A documentary depicts research and administration of LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide ) by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in the late 1950s and into the 1960s (part of project MKUltra). A remote mountain area in Southern Mexico. A view of a hand holding a mushroom. View of a part time chemist for the CIA, Dr. James Moore, who narrator says duped amateur mycologist and mushroom science enthusiast R. Gordon Wasson into providing information that led to the development of LSD. Mr. R. Gordon Wasson is asked about a magic mushroom leading to the drug psilocybin. He talks about how they found the mushroom in Mexico and ingested it as administered by a local shaman or magical priestess, Maria Sabina, in a Mazatec mushroom ritual. Wasson describes his own experience of what it was like to be under the influence of psilocybin. He describes visions and his sensory experience. Narrator relates how Dr. Moore was instructed by the CIA to get close to Mr. Wasson and obtain the magic mushrooms on a trip to Mexico, and that internal memos revealed plans to derive a drug from the mushrooms that would remain an agency secret. Dr. Moore discusses his work in helping the CIA to produce a new drug. Anonymous speaker relates information from CIA operative of plans by the CIA to test the drug on unwitting American citizens. People drinking and sitting at a bar. Charles Siragusa, a former narcotics officer, tells about discussions with Mr. George White. Scenes with swirling colors and lights meant to simulate the experience of someone taking LSD drug. CIA operative says that George White helped the CIA locate unwitting persons on which to test the drugs, including prostitutes and illegal drug addicts. Traffic on city streets. Narrator states that Mr. White set up safe houses for CIA in Greenwich Village, New York. Night time views of neon signs for cocktail lounges and night clubs. Exterior neon sign of Plantation Inn Motel in San Francisco, another safe house. View of an apartment building atop Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, with a view of San Francisco Bay from the safe house apartment. Former CIA official relates how they used the safe houses to administer drugs to prostitutes and determine if the drug could be useful in getting people such as prostitution customers to reveal secrets. Cars and prostitutes on a street. Views of a college campus green. Narrator states that millions of dollars were spent on LSD research at universities throughout the United States. Narrator states that word spread on college campuses about the drug, and ushered in the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Dr. Timothy Leary is interviewed and states that he gives the CIA credit for launching the consciousness movement and counter-culture events of the 1960s. Scenes of Dr. Leary in 1967, depicting him while using the drug. Dr. Leary states that the CIA funded and encouraged use of the drug by hundreds of psychologists to advance research and understanding of it, and that psychologists found it to be an intelligence enhancing and consciousness raising experience.
The contribution of franchise system in the United States. Flags of different countries where there is franchise system. Franchise a way to achieve personal and financial independence through owing your own business. A woman at the diet control center. A man washes his van. A young girl eats ice cream. People in a new house with their new ideas. Sam cooks in his own franchise. Men in the muffler factory at work. Woman at weight and diet control center. Different franchise in the country like fast food McDonald's, A&W Root Beer etc.
Police of Nuremberg march, in their new parade uniforms, carrying swastika flags. Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler reviews the parade. Scene switches to the Zeppelin Field of the Nazi party rally grounds. An architect's scale model of the planned Deutsche Stadion (to be the world's largest stadium and hold 305 thousand people) is on display. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at a podium. He holds a mason's hammer, and taps it on the foundation stone, as he reads the words of dedication for the new Deutsches Stadion stadium (Silberbuck, Messezentrum 1, 90471 Nürnberg, Germany). Hitler Youth parade carrying flags and singing their anthem, Fahnenlied (Banner song). Hitler stands in open car circling the field, as youth salute him. Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess rides in the back seat.
Goering dedicates the first aircraft carrier in Germany on 8th December, 1938, in Kiel. People gather in a large number for the launch of the carrier laid down by Deutsche Werke. The flags of the Nazi Party. Nazi Reichminister of Aviation, Hermann Goering, arrives to dedicate the new ship. Goering on platform in front of the bow of the new German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin. Goering gives a brief dedication speech.
A training documentary depicts the laying of signal communications field wire by U.S Army personnel in World War 2. A man puts a wire line in the combat area. A wire line team puts the line on a terrain. A communication officer gives instruction to the wire line team. The officer on a map outlines the general routes to be followed in laying the lines. The team members move towards the command post area from which the lines will be laid. The wires being laid and the end wire is given to the wire chief who ties it into the switch board. A member of the team puts the wire on the tree so that it is not damaged. The extra wire being tied with support and the truck moves. Another truck comes . The men on the command post follow the line to check its installation. A man ties a wire with a support and he ties a mark on it. Tags tied on the special construction points. The man after tying the tags gets in the truck. Men put the line inside of the curve. The reel of wire is exhausted and the men attach the end and a new reel being placed. The new reel being placed in the line. The wires are connected to the test telephone. A man checks the wire. Animation depicts the location of the wire and coils from the terminal. A hand holds C-114 Coil and shows the working.
Late 1930s and early 1940s life in Jerusalem, Palestine. Views from 1917 era as British military patrol under British Army General Edmund Allenby advances in military trucks up the plains from Gaza. Arab forces riding on camels. The Arabs move in support. Jerusalem is captured by the British in 1917. British men in the city. Jerusalem aerial view of late 1930s and approximately 1940 "new" Jerusalem contrasting the ancient and old parts of the city and new buildings. Narrator descriptions and visual portrayals of nationalism among Jewish and Arab residents in Jerusalem. Jewish men construct what the narrator terms as "a typical Zionist house just going up" Jewish civilians walking on the streets including one woman pushing a baby carriage. Cars move on a street and a view of a bus moving up Queen Mary Avenue. Jewish residents at a beach of Tel Aviv. They enjoy the water and dance the hora at the water's edge. A British man teaches an Arabic farmer the modern methods of agriculture. Men harvest food grains with a harvester. Arab boys in a class get a proper education "as in Europe." Palestinian girls in dresses play a game of basketball. The ex mayor of Jerusalem Hussein al-Khalidi in the center and other people around him.
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