). Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about family economics research. Family Economics staff at work in downtown Washington. A staff member reads letters inquiring about money management techniques from families in the U.S. A staff member shows a homemaker mother how to use a food plan. They work out a weekly market list. A teacher gives a lesson in meal planning and food buying to high school seniors. Policy makers use family economic material on milk consumption during a meeting. A representative of the Bureau on a food survey. She talks to a woman at her doorstep, surveys the food in a kitchen. Information on food composition is recorded and evaluated on a sheet. A family eats a meal planned by the family economists. Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling displays various domestic arts and sciences publication for homemaker, housewife, and teachers that include food and housing research results. Other educational material includes information for the press, radio scripts, charts, film slides, motion pictures, and television programs.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 4 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031187
FBI Director John Edgar Hoover outlines the goal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

John Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) records for a broadcast in Washington DC. He introduces and talks about the functions of the FBI. He describes: FBI warfare against crime and criminals; advances made, dealing with the underworld, bank robberies, extortion and other Federal offenses. He talks bout the three law enforcement needs: lack of politics, efficiency, and cooperation between law enforcement agencies. He urges the people to approach the FBI as the Bureau's goal is to sere and protect the citizens.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031188
A uniformed police officer takes fingerprints of an official outside a building in the United States.

Fingerprinting demonstration. A uniformed police officer stands with officials outside a building in the United States. The officer takes one official's hand and places it on the fingerprint ink pad. He than takes his fingerprints on a paper.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936, February
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031189
A man takes another's fingerprints at a Finger Print Service Station in the United States.

A sign board reads 'Finger Print Service Station' in the United States. A man in a suit takes the fingers of another man in a suit and places them on a fingerprint ink pad. He then takes the print on a paper. He displays the paper with the various fingerprints.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936, February
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031190
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