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Enactment and effects of Social Security and Labor legislation during the Great Depression in the U.S.

Part of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. Opening scene shows numerous children gathered around a large wooden picnic table outdoors, as a woman and two men serve them lunch, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the United States. The setting is a barnyard, with chickens walking about in the background. Scene shifts to many women working in an Emergency Employment Office of the U.S. Department of Labor. They are all engaged in various kinds of clerical activities. Next, men are seen receiving hot food at an outdoor "Soup Kitchen." People on a "bread line." A woman getting the last bit of food from an empty food kitchen pail. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seated at his desk, surrounded by interested persons, as he signs the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, and appoints the Secretary of Labor as head of a committee to develop a Social Security Program which shall embrace and cover the hazards of old age, unemployment, the handicapped, and children. A rural family seen on their porch. Many unemployed men gathered on a building porch in a rural setting. Railroad cars and an industrial site can be seen in the background. Children gathered on an open porch. The U.S. Capitol building. Coal miners headed into a mine shaft, wearing helmets with lights and carrying their lunch pails. Workers on an automobile assembly line. Rural poor families near their makeshift houses. A woman airing out bedding outdoors. Men stoking a furnace. A large group of child laborers. A factory with multiple smoke stacks. Striking union members carrying signs on a picket line. Others carry signs identifying them as members of the International Seamen's Union. One of them carries a sign reading: "Radio is the only Hope. Insist on reliable radio protection." Other union members in an outdoor protest. A group of businessmen, ostensibly in peaceful negotiations, facilitated by the Department of Labor.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063343
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson presents land to war hero Thomas Eugene Atkins in the United States.

Neighbors build a home for United States World War II hero and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Thomas Eugene Atkins, in the United States. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson presents land and the home to the war hero. Atkins, a U.S. Army Private and war hero during service in the Philippines, shakes hands with Anderson. Atkins walks with his wife into the house. An plaque on the wall of the house commemorating the gift. Atkins and his neighbors eating during a country barbecue in Campobello South Carolina near Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Location: Campobello South Carolina USA
Date: 1945, November 14
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063527
A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft being fueled and liberated Allied prisoners board the aircraft in Germany.

A U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft being fueled in Germany during World War II. United States GIs throw empty gasoline cans on the ground. A crew member refuels a C-47 transport aircraft. The aircraft parked on the ground with a gasoline truck driving in front of it. Soldiers load supplies on the C-47 Skytrain. 'US Army Air Force, 100 Octane' written on the gasoline truck. Liberated French prisoners help unload gasoline from the aircraft. Large number of Liberated Allied prisoners stand on a field. They climb aboard aircraft for evacuation.

Location: Germany
Date: 1945, April
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063567
Manufacturing of U.S. Army rifles in an American war plant during World War I

Manufacturing of Army rifles in the United States during World War 1. Workers at a small arms plant in the U.S. examine wooden rifle stocks during World War 1. Men wheeling numerous dollies of rifle stocks to another part of the factory. Fully assembled rifles (appear to be either 1914 or M1917),loaded on a tray are lowered by African American workers using a manual pulley hoist to place them into a bath of hot cosmoline grease (for preservation). Then they are raised and moved to above a draining table, where they are removed and placed on a dolly. Men clean up the drippings. Next scene shows an African American worker placing the new rifles in wooden boxes for shipment. Closeup of an open wooden box of rifles ready for closing and shipping. Workers stacking 10 wooden shipping boxes of rifles in a hand dolly and moving it to shipping dock.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063741
U.S. 5th Marine Division in action as tanks fire flamethrowers at enemy during Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II.

United States 5th Marine Division in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima of World War II. US Marines advance on a rocky terrain. U.S. tanks fire flamethrowers at enemy bunkers. Burning flames on ground.

Location: Iwo Jima
Date: 1945, February
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063799
U.S. 5th Marines winch an armored vehicle uphill at Talasea,New Britain, during World War II

U.S. Marines of 5th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, invade Talasea, New Britain. A U.S. armored vehicle being pulled uphill by a winch. The vehicle tows a trailer. The Marine driving the vehicle looks on the sides.

Location: Talasea New Britain Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944, March 8
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063814
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