Designed and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Fuller) walks through woods and gets aboard a boat. Architectural design of his Geodesic dome. Children get out of his futuristic Dymaxion car invention. Architects reject the Dymaxion houses. Bucky Fuller gives lecture to students in Alaska about his designs and theories. Students take pictures.
Infra code technique for assisting the deaf and hearing impaired. During an early training, the amplifier is held by a boy and headset blocks from unwanted vibrations. The instructor speaks into device and the boy replies on hearing. Woman instructor places hand in front of her mouth to prevent the boy from lip reading, and the boy is still successful as he repeats a word spoken by the instructor after he hears it . A woman Janet Marson, who is 85% deaf, is shown. She leads a normal and active life as a laboratory technician. She gets into her early 1970's red Volkswagen Beetle and drives the car. She is shown in a laboratory where she works, conversing with a colleague as she weighs a test mouse on a scale, and as she answers a telephone call and takes notes during the call. She can hear impulses from 60 feet away. Board on door reads 'Infra Code Center for Hearing and Speech'. Using the Infra Code device, men and children improve their hearing and speech skills.
Greyhound bus with young Americans, travel to various cities. Boys and girls dressed in costumes sing and dance on stage. Boy plays instrument. Young Americans seated inside Greyhound bus. On reaching destination they unload luggage from the bus. Young Americans rehearse and get ready for performance. They mingle and exchange ideas with students of local schools. As spectators watch, young Americans dressed in costumes sing and dance on stage.
Film "Its What You Make It" promoting work and lifestyle for military personnel working in the Washington DC area. Clip opens with an aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, near Washington DC, headquarters for the U.S. Military Army, Navy, and Air Force branches. Cars parked in the foreground. Officers and women walk up the stairs of Pentagon. Civilian and military coats hang on coat rack. Military and civilian personnel perform clerical duties in the Pentagon. Personnel gathered around a Pentagon conference table. Flags of many nations in the background. Lieutenant General E.O. Donnell Jr, United States Air Force speaks at his desk.
A female Air Force service member walks up to a IBM Card Sorter with a stack of punch cards. She loads the card sorting machine and presses the start button. Early computing punch cards fall into various slots. She transcribes information from these cards and hands forms to officer at a desk. Sergeant sitting at desk, talks to an Airman. View of U.S. Capitol building and Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Tourists look at Lincoln statue in LIncoln Memorial. View of National Mall and reflecting pool. Man takes picture of woman with Washington Monument in the background. View of the Jefferson Memorial, and then across the river in Arlington Virginia, a view of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Airman stands in front of church. Close up views of 1953 license plates on cars from various states including California, Wyoming, Iowa, Texas, Tennessee, and the Canal Zone. View of various embassy buildings in Washington DC. View of the White House. Large crowd of visitors walk down the North entrance drive in front of the White House. U.S. military servicemen riding in a bus. Bus stops at drop off area in front of Mount Vernon, home of George Washington, in Alexandria, Virginia. Sign board reads "Mount Vernon Home of George Washington." Service members touring on grounds of Mount Vernon, and exterior views of front of main house at Mount Vernon, with service members seated on chair on porch, and looking out at the scenic Potomac River from the porch. View of information center building at Bolling Air Force Base, and a woman inside giving information on sight-seeing to service members. Military service members standing outside the entrance at the base of the Washington Monument. Wide view of Supreme Court building. Another sign board reads "National Zoological Park" in front of the National Zoo. Tourists view a giraffe inside the Washington Zoo. 1950s car drives through shallow water cascading over road in Rock Creek Parkway area. Elevated view of a parade in Washington DC as military units pass in review.
Sign board on an entrance building reads 'Bolling Air Force Base' in Washington DC. B-26 Marauder aircraft, B-25 Bombers and other aircraft parked at Bolling field. Maintenance crew works on engine of aircraft. Aircraft C-24 taxiing up toward alert crew member waving. Administrative personnel work at their desks. An early business machine automatically printing a piece of paper, with print unit moving up and down in front of paper. Airman boards a boat that serves as a ferry between Bolling Air Force base harbor and the Pentagon. Dental check up of an airman in dental clinic. Sign board reads 'Bolling Air Force Directory'. View of Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as seen from a moving boat on the Potomac River, near the Memorial Bridge. The Jefferson Memorial. Federal buildings in Washington DC.
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