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Measure Of A Nation - U.S. Census 1960
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keywords: government and politics, u.s. census, birth statistics, sinclair service station, magnetic tape computer
Synopsis: Detailing the importance the U.S. Census for Federal, State and Local Governments in planning and distribution of funds across the Nation as well as an important economic indication for the future (2012-727t.txt-7015)...(read more)
- Date: 1960
- Duration: 00:28:33
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Measure Of A Nation - U.S. Census 1960
Census-taking has been part of United States business since the country's inception and the information gathered is used to make informed decisions by the Federal and State governments plus cities and municipal agencies.
Shot List:
01:00:48;20
Watch our Nation grow, flashing lights shows One Birth Every 7-1/2 Seconds, One Death Every 20 seconds, One Immigrant Every 1-1/2 Minutes, One Emigrant Every 20-Minutes, Net Gain One Person Every 11-Seconds.
01:02:40;08
CU street scenes of people in a typical, mid-western, American city in the 1960s. Men in suits, some wearing hats and women in skirts and dresses. 1960s fashions. Skyline of buildings in the BG.
01:02:59;23
A typical new housing subdivision being built in America in the 1960s. New homes under construction. School classroom scene, young boy doing multiplication math on blackboard in a school classroom as teacher and other students watch. Workers building a new house in a 1960s sub-division.
01:03:28;26
Brief scene of a vintage gas station. Gas station attendant cleaning windshield of an automobile at a Sinclair Service Station Sinclair Gasoline Station. Vehicles on an expressway, light traffic on a freeway. Public transportation, commuter train approaching a station, passengers waiting for train on station platform.
01:05:16;23
Image of an ancient Inca writing or counting system called quipu also spelled Khipu or Quipo. Describes methods used by ancient Chinese and Egyptian civilizations to keep records of people and property. Image depicts Moses as a man reads a passage from the Bible that instructed Moses to count his people.
01:15:20;22
The United States Marshal badge of an early census taker tasked with taking a census in the wilderness. Early census taker enumerator on horseback dressed in buckskins and carrying a flintlock rifle.
01:25:22;08
Flashback to scenes of 1929. Newspaper headline reads Stock Market Crash, Panic Begins. Brief image of stock Exchange on Black Tuesday. Line of unemployed men in the great depression era. An apple seller on a city street during the great depression.
01:26:50;06
Early computers. SA Univac UNIVersal Automatic Computer computer that uses magnetic tape reels to receive and store data.
- Related Titles:
- Life In America - U.S. Census 1960
