Film titled 'Social Class in America' about factors influencing vertical social mobility in United States. Newborn babies in nursery at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Three babies are introduced named Guilford Ames, Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper, middle and lower). Different roles are shown for the husband and father in each family. Father of the upper class boy is a business man wearing a suit, shown working at his executive desk with a woman secretary seated nearby taking notes. Father of the middle class boy shown doing book keeping at his office. Father of the lower class boy is shown working as an unskilled worker, pours liquid from a bucket at a factory. Exterior views of the houses for the different family types is shown, including an estate, a single family home, and a row house.
Training film about factors influencing vertical social mobility and class in the United States. Shows classic 1950s roles of husbands, wives (as homemaker or housewife) and children growing up in the family. Three boys named Guilford Ames,Theodore Eastwood and David Benton from different classes (upper class, middle class, and lower class) in Madison, New Jersey. Families of various races gather at the viewing window of a hospital nursery. Babies in cribs seen in the nursery. Three boys stop in front of Madison High School to converse following their graduation. Their parents greet each other as well. Scenes of boys at home after graduation. First, the boy from the upper class, Guilford, speaks to his parents in their living room, with a maid present. Middle class boy, Ted, at the dinner table with his parents and sister. Lower class boy, Dave, with extended family to celebrate graduation. Dave pumps gas at an Amoco gasoline station. He wears a white t-shirt and baseball cap. "Amoco no lead" is seen on the gas pump or petrol pump. Guilford, dressed in a suit and driving a 1956 Cadillac, pulls into the Amoco service station and talks to Dave. At his father's office, Guilford shakes hands with Ted. Ted in a suit walks in downtown Madison, New Jersey while thinking. In New York, Ted works at the art department in an advertising firm. Ted draws an advertisement for a refrigerator at his desk. A door with a sign on it, "Art Department, Theodore Eastwood, Director" Ted with other men at a golf course wearing latest mens golf fashions. Ted tees off at the golf course. Ted arrives home at the Convent Station, New Jersey railroad station. Many 1950s American automobiles seen in the car parking lot. He talks to a woman sitting in a convertible and to her husband, Guilford. At the Amoco gas station in Madison, Dave, now dressed in a mechanic's coveralls, shakes Teds hand. Close up of identification card for a baby at a hospital. The card reads "Benton Baby" and has an image of a stork on it. Nurse takes baby from mother in a hospital bed and puts the baby in a crib. She rolls the baby crib into the hospital nursery.
Scenes of U.S. Strategic Air Command Minuteman Missile Security Police at work in missile bases at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls. Montans, Minot AFB, North Dakota, Elsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota, Francis E. Warren AFB. Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Whiteman AFB, Missouri. An armed Air Force Security policeman walks past a parked B-52 bomber. Air Force film "Missile Guardians, SAC's Minutemen Security Police." Animated description of Missile Control Facilities. Missile Combat Officer opens 8 ton blast resistant door of facility. Interior of Launch Center with Officer at duty station. Safe (Red) containing missile launch keys. View of missile location, showing fence and intrusion detection radar antenna. Access cover, above missile, with seismic alarm system and combination lock. Security Police Controller in his office. Security alert team is summoned to respond to intrusion alarm. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Security Forces from 90th Security Police Squadron on duty with Minuteman missile system at Francis E. Warren AFB, Cheyenne Wy. Board reads 9Oth SPS Armory. Two-man Security team checkout M-16 rifle and sidearm weapons from issuing window, and head out on their assigned patrol. Other Security police muster for inspection and instructions at the start of their duty period. Insignia of SAC on wall in room. African American officer conducts briefing with team members. Teams are dispatched to inspect security at Minuteman launch facility including some outer zone radars. Guards on standby can watch television, read books and study. View of Security team sleeping quarters in launch facility. A cook preparing a meal. A team responds in a truck, to a possible intrusion. Snow on the ground. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Camper Alert Team vehicles of the SAC Minutemen Missile Security Police are parked in a llne at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming. They are ready to be dispatched with Security Police teams to protect missile launch sites, for as long as necessary. Launch Facility topside with security forces member seen from outside the fence with launcher closure in foreground. Interiors of camper van. Sleeping bed, refrigerator and stove in van. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
Security system and procedures for access to unmanned Minuteman Missile sites of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). Shown are procedures used by Security escort accompanying a maintenance team to a site. View of soldier typing on a typewriter and answering phone at the security dispatch office. The security form, called the 'pre-dispatch security notification' is shown. Military escort receiving codes on a card given to him at the dispatch window is also issued and M-16 rifle with 54 rounds. The military escort, dressed in a winter parka, shows that he knows the lock combination using a simulated lock at the dispatch desk. A separate detail goes through similar measures at a separate dispatch desk. Map shows radio check points that will be used by the escort during the missile maintenance activity. Green M1 Dodge truck driving in the desert to missile silo site. Military escort and maintenance crew dressed in winter coats arrive at chain link fence surrounding missile silo in the desert. They unlock the chain link fence gate. They open ground level security hatch. Soldier at missile command answers phone call from them and authorizes. Close up of combination lock set into the ground of the missile silo. Guard unlocks the combination lock and lifts the tube door cover out of the ground. Soldier wearing winter parka with M16 rifle watches as men open hatches to missile silo and descend into silo to perform maintenance. After procedure, men get into the back of the military truck and leave the missile area. Aerial view of minuteman missile site. (Note: Narrated by Kemal Amen "Casey" Kasem)
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