Rehabilitation of mentally disabled and available job opportunities for them. Mentally disabled people at work. A mentally disabled girl does needlework. Two mentally disabled children work with yarn. A woman arranges rollers into a mentally disabled girl's hair at a saloon. Three women in a kitchen. One at the sink. A mentally disabled woman puts a plate on a table while another woman serves a lady seated at the table. Three boys sit around a table and play a game. Girls play cards. A mentally disabled boy with headphones. A woman shows him a picture of a bed. A mentally disabled girl tries to walk by holding rails. A woman helps her. An African American girl with headphones passes envelopes from a machine. A mentally disabled boy on floor. A woman puts a sucker in the boy's mouth. A blind man with mental disability feels the way with his cane. His care giver guides him nearby. A choir of mentally handicapped men and women sings the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (also known as the "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"). A mentor guides them in their performance. A dog sleeps on the floor near them.
Airplane propellers are tested in a wind tunnel in U.S. In a wind tunnel men work at the propellers of a plane. The propeller rotates. Operators look from the windows in the tunnel. A man walks into the wind tunnel and looks at the controls. Operators and engineers watch and operate controls. Operators study the motion of the propeller in the dark. A lady walks in the front of the tunnel. Her hair blows towards the tunnel.
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.
Scenes of monument, park and heritage sites in America. A family at a campsite cooking food on portable stoves atop picnic table. Woman and young girl looking at carved faces of presidents on Mount Rushmore, Statue of Liberty and an African American woman taking a picture on the island. Woman with handheld movie camera filming at an overlook of the Grand Canyon. Old man paints a picturesque view beside a seaside town with small boats nearby. Men fishing from rocks on shore with Golden Gate Bridge in background, in San Francisco.
Americans indulge in a variety of sports. Men enjoy recreational parachuting; various parachutes of different colors seen. Teams playing a game of football on a field in Washington DC with the White House in the background. Female riders on horses at a horse racing or equestrian event. Cowboy places saddle on a horse near a ranch in the west or southwest. Teenage girls saddle horses and clean their horses. People watching a motorcycle motocross race. A family riding horses in a desert with cactus and rock formations nearby. People taking scooter and bicycle rides, including 3 people on one moped or motor scooter. Man in a suit rides a moped in a city. Children riding a bicycle.
During Cold War at a NATO airbase, siren for a Red Alert exercise sounds and flight personnel scramble and run from a building with sign, "Bomber Alert Assembly Area." View of crew jumping into a waiting station wagon and then arriving at airfield. A fighter aircraft is fueled. Two American USAF pilots seen in cockpit and view of a B-52 readying for takeoff. View of B-52 taking off from runway as seen from camera mounted low on aircraft behind front wheel. Front view of a line of approaching and taking off B-52 Stratofortress bomber aircraft. Narrator indicates that half the bomber planes, approximately 600, are on ground alert at all times. Narrator indicates that others are aloft at all times, fully armed with nuclear bombs in belly and missile on the wings. Side view of a B-52 in flight so armed. Aerial view of refueling operations. View of pilot in cockpit of B-52. View as the B-52 Stratofortress joins with a fuel tanker at 6 miles above the Arctic, and 100 thousand pounds of fuel is transferred at 400 miles per hour. 1963.
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