Berea College prepares students for life. Poverty and squalor of mining community people in Berea Kentucky in the United States. Houses in the mining community. Men work on coal mines. Horse drawn cart. Undernourished children fed by Quakers of the American Friends Service Committee. Children eat food served by the service committee. A district nurse work to prevent diseases in mining camp. A car in front of the hospital. Men sit on stairs. Nurse administers vaccinations or innoculations. She injects the people of mining community to prevent them from diseases.
Berea College prepares students for life. The graduates of Berea teach at a school in other coal town. Young children in class. A graduate from Berea teaches them. Students of the school play. School near railway track. Schools in larger community. A Berea trained officer and teacher talk. A modern hospital in mining town. Trained doctors stand outside the hospital, with sign over door that says "Doctor Stacy and Doctor Maw." Doctors treat a patient of mine accident.
Berea College prepares students for life. Graduates serve in many capacities throughout the country. They have achieved success in many areas. A woman welcomes everybody in her home. Men on a sofa talk. A woman on chair talks to them regarding some book. Mr A H Meese, a graduate from Berea is a superintendent of well known New Jersey Training School. Mrs Meese reads a book. Mr Meese comes and stands next to him and talks. Mr and Mrs Meese with their sons. Mr William D Embree a graduate and trustee. View of mountainous region. A mountain house.
Credits for the documentary titled 'Creative Hands' about mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. Background info about earlier handicrafts as an important part of civilization. Hands of a woman working on a wooden hand loom. An artisan sculpting a swan in clay. A person working clay on a potter's wheel. Scene change to New York City and busy areas of Manhattan, with pedestrians outside the Rockefeller Center in New York watching ice skaters. Women do window shopping. Crowd of people in a line outside a broadcast studio entrance in the RCA building. Marquee on the building advertises "Invasion Preview" and "Robert Benchley". Scene change again to farming areas in the mountains of southwest North Carolina. Animated map of United States. Wide views of farmland and a house in Brasstown North Carolina. Men cut a tree for lumber using a two man saw. Teacher at John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown helps farmer to develop creative ideas using local materials. A sign reads "John C Campbell Folk School Handcrafts." Farmers walk with their materials and are seen seated at a table of the school showing some of their handicrafts. They are taught creative ideas by the teacher.
Opening scene shows hands of a man, in overalls, as he sands a small wooden figure of a horse. Next, handicraft materials, including yarn and roughly cutout blocks of wood, are seen laid out on a table. The hands of a woman are seen as she marks with pencil where some further finishing is needed on a rough cutout wooden figure of a horse. Slate quotes a Brasstown worker about satisfaction from making something with your own hands.
Mountain handicrafts in North Carolina. A man uses discarded pieces of iron for some creative purpose. A man at a blacksmith shop uses creative ideas for making a candle stand. A man shapes a piece of iron with hammer. He gives it a shape of a flower. He melts the iron ring by burning it so that he can stick the joints. A melted iron rod is shaped. The parts made separately assembled. Various kind of candle stands.
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