The Industrial Worker: A Film Lesson in "Vocational Guidance" (1928, silent)

Year Published: 1928

Creator: De Vry School Films Inc.

Complete Record: Description: Silent film describing the educational path for "Jimmy Long," a child who will eventually become an industrial worker. Tinted print. Notes on can: Mogulls No 15304 Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1920s, Industry, Labor, Vocations, Education, Social classes Tags: Fifth Ward School; grammar schools; students in classroom; boys raising hands in class; chart showing student attrition in grammar school, 5th to 8th grades; chart showing high school dropouts, 9th to 12th grades; animation of vocational and class channeling; "Barrier of Limited Education"; social class differences; line of workers entering industrial plant; factories; steam whistles; assembly lines; women on assembly lines; gender roles; working class people; Western Electric Company; tracking shot over Western Electric telephone cable manufacturing plant; possibly Hawthorne, Illinois plant; women winding cables; baseball; male workers eating lunch outside; workers; women's labor; female factory workers; working women; skilled labor; intertitles; animation; graphs; charts; animated graphic correlating education levels with jobs; punching time clock; workers clocking in; lunch breaks; break rooms; women's break rooms; model homes for workers; allotment gardens; community gardens; medical clinic; social services; playgrounds; Morgan Park baseball team; reenactments; worker studying; night school class; continuing education; side-by-side comparisons; workplace efficiency; "unskilled ranks"; promotions; wicker baby buggies; steam whistle; breaktime; workers washing up; worker talking to supervisor in office; door of opportunity animation; workers punching time clock and leaving; worker and family by fireplace; letter of promotion Film Sponsor: Creator: De Vry School Films, Inc. Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Mogull Bros. Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: Release Date: 1928 Geographical Location: USA; Illinois; Chicago, Illinois Genre/Form: educational, silent Language: eng Rights: "Copyright 1928 De Vry School Films Inc. / New York / Chicago". No registration shown in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1912-39. Film Format: 16mm film Element: reduction print Color: color Color Process: tinted Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: mos Edge Code: circle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 334