- Title: F-9703
- Summary: DEADLINE FOR ACTION: POST-WAR AMERICAN LABOR UNIONS. FACTORY WORKERS. UNION MEETINGS. HOME LIFE.
- Description:01:24:52 - CU VOTER HAND SLIPS BALLOT IN BALLOT BOX. EXERCISING RIGHT TO VOTE. 01:24:58 - EXTERIOR CAPITOL BUILDING CAPITOL DOME WASHINGTON 01:25:19 - FACTORY WORKER OPERATING MACHINERY 01:25:21 - WAR FOOTAGE OPERATING BIG GUNS. EXPLOSIONS. SOLDIERS STORMING THE BEACH FROM LANDING CRAFT. SOLDIERS CLIMBING OVER BARBED WIRE FENCE. 01:25:28 - BOMBARDIER DROPPING BOMBS FROM PLANE 01:25:32 - MACHINE GUN FIRE. SOLDIERS RUNNING. 01:25:41 - SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH BOMBED OUT EUROPEAN CITY WWII 01:25:43 - CU SOLDIERS WALKING OVER NAZI FLAG POSTER ON THE GROUND 01:25:45 - MONTAGE FACTORY WORKERS WELDER SPARKS FLYING. MACHINISTS. 01:25:56 - NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE POSTER OF FDR. FDR VOICE OVER "..IN THIS WAR OF SURVIVAL..NOT ONLY THE EVIL WE FIGHT AGAINST, BUT THE GOOD THINGS WE ARE FIGHTING FOR..." 01:26:33 - MUSHROOM CLOUD NUCLEAR EXPLOSION ATOMIC BOMB 01:26:42 - INDUSTRIAL FACTORY SMOKESTACKS. 01:26:46 - BLUE COLLAR WORKERS FACTORY WORKERS RECEIVE PAY ENVELOPES ON PAY DAY SIGN FOR THEIR PAYCHECKS 01:26:53 - FACTORY WORKERS CARRIES LUNCH BOX AND LOOKS INTO PAY ENVELOPE. 01:27:03 - URBAN BLUE COLLAR WORKER WALKING HOME ON CITY STREET. WALKS UP FRONT STEPS OF APARTMENT BUILDING. 01:27:13 - CHILD WALKS DOWN STEPS TO MEET FATHER COMING HOME FROM WORK. SHABBY SHOES. WORN OUT SHOES. FATHER HUGS CHILD. CHILD TAKES OFF FATHER'S HAT BALDING MAN 01:27:38 - HOUSEWIFE SETS THE TABLE. STACK OF WHITE BREAD. CHECKERBOARD TABLECLOTH 01:27:54 - CU MAN WASHES HIS HANDS IN BATHROOM SINK. ID BRACELET SHABBY HOUSE. BALD MAN LOOKS AT HIMSELF IN BATHROOM MIRROR. THINKING ABOUT HIS LIFE. SAD 01:28:20 - FAMILY EATING DINNER AT KITCHEN TABLE. APARTMENT BUILDINGS SEEN THROUGH OPEN WINDOW. URBAN FAMILY LIFE. FATHER DEEP IN THOUGHT 01:28:36 - MAN OPENS CLOSET DOOR, GETS HIS COAT, SHUTS CLOSET DOOR. SHABBY HOME. HOLE IN WALL. 01:28:43 - MAN LEAVES APARTMENT BUILDING, LIGHTS PIPE. WALKING AND SMOKING A PIPE. URBAN STREET. 01:28:56 - PEOPLE GOING INTO LOCAL UNION MEETING. DISCUSS CUT IN PAY. 1940s AUDIENCE LISTENS 01:29:28 - CU OPENING FILE DRAWER, PULLING FILE OUT OF FILE CABINET DRAWER. CLOSING FILE CABINET 01:29:35 - REFRIGERATOR THAT RETAILS FOR $169.00 IN 1939. ILLUSTRATION BREAKDOWN OF WHERE THE MONEY GOES. RAW MATERIALS AND DEPRECIATION. ADVERTISING. WHOLESALER AND RETAILER. MANUFACTURER'S PROFIT. PRODUCTION LABOR COSTS $17.40. MARGIN OF PROFIT INCREASE. OPA INCREASE. PRODUCTIVITY. UE DEMAND. WAR PROFITS. RESERVES. 01:31:00 - CU 40 WALL STREET EXTERIOR 01:31:04 - 1940s AUDIENCE LISTENS AND WATCHES 01:31:09 - CU SIGN FOR UNITED ELECTRICAL RADIO AND ? WORKERS OF AMERICA CIO 01:31:15 - CU SURVEY "NATIONAL SURVEY OF LIQUID ASSET HOLDINGS, SPENDING, AND SAVING" 01:31:22 - ILLUSTRATIONS OF TOTAL US FAMILIES AND TOTAL LIQUID ASSETS, SAVINGS BONDS AND CHECKING ACCOUNTS. UNBALANCE OF WEALTH 01:31:45 - MEN SIT OUTSIDE ON STOOP TALKING 01:31:57 - CU HAND OPENS FILE CABINET DRAWER PULLS FILE OUT 01:32:01 - EXTERIOR UNITED STATES