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Japanese American travelers being stopped on a highway, and having their belongings searched during World War II.
Several trucks and automobiles carrying Japanese-Americans citizens are stopped and directed to the side of a highway, where policemen search their personal baggage (during time in World War 2 when the U.S. government was sending many Japanese-American citizens to internment camps or relocation centers). Police officers being directed by officials in civilian clothes, search open suitcases and other containers of clothing and personal items, laid out on the pavement. The Japanese American owners repack their suitcases after they are searched. One truck open stake truck is carrying many items of luggage and clothing rolled up and tied. These are all off-loaded and spread out on the pavement for search. A Japanese American woman stands near a 1937 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, in which children are seen looking out from the back seat. The woman helps a man roll up a bundle of clothes, as a uniformed policeman, nearby, searches another one. The woman and and two men repackage and tie the bundle with cord, as a policemen looks in the car trunk. More views of Japanese Americans with their luggage laid out on the pavement being searched. One woman has belongings tied up in a cardboard box labeled: "Sunland Biscuit Company, Los Angeles & San Francisco." Under direction of a civilian official holding a walkie talkie telephone, a policeman helps people load their belongings into an open truck after they have been searched.
Various tests conducted at Wright Air Development Center in Ohio, United States.
A graph shows an ever increasing speed of aircraft year after year. In 1937 speed was 250 Knots and it rises to 600 Knots in 1948. United States F-84 undergoes some tests in a wind tunnel at Wright air Development Center in Ohio, United States. Main control panel inside the wind tunnel. A man wearing headset works on throttles. An engineer checks the main test panel. Engine fire test conducted as flames start to pour through ports.
Men and women aboard the trim steamer ship SS Potlatch in Hood Canal region near Puget Sound of Washington state, United States
Various landmarks in Hood Canal region in Washington, United States. Women on deck of the trim steamer ship S.S. Potlatch (active 1912-1917; scrapped 1937). View from ship of wooded shoreline areas in Hood Canal. Men and women aboard the ferry ship. Homes, dock areas are seen. Wooded shoreline in the background. Snow covered mountains of the Olympic Peninsula in the background, including Mount Olympus. A row boat approaches the ship. Views from ship as it heads northward through the Puget Sound to the San Juan Islands. Close views of the San Juan Islands shorelines seen from the moving S.S. Potlatch.
Views of mountain slopes, clouds, trees, children picking flowers in a mountainous area
Narrated feature about human curiosity and basic science. Sunlight glistens on snow-covered mountain edge. Trees on a mountain side. Girl in a hat runs along a mountain slope, beside melting snow fields, picking early spring flowers and putting them in a wicker basket. A boy plucks a flower and examines it with a magnifying glass.
Actors portray discovery of Microscopic lens and rabies vaccine
Narrated feature about scientific discoveries and applications of the microscope. Actors portraying invention of microscope in Delft Holland. Actor grinds and polishes a lens. He looks through the microscopic lens at a drop of water and discovers minute living organisms. Actor portraying French chemist Louis Pasteur studies the microscopic forms of life found in the solution of ferment. He discovers that heat kills germs. Men ferment wine. Discussion of pasteurization, vaccinations, and Pasteur. Herd of sheep grazing. Boy contaminated with rabies comes to Dr Louis Pasteur. Boy bitten by a dog. He discovers a vaccine for the deadly rabies and gives it to the boy.
Lessons from microscopic science lead to advances in antiseptic surgery, pasteurization, and vaccinations.
1930s narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. View of a microscope. Chemist or scientist looks through a microscope in laboratory. Microscopic view of the living organisms. Milk pasteurized by heated coils in large drums. Milk graded with pasteurization label. Boy drinks a glass of milk. Narrator describes milk as "the most valuable of all our foods for health." Sterilization techniques introduced in surgical operations: Doctor Joseph Lister of London (dramatized by an actor) shown with a spray can administering a "poison spray" to kill germs and disinfect a surgical or operating theatre. Surgeon performs antiseptic surgery on patient. Surgeon sterilizes the instruments to be used in an operation by pouring carbolic acid solution over them. View of operating instruments being removed from a heated steam chamber used to kill germs on the instruments. Doctors performing a surgery. Dramatized scenes of a doctor arriving at a home in Berlin to treat a girl suffering from Diphtheria. View of sick girl in a bed, through an outside window with snow falling, and the girl's mother and a nurse assisting her. The doctor gives the girl a diphtheria inoculation. Girl is shown recovered and walks outside of her home and gives a hug to her mother. Public vaccination clinics: Young children, including a young boy and an infant, receiving immunizations in a doctors office.