Birch Canoe builder with his wife paddles a self built canoe in North of United States. He soaks a large piece of cedar for the frame. The Canoe builder cuts the cedar log into long strips. He lights a burner and places wooden strips into it. The heated strips are then bent over the lower side of a canoe form. Man removes bark from Birch tree and joins them. Wooden form is placed in the center of birch bark sheets. They bind the Canoe with root strips, sewing them on. They affix gunwales and clamp the pieces in place. They paint pitch containing charcoal onto the seams. View of the man canoeing in his hand-built canoe.
Robert Parson, designer of 4X4 Parson's Cube demonstrates its use. The Parson's Cube is made of seven parts which combines to make arrangements for eating, studying, entertaining and sleeping.
Designed and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Fuller) walks through woods and gets aboard a boat. Architectural design of his Geodesic dome. Children get out of his futuristic Dymaxion car invention. Architects reject the Dymaxion houses. Bucky Fuller gives lecture to students in Alaska about his designs and theories. Students take pictures.
Infra code technique for assisting the deaf and hearing impaired. During an early training, the amplifier is held by a boy and headset blocks from unwanted vibrations. The instructor speaks into device and the boy replies on hearing. Woman instructor places hand in front of her mouth to prevent the boy from lip reading, and the boy is still successful as he repeats a word spoken by the instructor after he hears it . A woman Janet Marson, who is 85% deaf, is shown. She leads a normal and active life as a laboratory technician. She gets into her early 1970's red Volkswagen Beetle and drives the car. She is shown in a laboratory where she works, conversing with a colleague as she weighs a test mouse on a scale, and as she answers a telephone call and takes notes during the call. She can hear impulses from 60 feet away. Board on door reads 'Infra Code Center for Hearing and Speech'. Using the Infra Code device, men and children improve their hearing and speech skills.
Greyhound bus with young Americans, travel to various cities. Boys and girls dressed in costumes sing and dance on stage. Boy plays instrument. Young Americans seated inside Greyhound bus. On reaching destination they unload luggage from the bus. Young Americans rehearse and get ready for performance. They mingle and exchange ideas with students of local schools. As spectators watch, young Americans dressed in costumes sing and dance on stage.
Film "Its What You Make It" promoting work and lifestyle for military personnel working in the Washington DC area. Clip opens with an aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington Virginia, near Washington DC, headquarters for the U.S. Military Army, Navy, and Air Force branches. Cars parked in the foreground. Officers and women walk up the stairs of Pentagon. Civilian and military coats hang on coat rack. Military and civilian personnel perform clerical duties in the Pentagon. Personnel gathered around a Pentagon conference table. Flags of many nations in the background. Lieutenant General E.O. Donnell Jr, United States Air Force speaks at his desk.
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