TREASURY BUILDING CIRCA 1940s 01:32:04 - INTERIOR CONGRESS. SESSION. FDR SPEAKS MOS AT PODIUM 01:32:24 - TILT UP URBAN LANDSCAPE SKYSCRAPERS CITY BUILDINGS 01:32:36 - UE PRESIDENT FITZGERALD GIVES NEGOTIATION PROGRESS REPORT 01:33:27 - NATIONAL GUARD, RIOT POLICE, 1919 POST WWI. LABOR RIOTS. FEDERAL TROOPS. GARY, INDIANA ??. POLICE ARREST STRIKERS 01:34:36 - CU SMOKER FLICKS CIGAR ASH IN ASHTRAY OVERFLOWING WITH ASHES AND CIGAR BUTTS. CHAIN SMOKER. EXTERIOR WHITE HOUSE THROUGH METAL FENCE BARS. 01:34:52 - 1929. STOCK MARKET CRASH DEPRESSION. MAN BUYS FRUIT FROM LONE STREET VENDER WITH MEAGER RATIONS. SIGN ON FACTORY "CLOSED" IDLE MEN, DEPRESSED UNEMPLOYED MEN ON PARK BENCH, MAN WITH HEAD BETWEEN HIS KNEES, DOWN AND OUT. OUT OF WORK. HUNGRY MAN RUMMAGES THROUGH GARBAGE CAN FOR SOMETHING TO EAT. 01:35:15 - POOR RURAL WOMAN SITS IN ROCKING CHAIR ON FRONT PORCH DEPRESSION ERA POVERTY. 01:35:28 - UE PRESIDENT FITZGERALD SPEAKS TO CAMERA. "..BIG BUSINESS THINKS IT CAN REPEAT 1919.." 01:35:49 - CITIZENS VOTE. CURTAIN OPENS TO VOTING BOOTH, VOTER EXITS BOOTH, ANOTHER VOTER ENTER. VOTERS SLIP BALLOTS INTO BALLOT BOX UNION VOTE TO STRIKE. 01:36:15 - UE LOGO. ILLUSTRATION OF UNITED STATES, PLANT IN LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS. UE. WESTINGHOUSE, GENERAL MOTORS BRANCHES ACROSS AMERICA. CONTROL 50% OF THE INDUSTRY. 01:37:23 - WORLD GLOBE ILLUSTRATES INTERNATIONAL CONTROL OF ABOVE COMPANIES 01:39:29 - FACTORY WORKER OPERATES MACHINERY CIRCA 1940s 01:39:41 - STATISTICS: GENERAL ELECTRIC ASSETS 543 MILLION DOLLARS. IN SCALE AS ONE OF 13 INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES. US STEEL. 12 UTILITY COMPANIES. AT&T. 8 RAILROADS. NY CENTRAL. 3 MAJOR BANKS. CONGLOMERATE. MORGAN. 31 BILLION DOLLARS. 01:40:35 - $100.00 ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS LAID OUT ON SIDEWALK MAN READING THE NEWSPAPER AND SMOKING A CIGAR AS HE WALKS ON SIDEWALK COMES ACROSS 100 DOLLAR BILLS ON THE SIDEWALK. CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT HE SEES, ASTONISHED. CIGAR DROPS OUT OF HIS MOUTH LINE ON BILLS STRETCHES DOWN SIDEWALK. MAN BENDS DOWN AND PICKS UP MONEY. FRANTIC HE SNATCHES UP 100 DOLLAR BILLS INTO HIS GREEDY HANDS. SITS ON CURB WITH HAT OVERFLOWING WITH MONEY SMILES AT HIS GOOD FORTUNE. 01:41:38 - WORLD GLOBE ILLUSTRATES HOW FAR THE MONEY WOULD STRETCH 01:42:05 - COIN ILLUSTRATES TOTAL US ASSETS. PIE CHART OF MAJOR COMPANIES ASSETS. CIRCA 1940s. MORGAN. KUHN LOEB. MELLON. DUPONT. ROCKEFELLER. 82 BILLION DOLLAR ASSETS. SPREAD OF WEALTH AMONG CONGLOMERATES. THE MIGHTY FEW. BIG BUSINESS. 01:45:19 - CU "THE AMERICAN CENTURY" ARTICLE BY HENRY R. LUCE. 01:45:26 - MAN AT HOME DRYING HIS HANDS ON TOWEL, LOOKS AT NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "BRITISH USING TROOPS IN INDONESIA.." DROPS TOWEL ON TOP OF NEWSPAPER 01:45:40 - APRON CLAD HOUSEWIFE HANDS HUSBAND A LETTER. MAIL. MAN OPENS LETTER. SITS DOWN, SMOKING A PIPE AND READING LETTER 01:45:57 - AMERICAN SERVICEMAN SMOKES A CIGARETTE AND WRITES A LETTER HOME. 01:46:13 - HOUSEWIFE SERVED DINNER. HUSBAND FATHER READS LETTER AT THE DINNER TABLE. 