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Comical vignette. engineer seeks help to design bridge, uses books, telephone and public library. Marries librarian
Series of pictures in slide show style with piano accompanyment. Engineer designs bridges in the United States. He thinks about the designs. Engineer picks up a book from a book rack. He talks over telephone. He go to a library. The librarian hands him a book on great bridges. Picture of upper jaws. Engineer scolds the librarian. Board placed on wall reads 'Quiet'. Engineer and librarian get married.
Woman engineering worker argues with boss and urges that employees make use of a new information center.
Early information retrieval practices in a corporate engineering office in the United States during the 1960s. Dramatization depicts a woman in the work force in the 1960s: Female worker with vintage 1960s beehive hair style appears to be performing work as a secretary, but, it turns out she is engineer Julie Stone. Julie takes printouts from a printer in information center. She opens a drawer and takes out document files. She leaves her office. She arrives at office of her Chief named George A Price. Chief scolds an engineer called Harry for committing mistakes in his designs. Chief asks Harry to be responsible in his work. Another engineer named Pete Newton draws designs. View of the cabins. Harry meets Newton and discuss about his conversation with Chief. Julie on telephone calls Harry. They go to a restaurant for lunch. They talk about the sources of information and Julie encourages Harry to use the information center that she runs, rather than relying on antiquated and incomplete methods of obtaining information. Julie gets up and leaves the restaurant. Harry and Pete talk in the office. Pete asks him about his meeting with Julie. Harry takes his seat and opens a drawer. He looks over the documents and publications, including a Playboy magazine, to get information about transistors. Julie meets with Chief and complains about Pete and other engineers failure to use the information center and to lookup answers to questions in a more comprehensive way. Chief attends a telephone call. Pete enters Chief's office. Depicts woman worker arguing with boss. Clip also shows examples of common work place interpretation of women worker roles in the 1960s, including opening introduction of clip that objectifies the woman worker as a sexual object (before broad awareness of sexual harassment in the workplace), and a restaurant scene that opens with the man assuming that the woman has asked him out to lunch as a love interest rather than for work purposes.
Passenger railroad travel in the U.S. Shows operations inside railroad trains, and with Signal tower and train dispatch operators.
View of Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive number 5850 at a railroad train station. It slowly pulls away from station. Sign "Pennsylvania" on side of train cars. Passenger railroad train underway on a journey in the United States. View of various aspects of train travel operations: Passengers buying their tickets at a busy railroad train station. Man at the ticket counter confirms passengers reservation. Personnel work at the reservation bureau. Well dressed men, women, and children passengers on a busy train station platform as they board the train. African American porter assists travelers boarding train. View of passengers choosing seats in train car. Different kinds of train cars are shown including seat coach, parlor car, and roomette. African American porter arranges pillow on bed in sleeping car. Man gives an indication and driver starts the train. Conductor yells "All aboard". View of engineer in locomotive and operations of controls of locomotive. Operators at the signal tower check the track switches. Operations board displays tracks switch and signal lines. Movement of train is indicated by the changing line on the board. Exterior view as train approaches camera. Interior view inside train cars as passengers relax, read, smoke cigarettes, and watch the landscape during their journey. Boy and girl children look excited as they view landscape through windows of the moving train. Views of towns, farms, and foothills going by as seen through moving train car windows. Porters and attendants at work. Most are African American. Attendants serve meals to the passengers in the dining car. Chefs cook food in the kitchen. Views inside moving passenger train cars. Views of moving train as seen from another moving train beside it on a parallel track. View of engineer in locomotive. Maintenance men keep a check on the railroads. Track walker makes an inspection round of tracks. Workers at the train dispatcher office keep a record of the trains movements in all directions. Women workers operate teletype machines. Women telephone switchboard operators are seen at work in a large room. Woman managers observe the operators. View returns to the locomotive engine driver as he disembarks train at end of journey. He arrives at a railroad employee dormitory building to take a rest. View of him opening the building doors, view of washrooms inside, railroad men playing cards, and view of bedroom in the railroad dormitory building.
Pedestrians and passengers on buses, carriages, and other conveyances, arriving at outdoor event
Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. People thronging to attend some outdoor activity (possibly Belmont Race track?) in the United States. Many pedestrians and travelers arrive by bus, carriage, and other means of conveyance, as they converge on the entrance to Belmont park or similar place. Van seen passing with "Evening Telegram" written on its side.
A film depicts two Hebrew men arguing outside a shop. They comically involve several passersby, including a policeman
'Our Hebrew friends' , part 2 of the film titled 'Fights of Nations' depicts two Hebrew men arguing outside a shop in the United States. They interfere, comically, with a man walking on the sidewalk. Another man comes and they involve him in their argument. A policeman comes threatens to arrest each of the three men, in turn. The third man, a Hebrew, pleads with the policeman, and secretly slips him some money. The policeman walks away, happily. The three men hug each other and dance.
The film titled 'Fights of Nations' employs professional African American dancers in skit about a brawl between two patrons
'Sunny Africa,Eighth Avenue New York' , part 4 of the film titled 'Fights of Nations' captures professional African American dancers in the roles of couples dancing at a cafe, ostensibly on 8th Avenue in New York City, United States. A man plays a piano. After dancing, the couples sit at tables and eat and drink. . One man, in a striped T-shirt, gets up and gives a wonderful demonstration of tap dancing. Other people applaud and cheer him. A waiter serves. The man in the striped T-shirt goes out. Another man sits near the Striped Shirt's date. They converse and dance. The man in the striped T-shirt comes back. and picks a fight with the man dancing with his date. The fight involves everyone, but finally ends with Striped shirt and his date dancing away merrily, together.
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