Processing the first unemployment census at the US Department of Commerce

Title "Counting Jobless" superimposed over exterior Commerce Dept. building, cars pass in front / CU administrator of census John Biggers / women operating card punching machines / CU hand operating machine finishing card and starting another / man attending to card sorting machine as cards drop into proper slots / CU sorting machine / pan from woman placing stack of cards to tabulating machine / CU counting machine / woman opens machine door showing tally sheet / CU tally sheet / Note: exact day not known
Title "Counting Jobless" superimposed over exterior Commerce Dept. building, cars pass in front / CU administrator of census John Biggers / women operating card punching machines / CU hand operating machine finishing card and starting another / man attending to card sorting machine as cards drop into proper slots / CU sorting machine / pan from woman placing stack of cards to tabulating machine / CU counting machine / woman opens machine door showing tally sheet / CU tally sheet / Note: exact day not known
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
1291664687
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
November 01, 1937
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:00:45:23
Location:
Washington DC, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004589_04_03