Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression in the United States. U.S. Army engineers and WPA (Works Progress Administration) relief workers construct the Fort Peck Dam in Montana. Workers digging. Tunnels and spillways at the construction site. Heavy machinery and equipment. A worker on the tracks leading into a tunnel. The gigantic structure at the headwaters of the Missouri River. Ranchers with their cattle near ponds and lakes built by WPA labor. An old rancher on his horse with a dog alongside. Ranchers with horses as they drink from a pond. A rancher with his son and their dogs look on as cattle graze and bathe.
Instructional film about aiming the M-16 rifle, for USAF (United States Air Force). A group of U.S. airmen are seated in a class room. A Sergeant, instructor, demonstrates aiming technique. A series of sighting views is shown to illustrate proper aiming of the M-16.
British Admiral Sir Michael Hodges with other officials come on board USS (United States Ship) Texas to pay his respect to Admiral JV Chase. Views of the personnel on deck. Battleships in different formations like steaming formation, single column and column formation at sea. A Japanese naval officer and his wife boarding ship for official visit. Officer and his wife greeted on quarter deck of Pennsylvania, marine honor guard in background.
Staff of a government entity, in the United States, consisting of several men and a woman, stand in a line facing a senior official who places packages of papers on a table. Interested persons stand about, awaiting permission to pick up the papers. They are all permitted to see the papers, at the same time. The senior official makes a formal statement about the information being released, speaking into a radio broadcast microphone.
Research work for the evaluation and diagnosis of the mentally disabled in United States. A counselor counsels a couple. A mentally disabled child on a floor. A woman holds a toy in front of the child. Another mentally disabled child with his head bent. A woman talks to him. A person writes on a paper in front of an encephalography machine. The needles of an electroencephalogram (EEG) record on a paper. A boy with sensors of EEG attached to his ears. A mentally disabled child with headphones. A woman feeds the child. A machine and a bell on the table nearby. Dr David Zeaman, Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut, talks about training of mentally disabled. A woman helps a child to paste features on a mask. A boy goes through a book. A mentally disabled girl Debra with a utensil stands near a plunger machine. Debra puts her hand in the slot of the plunger machine. Three boys near the plunger machines. A boy presses keys on a machine. Addition sums appear on a screen with four options given below. A child selects from the options.
A U.S. Navy Training demonstrates the methods of chancery against low frontal attack, arm drag and the leg pick as part of training in hand to hand combat, United States. Two sailors show chancery against low frontal attack. One of the sailors attacks the other from front. The other sailor puts one of his arms beneath the shoulder of the attacker, passes his other arm beneath the attacker's neck to lock it and delivers a kick to the opponent. Next they demonstrate the Arm drag. The second sailor uses one of his arms to hold the wrist and secures the elbow of the opponent with his other arm. He stamps on the foot of the attacker and drags at his arms which cause both to fall. Now they demonstrate Leg pick up. The second sailor grasps both the legs of the attacker just above his knees, raises him, holds him and drops him on the floor. (World War II period).
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