Your Social Security

About

Explains how SS, survivors' insurance and other benefit systems work, focuses on the helpful SS workers, strongly encourages workers to file for their SS cards; also shows some of the inner workings of the giant system

[we are told by the narrator that the cost of Social Security is one and a half percent of your salary]

Stock shots: Social Security card, Social Security Claims worker

Old people looking hopeless; Franklin Roosevelt signing Social Security Act; Harry Truman: signing 1950 Act; old people puttering around the house, happily; animation of old people also mailman; widows and orphans

montage of street scenes and many kinds of jobs; construction jobs; house painting; grocery stores; farmworker; household worker; good shots: typing; switchboard operator;

Candler Building in Baltimore MD (HQ of Social Security)

Excellent footage of mechanized bookkeeping; checkwriting, precursors to computerization. enormous paper stacks of records; bookkeeping; perforated cards for computers; women using calculators in large pools including some African-Americans; envelope stuffing machines;

woman with rolling pin; sign: Home for the Aged CU application for SS card

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

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Credit

Warner News Inc.

Subtitles

Automatic captions

Who can watch

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