The NYA trains youths for jobs. Describes modern industrial and agricultural machines (hay balers, threshers, reapers, etc.) which displace manpower. Unemployed youths loiter in hobo gangs. Boys receive training in the use of machine tools, carpentry, and auto mechanics at an NYA center. Girls are trained to cook and make dresses and to become beauticians (manicuring nails, setting hair, and applying facials).

National Archives Identifier: 37222

Local Identifier: 119.1

* Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. War Manpower Commission. Bureau of Training. National Youth Administration. (09/17/1942 - 01/01/1944) (Most Recent)

* From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled ca. 1937 - 1942

* Record Group 119: Records of the National Youth Administration, 1934 - 1945

Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

This item was produced or created: 1940

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: ca. 1937 - 1942

Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Sound Type: Sound

Accession Number(s): 1518

Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): Federal Security Agency. National Youth Administration. (07/01/1939 - 09/17/1942), Producer