View of spinning world globe. Faces of serious and brooding people in various parts of the world. Close-up views of faces of serious looking men. View of a crowd of people in France listening to a speaker on the street. The faces of people listening to the speaker. Next view shows what appears to be French police in the streets chasing a protest crowd and making it disperse. Next brief scene shows a crowd of people and police in China surrounding what appears to be a European man and pushing him along through a curtain-flanked doorway. A person holding a motion picture camera is among the jostling crowd. Insignia of the United Nations and flags of the member nations around the insignia. View of the UN headquarters (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) in New York City. Traffic on the road. A flag of the United States on a building. A banner reads "Association for Mental Health, First Annual Forum on Anxiety and Tension." A man speaks into a microphone. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen at the podium addressing the association. Members of the association sit on chairs. The scene changes to a quiet, tree-lined street in a town or suburb. A car parked on the road. A man rests in a backyard garden on a hammock. Contrasting scene shows a man come rushing and running out of his house, hastily putting on his suit jacket. He stops, remembers something and goes back in again, then comes out before getting in his 1950s sedan car and rushing away. In next scene the man in shirt and tie is seen rushing through his lunch at a restaurant, conducting business while eating and smoking a cigarette. View of a angry taxicab driver as he looks out his car window and shouts at stopped traffic. He steps from the car and shouts about traffic delays. Another man works with a pneumatic jack hammer. A man seated on a chair in his living room holds his head as his wife yells at him and berates her husband. She is seen shaking a finger at him and scolding him. View of his fingers tapping anxiously on the arm of the chair and finally make a fist. More scenes of the angry woman wagging her finger at the man in anger. A pair of white swans in mirror-like water. A white Polar bear in a hot cage at a zoo. A man looks at the tired bear and the man also rubs his own face, looking tired. A young boy pulls at the trousers of the man who is looking at the bear, to get his attention.
Preparation of Miltown tablets by Wallace Laboratories in the United States. (Miltown was the brand name for Meprobamate, the the first widely used psychotropic drug in America). A sign on a machine reads 'Miltown Tablets'. Powdered medicine mixed in a container in a medical laboratory. Containers with attached pipes in the factory. A man looks at the containers. Fine mixture in a container. A production machine from which powdered medicine comes out. Women wearing apron and gloves in a laboratory. They are filling the tablets or pills in the bottles. Empty bottles on a machine are being filled with tablets. The bottles are seen being packed. Cartons of the Miltown tablets on conveyor belts for shipment all over the world. A globe of the world rotates to illustrate the global distribution of the medicine.
In the 1960s, the Budd Company produced the Pioneer III electric m.u. coach for intercity travel. Here a prototype Pioneer III rail passenger car is seen, pushed by a Rail Diesel Car (RDC) as the locomotive power. People seated inside the train demonstrate size and comfort. (Mid-1950s automobiles seen parked at station where train arrives.) Engineers inspect the disc brake parts of the truck and a ventilator. The train is then pulled in the opposite direction by the RDC. Close up views of the train wheels near the tracks.
Poliomyelitis vaccine transported in the United States. Poliomyelitis vaccine displayed. Men put cartons of Poliomyelitis vaccine on a conveyor belt. A man pastes the labels on the cartons. A truck is being parked in front of a door. Two men lift up the door. A sign 'Barry' written on the truck. The cartons of the vaccine on the conveyor belt and on trolleys. A man opens the door where the medicines are kept. A man puts the packed cartons of Polio vaccine on a trolley.
Behind the scenes view of preparations for a press conference with the President in the United States. Photographers prepare to take pictures. The journalists gather in a hall for the press conference. The seal of the President of the United States. Men and women of the media sit and wait for the President.
U.S. soldiers on a Patton M-48 tank move forward in desert maneuvers in the United States. U.S. soldiers with a gun mounted on a tank. A soldier speaks over a radio. A soldier wearing helmet and headphones. Soldiers on tanks move forward. A tower in the foreground. Tanks parked in a line and soldiers around the tank. Tanks on sandy terrain. A soldier in a jeep speaks over a radio.
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