Riverdale Americana & New Family ca 1950
Springtime & housewife taking in laundry as taxi pulls up across the gravel road. Couple w/ two children get out, moving van arrives. Family goes in; women from other house watching them unloading & unpacking. Mother sends daughter over w/ a lunch basket. Boy trying to play in barrel.
06:32:28 Street w/ blossom on trees & women go to market together to Riverdale Cooperative, pick up booklet on election. Front of store w/ magazines & woman passing w/ baby carriage. Narration talks about people not participating in politics. Woman into drugstore, scans shelves of drugs, pays & takes package & reading booklet runs into woman. Walking past school. Streets being washed. Small US Post Office & woman to stamp window.
06:36:13 Past Public Library, sits on bench & reads political pamphlet; joined by neighbor woman & they talk.
Middle Class Americana ca 1950; Democracy; Freedom; Participation; Post-WWII Propaganda;
Note: Made for educating about democratic ideals of USA.
Riverdale Americana & New Family ca 1950 Springtime & housewife taking in laundry as taxi pulls up across the gravel road. Couple w/ two children get out, moving van arrives. Family goes in; women from other house watching them unloading & unpacking. Mother sends daughter over w/ a lunch basket. Boy trying to play in barrel. 06:32:28 Street w/ blossom on trees & women go to market together to Riverdale Cooperative, pick up booklet on election. Front of store w/ magazines & woman passing w/ baby carriage. Narration talks about people not participating in politics. Woman into drugstore, scans shelves of drugs, pays & takes package & reading booklet runs into woman. Walking past school. Streets being washed. Small US Post Office & woman to stamp window. 06:36:13 Past Public Library, sits on bench & reads political pamphlet; joined by neighbor woman & they talk. Middle Class Americana ca 1950; Democracy; Freedom; Participation; Post-WWII Propaganda; Note: Made for educating about democratic ideals of USA.