01:46:33 - MONTAGE BOOKS CONTAINING WAR FACTS. "DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE" BY LOUIS ADAMIC. "MY THREE YEARS WITH EISENHOWER." CIRCLED PASSAGE FROM BOOK READ OUT LOUD. ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND THE SECRETARY OF WAR. 01:47:10 - CU WOMAN EATS SOUP. 1940s FAMILY EATS MEAGER DINNER OF SYRUP AND BREAD. 01:47:16 - EXTERIOR CAPITOL DOME. CAPITOL BUILDING WASHINGTON. 1940s 01:47:20 - CONGRESS IN SESSION. LEADER BANGS GAVEL. 01:47:30 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL RECEIVE HONORARY UNIVERSITY DIPLOMAS 01:47:39 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS CARRY DEAD SOLDIER ON STRETCHER. WWII BURIAL AT SEA. CASKET COVERED WITH AMERICAN FLAG AND DUMPED INTO THE OCEAN 01:47:55 - FDR GRAVESTONE WITH FDR VOICE OVER "..TO RETURN TO THE KIND OF WORLD WE HAD AFTER THE LAST WORLD WAR" 01:48:13 - LABOR STRIKE. PLACARDS "LOCAL 201 ON STRIKE" PICKET LINE 01:48:24 - ILLUSTRATION OF FDR THE NEW BILL OF RIGHTS JANUARY, 1944 WITH THE RIGHTS LISTED. 01:48:46 - NATIONAL LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE. CIO PRESIDENT PHILIP MURRAY. 01:48:58 - LABOR STRIKES. PICKET LINES. 1944 CIO WORKERS. AUTO WORKERS STEEL WORKERS. PACKING HOUSE WORKERS. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS. FARM EQUIPMENT WORKERS ALL ON STRIKE. LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS. ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA. FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA. FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. DETROIT. PITTSBURGH. PHILADELPHIA. 01:49:39 - STRIKERS PICKET DURING SNOW STORM. WARM THEIR HANDS IN TRASH CAN FIRE. SERVED HOT COFFEE. 01:49:49 - STRIKE LEADERS IN SUITS SHAKE HANDS 01:49:53 - PICKET PARTY. CELEBRATE WITH DANCE, ACCORDION PLAYER MUSICIANS 01:50:09 - NATIONAL GUARD PATROL ON CITY STREET. MOUNTED POLICE 01:50:25 - LS FACTORIES, INDUSTRY 01:50:32 - URBAN SCENES. BALLANTINE BEER BILLBOARD. TRAIN 01:50:39 - BUSINESSMAN DICTATES LETTER TO SECRETARY. MAYOR 01:50:58 - SMALL TOWN PHARMACY. ELDERLY CHEMIST WAITS ON CUSTOMER 01:51:04 - SMALL TOWN SHOE REPAIR SHOP. COBBLER WAITS ON CUSTOMER 01:51:10 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "MAYOR BACKS GE UNION IN DEMAND FOR PAY RAISE". TELEGRAM NEWS. PASSAGE CIRCLED AND READ 01:51:29 - URBAN SCENES. 1940s BUS. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. 01:51:42 - FEMALE WORKER OPENS DOOR MARKED PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT CARRIES UE PUBLICATION 01:51:44 - OPENING AN ENVELOPE OF UNION BROCHURES, PAMPHLETS. PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN. TYPIST USING PAPER WITH UE LETTERHEAD. PROOF READER READS "EYES ON CONGRESS" REPORT 01:51:51 - DOOR MARKED RESEARCH DEPARTMENT 01:51:52 - OFFICE CLERK FILING FILES IN FILE CABINET 01:51:53 - BOSS HANDS OVER PILE OF WORK TO EMPLOYEE 01:51:56 - DOOR MARKED LEGAL DEPARTMENT. CU HAND TAKES LABOR LAW BOOK FROM BOOK SHELF. 