'Faces of America' depicting life in the United States. View of grasslands or plains and a tractor pulling equipment near bales of hay. Scene changes to a building under construction just outside an urban area, with city skyline in background. Workers high atop steel girders. Fisherman at a dock raises his catch of oysters or clams in nets up a rope to the dock. Man golfing tees off. Two girls sitting in grass beside a building and enjoying a soda pop from a bottle. A man painting a building. Woman talking on a pay phone along a city street. A smiling African American man in a suit. A cowboy wearing hat and sunglasses. Rapid montage of people of various races including white, African American, Latino, various ethnic backgrounds, and ages, including children and adults and elderly people in the United States. Elderly, thin man farmer in overalls smokes a cigarette. Blond haired girl blowing up a pink balloon. Business man talking on telephone in office. Boy on Native American Indian reservation. Man ponders paperwork in his lap, as a woman plays with an infant in background on a ground-level bed in an apartment. Men and women walking and talking together among trees and on city streets. Angry people shouting and waving hands. Concerned and sad people being consoled as a person on a stretcher is loaded into emergency ambulance. Man consoles a sad elderly woman. Woman laying across park bench.
People pass time in America by reading books, weaving pullovers, watching television. Woman seated at the base of a statue in an American city. 1960's cars and a buses in background. A man seated in a library reading at a table with book shelves behind. Men in a park playing board games; one smoking a cigar. Group of people lined up on a city street; pan of camera in close view across faces of American people of varying backgrounds, races, ages, and nationalities. A couple sitting in their living room on rocking chairs watching television. The man smokes a pipe while the woman knits. An African American family on the porch of a house near a road side in the rural south.
Scenes of monument, park and heritage sites in America. A family at a campsite cooking food on portable stoves atop picnic table. Woman and young girl looking at carved faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty and an African American woman taking a picture on the island. Woman with handheld movie camera filming at an overlook of the Grand Canyon. Old man paints a picturesque view beside a seaside town with small boats nearby. Men fishing from rocks on shore with Golden Gate Bridge in background, in San Francisco.
African American man fishing in a small pond from a simple wooden dug out canoe. A boy on shore of a large lake as three women pass by on water skis pulled by a high speed motor boat. Group of young men surfing along a beach. A family in a wooden motor boat enjoying a ride and a person parasailing. Divers diving from diving boards at a swimming pool.
Americans indulge in a variety of sports. Men enjoy recreational parachuting; various parachutes of different colors seen. Teams playing a game of football on a field in Washington DC with the White House in the background. Female riders on horses at a horse racing or equestrian event. Cowboy places saddle on a horse near a ranch in the west or southwest. Teenage girls saddle horses and clean their horses. People watching a motorcycle motocross race. A family riding horses in a desert with cactus and rock formations nearby. People taking scooter and bicycle rides, including 3 people on one moped or motor scooter. Man in a suit rides a moped in a city. Children riding a bicycle.
A man and a boy ride together on a tandem bicycle along a road with a beach in the background. A woman riding a motorcycle on a city street. A man riding an antique Penyy Farthing bicycle with a large front wheel and small back wheel. Two boys riding a bicycle. One of the boys sits atop a silver food delivery box in front of the bike, with writing, "Arturo's 106 W. Houston Street, CH-25315" (from Arturo's Pizzeria in Greenwich Village, New York City). Two people biking through a lot of recreational vehicle homes with a expansive desert landscape in the backround. Boys play baseball and children on swings with their parents watching them. Two of they kids are twin boys, dressed identically, and swinging on the swings in the same rhythm. A boy on a tire swing that hangs from a large tree. Boys huddled on a sidewalk playing a game. Camera angle widens and reveals they are in a ridge-top neighborhood with a large industrial factory belching smoke and pollution into the sky in the background. People entering a church on an Autumn day with blue sky and trees with golden leaves changing color for fall. Male teacher in classroom lecturing at a blackboard. Students appear to be older high school or early college age. Various people seated at desks in an office working, and separately a view of equipment and people working in a laboratory. A man seated at a microscope. 1965.
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