Video Parts (3)
This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.
1940 CENSUS Part 1
Description
Script is available. Explains the purposes and values of the census and briefly relates its history. Describes the responsibility of enumerators and dramatizes one's experience with a woman reluctant to answer his questions. Editors, punch card machine operators, and statisticians work at compiling reports. Director William L. Austin speaks on enumerator's abilities.
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Records of the Bureau of the Census
Series
Moving Images Relating to the Taking of the Census
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Date
1940-01-01
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TRT
3:36