A/V Geeks 16mm Films | When Work Is Done (ca. 1943) @avgeeks | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
Discusses the challenges faced by small American towns overwhelmed by an influx of workers from rural areas seeking jobs in factories and shipyards. As the population swells, the community struggles to accommodate the newcomers, leading to feelings of isolation and boredom. However, towns like Silaka, Alabama, are taking proactive steps to foster community spirit through organized events and cooperation among residents. This effort to build a sense of belonging and connection is part of a long-standing American tradition of forming communities, emphasizing the importance of social interaction and support in both wartime and peacetime.
Keywords
American small towns, influx of workers, community challenges, isolation, Silaka Alabama, social interaction, cooperation, belonging, community building, American tradition
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
Discusses the challenges faced by small American towns overwhelmed by an influx of workers from rural areas seeking jobs in factories and shipyards. As the population swells, the community struggles to accommodate the newcomers, leading to feelings of isolation and boredom. However, towns like Silaka, Alabama, are taking proactive steps to foster community spirit through organized events and cooperation among residents. This effort to build a sense of belonging and connection is part of a long-standing American tradition of forming communities, emphasizing the importance of social interaction and support in both wartime and peacetime.
Keywords
American small towns, influx of workers, community challenges, isolation, Silaka Alabama, social interaction, cooperation, belonging, community building, American tradition
We digitized and uploaded this film from the Prelinger Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.
![[Global Concepts In Maps Cans 1-3, silent, late 1940s]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a--IY2cg5tk/hqdefault.jpg "[Global Concepts In Maps Cans 1-3, silent, late 1940s]
This 1940s footage shows a curious boy engaging in hands-on learning about geography, maps, and globes in his bedroom, reflecting a deep interest in understanding the world. The scenes depict him tracing the outline of the African continent on a globe, studying printed maps, and experimenting with various types of projections and globes.
He uses tools like rulers, flexible tape, and plastic overlays to measure the globe, mark the equator, and align longitude and latitude lines. The boy creates visual demonstrations with different map projections such as Mercator, Cylindrical, Conic, and Gnomonic, exploring how the Earths surface is represented in various ways. He moves from studying a small rubber ball marked with continents to experimenting with a larger globe, and eventually, he stretches plastic shapes of continents over maps on his walls. The boy also examines a light-up globe with a magnifying sheet, which enhances his understanding of cities like Tokyo, Seattle, and Panama.
The boys bedroom becomes a space filled with maps and globes, as he surrounds himself with Polar Projections and other map styles pinned to his walls. He repeatedly reflects on his studies, examining each globe and map with great focus. The scene ends with the boy observing the different projections and pondering the relationship between them, demonstrating an early fascination with cartography and the worlds geography.
We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.")
