City of Neighbors: Give Once for All
City of Neighbors: Give Once for All is a short film from 1950 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Portrays the United Foundation as "the businesslike method" of giving and notes that it offers "freedom from constant appeals".
Aerial shots of Detroit downtown and factories; crowds; boy scouts; an aged woman; people pestering other people for money; kids skipping rope in an idyllic suburb; women in a massive typing pool; disabled G.I. casualties watch a movie in a hospital; suburbs being built; a kid with IV tubes sticking out of him; polio kids walking; blind man; newsboys shout on street corners.
"Chapter 1950" This film encourages it's viewers not to give to private organizations soliciting on the streets of Detroit. Instead they are encouraged to give in the professional way, once, a certain percentage of one's paycheck to The United Foundation for charity organizations with the motto, "Give once for all. United We Won . . . . let's Do It Again!"
Crops being harvested with horse-drawn machinery Aerial view of Detroit A crowd of slow-moving people, walking, shot from above People walking briskly on the street A crowd, shot from above, men waving hats Children jump roping Close-up of a canister being held and money being put in with writing, "Strike back at Cancer" Pamphlets being placed on top of each other, "Conquer Arthritis, Epilepsy, Give, Cerebral Palsy, etc." "GIVE Conquer Arthritis . . . the Crippler" canister close-up in front of business suited man Double exposure of pamphlets being placed down while man walks down sidewalk Calendar being flipped through Double exposure of calendar with text: "CANCER, ARTHRITIS, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, EPILEPSY, POLIO, HEART DISEASE, COMMUNITY CHEST" "Leader Dogs" canister Woman with can soliciting for donations while men walk into doors Many women in huge office, busily typing An illustration of a dollar bill gets blackened out partially Photo animation of business men with "GIVE" signs and dollar signs appearing a stack of newspapers being tossed by a pole Detroit headlines boy scouts boys constructing model planes child in the hospital tiny boy in a bow tie and suspenders sits on couch, flipping through a comic book little girl walking with crutches man crossing street with seeing eye dog babies in the hospital little girls playing, having a tea party hand holding onto the corner of a check, with a circle blowup of a section ,".65"
Personalities: Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CIO president Henry Ford II Frank X. De Martell (?)
worth noting: Little girls jump rope and a boy rides a tricycle on an affluent residential street in Detroit. (1:17:23- 1:24:33)
02:01:04:13 CU book cover with title credit City of Neighbors: Give One For All and graphic of torch; disembodied hand opens book to page with text Chapter 1950 ; disembodied turns to next page with large printed text The frontier was harsh, so folks were friendly, in the days when our town was young
02:01:29:26 Antique steam powered harvester in field.
02:02:19:00 Young girls jumping rope in front yard, little boy rides tricycle.
02:02:35:10 CU disembodied woman s hand holds container with image of woman s face and text Strike back at Cancer give more than before , disembodied hands drip change in container.
02:02:41:11 CU various advertisements for charitable campaigns thrown onto table, campaigns for: epilepsy, arthritis, cerebral palsy, polio.
02:02:58:04 woman approaches two men with container asking for a charitable donation, man smoking cigarette shakes his head no; CU donation can in woman s hand with image of crippled hand and text Give Conquer Arthritis the crippler; shot dissolves and pans to poster to fight polio with an image of a little girl.
02:03:24:03 CU various poster advertisements for charitable causes: image of baby hard o hearing, child with cerebral palsy, seeing eye dogs.
02:03:46:23 CU disembodied hand holds out container to take charitable donations for seeing-eye dogs, disembodied hand counts change in hand and places money in container; woman outside of building holding out container asking for charity.
02:04:08:24 truck driver standing in front of Chevrolet truck puts pencil behind his ear and gives change to woman asking for charity.
02:05:01:10 High-angle artists working on advertisements at drafting tables.
02:05:19:18 CU bundle of newspapers thrown into frame hit street lamp; newspaper boy selling newspapers; CU camera angle from just above brim of man s hat as he opens the newspaper, superimposed rectangle in center of shot magnifies segment of text in newspaper: By William W. Lutz At least 18 annual, independent charitable campaign fund solicitations came to an end today with the formation of a federation ; CU poster for U.F. Torch Drive for the Metropolitan Detroit area.
02:08:27:14 VS CU newspaper headlines: Detroit tackles Problem Head on; Detroit Cheers Start of United Fund Drive; Leaders Seek Way to Reduce D.C. s Many Charity Drives; Detroit Scores Drive Victory; 19 Named to Study Single Fund Campaign; Drive Decisions Are Up to Givers.
02:08:53:20 VS boy scouts; campground of tents with boy scouts scattered about; boy scout tries to light fir with stick and bow; room full of young women sewing by hand and on machines.
02:09:47:06 Great shout behind movie camera projecting film onto screen for men in hospital beds; injured soldiers in hospital watch film.
02:10:10:20 Scientist in laboratory places water bottle in mouse cage; mice in cage; scientists makes note on clipboard.
02:10:22:09 Cute little boy about 3-4 years old wearing suspenders and bowtie sitting on couch flips through comic book then looks up at camera; CU hospital document; man enters frame and sits down on couch beside little boy and speaks to camera about when boy was admitted to the children s hospital with spinal meningitis.
02:12:24:23 Little girl about 4 years old walking with crutches, braces on her legs; blind man crosses city street with seeing-eye dog.
02:12:54:00 VS CU young children about 2 years old; little child lying beside dolling holding silver toy airplane; young girls playing in nursery.| City of Neighbors: Give Once for All | |
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| Produced by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Production company | Handy (Jam) Organization |
| Distributed by | Handy (Jam) Organization |
Release date | 1950 |
Running time | 13:59 |
| Language | English |
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