Film describes American society in the 1930s and 40s, including World War 2. CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) President John L Lewis and Father Coughlin speaking. Harlem street scene. Crowd entering a subway station in New York City. Newspaper headlines posted in China Town New York. Storefronts of Greek and Italian merchants in downtown New York City. Signs seen include 'Grande Deposito Dolio Doliva,' and 'Anthony Coulapides, manufacturer of high grade cigarettes.' Hebrew writing and star of David seen on side of building. Buildings with Spanish language signs in New York. A parade float with Virgin Mary depiction. Wide shot of a vineyard. View of a water wheel turning at a mill. Boys skinny dipping. 1930's and 1940's era cars on deep snow covered roads of an American town. Homes in deep snow. People recline on a beach in Florida in winter while on the same day in New Hampshire people ski, some pulled by horses. Skiers on slopes. People slip while walking across a street during a blizzard. A boy takes removes an apple from an icebox (early refrigerator). Dust storms in farm country of the rural Midwest during the dust bowl. Man races across a field toward a barn as a dust storm bears down on it. A farmer leads his horses out of a corral. A farm is destroyed by dust storms during the dust bowl. A family piles their remaining things on a farm truck and abandons their farm destroyed by the dust bowl. A poor family in a shack in the River Mississippi Valley area.
A man, with only one arm, prepares wallpaper. He takes water from a bucket and wets the wallpaper paste with a brush. He takes a stool and puts wallpaper on the wall. The wallpaper is printed with a design and pasted to a wall as a decorative covering. He presses the wallpaper. He puts back the stool on the side and presses the wallpaper on the lower part of the wall.
Methods and machines used by Germans and Italians in maritime sabotage operations. One method used as sneak craft is radio console. Dramatization depicts the use of German sneak craft. Three men work as a team. Three men stand on a pier. A pilot boat and two explosive boats used together. Boats underway. Crew members seated in the craft. A man from the team uses a loudspeaker. The radio console man with radio controls. (World War II period).
Methods and machines used by Germans and Italians in maritime sabotage operations. One method used as sneak craft is the use of human torpedoes. German one man super human torpedo in view. It is lowered in water. Crew member seated in it. Italian human torpedoes SSB in view. It has two enormous warheads. It is lowered in water. Men in submerged torpedo. Dramatization depicts the operation of craft. Men loosen the warhead. Animated diagram illustrates Allied Harbor Defenses. Sneak craft detection by hydrophones, Radio direction finding stations, super sensitive radars, magnetic sensing, Anti-submarine nets and indicator loops. Men work at controls. (World War II period).
Dramatization of a father's despondence after syphilis causes the death of his newly born son. 'Tony Madroni' written on a glass window. Tony stands with other men and paints 'and son' on the door. Tony closes his shop and sits inside. The Doctor tells him that his son was stillborn because he was suffering from the venereal disease syphilis. He weeps. The Doctor suggests him and his wife to come to the clinic for treatment. He begins treatment at a clinic with his wife. Doctors advise him to come regularly for treatment.
Dramatization: college student encounters syphilis. The patient visits a Doctor for the detection and treatment. Another Doctor joins him. A nurse takes the blood sample of the patient for testing. The Doctor explains to the man about syphilis. Both Doctors discuss cases and read newspaper articles about the patients. He talks about another college student who had syphilis and got treatment. The patient receives a physical examination. A slide under microscope shows the causal organism Spirochetes. The doctors view a public information film for men that explains the use of prophylactic measures. Doctor warns men against having sex with prositutes due to risk of sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea.. Doctor instructs on use of a condom (rubber) during sexual intercourse. Man demonstrates proper washing of genital area. The Doctors discuss in the car on their way back about a patient who got his treatment from a 'quack'. The Doctor explains about the untrained people who act as physicians and are known as quacks.
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