[“OUR CHANGING FAMILY LIFE: SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA” EDUCATIONAL FILM INDUSTRIALIZATION XD75634a](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BGxK5F94AXM) A sociology film made in 1957 by Knickerbocker Productions, "Our Changing Family Life" was released by McGraw-Hill Book Co., and accompanied a Sociology book. *The film looks at the contrast between the traditional American farm family of the 1880s and the industrial expansion effects on the modern family of the 1950s.* It showed the importance of division of labor in a farm American family. American farm family of the 1880s. It was a securely held together economical and emotional net living by strong religious beliefs and mutuality of work and recreationally. Industrialization changes these dynamics with the new century. In the modern family, the division of labor is not as evident as it once was. (0.10) Logo of “McGraw-Hill Text-Films” (0.20) title reads “Our Changing Family Life” (0.27) “Correlated with Sociology by Arnold W. Green”. (0.7) The film begins. (01.19) In a Settlement, with the help of two horses, a man is teaching a kid to farm showing the role of the father in the American society. (01.28) A mother carrying a jar of milk. She pours milk in a butter churner with the help of the grandmother. (1.57) in the house, the mother and the grandmother are cooking, making food. (2.35) The woman calls her kid who was sewing. (3.13) the oldest daughter makes clothing for the whole family with her sewing machine while taking care of her younger sibling. (3.28) The youngest child standing in front of the house door with no chores at hand. (3.34) her older brother holds a basket of eggs. (4.01) The grandfather carries his youngest granddaughter on the horse while grooming the horse. They chat. (04.27) the grandmother rings a bell. The eight members family are around the food table starting by a prayer. (4.50) The father reads the Bible in the living room with the family gathered around. (5.12) the child interrupts the father to ask a question. He asks her not to interrupt the reading of the Bible. (5.37) Friends are visiting the family in a carriage. (6.12) Members of the family playing dominoes in the kitchen. The mother is teaching the youngest child. (6.45) the older daughter is playing piano next to her significant other. (7.23) The mother joins the couple. The mother and daughter start singing. The rest of the family starts joining the piano room. They sing together. (9.02) Factory smokestack. (09.07) New factories. Individual workers walking together. (9.29) Cities, buildings, and aspects of urbanism. (9.56) Feminism books exposition. (10.07) Suffragettes walking together. (10.16) Women working in factories, commercial services, and other services like communication, medicine, laboratories. (10.58) a family travelling by train. (11.14) street sign reading “BROADWAY WALL ST.” (11.43) images of World War II. (12.00) Soldiers leaving in a ship for war. (12.03) women working in aircraft industry to support. (12.19) Soldiers reunited with families. (13.00) Mechanized farming. (13.24) The mother serving food. (13.56) The grandmother rings the bell for food. Four members of the family eat together. (14.36) Now the family is watching TV instead of attending prayer. (14.45) The mother is leaving the house to go to the ladies’ club. The grandfather is reading newspaper. The grandmother is listening to the radio and reading women’s magazine. (15.19) the kids take the car. (15.50) An elderly retired men playing “catch” with young kids. (16.00) a woman comes home to meet her kid and the babysitter. (16.40) While the mother cooks in the kitchen, the father takes the kids. He helps cleaning the table after dinner. (18.04) the mother leaves for arts’ class. The father and his friends play card games in the house. (18.48) A middle aged man sitting alone in his house with a dog, looking distressed. (19.29) a family of four is getting ready. (19.33) A wedding. (19.48) The End.