Members of a 1950s American family at their places of work and sharing time at home together. Steam locomotive pulling passenger train at high speed past a railroad station, without stopping. A railroad employee arriving at office relieving another employee finishing his shift. The employee engaged in various tasks at the rail office. He places a package on platform as another high speed passenger train passes. Hills and lake in background. Scene shifts to several boys playing at a swimming hole. One lying on ground, playing a recorder musical instrument, jumps up, waves goodbye to friends, and rides away on his bicycle (past a man using a scythe). Closeup of name: "Gazette Building," on building. The boy arrives there, picks up papers, and rides off again to deliver them in his job as a newspaper delivery boy. Views of town streets and shops. Two women window shop and discuss a sewing machine on display. Change of scene to woman serving at counter in a restaurant. She serves coffee to a customer and carries milk shakes to two boys and two girls at a table. The girls discuss dresses pictured in a magazine. Next, the waitress is seen looking at a fancy dress in a shop window. Next is a classic 1950s image of a family at home in the living room: A mother, father, boy, and grandmother, in their living room at home. Both women do needlework, husband smokes a pipe and reads newspaper, and son reads lying on floor. Father and son start game of checkers, and son blows on his recorder. The housewife suggests getting a sewing machine. Her husband speaks of saving to paint the family house. Mother points out things she could make and save thereby save money. All discuss the matter, and the boy volunteers to contribute some of his earnings to the family, too. Suddenly, the waitress (older daughter in this family) appears showing them her new dress. The father objects to the purchase and the girl leaves. The family is distressed and members try to soothe one another. A phone call causes the mother and father to leave suddenly. They find their daughter distraught sitting alone on bleachers in stadium. They hug her and all leave together. They return to their wood frame home, where grandmother hugs the daughter. The family sits around the kitchen table and reconciles together, with the grandmother dispensing wisdom in the process.
Two flight deck crew racing down flight deck of USS Mindoro with handling lines. Flight deck personnel handling lines and nose of blimp as it lands on flight deck. Crew disembarking from nose of blimp cabin. Lines are cast off from blimp as blimp ascends into air. Crew coming out of the stern of the cabin as new crew boards it. Blimp ascends from flight deck.
Vincent Lopez and his orchestra are on stage ready to perform. He stands by his piano, and begins to conduct. The orchestra starts to play. Mr. Lopez calmly seats himself at the piano and plays along with the jazz orchestra, displaying notable flourishes as he plays. Sequence breaks and picks up with male vocalist now also on stage. Lopez stands, conducting vocalist and orchestra. (Note: Vincent Lopez and his orchestra performed at the Grill Room in the Hotel Taft, New York City, from 1941 to 1961.)
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.
U.S. Army soldiers walk with their new wives who they met during World War 1 in Europe. Women hold babies in their arms. Baby in a stroller or carriage. Soldiers kiss their children.
News about a hot weather heat wave in various American newspapers. Views of people at crowded Coney Island Beach and SteepleChase Park Pool. Children stand in a public fountain to cool off. Group of boys on a city street open a fire hydrant and play in the water spraying from the fire hydrant. 1950's cars pass by getting wet in the process. Man drinks a whole mug of beer. Narrator contrasts the heat wave with snow scenes from prior winter storms. Man shovels snow. Men on streets during a blizzard. Snow covered vehicles, buildings, and streets. A dog near a fire hydrant in the snow. A man pushes a car stuck in the snow. Close up of spinning tires in snow.
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