Author Archive: Retro

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!”

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Andy the orangutan from the Bronx Zoo is learning his ABC’s from his zoo-keeper friend. Each letter is taught by associating the name of an animal from the zoo with each letter of the alphabet.

The worldly dances performed by the kids, teenagers, and young adults are as follows (per the intetitles):

Mexico – La Cucaracha – “One of Mexico’s most popular dances.”

El Coyote y Las Gallinas – The Coyote and the chickens – “Children in the circle represent the wall of the corral.”

Russia – Kozachek – “Russian national dance used to play a game known to us as ‘In and Out the Window’.”

Run For Your Den – “A popular Russian game similar to our game of ‘Nigger-baby’.”

Community assistance programs being operated in the Sacramento area

Short doc dramatizing importance of treaties in WWII context.