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1952 - Americana Documentary: Women And The Community

Reel Number: 220799-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952

Country: USA

Location: Monroe,New York

TC Begins: 20:59:07

TC Ends: 21:16:11

Duration: 00:17:04

1952 - Americana Documentary: Women And The Community Aerials Monroe, NY w/ snow on ground. Freight train; passenger train seen. Ground & train arrives at station. City planners look at map. Garbageman dumps rubbish into truck. 21:00:16 Postman delivers mail to early 1900s wooden houses w/ front porches in residential neighborhood. Woman gets mail, family at breakfast table w/ husband reading newspaper. Mother opens sample ballot & all look at it, girl tips over glass of milk. Mailman into grocery store, w/ customers. Dentist gets mail & walks into waiting room. Old couple pick up post from farm mailbox & walk up to house. Mail man to high school. 21:03:12 High school students in biology classroom. Local bus past, people off bus & queuing at polling station. 21:04:06 League of Women Voters office interior. Women sorting information. Mothers w/ kids. Mother w/ pram in street. Women distribute leaflets door-to-door, put things in cars; post election posters on lampposts. Women on telephone superimposed w/ electoral lists. Candidates give talk to civic group; woman gives thumbs-down to one & applauds another. 21:07:27 Couple to line to vote, talk to others. 21:07:46 Parent-teacher association PTA meeting planning new recreation center. Teenagers square dance & buffet w/ clean-cut youth. 21:09:15 Anatomy class w/ 16mm film screening, view of kids watching. Food served to kids at cafeteria. Dentist on school visit w/ volunteers. Nurse looks after children in hospital beds & convalescence room. Fundraising violin concert & audience - poster re fundraising for hospital. Teenagers clean up play area, gathering trash for new playground, raking & shoveling. Haul the trash in Dodge pickup truck thru town. 21:13:40 Charity clothes shop. Garden club - women in greenhouse. Girl scouts. Church choir singing in front of pipe organ; music sheet. Blood donation w/ bottle filling up. Women at polling station working and voting. The End. Suburbia; Suburban Americana; Small Town Daily Life; Women’s Organizations; 1952; 1950s; NOTE: Entire sold at per reel rate.

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