Action Research programs for the mentally disabled. Programs to increase muscle coordination and motor control. A handicapped boy walks back and forth on a strip of wood kept between two rows of chairs. A woman standing nearby observes. Mentally disabled children in wheelchairs play with a ball around a table. A blue doormat on a floor. Mentally disabled children in their wheelchairs go around it. A man assembles a machine. Another man sitting nearby watches him. A mentally disabled boy drives a vehicle. A mentally disabled woman washes hair of another woman in a salon. Mr James R Lent, Research Assistant at Parsons Research Center, Kansas talks about a program to help the mentally disabled to appear normal. In front of a mirror an instructor arranges rollers in the hair of a girl. Mr Lent points at the blackboard behind him and explains about the program. A woman teaches a mentally disabled girl to iron. A sample book on a stand in front of the instructor. Mr Lent shows a sample book. Several mentally disabled children stand in a row near a wall. A researcher near them. Debra near a plunger machine. The needle of the machine records on a paper. Close view of machine.
Language acquisition in mentally disabled in the United States. Robert T Fulton, Director of Research, Parsons Research Center, Parsons, Kansas, United States talks about concept development in the mentally disabled. A man looks as images appear on a screen. A mentally disabled child near a machine. A boy helps him. During the language acquisition program a woman shows cards to mentally disabled children and asks them about the cards. Pictures appear on a screen. A woman helps a child as he recognizes the pictures.
Mix of period footage circa 1910, retrospective interviews in 1975, and some still images. European immigration in bad travel conditions to America. View from rail on deck of a ship in heavy seas. An elderly European immigrant recalls his experiences of the journey on ship to America. Ship in Atlantic Ocean. Picture of European immigrants on ship deck. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Early 1900s period footage of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and disembarking from ship, then walking with luggage for processing at Ellis Island. Some immigrants peer across New York Harbor at the skyline of New York city. Scene change to 1975 and views of interiors of a no longer used building in Ellis Island. Names of persons carved on walls. A man shares his experience as an immigrant passing through Ellis Island, and then as an immigration inspector reviewing new immigrants as they arrived.
A basketball match between Indiana Hoosiers and Kansas Jayhawks for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) crown being held in Kansas City, United States. A crowd in a stadium. A banner reads: 'Kansas NCAA Champs'. The match in progress. Kansas’ Dean Kelley takes the ball. The crowd cheers and applauds. Indiana wins the match.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman speaks at the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Kansas City School of Law at the University of Kansas City (5000 Holmes St, Kansas City, MO 64110, United States), during his first homecoming to Kansas City since becoming President. President Truman behind a rostrum with a sign on it that reads 'University of Kansas City'. The President seated in a chair at the ceremony before speaking. Men and women among the audience. The President at the rostrum addressing the audience.
European immigration to America from 1880 to 1914. Elderly European immigrants recall their experiences to interviewers in 1975, between montages of still photo images circa 1900: Pictures of immigrants after they reach America. Faces of immigrants with sad look. Old men with long beards. Large number of immigrants waiting for immigration check at Ellis Island. Immigrants walk with heavy luggage and crying children. Immigrants seek passage. Special officers hired to communicate with immigrants easily.
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