# A Better Massachusetts 1937

On Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in Massachusetts. Streets in Springfield are paved and sewer pipe installed. WPA artists paint shore scenes. Shows playground activity. Ship models are built at Marblehead. Methods of preventing silicosis among granite workers are tested at Quincy. Breeches buoy rescue practice is conducted by the Coast Guard on Cape Cod. Nurses instruct mothers in the care of babies. Shows a hatchery at Gloucester, braille mapping at the Perkings Institute for the Blind at Watertown, and children taking free music and dancing lessons. Shows nursery school activities. National Archives Identifier: 12356 Local Identifier: 69.42 Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent) From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937 * Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944 Level of Description: Item Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images This item was produced or created: 1937 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937 General Note(s): Subject summary is available. * Contributor: Producer, Works Progress Administration. Made by Pathe News. Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Sound Accession Number(s): 330

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1937
- By: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ABetterMassachusetts1937)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.