A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. Basic aims of the Social Security Act include: unemployment compensation, old age insurance, aid to needy aged, aid to needy blind and aid to dependent children. American people walking on a crowded city street in the late 1930s. A group of American boy and girl children assembled together. Various scenes of men working on farms and in factories. A young couple holding and walking with their two children, one of whom is holding a balloon. The United States Capitol in Washington DC.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to the needy aged'. An old woman and an old man. An old couple seated in a park. An old man reads a newspaper. A sign reads 'Aid to needy blind'. A blind man wearing dark glasses.
A film about aims of the Social Security Act of 1935 in the United States. A sign reads 'Aid to dependent children'. Children seated on a bench in a park. A girl helps a woman to hang clothes on a line. A boy paints a staircase. A woman with two boys.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents undergo their training in the United States. FBI 'most wanted' posters are printed on a bank of printing machines. Prospective FBI agents in a large classroom. Instructor points to diagram of a revolver on classroom board. Training of the agents for physical fitness. The agents do deep knee bends, box using a punching bag, and practice jiu jitsu as part of their training. View of the law library at FBI headquarters. View of diorama showing bank robber hideout. Table filled with equipment issued to FBI G-men includes cameras, saws, night sticks, guns, hand cuffs, leg irons, flashlights, and explosives. FBI agents practice machine gun target practice while driving 1935 Hudson Terraplane automobiles. The agents fire at target boards. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover stands with agents who are lying in prone positions as they riddle a 1928 Chevy sedan with bullets fired from machine guns.
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.
Opening scene shows a man holding fast to the mast of a boat that contains a huge rotating two-bladed propeller instead of a sail. The propeller-rotor is geared to a drive shaft (unseen) turning the boat's underwater propeller (screw). Several men are in the boat as one sets the controls. Next, two men are seen in the boat as it speeds over the water with the big rotor turning rapidly.
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