movies YourSoci1940 2002-07-16 00:00:00 Warner News Inc. How the system works. ca. 1940s http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ B&W Sd prelinger 2002-07-16 00:00:00 U.S. Federal Security Agency 0 17:02 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 unemployment Social Security U.S. Social Security Administration (sponsor) Social Security Administration (U.S.) Pensions Social welfare Economics Government (U.S.) Civics <BR> 2005-01-13 09:36:44 United States 1 0 New Deal: Social Security 1253 MovingImage ca. 1940s 18733