Title Slate reads: "Science and Engineering." This is followed by World War II scenes of American industrial sites, including some dominated by smoke stacks and railroad connections. Men are seen walking at a major shipping port where ships are being loaded and unloaded by large cranes. Sign above one building reads:"Ford." Views inside that plant of ford automobiles being assembled. Mechanics climb a ladder to access a Douglas DC-3 transport plane parked outside a hangar. View of aircraft radial engines being worked on inside a manufacturing plant. young men working in a machine shop are described by narrator, as "Students." and notes that they are engaged in a work-study program that shifted toward the defense industry during World War 2. A member of the Antioch faculty is seen working with a student at a drafting table in a war plant. Closeup of an engine part design on the drafting table. Antioch student, Norman Lawson, works fabricating a giant searchlight for use in the war. He turns the light on to test it. Other students are seen working in a chemistry laboratory, using typical glass equipment and precise balances. A student is seen pouring molten material from a furnace into a crucible. Views of dials being adjusted and belt-driven machinery. A student operating a drill press in a machine shop. A glimpse of the Antioch College campus. A group of students engaged in discussions in their dormitory. Several first year students in a journalism class. Students in an accounting class. View of Antioch's Science building, donated by Charles Kettering (Head of Research at General Motors Corporation), who is pictured. Students conducting research in photosynthesis as well as physics and chemistry in the building. A student studying a book on philosophy.
Life of African Americans in the United States. Hands of an African American person. African American child and a woman. An African American worker and another man on a field. A worker dressed in battered clothes. An old woman with a wrinkled face. Hens on a field. A hen with chicks. A vessel with feed for the hen. An African American child as the mother combs her hair.
Poor living conditions of African American citizens in the United States. African American children with women as they smile. A child in mother's arms. A young boy wearing a hat. Three African American boys. Boys push two wooden toy cars as two other boys drive them around. A wooden house. Another house in poor condition and an elderly African American woman with an aged, wrinkled face.
Poor conditions of African American citizens in the rural south of the United States in 1940. African American children and women outside a simple house or shack. Battered clothes of a child depict the poor condition of the family. A young child gnaws on a rib bone. Barefeet of a child. A woman sows seed in a plowed field. African American man tills and plows a field as a horse pulls the plow. Closeup of a old woman wearing a scarf. She smiles. Men in dungarees talk in a circle as one of them holds a child. Closeup views of a a boy and a man who smile.
Poor education conditions of African American school children in the United States. A dusty road in a town. African American children attend a rural school and play outside the school building. Two African American boys. Children at the school.
African American children in a rural school in the United States. The school building. Boy and girl children in the school yard. Clothing of the children is shown. One boy has old shoes with many holes in them. Girls sew and make crafts like baskets. Different hair styles by African American girls. Two elderly African American women. Close up views of faces of boy and girl children. A school teacher rings a school bell while standing in the door of the school house.
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