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Making of a modern magazine in 1920s printing plant.
Making of a modern magazine Dearborn Independent. Accepted and edited articles are turned over to artists for illustrating. Artists paint illustrations. Workers operate keyboarding machines. Casting machinery in operation. Workers at machines. Workers arrange proofs. Women read proof. Worker places proof plate on printing press. He removes wax mold. Worker places mold into solution. Worker rinses mold, removes copper shell. Worker pours molten lead into back of copper shell.
Documentary about geography, large river bridges and skyscrapers such as Woolworth building of New York City in 1920s.
Documentary about geography of New York. Slate indicates New York has the largest bridges in the world. Views of the Brooklyn Bridge. Cargo liners below the bridge and crossing the bridge. The Manhattan Bridge and skyscrapers of Manhattan, New York City behind is visible at a distance. Another bridge over river Hudson, under construction. A man and woman standing on a high observation platform of a skyscraper, looking over at the tower of Woolworth Building, the tallest skyscraper in America.
Views of Wall Street, the financial center of America, and the famous skyscrapers of New York City in 1920s.
Documentary about geography of New York. The buildings of financial district of Lower Manhattan. Wall Street, the financial center of America. Crowd of people on busy Wall Street. U.S. National flags hang from the buildings. The skyscrapers not visible clearly till their top due to their height. Famous buildings along Broadway and Wall Street in Manhattan.
Skyscrapers and government buildings along Lower Broadway in Manhattan, New York City in 1920s.
Documentary about buildings of New York. The buildings and skyscrapers along lower Broadway. A dirigible airship floats overhead. The busy street with vehicles, streetcars and crowds of people walking. The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States), built over a hundred years ago. The high-rise Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, United States). The James A. Farley Building housing the United States Postal Service (421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States) on Eighth Avenue. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States) stands on edge of busy crossroads.
U.S. Labor strife - strikes and lockouts in the clothing industry in the 1920s
Post-World War 1 United States marked by labor-management strife and strikes, especially in the garment industry. Clothing workers are seen busy at their jobs in a factory in New York City. A man is seen symbolically closing and locking a steel door (narrative refers to a company "lockout.") Footage of police officers and crowd of laborers on New York City street. Police try to maintain order as crowds fill garment district streets in protest. Montage of persons awaiting a June 1921 decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County. Narrator announces that Justice James C. Van Siclen, has granted an injunction (against all picketing by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America). Narrator quotes Van Siclen's opening statement in the decision: "The court must stand at all times as the representative of capital, of the captains of industry..." View of Sidney Hillman, leader of the Amalgamated union (ACWA) sitting with other union members. View of a bustling New York City street lined with tenements and pushcarts in the lower east side of Manhattan. A man washing his face at a sink. A woman preparing a meal over a stove. Four children sharing a large bed. A gathering of idled clothing workers in a school room setting. Some in art classes. Dancers entertaining locked out workers. Young people presenting a puppet show. Narrator states that the lockout lasted 6 months, but the union prevailed. View of pleased union members.
Busy city street with 1920's era automobiles; also Kerosene and by-products obtained from distillation of crude petroleum in US
Slate indicates that 200 million gallons of gasoline are used annually in the United States for power (in 1925). View of a busy city street, possibly New York City, circa 1925 with motor vehicle traffic, pedestrians and many tall buildings. Many early automobiles seen. A worker tests flash point of kerosene. Lighted candle in stuck block of paraffin (wax) showing wax or parrafin as a byproduct of petroleum. Slate indicates that petroleum provides motor fuel, common light, a lubricant for machinery and other important by-products.
