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Origin of the U.S. Census and its development and refinement over time.
(Animated cartoons for majority of clip; actual office and early computer scenes near end of clip.) Accompanying narration about the origins of the United States census and establishment of the permanent Census office in 1902. Animation and cartoons illustrate the manner in which the census was taken over its history. A cartoon illustration of census worker, Henry Hollerith, developer of the punch card method of data recording and manipulation. (The 88 column punch cards shown in use in 1950, bear his name.) Equipment illustrated include: punch card sorting machinery; and early digital computer. Actual Images of 1970 era early computer and tape machines and related electronic computer keyboards. A worker mounting a tape on a machine in an office.
Preparation for America's Decennial Census. Training of census takers and conduct of the census.
Opening scene shows supplementary census workers (enumerators) in a training class. They ask questions that are answered by the instructor. Cartographers preparing detailed standard accurate maps of urbanized areas. Mapmakers at work,kneeling over huge sheets of paper. Postal worker assisting by providing address information to the Census Bureau. Mailmen delivering postal mail. A woman census enumerator carrying a briefcase, with "census" written on it, visits homes. Enumerators visiting remote homes, by car, donkey,and dogsled. A late 1960's or 1970 ambulance approaching the camera position at high speed. A prison compound are shown as narrator discusses census including hospitalized and imprisoned persons. Views of a young child walking on a Native American Indian Reservation; migrant labor camp; a U.S. Air Force Base, and a merchant ship, whom the census must reach. Views of hotel and motel neon signs indicating where census enumerators must also visit. Temporary housing places, such as mobile home parks and shelters for homeless are shown.
U.S. exports, imports and domestic commerce by land sea and air. Census Bureau reports on American industry
Narrator discussing trade of goods between countries. New cars being offloaded from a ship at a port. Seaman and dock workers watching over railing of freighter, The "Chesire" with home port of Liverpool England. Closeup of the ship, Tara Maru, with home port Osaka, Japan. A Greek freighter in port. Cars on a highway in the United States. Passengers in a rapid transit train traveling beside super highway of many lanes in the United States. Ground level views of highway and low aerial views of car and truck traffic on a busy highway.. A Boeing 727-100 airplane and other passenger aircraft around runways and on tarmac at a civilian airport. Glimpse of various late 1960s and early 1970s cars and trucks on crowded section of highway during heavy traffic. People boarding a bus. Logs, steel tubes, and bulk cargoes being moved. A truck full of lumber. Cargo being loaded on an airplane. A cargo ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. Bureau of Census workers compiling data using early computers, with views of keyboards and reel-to-reel tape drives. Bureau reports being placed in manila envelopes and run on a bulk mail handling machine for postal mailing. Factory workers walking from a parking area toward a factory plant to start their work day, with close-up views of some of them carrying lunch boxes. Men in business suits carrying brief cases. Entry gate of a prison, with close up view of perimeter fencing and then view of guard tower visible inside the prison yard. View upward from exterior of the high prison fence, with barbed wire atop the fence. Brief exterior views of two court of justice buildings in the U.S.
U.S. President Richard M Nixon in his State of the Union Message to the Congress speaks about environmental pollution.
President Nixon addresses the congress from the speaker's podium in the U.S. Capitol during his 1970 State of the Union address. He speaks about pollution and damage done to the environment by human race. He talks of the need to make reparations for the damage we have done to our land, air, and water. He notes that this is a particular concern of young people, "because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now, if we are to prevent disaster later." (Foreshadows global warming.) President Nixon proposes a 10 billion dollar clean water program. Congressmen in the house applaud. He discusses the importance of purchasing and preserving open spaces and park lands. He discusses the need to make automobile emissions cleaner. He talks about pricing goods to cover not only their production but also their disposal without damage to the environment. He asks that citizens consider air and water not as free resources but as scarce resources to be protected. The Joint Chiefs of Staff among the Congressmen listen to the speech. Nixon talks about rural areas becoming less populated with migration to urban city centers. He calls on America to become a pioneer in environmental research and leadership. Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Congress Speaker sit on seats behind podium. Nixon concludes his speech and shakes hands with Speaker and other Congressmen who admire and applaud.
Dramatization depicts: Angry mob outside school waiting to attack African American children in Lamar, South Carolina USA
Excerpt from a film based on the 1970 Lamar High School Bus Attack. African-American students chatting inside a school bus. School bus passing on a road. A gathering of militant white American parents in front of Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). One African-American student looking agitated inside the school bus. The crowd angrily talk about how letting African-Americans study in the school impedes their rights. “not here, not now, not ever!” said a woman with disgust. A sign saying “Welcome to Lamar” prompts boy to say, "do you think they mean welcome?" “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man says, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. African-American students become agitated as they approach Lamar. Woman wearing a headscarf and sunglasses talks about the arrival of the African-American students with indignation. Man menacingly holds a bat and say “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school. The school bus approach. Angry mob member holding baton behind his back, another mob member holding a brick. Angry mob crowd the school bus. African American students, scared, get down on the floor to avoid being hit with projectiles and broken glass from angry mob. The angry mob breaks the school bus windows. Image of state troopers outside Lamar High School. Title sequence of “The Color of Justice” with the overturned school bus in Lamar as the background.
Dramatization depicts: African-American students on their way to school and aftermath of Lamar High School Bus attack in South Carolina
African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.