Documentary by Harmon Foundation titled "If a boy needs a friend". Shows efforts by a teacher and the Young Men's Christian Association to fight antisemitism and children's hatred and discrimination against Jews. Shows Sixth-grade boys in New Haven, CT refuse to play with a Jewish boy. Group of boys on playground climb hands up a stick to see who picks team members first for a baseball game. Captains of each team choose teams, selecting boys one at a time. One boy, a Jewish boy, is not picked. He asks a captain if he can be on that boy's team. The boy says no because he is Jewish. The boys begin pushing the Jewish boy to chase him away, and he turns and leaves sadly. Scene changes back to school administration office. Teacher provides a list of the offending boys from the Willard School. She asks help from male secretary of the New Haven YMCA. Secretary promises teacher to send a qualified leader from a club.1940. (World War II period).
Manufacture of M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles (BAR) at the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven Connecticut during World War 1. A worker assembles rifles on a bench. Another worker checks their operation by placing them into a mechanical holder and firing them. View of a black circular target showing grouping of hits during firing. View of the factory floor with movable racks containing rifles. Workers move the racks.
Manufacturing of Browning Automatic Rifles (BARs) at Winchester Repeating Arms Company in New Haven Connecticut.during World War 1. Machinists perform metal boring and turning operations on lathes. Others work on wooden gun stocks.They place parts of rifles on various pieces of equipment during the construction and assembly process.
Photographic portraits,in a museum, showing with names and travel information about early American pioneer settlers in Hawaii. Includes photographs of the so-called "Pioneer Company" that arrived at Kailua, on the Brigantine Thaddeus, after 164 days at sea, from Boston, Massachusetts, landing at Monolala, April 19, 1820. Likewise, photos of settlers in the "Second Company" are shown. They arrived on the Schooner Aclife, from Tahiti, on February 4, 1823, and other who arrived on the Ship Thames, sailing 158 days from New Haven, Connecticut, arriving at Honolulu. Among pioneers identified are: Samuel Ruggles and his wife, Nancy; Artemas Bishop and Mrs Della (Stone) Bishop; and Mrs Clarissa Richards.
A map of Connecticut, on which Director Bert Schnikel points regional centers such as Hartford, New Haven and the Seaside Regional Center Waterford, on the Long Island Sound. Mr Fred F Finn, Director of Seaside Center points out the importance of family in a mentally disabled person's life. Volunteers take care of children. A volunteer helps a girl to take medicine. The volunteer strokes the face of the child. And the child makes faces. Children play outside on a tractor ride. People get into a car and the car drives away. Mentally disabled children from Mansfield and Southbury come to "Seaside Regional Center for the Mentally Retarded" to prepare for community life. A boy puts on a television and sits down to watch it. A woman hands things to a girl. Volunteers help children to walk. A mentally disabled girl holds a book in her hands. A postcard sent by a normal sibling of a mentally disabled boy. Children play in snow. A boy sits on a seat while a man bends. A mentally disabled boy plays with his brothers. A couple talks about their mentally disabled child while he sits nearby.
Operation of early switchboards. Pages of book showing early switchboard. Man operating switchboard. The first switchboard for commercial telephone service installed in New Haven, Connecticut. A man operating and talking into telephone and other man listening. Men operating switchboards.
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