Humor and comic footage of a fat man wearing a party hat, playing a child's drum. He sings a patriotic song and wipes tears from his eyes. The fat man smiles for the camera.
Robert Parson, designer of 4X4 Parson's Cube demonstrates its use. The Parson's Cube is made of seven parts which combines to make arrangements for eating, studying, entertaining and sleeping.
Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Fuller) walks through woods and gets aboard a boat. Architectural design of his Geodesic dome. Children get out of Dymaxion car. Architects reject the Dymaxion houses. Bucky Fuller gives lecture to students in Alaska. Students take pictures.
Infra code technique for assisting the deaf and hearing impaired. During an early training, the amplifier is held by a boy and headset blocks from unwanted vibrations. The instructor speaks into device and the boy replies on hearing. Woman instructor places hand in front of her mouth to prevent the boy from lip reading, and the boy is still successful as he repeats a word spoken by the instructor after he hears it . A woman Janet Marson, who is 85% deaf, is shown. She leads a normal and active life as a laboratory technician. She gets into her early 1970's red Volkswagen Beetle and drives the car. She is shown in a laboratory where she works, conversing with a colleague as she weighs a test mouse on a scale, and as she answers a telephone call and takes notes during the call. She can hear impulses from 60 feet away. Board on door reads 'Infra Code Center for Hearing and Speech'. Using the Infra Code device, men and children improve their hearing and speech skills.
U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Brennan, DE-13,underway. U.S. navy crew aboard the ship. View at shipbuilding area of Bethlehem Steel in Quincy, Massachusetts. Keel is laid and shipbuilders busy on day 60 of construction of DE-677, the USS Frament. Scenes of construction. Welding steel plate. DE-677 is christened USS Frament and launched on June 28, 1943. Destroyer Escorts at pier, being fitted out. New ship's crew assembled on pier and boards for shakedown cruise. Supplies and munitions loaded on board the ship, including ammunition, depth charges, and torpedoes ("tin fish").
Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
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