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Clip #: TFA-257B
Length: 19:32
Color: B/W
Sound: Sound
Library: TFA Network
Decade: 1940s
Region: North America
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
Subject: Education
Original: 16mm
Keywords:
1940’s, New Jersey, New Jersey Education Association, legs and feet of boys and girls walking to school on country roads, villages and city street, teacher standing outside school entrance ringing bell as children run inside, teenage boys and girls walking and running into school, public education, female teacher holding up image of trains and speaking to male and female teenagers seated at desks in classroom, calendar from November 1853 with Currier and Ives lithograph of “The Through Express” railroad, Daily State Gazette from November 15, 1853, reenactment pioneers traveling Westward in covered wagons, man’s hand using telegraph, transatlantic cable laying, railroad, train, portraits of Franklin Pierce, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Horace Mann, Abraham Lincoln, reenactment men in mid 19th Century clothing discussing plans for school, legs of boys and girls in 19th Century clothing walking on rural roads to school, Clara Barton school, one room schoolhouse, reenactment children dressed in mid 19th Century clothing playing outside and entering one room schoolhouse, reenactment teacher closing door behind children and letting straggler student offering apple inside, reenactment children sitting down on benches, reenactment girl drinking from ladle with liquid scooped out of barrel, reenactment boy carrying wood to fireplace and adding wood to fire, reenactment teacher leading students in reading aloud from book, boy squinting as he reads from textbook, hand flipping through textbook with fine typesetting, teacher disciplining students for misbehaving, teacher using hickory stick to hit boy’s palm, dunce looking glum sitting on stool in corner, teacher knocking on door and presenting bill to pupil’s mother, teacher walking and carrying payment in form of basket of produce, man’s hand reading notice calling for professional education organization, 1853, New Brunswick, Bayard Street school, portraits education leaders, men reading official minutes of meetings, constitution, 1855, man hanging up certification for “New Jersey Department of Public Instruction from State Normal School,” 1870, school buildings becoming larger, men walking around school facilities, reenactment female teachers in 19th century clothing instructing students, student doing multiplication on individual chalkboard, boy counting, students doing handwork, turn of the century, reenactment high school students in turn of the century clothing walking up steps into school, turn of the century class portrait, teenage boy holding door open for male and female high school students to enter building, new subjects in curriculum, students drawing, woodworking, sewing, turn of the century portraits of male and female teachers, person looking through 50th Anniversary New Jersey Education Association program, portraits education leaders, boys and girls boarding school buses, teenagers entering classroom and sitting down, male teacher instructing students, students raising hands, nurse looking inside teenage girl’s mouth, female teacher handing out exams to students and starting stopwatch, architects drafting plans for school, model of school, teachers and students walking outside modern school buildings, children running out of school, century old school buildings in need of repair or new equipment, teenagers entering and exiting overcrowded school, unsupervised children, A Harry Moore School for physically disabled students, adult students using typewriters, teaching students dressed in caps and gowns walking in graduation ceremony, educators sitting in audience of convention as man gives speech, new headquarters for New Jersey Education Association, Trenton, committee meeting, Board of Education, PTA meeting, cityscape, skyline, skyscrapers, train traveling through rugged Western landscape, cars driving on highway, U.S. Air Force plane taking off, mushroom cloud from atomic blast, industrial machinery in factory, slow moving traffic on crowded highway, man using counting machine, factory facade, workers using bottling machine, suburban tract homes, legs and feet of boys and girls walking to school on country road, legs and feet of boys and girls riding bicycles on street to school, legs and feet of girl and boy exiting car, legs and feet of boys and girls exiting school bus, boys and girls entering school building, teacher helping girl write on paper, teacher pointing to writing on chalkboard as girl raises hand and another girl points to “fun with Dick and Jane” on chalkboard, boy reading from book, teacher instructing class of young students, textbooks, girl flipping through textbook, teacher helping boys use tools for woodworking, children painting, children doing arithmetic, children looking at globe, boy sanding piece of wood, children playing in school playground, children cleaning fish tank, male teenager and teacher discussing model, female teenager conducting chemical experiment, teacher assisting female students in cooking, home economics, teacher assisting male teenagers in fixing radio equipment, male teenager and teacher looking at levels from automobile engine, male teacher instructing female teenager in driving car, female cheerleaders cheering for football players during game, student meeting, conductor leading student orchestra, children playing musical instruments, children sitting in auditorium singing