A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A long line of cars in an assembly line. A die maker checks blue prints and instruments. He walks over to another worker. He points something out to him and walks to his position. He picks up a tool and works on a machinery. A man hands him papers. A girl opens a file drawer. She walks to a man at a desk and gives him cards. A man takes a fender of a stamping machine and hangs it on a moving overhead hook. Workers lined up at a cashier window to receive pay check. Men punch time cards at time clock.
A film about workers in automobile factories in Detroit, Michigan. A man walks to his car in a parking lot. He gets in and drives off. Two little boys, the man's sons, play beside a residential street. The man pulls up to them in his car. The children run to the car. The father puts them in and drives off. The car pulls up at a curb. The man gets out lifting one child and carries another to the house. Inside, woman housewife and two girls are seen working in the kitchen to prepare dinner. The father walks in and kisses the wife and the girls. He puts the youngest boy on the floor and walks out. The father in an undershirt washes up. The two girls set the dining table. The family at the dining table as the father walks in. They say grace and eat. The two girls wash dishes.
A United States Air Force Lockeed F-104 Starfighter aircraft takes off toward and over the camera, raising its landing gear as it passes. A slate reads: "High Flight." View from underneath as the F-104 flies above the camera. Next it is seen climbing into a clear blue sky. An aerial view as it performs a roll in flight. Views of earth below. Closeup show pilot in cockpit. During maneuvers the aircraft tail number "868" is seen. Closeup glimpse from inside the cockpit. The logo of the Tactical Air Command is seen on the 104's tail. The aircraft continues maneuvering, quietly, until TC: 00:45, when it's flight is accompanied by a voice reciting the sonnet, "High Flight," written by Royal Canadian pilot, John Gillespie Magee Jr., during World War 2.
The geophysical activities at the Atmospheric Ionization Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. People walk into the Atmospheric Ionization Laboratory. A sign reads ' Atmospheric Ionization Laboratory'. A woman writes on a blackboard. A man stands near a large wall map of the world and points out the locations. A radar antenna. A man with a special camera and he is seated on a platform. A man works with radar antenna. Another man writes data on the blackboard. which is received from radar stations.
The geophysical activities at the Atmospheric Ionization Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A man seated behind desk take notes from charts and papers to compile statistics on atmospheric occurrences. Two military personnel carry weather balloon out of a building. A USAF (United States Air Force) personnel takes weather data. Two teletype machines. A man enters and tears teletype message from the machine and walks out. A woman prepares perforated cards or punch cards. She feeds the punch cards into a large punch card computer sorting machine.
The geophysical activities at the Atmospheric Ionization Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Several views of laboratory instruments in operation which help in conducting research. The men operates research equipment. A man operates an instrument used to study the atmospheric dielectric behavior of an ionized gas. A scientist checks the air temperature, density. A convection vacuum apparatus. A man operates a recorder and automatic reduction system. A decoder and automatic electronic typewriter. Another man studies the upper atmospheric pressure and temperature.