A film titled 'Social Security for nation' about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Exteriors of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. A picture of Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo. Exterior view of Empire State Building in New York City, panning upward. A passenger train and locomotive underway at high speed toward camera position. Cars and buses on a busy city street. Women at work as telephone switchboard operators, with a woman supervisor pacing behind them. Elevated view of pedestrians in busy city street intersection, crossing a street. Children on a playground swing set in a park. A copy of the Social Security Plan. A chart depicts how the social security administration works. A sign reads 'Social Security Board'. Members of the board at a desk including Chairman Arthur J. Altmeyer, Allan S. Woodward and George G. Biggy.
The 1960 Presidential Election in the United States. The U.S. flag displayed on a building on the election day. Cars moving down a road. Boards displayed in front of banks and other business places declaring the day to be a legal holiday. People gathered outside schools and community halls. People voting through paper ballots. People waiting in a queue to vote using an automatic voting machine. Men and women reading a printed paper to choose the Presidential or the Vice Presidential candidates. A man inside a polling booth enters an area separated by a curtain and casts his vote in a polling machine. Men and women walking past officers seated at a table in the booth. People casting their votes in ballot boxes. A ballot box has 'Town Of Barnstable' written on it. A man turning a lever on the box. A woman placing a ballot paper in the box. 'State Election, Official Ballt, Barnstable' written on the ballot paper. The number on the box changes from 843 to 844. Another man placing a ballot paper in the box.
The history of the United States. Illustration : industrial workers at work in mills in New York. View of other industries with power machinery. New York is made the economic capital. Vehicles on streets. A map showing the east of Mississippi and new states added to the union. Andrew Jackson becomes the U.S. President in 1828. Men of the Congress during a meeting. American statesman Daniel Webster addressing the House of Representatives. Men listening to Daniel Webster.
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk in a Foreign Relations Committee Meeting in the United States. A dignitary speaks into a microphone. Dean Rusk speaks into the microphone and is questioned by reporters and journalists. Dean talks about discussions that took place in Moscow and about a treaty. He speaks that they are working on the treaty and are making progress.
A police officer directing traffic on crowded street in New York City. Pedestrians and shoppers crowd sidewalks at a corner of 5th Avenue. City of Chicago. View of Michigan Avenue, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Busy area with trolley cars, traffic, and pedestrians at West Madison and State streets. Pedestrians crossing Madison Street. A newsstand at the corner. Elevated rail train in the Loop area of Chicago. Foot of a bridge with center lanes and turnaround reserved for trolley cars. At a level below, several World War II era airplanes are on display. Fiery displays created by molten steel being poured in a steel plant. An overhead crane moves a heavy glowing ingot of steel. Steel fabrication operations in a manufacturing plant. Views of various manufacturing operations in the United States. Men and women workers in manufacturing and production assembly lines. These scenes represent potential targets in the event of war, during the cold war.
Experiments on fly specks show the fly as a disease carrier in the United States. A fly moves on a menu card. A cup and a serving of sugar cubes on a dining table. The fly sits on sugar cubes. Experiments are performed which show that these fly specks frequently contain disease germs in an active and virulent state. After incubation the fly specks show living germs of typhoid and spinal meningitis. Tuberculosis bacillus seen.
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