01:51:58 - TYPIST TYPING 01:52:01 - CU BROCHURES "SUPPORT UE WORKERS IN A FIGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE" PACKAGE OF BROCHURES WRAPPED IN PAPER. WEIGHED ON POSTAL SCALE 01:52:03 - POV WALKING ON CITY STREET CIRCA 1940s MAN ON THE STREET WITH A MICROPHONE 01:52:12 - AUDIENCE LISTENS CU FACES 01:52:20 - NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF UE LABOR ORGANIZATION SPEAKS TO THE CAMERA FOREIGN ACCENT 01:53:28 - UE UNION STRIKE IN PHILADELPHIA TURNS VIOLENT. PROTEST PARADE PEACEFUL PARADE BECOMES A RIOT. POLICE ATTACK. POLICE TEAR AMERICAN FLAG FROM THE HANDS OF A VETERAN. POLICE ARREST PICKETERS 01:55:53 - MAN TURNS TO THE CAMERA AND TALKS TO CAMERA 01:56:17 - CU SIRLOIN STEAK 57 CENTS A POUND. PRICE GOES UP. HAND TAKES OUT PRICE SIGN AND REPLACES WITH 89 CENTS A POUND PRICE SIGN. 01:56:25 - POLLUTION. INDUSTRIAL SMOKE STACKS WITH HEAVY BLACK SMOKE 01:56:33 - PAN ACROSS ROOFTOPS OF INDUSTRIAL COMPANY TOWN. SMOKE COMES FROM CHIMNEYS OF TIGHTLY-PACKED HOUSES. PLANT IN BKGD 01:56:43 - MAN WALKS ALONG DIRT STREET 01:56:47 - ANIMATED MAP OF UNITED STATES. TINY CAPITOL BUILDING MARKS WASHINGTON, DC & CONGRESS. SPREADING OF "COMPANY" ATTITUDE ACROSS AMERICAN LIKE A DISEASE. 01:57:04 - ANIMATED NUCLEAR ATOM SYMBOL 01:57:10 - CU DOORBELL. WOMAN'S FINGER PRESSES DOORBELL. 01:57:12 - WOMAN OPENS DOOR TO REVEAL WOMAN ON DOORSTEP, CANVASSING POLITICAL IDEAS. 01:57:15 - CU LOW ANGLE OF WOMAN'S LEGS AS SHE WALKS UP STEPS TO DOOR. 01:57:17 - LOCKED BALLOT BOX IN LIMBO. HAND DROPS IN VOTE 01:57:19 - FEMALE HAND KNOCKS ON DOOR 01:57:20 - HOUSEWIFE OPENS DOOR. 01:57:22 - SALESWOMAN'S HAND WITH PENCIL & PAD 01:57:24 - SLIPS OF PAPER DROPPED INTO LOCKED BALLOT BOX 01:57:25 - MAN'S FEET AS HE GOES UP STAIRCASE 01:57:27 - USING DOOR KNOCKER 01:57:30 - SPOKESMAN TALKS TO CAMERA ANGRILY 01:57:51 - BUSINESSMEN & OTHER COMMUTERS WALKING ALONG TRAIN PLATFORM 01:57:57 - CAPITOL DOME IN WASHINGTON, DC. PAN DOWN 01:58:04 - PEOPLE WALKING UP & DOWN STEPS OF CAPITOL BUILDING 01:58:13 - BUSINESSMAN SITS DOWN ON GRASS WITH CAPITOL DOME VISIBLE IN BKGD. TAKES OFF HIS SHOE & WIGGLES HIS TOES AND MASSAGES FEET. TIRED FROM ALL THE WALKING AND CANVASSING THAT HE'S BEEN DOING. GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION. LOOKS TOWARD DOME. 01:58:32 - ESTABLISHING SHOT OF CAPITOL BUILDING 01:58:39 - WEIRD DUTCH ANGLES OF DOME & BUILDING 01:58:53 - DISAPPOINTED RESTING MAN PUTS ON HIS SHOES, GETS UP & WALKS AWAY. 01:59:07 - ESTABLISHING SHOT OF EXT. OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL. MAN WALKS INTO FRAME & TOWARD BUILDING 01:59:20 - WALKS UP STEPS OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL 01:59:26 - PAN ALONG COLUMNS AS MAN ENTERS LANDMARK 01:59:34 - MAN WALKS UP TO STATUE OF LINCOLN. 01:59:41 - CU OF LINCOLN MEMORIAL STATUE 01:59:44 - MAN LOOKS UP AT STATUE 01:59:49 - CU LINCOLN STATUE FACE 02:00:06 - FACE OF BALDING MAN AS HE THINKS. WALKS OUT OF MEMORIAL BUILDING. LONG SHADOWS 02:00:29 - MAN STANDS AT TOP OF MEMORIAL AND LOOKS TOWARD CAPITOL DOME ACROSS THE WAY FROM LINCOLN MEMORIAL (NO REFLECTING POOL). 02:00:44 - CU MAN'S FEET AS HE WALKS DOWN STONE STEPS 02:00:48 - MAN WALKS DIRECTLY TOWARDS CAMERA IN DETERMINED WAY
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1918
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: F-9703