Educational film guide (1948)

1948 EDITION 331.13-331.83 MAN AND HIS JOB. Brandon 1943 18min sd ?50, rent $3 331.13 sh-c-adult-forum Guide Produced by the National Film Board of Canada . , . "Traces the problem of unemployment from the depression years of the twenties to the present time. It shows the rise and functioning of Unemployment Insurance." Educationsd screen MILLIONS OF US. Brandon 1936 20mln sd apply, rent $5 331.13 sh-c-adult-forum Produced by American Labor Productions The story of the millions of unemployed exemplified in a young man who Is driven by hunger to take employment as a scab and the experiences that lead him to recognize his common interests with the strikers and the working people generally NYU 1940 27min sd apply, .331.13 VALLEY TOWN rent $6 sh-c-trade-adult-forum Guide Produced by the Educational Film Institute of New York univ under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Briefly this is the story of how machines made a "boom" town with factories running at top speed, stores crowded with shoppers, money flowing freely — and of how more machines broke it. It considers the problem of capable men thrown out of Jobs because of high-speed machinery. It gives an Idea of what it does to the spirit of a man and of the effect on a family. Finally it offers as one solution the constant training of adults to keep them abreast of new developments ready for new and better jobs 331.25 Pensions. Social insurance SOAK THE OLD. TFC 21min sd (Crime does not pay) apply 331.25 Jh-sh-adult Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "An expose of the methods used by a racketeer organizer who exploits an old age pension movement. The picture shows the methods of the organizer and the disastrous result to the old people as the racketeer is apprehended just as he tries to make away with the collections. The film closes with a speech of warning by the Prosecuting attorney." Advisory committee SOCIAL SECURITY. TFC lOmin sd (Washington parade) apply 331.25 Jh-sh-c-adult Produced by Columbia Pictures Corp "Interprets the operation of the Social Security Act from the time of its passage through Its various steps to the final payment of checks to the beneficiaries. A valuable and factual explanation of this important legislation. Recommended for junior and senior high school groups in civics and for social studies groups discussing government functions and services." Advisory committee 331.5 Compulsory labor LAST OF THE PAGANS; excerpt (labor sequence). TFC 15min sd (Human relations ser) apply 331.5 sh-c-adult Guide Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. EJdited by the Commission on human relations Deals with methods of securing native labor for work in the government phosphate mines in French Polynesia 331.7 Workers In various industries WORKERS ON THE LAND. CanKFB 1948 17min sd color $150, rent $15 331.7 sh-c-ad-forum Produced for the Canadian Dept of labour in association with the Dominion and Provincial Dept of agriculture Gives suggestions for improving living, training and working conditions for farm labor so that workers may be encouraged to stay on the land 331.8 Working conditions EVERY MINUTE COUNTS. Castle 1944 lOmln sd (Problems of supervision) $20.74 331.8 trade-adult Guide Produced by the U S Offlce of education A supervisor becomes worried because of absenteeism and tardiness in his department. His superintendent points out many of the causes, and the supervisor takes steps to remedy them 331.83 Living conditions. Housing CHALLENGE OF HOUSING. Brandon lOmin sd (Canada carries on) $25, rent $1.25 331.83 Jh-sh-c-ad Produced by the National Film BoaLrd of Canada A brief survey of the causes and effects of present housing conditions and an indication of attempts being made in various countries to provide adequate homes. Pictures of crowded "temporary" quarters, families living in trailers and discouraged house hunters open this film on housing. After noting factors contributing to the problem, we see a few of its by-products: unhealthy children, juvenile delinquency, dreariness and dirt for thousands of slum dwellers Prospects for improvement are offered by greater production of prefabricated houses which are shown being turned out by assembly line methods. Concluding scenes emphasize that the housing problem cannot be solved piecemeal and that the needs and appearance of the entire community must be considered before any construction is launched. By contrasting modern large scale housing experiments with crowded and unhealthy slums the film offers a high standard at which to aim in a planned attack on the housing shortage HOUSING IN SCOTLAND. BIS 1945 14min sd $37.50, rent $2 331.83 sh-c-adult-forum Scotland's plans for post-war building include temporary structures, to meet the emergency need, two-family houses which will later be converted into single dwellings, and permanent modern houses PLACE TO LIVE. Brandon 1941 ISmin sd $72, ♦ rent $3 331.83 jh -sh-c-adult-forum Based on a survey by the Philadelphia housing association and although it is based on the facts of the City of Philadelphia, it may readily be applied wherever the need exists A school boy leaves his classes; through typical city streets and back alleys infected with rats, he homeward wends his way. There In' a "band box house," three rooms, one above the other, his mother awaits. Scenes follow of their squalid way of living and we learn of their hopes and wishes for a better place to live No problem is solved but a suggestion or two is made. The film lays the foundation for an approach to a solution. It leaves the way open for a follow-up applicable for the special type of solution to the specific local situation 269