Council in Dallas

Duration: 25:14:00

Year Published: 1950s

Sound: silent

Description: Presented by the Dallas Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, this film follows the lives of the organization’s members and their families, including footage from council meetings, women at work on typewriters, customers in a local thrift store, a short fashion show, and children at lunch, the park, and playing with a small wooden puppet. Near its conclusion, the film highlights some of the older members of the council. Founded in 1893, the National Council of Jewish Women is a grassroots organization that works in both the United States and Israel on social justice issues.