Struggle for American independence and the border between Canada and America. Sketches of British General Burgoyne in its efforts to defeat the American colonists and meet General Howe in Albany. Review of Burgoyne's campaign and his enlistment of indians against the colonists. Map shows battle strategy from Quebec to New York. British prisoners. Surrender of Burgoyne to American General Gates at Saratoga. General George Washington's efforts against the British. Washington's troops at Valley Forge in winter with inadequate resources. Benjamin Franklin as envoy in Paris with King Louis XVI convinced to aid the American cause. Addition of Spain and the Netherlands in the struggle against British rule in America. Discussion of the French and the Americans both with their sights set on winning Canada also. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.
Teacher teaches under-privileged children at Henry Ford Convalescent School. Druggist at work in laboratory. Man hands prescription to druggist behind counter. The druggist fills the prescription. Technicians work in optical shop.
Temperature and humidity controlled Cabinets. Patients lie on bed. Nurse tucks blanket around patient's bed and checks his pulse and blood pressure. She wraps patient's feet, covering them with thick socks and pushes the bed into cabinet. Nurse closes door leaving patient's head outside the cabinet enclosure.
Narrated feature about human curiosity and basic science. Sunlight glistens on snow-covered mountain edge. Trees on a mountain side. Girl in a hat runs along a mountain slope, beside melting snow fields, picking early spring flowers and putting them in a wicker basket. A boy plucks a flower and examines it with a magnifying glass.
Narrated feature about scientific discoveries and applications of the microscope. Actors portraying invention of microscope in Delft Holland. Actor grinds and polishes a lens. He looks through the microscopic lens at a drop of water and discovers minute living organisms. Actor portraying French chemist Louis Pasteur studies the microscopic forms of life found in the solution of ferment. He discovers that heat kills germs. Men ferment wine. Discussion of pasteurization, vaccinations, and Pasteur. Herd of sheep grazing. Boy contaminated with rabies comes to Dr Louis Pasteur. Boy bitten by a dog. He discovers a vaccine for the deadly rabies and gives it to the boy.
1930s narrated feature about scientific advances made possible by the microscope. View of a microscope. Chemist or scientist looks through a microscope in laboratory. Microscopic view of the living organisms. Milk pasteurized by heated coils in large drums. Milk graded with pasteurization label. Boy drinks a glass of milk. Narrator describes milk as "the most valuable of all our foods for health." Sterilization techniques introduced in surgical operations: Doctor Joseph Lister of London (dramatized by an actor) shown with a spray can administering a "poison spray" to kill germs and disinfect a surgical or operating theatre. Surgeon performs antiseptic surgery on patient. Surgeon sterilizes the instruments to be used in an operation by pouring carbolic acid solution over them. View of operating instruments being removed from a heated steam chamber used to kill germs on the instruments. Doctors performing a surgery. Dramatized scenes of a doctor arriving at a home in Berlin to treat a girl suffering from Diphtheria. View of sick girl in a bed, through an outside window with snow falling, and the girl's mother and a nurse assisting her. The doctor gives the girl a diphtheria inoculation. Girl is shown recovered and walks outside of her home and gives a hug to her mother. Public vaccination clinics: Young children, including a young boy and an infant, receiving immunizations in a doctors office.
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