Students at the University of California in California, United States. A student of an apparel designing course at the university. The student designs a dress. A teacher adjusts a dress designed by students on a mannequin. Students display dresses designed by them. Models in fashion show display different clothing styles of evening gowns, swimming suits and bridal gowns.
Private Thomas Eugene Atkins being presented a farm in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Winner of the Congressional Medal Thomas Atkins is presented a new farm by townsfolk. Thomas Atkins and his wife enter the house and look out of a window. Food being served to the guests. Atkins and his wife eat.
View of an electric locomotive called "the Virginian" moving along a track in Mullens, West Virginia. Several buildings seen and snow in background. Slate states that the "Virginian" has three motive power units developing 9,000 horsepower. Electric pickup apparatus can be seen on top of locomotive and electric poles alongside the railroad tracks.
Newsreel entitled "Babe Gets a New Bat." Shows American baseball legend Babe Ruth playing golf at a St. Petersburg Florida golf course in 1930 with his wife, the former Claire Hodgson. The couple exit clubhouse with unidentified man; pose for camera on a breezy, sunny day; Claire holds up flowers for Babe to smell; Babe takes first shot while others in the background watch; the Ruths walk across golf course. (NOTE: St. Petersburg was where Ruth's team, the New York Yankees, held spring training most of the time between 1925 and 1960.)
A film on the manufacture and uses of M-3 medium tanks in the United States. The headquarters of the armored forces of the nation at Fort Knox in Kentucky. A sign board reads: "U.S. Military Reservation, Danger, Keep Out, Range firing in this area Unauthorized persons entering this area, do so at their own risk, By order of the Commanding General." Soldiers aboard tanks. The tanks move on the practice fields. A tower in the background. Smoke rises as the tanks fire. A ship in a harbor. Tanks loaded aboard the ship. Men work. The ship underway. (World War II period).
“Operation New Arrivals,” in 1975, at Eglin Air Force Base Vietnamese Refugee Center. Opening scene shows closeup of a clown in costume, standing among some Vietnamese refugee children who are gathered outdoors at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Closeup of two boys sitting on folding metal chairs, eating ice cream popsicles. Many more closeups of children eating their popsicles. Next the children are seen seated in chairs, applauding for some kind of entertainment. Camera then shows the aforementioned clown, in front of the children, shaking hands with some of them. He then fashions some balloons into the shape of a bunny rabbit and gives it to a small child.
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