https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ce731119-3899-4d7d-bd7b-7540dcc87318 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Part 2: https://youtu.be/LhcMergj5yQ Produced by David L. Wolper, this TV special "The American Woman in the 20th Century" dates to 1964. This groundbreaking documentary explores changes in American women's economic, political, and social statuses. (Note: experiences covered are almost exclusively white.) Opening: Etiquette expert Emily Post discusses girlhood, rouge, "wickedness" (0:09-0:43). Kissing in car, “free love” dancing, “the twist” at a formal. Closeups: women in hairnets, women playing acoustic guitar, on red carpet, sipping cocktails, shopping for luxuries, styling short hair. Footage of hospital delivery (1:41-2:45). Baby and mother lying together. Queen Victoria’s funeral (2:56). Early 1900s city: hats, furs, horse-drawn carriages. Picnic on a boat (3:38). Women play tennis in dresses, splash in waves, cycle, sled, stroll (3:43–4:10). "Gibson Girls" illustrations (beauty standards) (4:10). Woman doing housework (5:04); "work-saving technology": sewing machine, icebox, telephone, phonograph. Woman "at leisure" plays piano, strolls (5:33). Nickelodeon entrance (5:42). Hollywood proposal scenes (5:53). Mary Pickford in various films. People exit theater, including woman with stroller. Women teach, distribute food, nurse (6:42-6:58). Urban street (aerial). Workers in garment factories (7:02). Factory fire / victims (7:22). Women organize social and political clubs (7:32). Suffragettes. Theodore Roosevelt (7:54-8:00). Suffragettes disrupt election gatherings. Banner: "what will you do for suffrage?" (8:19). Soldiers march (WWI); women wave (8:21). Mary Pickford at rally (8:29). Women in uniform march (8:40). Woman walks children across busy street (8:53). Female workers oiling train, cleaning windows, assembling planes, stuffing bullets into magazines, driving medical wagons, tending wounded (9:00-9:42). Soldiers return to NY. Couples dance in street. Panning shot: women in various costumes (9:56). Suffragettes march on Capitol (10:03). 19th Amendment signing (10:36). Suffragettes smiling (10:50). Men and women queue for polls, vote (11:05-11:48). Women march for prohibition (11:48). Barrels / bottles being destroyed (12:11-12:24). Upper-class women enter hotel. Families shop for clothes (12:37). Girls in tutus dancing ballet (12:45). Women college graduates march in white dresses (12:51), playing with hoops (13:21). Women can-can down stairs in furs (13:30). Flappers dance / "jazz age" / "crumbling morality" (13:40). Closeup: stockings (13:50). Woman dances on table at formal (13:53). Dancing, drinking, kissing, undressing. Rollercoaster (passenger’s perspective). Daredevils (14:23). Woman tightropes above skyscrapers. Women dance on tables. Woman climbs between airborne planes (14:43). Dance marathon (14:56). "The rise of women in sports:" women play on beach, play hockey (15:11), run track (15:22), hurdles, toss, swim, dive (Olympics). People on public transit (15:40). 1920s fashion runways. Short hair (Mary Pickford). Enter Clara Bow; dancing seductively, kissing (16:27). "The 'It' Girl." Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan at Manhattan speakeasy ("California Here I come") (16:50). Peaches Browning with "Daddy" (17:16). Photo: Edna St. Vincent Millay (17:22). Helen Wills on tennis court, with flowers (17:30). Photo: comedienne Fannie Brice (Baby Snooks) (17:36). Gertrude Stein (17:43). Dancer Marilyn Miller in costume. Gertrude Caroline Ederle / NYC homecoming celebration (18:00). Ruth Elders closeup / New York parade (18:19). Evangelist Aimee Sample McPhersons conducts baptism ("God Bless You, one and all"), leads chorus at LA event. Pola Negri / Rudolph Valentino (romance) (19:09). Hysteria at Valentino’s funeral (19:44). Great Depression food line. Women picket (21:07). "Exclusive women's clubs" at homes; rich woman goes door-to-door for charity (21:17). FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor tours jobs programs, dances, breaks champagne bottles, rides horses. Frances Perkins speaks (23:15). Margaret Sanger / birth control (23:29). Journalist Dorothy Thompson (23:50). Emma Goldman (24:14). Elsa Maxwell (24:26). "New York Cafe Society" (24:36): Stork Club, El Morocco, Jack and Charlies 21. Doris Duke (24:55), Barbara Hutton (24:59), debutante Brenda Frasier (25:03). New York theater marquees, people purchasing tickets (25:16). Women in Depression-themed musical. Red carpet, 1930s stars: Joan Blondes, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck, Greta Garbo, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunne, Loretta Young (26:02-26:17). Amelia Earhart with reporters (26:21), at New York Parade (Mayor Jimmy Walker speaking), holding flowers, with husband George Putman, taking off (27:54). 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