1947 United States

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Women in uniform march in formation through much of the New York footage. Some wear black coats and hats, some wear blue, and one group in Navy uniforms follows an American flag. Female cadets stand in line with a flag bearer, and young women in uniform cross a parking lot in step. Navy officers march and then gather at a table. A military officer helps a woman out of a car, and another woman climbs into a Navy emergency vehicle. Away from the parades, a priest and altar boys lead a religious procession, and a woman walks through a gate toward a historic mansion.

The family reels follow the seasons. In New York winter, children push strollers down snowy streets, shovel heavy snow and climb a playground slide, and in summer a man and a child build a sandcastle while a mother puts sunscreen on her child. Connecticut children splash in the sea and play in a river with an inner tube. The Illinois reels show farm country: a man tilling land as his wife walks nearby, a farmer in overalls crossing a field with a child and a dog, a boy working a water pump, a farmhouse seen through a window. A man feeds a black dog from a bucket, and another laughs as a dog runs in harness. California adds picnickers under palm trees and a robed pastor talking with churchgoers at the door of an Inglewood church. In Nebraska, three girls pose in holiday clothes in the yard.

Useful for stories on women in uniform after the war, Midwestern farm families, or American children at play in 1947.