This 1960s documentary produced by Milner Fenwick Inc. for the Social Security Administration looks at how Social Security benefits are paid out. It follows a journalist and her grandfather as they take a tour of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance Building in Woodlawn, Maryland. They see the archives where all information is kept, as well as the microfilm computer rooms were earnings reports and requests for social security are kept and processed. The United States Social Security Administration is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
0:19 two men in a workshop while one works on the boat, 0:44 one of the men’s granddaughter walks in and they talk, 2:03 the man and his journalist granddaughter climb into their Studebaker Lark and drive to the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance in Woodlawn, Maryland, 2:29 presented by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 2:43 “The Social Security Story”, 2:56 the woman and her grandfather pull up to the building, 3:28 they meet a receptionist and begin a tour, 4:02 the receptionist shows them a board showing how social security works, 4:25 map of the Social Security district offices being introduced, 5:28 overview of the archive where Social Security applications are placed, 6:22 an employee brings both of them their social security applications, 7:48 overview of microfilm archive, 7:57 employee looking up Social Security numbers on microfilm, 8:15 an earnings report, 8:42 women using typewriters to make earnings entries, 9:01 earning reports being transferred to punch cards, electronic tapes, and eventually a computer, 9:40 a paper tape request being fed into an IBM 7080 computer that probably dates to 1961. The tape drives are the IBM 729 units. 10:11 a woman transferring requests for earning statements into punch cards, 10:36 the tour finishes and they continue speaking to the receptionist, 11:17 the grandfather applies for benefits with a social security representative, 11:36 social security employees processing the grandpa’s request at the headquarters, 12:06 the grandfather receiving his Social Security check in the mail and speaking to his friend, 13:32 Produced by Milner Fenwick Inc.
Introduced in 1961, the IBM 7080 system, with several of the components of the system visible including IBM 7153 Console Control Unit with the IBM 7502 Console Card Reader, the IBM 729 Magnetic Tape Units, the IBM 7621-2 Tape Control unit, and the IBM 7102 Arithmetic and Logical Unit
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