Portion of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States.Opening scene shows first successful launch of an American Atlas ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 17, 1957. U.S. Astronaut, Alan B. Shepard emerging from the NASA Mercury Freedom 7 capsule on the deck of the USS Lake Champlain, after it was recovered from space flight in orbit and placed aboard the ship. Tape decks operating as part of an IBM early computer room. Machine controlled multiple drills in operation. Earth moving equipment at work on a construction site. Automatic equipment employed remotely in a hazardous environment. Robotic machine elements at work. Chemists in a laboratory. Remotely controlled devices handling radioactive materials in a radiation shielded space. A nuclear test explosion. Coal miners heading to work as they always have, with helmets including lights and their lunch pails. Children of the rural poor in a school yard with dirt paths in a rural area, possibly Appalachian. Automatic equipment speeding industrial production, but displacing unskilled workers. Highly trained technical workers in a company computer room. An older factory becoming obsolete. Large scale coal boring machinery seen boring in a mine, replacing the pick and shovel coal miner of the past. Automated farm machinery replacing the old-time farm hand.
A segment of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. Film begins with actor portraying a man who ostensibly invents a sewing machine but destroys it after considering its impact on the employment of hand seamstresses. Cartoon illustrations show early 19th Century textile worker followers of "King Ludd" (Luddites) in England who destroyed weaving machinery for fear it would replace them in the industry. Current views of Men at work with technical apparatus. Modest homes in a semi-rural setting in America, where people ostensibly replaced by machines or who for lack of training and education are shown as unemployed, and idle. .
Psychological warfare (Psy War) program in Saigon, Vietnam. Various buildings at a Psychological Warfare School. A flag in front of the school building. Students walk in the campus. The entrance of the school.
Psychological Warfare (Psy War) program in Saigon, Vietnam. Students seated in a classroom. They ask questions and take notes in the classroom. An officer at a podium speaks into a microphone. Posters in the background.
Psychological warfare (Psy War) program in Saigon, Vietnam. Officers of a school seated around a table during a meeting . Major Norman R. Nellis, Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) advisor attends the meeting. They start their discussion. An officer gets up from the table, goes to the front of the room and speaks to the group.
Psychological warfare (Psy War) program in Saigon, Vietnam. Students seated on benches in a classroom. An instructor gives them a lecture on the operation of a generator. The generator is kept in the center and the students stand around it. The instructor explains to them the operation. He points out at different parts and students make notes. They draw a sketch in their notebook and look at the functioning of the generator.