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Milner-FenwickSocial Security Story, The (1962)

Tour of the new Social Security offices in Woodlawn, Md. and orientation for taxpayers.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Producer: Milner-Fenwick
Sponsor: U.S. Social Security Administration
Audio/Visual: Sd, C

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: doowopbob - - April 21, 2009
Subject: It's True....!
Nancy Does Pull Up Gramp's Zipper On His "High Waters"....He Used To Bang His Daughter-In-Law.After Son Died (Her Child Is Gramp's, Which Means....) ...But Moved On To Grandaughter.Who Can't Drive A Studebaker But Can Shift Grandpa Into 4th Gear!...Ahh....Gramps Had The Good Life.... Case File #69....Dr. Robert. Phd,R.E.M.

Reviewer: SirJekyllAppliance - - October 4, 2007
Subject: She's a tease!
At 1'15" Nancy pulls up Tim's zip-fly... she didn't even mention it was open! Just reached down and yanked it up! Check if you don't believe me!

Reviewer: Spuzz - - October 3, 2004
Subject: Puts the NBC Tour to shame.
Back in the early 1960's, when the topic of Social Secuirity got every one all excited, the Social Secuirity building in Baltomore actually conducted tours of it's facilities, only twice a day! A lady reporter and her father, named Gramps (affectionately, I'm sure) go on this tour and we find out all about the room that everybody's Social Secuirity Number application is stored! Wee! You can actually get someone to look it up for you! "Gosh" Granps exclaims. The reporter asks if they can look up their husband's application too. No! As all the records are confidential! Pretty soon they're on other floors looking at other people's benefit requests (no confidentiality breaches there!). A true relic of a bygone age of gaga proportions, this is highly reccomended!!

Reviewer: Steve Nordby - - November 12, 2003
Subject: The most modern equipment
Nancy takes gramps along on her assignment to do a story on the Social Security headquarters. We get to see the high tech equipment and efficient and courteous clerks that typify government bureaucracies. If you discount the humor in that, it's a pretty straightforward and boring governemt film.

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Follows two persons being conducted through the new offices of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance in Woodlawn, Maryland. Answers such specific questions as (1) What happens when a person loses his or her Social Security card? (2) What happens to the reports of earnings which are sent in? (3) How are records of earnings kept? (4) Just why is a Social Security account number necessary?