As a subscriber to the US National Archive's YouTube account, I saw that they had put up video from the 1940 census. It contains very cool archival footage and has that patriotic feeling from similar government productions of the same time period. Here's one of the videos:
Also on YouTube, the Census Bureau has its own channel. It looks like they want to educate folks about how the census will be taken and what the different steps there are in the process. Check out their latest of their video:
2 comments:
Very interesting. I like the 1940 video.
I thought it was very funny in the 1940 video that they were showing smoke stacks to showcase industry and the marvelous machines with punch cards they were using to compile all of that information. Things have really changed.
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