Our Changing Family Life
Our Changing Family Life is a short film from 1957 released on 35mm/16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
CONTRASTS THE CLOSELY-INTEGRATED FAMILY OF THE 1880'S WITH THE FAMILY OF TODAY. EXPLAINS HOW INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION & THE POLITICAL & ECONOMIC EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN HAVE CHANGED THE TRADITIONAL PATTERN OF FAMILY LIFE.
01:12:07:15 Rural family, two boys, older man and older woman (grandparents or parents), playing dominoes at dinner table.
01:12:34:13 VS middle-age woman in proper Victorian style dress rocking in rocking chair helping little girl with bow in hair with her homework. CU little girl writing on paper on desk by light of oil lamp.
01:12:48:10 VS teenage girl playing piano for teenage boy in late-nineteenth century shirt tie and vest. Boy leans on piano and watches girl adoringly. Mother enters room, sits at piano and plays while boy and girl exchange flirtatious gazes. MS girl begins to sing along to piano music. Father and little sister enter room and surround mother at piano; all begin to sing. Rest of family enters, nine total, all crowded around piano sing.
01:15:17:01 VS industrial workers leaving factory. Crowds of workers coming or going from work.
01:15:56:09 Woman window shopping stops at store window; looks at books on display. Titles: Intimate Story by Rose Franken , The American Everyday Cookbook , CU Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women s Rights.
01:16:20:01 VS people in the workplace. Man and woman at draft tables; two women working on machine parts, attaching wires; woman stamping papers; woman working with electronics and radar-like monitor.
01:16:36:20 Butcher cutting meat.
01:16:43:03 VS woman looking into microscope. Woman using optical device. Young woman using stethoscope-looking apparatus attached to machine. Female operator at telephone switchboard, patching calls, flipping switches.
01:16:53:04 Two people waiting on arriving training at Hackettstown stop.
01:16:54:19 Train conductor pulling break lever.
01:16:55:23 Three young girls, one young woman, waving goodbye to prim and proper looking 1950s family of two girls and young boy as they depart on train.
01:17:11:02 Rural family loads belongings onto bed of truck.
01:17:21:03 CU Broadway and Wall St. street sign; mob of people of Wall St.
01:17:25:08 VS New York City Stock exchange in action. Trading on the floor.
01:17:33:12 VS workers in long line wearing coats and caps. Man in overalls with pipe.
01:17:46:00 VS exploding battleship; lots of smoke. Plane peeling away in the sky. Battleship on fire.
01:17:57:23 VS people waving goodbye to ship full of army soldiers.
01:18:08:17 VS in huge warehouse airplane assembly line with female workers. Rosy the riveter working on all parts of plane building.
01:18:19:22 VS men coming home from WWII to; women waiting impatiently for their husbands; warm embraces.
01:18:34:10 VS middle-age man and woman, backs to camera, facing judge with US flag behind him. MS woman breaks down crying.
01:19:17:11 Man sows land with Farmall tractor; drives past camera.
01:19:53:10 Woman sits in chair across from grandmotherly older woman, reading. TV sets sits between the two.
01:20:00:26 VS older farmer in cap changes oil in McCormick Farmall tractor. Old woman rings bell, calls for meal time. Family, two generations, sits down at kitchen table.
01:20:48:15 VS shot of bald man and woman watching TV from couch; camera angle from behind and in front.
01:21:37:17 Teenage boy and girl formally dressed get in 1950s style convertible and drive off.
01:21:51:23 VS old man reading paper in rocking chair on porch. Two preteen boys in front yard playing catch. Old man joins in game of catch.
01:22:59:29 Father enters kitchen where wife is cooking; greeted by cute young daughter; lifts up cute baby boy.
01:23:23:13 Husband smoke at dinner table while wife cleans up.
01:24:31:07 VS four men playing cards.
01:25:54:03 VS newlyweds exit church, enter car, drive off.| Our Changing Family Life | |
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| Produced by | Knickerbocker Productions |
Production company | Knickerbocker Productions |
| Distributed by | Knickerbocker Productions |
Release date | 1957 |
Running time | 20:03 |
| Language | English |
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