Camera pans over a large office in which women (and some men) appear to be processing telephone orders from customers. These phone clerks have sophisticated communications equipment on their desks and wear headsets and microphones. They seem to refer to catalogs or order books when speaking with their customers.
The modern campus of the University of Illinois, in Chicago. Film opens showing architectural model of the proposed new campus designed by Architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Camera pans over the campus features, zooming in on the Circle Forum, a Greek-styled amphitheater built for plays, assemblies and concerts. Film shifts to students, and others, walking on a circular pavement. The University Hall is seen in background, flanked by two construction derricks. Views of various features of the spread out campus areas and buildings showing the concrete roofs forming the so-called "Great Court." Closeup vertical view of University Hall. More views of the extant campus. (construction is still underway.) Students walking along the Great Court with the multilevel construction visible. Closeups of students and others riding an escalator and conversing. Students in large classroom lecture hall where the Professor has written notes in chalk on a blackboard for the class, referring to revenue bills originating in the U.S. House of Representatives. Closeups of the Professor and students. Candid shots of a student's resting and relaxing in various places on the campus.
Opens with montage of illuminated signs for various businesses on Wells Street and environs in Old Town area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. Camera focuses on the Stagecoach Restaurant and zooms in on its sign. The camera then shows brief scenes in darkened night spots featuring jazz musicians performing. Glimpse of cars on dark street. Several young people outside a place featuring "topless" Go Go dancers. A young woman showing disapproval, turns away from a young man with her. Closeups of people mingling on Wells Street. Shimmering dress of a dancer along with closeup of a musician playing bongo drums. More glimpses of people on the sidewalks. Inside a club, a woman in a short dress is singing and dancing accompanied by a band of musicians. Momentary glimpse of a street artist at work. View down on a piano being played by a jazz musician. A woman dancing alone, as musicians play. Two views of drummer playing in a band.
Start of a documentary production titled,"The Inheritance." Introductory slate tells how in December, 1914, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Union) was founded in a meeting at Webster Hall, New York City. It also describes how far and wide that union had grown in the ensuing 50 years. An ocean liner is seen in the mist in New York Harbor. Fog horn sounds. The statue of Liberty is seen dimly through the fog. A commercial ship and a tug boat pass in front of Ellis Island. Views of building interior, Sign in boiler room reads: "U.S. Immigrant Station. Ellis Island. N.Y.H." Furnace door and thermometer and pressure gauges are seen. Large hall is seen. Camera pans through the empty corridors and rooms of the facility. The frame of an iron baby's crib sits in an empty room. View through window of Ellis Island proper, just outside, and of New York City buildings across the water. Montage of still photo images: Immigrants on the deck of a ship in 1901. Views of small children. A group of immigrants wearing the fez. Immigrants waving their hats as they see the Statue of Liberty. Broader view of the ship packed with immigrants. Interior of Ellis Island building with queue of new arrivals being processed. Immigration officers seated on high stools, checking documents of arrivals. Medical officer examines a boy with a stethoscope (screening for TB). View shifts to passengers arriving. They walk across the pier, carrying their belongings.
Immigrants on board a ship arriving in New York Harbor, circa 1905, see New York City buildings across the water. A couple walking along the avenue in New York City. The man buys a newspaper from a newsboy or newsie (newspaper boy). A trolley car passes in the center of the avenue. A sign on the trolley reads: "Broadway." Several automobiles drive along a street, each close behind the other. One is decorated with American flags. A school building at side of the street displays numerous American flags. Pedestrians walking along 5th Avenue in New York City. Some men are wearing top hats, and others bowlers. Women are wearing bonnets. Several high society gentlemen in formal attire seat seated at a banquet table. They smoke cigars and have after-dinner drinks. Flowers adorn the table and the men wear boutonnieres. They all sport mustaches and wear some sort of garlands of greens (or paper) on their heads. The scene expands to reveal more aristocracy men at the table,similarly attired, including the garlands. Scene of wealth at turn of the century with couples dancing in an elegant ballroom. Change of scene shows waiters serving guests at an outdoor dining venue. Most of the men wear straw boaters (hats) and the women wear summer dresses and bonnets. A gentleman in a top hat with two women at a fashionable outdoor affair. The women wear large-brimmed hats. Ann Harrison Vanderbilt (Mrs. Willian K Vanderbilt) seated in a rolling straw chair, pushed from behind, chats with a gentleman in Florida. Lady in striped jacket and white skirt, with tennis racquet under her arm talks to chauffeur, standing next to a Locomobile limousine, parked at the curb. The Vanderbilt home, "the Biltmore," in Asheville, North Carolina, viewed from the back of the mansion.
Girls and boys engaged in child labor working on machinery in textile mills. Boys working in coal mines, A boy working at blacksmith's forge and one in a machine shop. Lady and gentleman in riding habit on horseback. All members of a family engaged in needlework, at home. Closeups of miners and a woman worker. Workers including children, parade with American flags and a sign reading: "Give us A Living Wage, Not Charity." New York City Garment workers from various unions, such as Pants makers, marching with placards. Workers jammed in a Chicago city square to hear Hannah Shapiro, initiator of the garment workers strike against clothing firm, Hart, Schaffner, & Marx. Some carry signs. One reads: "Do you belong to a Union. If not, why not." Closeup of Hannah Shapiro, standing on a ladder, with a Union banner beside her. Large group of marching workers with many children in the front rank. They carry American flags. Mine owners' spokesman assuring workers about their rights and interests. Closeups of a decorated senior uniformed policeman on horseback and another policeman in uniform. Group of uniformed policemen armed with Browning shotguns. Contingent of policemen mounting their horses in formation, and several riding along a cobblestone city street containing trolley tracks. An early vintage car is following them. Policeman walking ahead of women marching with a banner about Union Contracts for New Yorkers. Mounted police dispersing an unruly crowd. Policeman taking a young man into custody. A 1910 Auburn automobile, with right-hand drive. Policemen taking protesting workers into custody.
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