Scientists determine nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Conscripts receive medical examination by an army doctor before going into the U.S. Army. The new recruits holding documents waiting in a queue for their turn to be weighed on a scale. An officer seated at a table. Two military draftees talking. Members of a U.S. Army Combat Service Support Branch, the Quartermaster Corps, cutting meat for preparation. A table set for soldiers with tea cups arranged and fruits in the center. The soldiers seated at tables and having food. Quartermaster Corps serving the soldiers. Scientists in a laboratory studying food that will impart energy, strength, and improved performance to the soldiers. A soldier seated at a table and a member of the Quartermaster Corps measuring out rice into a bowl that a soldier would have to have to provide the same nutrition as in his military rations. Dr. Ansel Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota, seated at a table and vitamins kept on the table for the soldiers. Narrator mentions that the German military supposedly has a super man vitamin pill. Doctor dispenses vitamins from a box. Doctor measures the strength of a soldier who has been taking vitamins. Doctor gives a soldier more vitamin pills. Two seated soldiers open tins of vitamin pills. Soldiers sleeping in a room maintained at a certain high temperature during an experiment to determine what foods are best for various climates. Soldiers carrying rifles walking on a treadmill. The amount of perspiration is measured.
A film dramatizes the life of civilians under German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's totalitarian government. Dead bodies of German civilians who joined the army during World War II. Graves of German soldiers. Two men seated on a bench talk. One of them says to the other that they do have freedom no matter even if they are a minority group. He talks about dignity of the individual.
A northbound Detroit,Toledo,and Ironton train is taking on coal in Bainbridge,Ohio. The train continues north across the twin-span Paint Creek Bridge,then through the single span over Buckskin Creek. The railroad crosses route 41 and Buckskin creek again, below Fruitdale,and then on to Thrifton. Here the railroad crosses under the Baltimore and Ohio, this underpass is known as "Hole-in-the Wall". The two story depot that once served both railroads can be seen.The train again crosses Paint Creek at Greenfield,then continues past Island Grove,north of town.
Display of model form of NASA Mariner 5 in California. Scientists gather at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They receive and analyze data from the actual Mariner 5 Venus probe space vehicle which differs from Soviet findings. Display of the model form of Mariner 5. Narrator indicates that Mariner 5 evaluates radioactivity and the potential of man landing on Venus.
Paper print. Early illusory motion picture, from turn of 20th century. Depicts a man pedalling a flying machine above scenes of New York City. Bridges of New York City are recognizable in the images below the man, including the Brooklyn Bridge. The man and machine appear to fall down at end of scene.
Paper print. Early motion picture from turn of 20th century. A dramatization depicts: Men and women stand on a path as a policeman apprehends a man. Buildings in the background. A woman materializes in a room with two men. A man and a woman seated in a room. He points at the clock which shows time is past midnight. A policeman enters the room and arrests their daughter. The mother pleads with the policeman. Outside, two masked men place a ladder against the house and run away. A policeman sees the ladder and looks up. Inside the house the man starts to turn out the light when a woman jumps up and he and she both point pistols at each other but realize their mistake. Outside, police hold two escaped convicts in striped prison garb, as several women and a man look on.
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