Several passenger airplanes parked at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and views of passengers waiting inside the terminal building. People in early 1970s fashions. Views of an aircraft taking off. Exterior of the JFK airport, interior of a flight control room in the control tower with air traffic controllers at work Passengers in U.S. customs processing area. Terminal buildings of the JFK airport. Planes taking off and planes landing at the airport. TWA and Pan American airplanes seen among various aircraft. Passengers greeting family and friends with smiles. Sign boards (some electronic and some mechanical flipping signboards) show arrival and departure information.
Point of view (POV) shot from a moving vehicle, shows an upward view of palm trees lining a road in Los Angeles, California. View changes to show houses along the street, still from the moving vehicle. 1970's cars parked in front of houses, on sides of road, and a few cars passing in opposite direction.
The Captain of the crew of U.S. Navy FBM (Fleet Ballistic Missile) submarine USS Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631) looks into periscope. He passes it to another member of the crew. Submarine surfacing and good view of it as it emerges to surface of water. People on shore in Charleston, South Carolina, waiting to greet the returning submarine. Women have babies in strollers or trolleys near the docks. Sailors departing submarine in port at Charleston greet their wives, children, and other family members. Arriving Navy sailors hug and kiss wives and children and families. Views of women and children in typical late 1960s and early 1970s fashions. A sailor with last name Velotta holds a baby. U.S. flag fluttering in the wind in background. Variety of mostly late 1960s cars parked near docks. Family gets into their car. 1960s convertible sedan driving through suburban neighborhood. Homes along the streets of the neighborhood in the suburbs. The car pulls into the family driveway. Sailor, his wife, and their boy and girl children get out of the car to go into the house. Naval Submarine Crewman and his wife come out of a car at their home.
Animation introduces five African American artists. Segment focuses on sculptures by Barbara Chase Riboud. Barbara drives a car on roads of Paris, France. Views of traffic in traffic circles, fountains, and landmark buildings of city of Paris in the early 1970s. Many cars and buses on road. Barbara comes out of a shop "Nickel Chrome" and talks to a man who has finished polishing one of her works of art. Barbara at a room takes out her coat. Various sculptures in the room. Barbara works on a sculpture and shapes it. Barbara stands near a furnace. Two men work with molten and hot iron. Barbara picks up her two children from a bilingual international school of Paris. Children sit in car. Barbara at her sculpture workshop. She walks in it. She examines sculptures.
Video about famous African American collagist, artist Romare Bearden, in New York. View of 1970s car and truck traffic on Canal Street at lower east side intersection of Canal Street and Broadway in New York City. A man walking to the apartment of Romare Bearden. Sign on mailbox reads "Romare Bearden and Rohan, Top Floor". View of an African American painter and sculptor walking on city streets and then heading toward the Cinque Gallery of art at 20 West 72nd Street in New York City. Romare Bearden with people at the Cinque Gallery displaying the works of the artist. People look at the man's paintings and sculpture. Romare tells of his time as a young artist trying to get started in the Great Depression. Still images of unemployed men in a line. Views of other artists and writers Bearden would work with and share studio space including Jacob Lawrence and Claude McKay and Charles Alston. Group picture of the a group of African American artists and intellectuals of the time who knew each other. Bearden with his wife, the dancer Nanette Bearden, at his home studio. Mrs. Bearden brings him a drink and sits and watches Romare Bearden work on a collage. Close-up views of a collage that Bearden is working on, which focuses on themes of the African American experience.
Crowd outside assembly building where International Woman's Year conference is held. View of conference emblem. Women gathered up and talking. Various views of women arriving by cars (1960's and 1970's era cars and automobiles) for the conference and walking up the steps of assembly building.