The working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles in South Bend, Indiana. Manufacturing stages of crankshaft and engine. Repeated blows from a six ton ramming hammer mold a metal block into shape. Worker draws this under another ramming hammer. Twenty different machines work on a crankshaft. Soap water on crankshaft during working. Workers testing with tapes for balance checking of the shaft thus formed.
The working and assembling of various parts of Studebaker automobiles. Assembly and finishing of the automobile passenger cabin at plant in in South Bend, Indiana. Wooden structure of body of car covered by sheet metal paneling. Workers work on lathe machines to impart finishing to the automobile body so formed. Painter coats enamel three times on the body of car. Sets of lined up car bodies with seats. Windscreen, seats, hood and other accessories mounted on the body, seen in a progression using stop action filming. Body mounted on chassis. Finally the finished Studebaker cars are driven out of the factory.
Various steps of truck manufacturing, at a factory. Ignition system of a truck consists of a magneto and four wires. A heavy generator used for lighting and starting the engine. Workers at factory test engine by power required to start it. View of "GMC" lettering for General Motors Company on the engine block. Trucks driving on uneven and water clogged roads.
The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery in 1969. The Lottery selection system chooses soldiers for induction into the Vietnam War. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee participate in the draft, choosing birth dates from a glass bowl. The dates are read aloud and posted on the draft board. One young man protests the Vietnam War by flashing a Peace sign with his fingers every time he chooses a draft number.
Lottery selection held in full view of public for selecting potential soldiers for Vietnam. Youth who are part of an advisory committee for the Selective Service draw birth dates. The birth dates are read allowed and then matched with a number on the draft lottery board. (Vietnam War period).
Larry McKibben, Iowa representative for the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee, interrupts the December 1969 draft lottery to read a statement. He claims his statement is written by 14 youth members protesting the removal of the Michigan and Alaska youth delegates after their refusal to draw birth dates for the lottery. The draft lottery continues after the statement is read.
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