A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. A well dressed man, with a suitcase in hand, walking on a desolated road. A car passes. Man reaches railway station, crosses railway tracks. A moving train is seen. Interior of train, man seated with other passengers. A uniformed ticket checker comes and checks man's ticket along with others. A busy city street is shown. Man approaches a machinist's shop named 'George Durand Machinist'. (World War II period).
Southbury Training School in Connecticut, opened in 1940 and imparts trade knowledge to mentally disabled persons. Narrator mentions Dr. Grover Powers, pediatrician on the faculty of Yale Medical School and charter member of the Southbury Board of Directors. A person walks in snow covered mountains. A sign reads 'Southbury Training School'. Exterior of the training school. The school aims to keep in mind the potential not the limit of the mentally disabled. Southbury employs a concept of "Cottage parents." Cottage parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson converse with Cottage Life Director, Gary Thorne . People move in groups. Two women look at rows of dresses. A man cuts hair. A person works on a shoe. Close view of an orthopedic shoe and a giant shoe. Several mentally disabled women work on sewing machines. A distinguished gentleman speaks with a paper in his hand. Another man speaks from behind his desk. Front of Southbury Training School with the American Flag near it.
Documentary depicts the visit of Ivory Coast President Houphouet Boigny and his wife to the United States. Afternoon tea in the honor of the Ivory Coast President at the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C. Legislative leaders seated around the table. The visitors from Ivory Cost at the railway station. They board a special train. The soldiers salute. The train leaves the station and Houphouet Boigny looks out from the window of the train. The train passes over a bridge. Cars move on a road. Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Ivory Coast President Houphouet Boigny and members look at the Liberty Bell in Philladerlphia.
A railroad train being pulled by a U.S. Army Alco S-2 locomotive, immediately followed by an Alaska Railroad ventilated refrigerator car and several other freight cars. The ground is snow-covered. A tall power pole is seen beside the track. Another take shows train stopped for a soldier, dressed in cold weather gear, who climbs aboard the locomotive. The train begins moving while he is on the steps. The freight cars in the train are seen to display Alaska Railroad labels. A flat car carries shipping containers.
350 Polish refugees leave Tehran for Palestine at the Tehran railroad station. Train engine at the platform. A crewman stands on its gate. Refugees wave hands and bid goodbye to their friends and relatives. Pull cars of the train move ahead. Cargo cars at the end of train. Four Army cameramen pose before the camera after the train passes on.
5 people dead and 20 hurt in head on crash of passenger trains. Wrecked train cars seen after two Central of Georgia passenger trains ran into each other near a swampland curve of Ogeechee, Georgia. The accident killed five crew members due to explosion of boilers and twenty others were hurt. Rail cars and twisted metal seen at the site of the collision. Executive cars seen on their sides, one with a large hole in the rear side. A Central of Georgia crane loads train wreckage into a waiting Central of Georgia open railroad car.
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