U.S. Navy sailor patient lying in bed after a surgical operation. A nurse records his temperature and fills up a chart. Cartoon animation shows view as if looking inside the human body, with the blood vessels and the operated part of the patient's body. Streptococcus bacteria had spread into the operated area , destroying leukocytes. Patient lying in bed as he feels unwell. Nurse records the body temperature. Doctors examine the operated area on the patient's leg, suffering blood poisoning. Blood plasma being administered to the patient. Navy doctor (played by Milburn Stone) looks concerned and thinks about what went wrong during the operation, remembering that possibly the instruments were contaminated. Sailor being discharges after recovery. He walks with a cane. He limps as he walks, needing a cane to help him walk for the rest of his life. Flashback of past events in the film show how the doctor sneezed, failed to rescrub, cut his surgical glove, and contaminated surgical instruments, leading to disease in the patient.
A film titled 'Army railroad' about the training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. Soldiers march past a sign that reads '725th Rail Road Operating Battalion' RR battalion personnel work on locomotives. Personnel build a rail road train. A man puts a railroad wheel on fire. Activities of the 725th RR Battalion in Africa during World War II as men work on locomotives and rolling stock. A personnel writes on a board. Personnel board the train and it gets underway. 725th RR Operating Battalion personnel being imparted training in various skills including telegraph. Personnel being imparted practical training near a rail road engine. Orders to prepare a train being given and dispatched. Yard master delivers the order to a Yard Foreman. Caboose being picked up to prepare a trail. Yard engine being detached and train rolls out. Engine being attached to the train. Conductor checks his watch with the master clock and signs the outgoing train register. Engineer receives the order. A rear lamp being hanged aboard the train. Men get aboard the railroad train and it leaves.
A film about training of 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana. A train on the roll. Officers at a desk as they plan for a mock attack on a railroad train to impart practical training to 725th Railroad Operating Battalion personnel. Security guards aboard the train as they fire at attacking airplanes. Air attack causes damage to railroad track. Personnel inspect the damaged track. Caboose being informed about the damage. Security guards move to vantage points to provide a protection cover during repairing work. A signal man goes up a pole to make connection to an open telephone line. He makes a call to a dispatcher and the First Sergeant. The First Sergeant blows a whistle and repair parties load onto trucks. Others load onto railroad motor cars. A sign reads '725th Ry. Opn. Bn.'. The repair parties in trucks arrive at the site of the attack and equipment being unloaded. Broken tyres being removed. Another repair crew arrives. Rails being put in place and angle bar being used to tighten the bolts. A train rolls on the tracks. Guards on duty aboard the train. (World War II period).
Orange trees growing in an orchard in California during the Great Depression. Walnut trees in a grove. Mountains surround a bean field. Clouds forming before a storm. Wheat stalks blowing in the wind. Lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm. Torrential rain floods a farmland. Soil erosion from flooding seen on a hillside. A farmer walks through land severely damaged by floods after a storm. A farmer and his wife survey the damage done to their orange grove after flooding. Various farmlands damaged by soil erosion. Muddy topsoil oozing and collapsing during heavy rain. Rain washing away the topsoil of land. Gullies forming from torrential rain. Topsoil being washed away in creeks. Rapids in creeks during heavy rain, pouring into rivers. Flood washing away an uprooted tree. Soil erodes from side of a river. Aerial view of topsoil pouring into the Pacific Ocean along the California Coast.
The Berea College prepares the students for life. Boys make furniture. A boy makes the leg of a table. They give finishing touch to the table. Wooden toys are also being made by the boys. The house of the college president, Dr. William J. Hutchins, is furnished with the furniture made by the students. Dr. William talks to a woman. Mrs Hutchins seated on sofa. A girl puts mats on a dining table.
The Berea College prepares the students for life. The boys in a bakery knead flour. They put the kneaded flour in a machine to make bread. The bread is packed in polythene. The girls make biscuits with a machine. Girls prepare nut brittle in the bakery. A woman decorates the tea with a wild flower design.
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