A film about missile launches in the United States. The American flag at half mast. Troops assembled on a ramp and Brigadier General Harry J. Sands Jr. Vice Commander of the Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) speaks at the memorial services for the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy on 25th November, 1963. The night launch of an Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) satellite, test no. 6900, using a Delta launch vehicle on 27th November, 1963. The launch of a Centaur II, test no. 5175 on 27th November, 1963. A map of Cape with new name Cape Kennedy.
A film about the activities of a family in the United States in the early 1950s. A dramatization : A girl wipes a table and serves men in a restaurant. She walks up to a group of youngsters to serve. She notices a dress in a newspaper as a girl points to it. The girl stands outside a shop looking at the dress. Her housewife mother and grandmother stitch sitting in chairs. The husband in the family and a boy sit in the living room reading newspapers. The boy goes and sits with the father on a sofa. The family talks. The father and the son play chess. The mother homemaker shows a paper cutting to her husband and insists him to buy a sewing machine. The family discusses about the machine. The girl enters with a new dress. The father scolds the girl. The girl runs out of the house. The father moves around in the house. The mother talks over a telephone and writes in a register. The grandmother serves a cup of tea or coffee. She places a glass of milk on the sofa. The father picks up the telephone. The father and the mother rush out of the house. The grandmother and the boy sit on the sofa. The grandmother hugs the boy. The parents walk towards a man in search of their daughter. The man points towards the girl. They rush to the girl and hug her. They walk into their house. The grandmother hugs the girl. The boy hangs his shirt. The girl and the grandmother sitting at a table drink. The father apologizes to the daughter. The grandmother explains to the family. The family members sit and listen.
The film 'American Women and the social change-women and their family' about working women in the United States in new roles that do not fit traditional homemaker and housewife stereotypes, or that were traditionally jobs held by men. Women walk across a street. A woman laughs. Women practice dance. A woman works as a dentist. Two women bird trainers. A woman plays a violin and another woman sings. A woman officer takes an oath. A woman teaches. A woman works on equipment. A woman in a meeting. Women work in a workshop. A woman paints. A woman looks into a microscope. A doctor checks a child. American sociologist Jessie Bernard of the National institute of Education talks to Edna G. Rostow, a mental hygiene consultant at the Yale University, about the change in the life style of women and the reason behind it.
Inauguration of a new powdery substance 'Instant banana peel' in the United States. Press and public gather for the inauguration of a chemical Riot-trol. A man holds a powdery chemical 'Instant Banana peel'. The powder is spread on a hard surface. A man sprays water on the power. A man pulls a car on the powdery surface. A man skids while riding a motorbike on powdery surface. Men fall while running on the slippery surface. A man running with a crate falls. A man pulls a women on a ski cart on the slippery surface.
A winter storm in the United States. In Washington DC: snow covered roads. Cars covered with snow. A public transport bus covered with snow. Snow on trees. Exteriors of the snow covered U.S. Capitol. In New York: wind blows snow. A bulldozer removes snow from roads. Cars covered with snow. Men remove snow from cars. A car is driven.
A film intended for U.S. Navy personnel about the return to civilian life after World War 2 and the better life of Americans in the United States as a result of their service. Film created immediately after the end of World War 2. A boy practices baseball, hitting the ball and running. View of the baseball diamond with a New York City bridge in the background. Women with children walk around in a park. A man greets a sailor of the U.S. Navy, shakes his hand and thanks him for his service. A mother talks to a child that is sitting on her lap as they read a book. Fishermen raise up fishing nets at a dock and process a catch of crabs. A man works in a laboratory. Dignitaries salute as soldiers march carrying the American flag. Two boys walk directly behind two U.S. Navy sailors and try to copy exactly how the sailors are walking. An elderly woman prays, kneeling in a church. People stand in a baseball stadium as the U.S. National Anthem begins to play. A sailor raises the American flag as other sailors stand at attention. Aerial view of a field in the U.S. Cattle graze on field. A man rides a bicycle in a small town, and tips his hat to a woman leaving a house. A boy with a manual push lawn mower cuts grass in the background. Automobile traffic in a small American town of the 1940s. Aerial view of the skyscrapers of a city. View of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Houses or businesses and small boats and docks along a waterfront in Essex Connecticut. A board reads 'Here was built the Oliver Cromwell Connecticut warship in the Revolution 1776."
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