Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. army training films to teach United States Army soldiers in World War 2. Demonstration of parts of an automobile distributor device shown closeup. Microscopic view of syphilis bacteria. A man uses pneumatic hammer on wood. Animation of pneumatic hammer drill demonstrating the use of the drill. Men of U.S. Army Signal Corps make a training film under supervision of a military expert. Cameraman and motion picture film camera seen in use in the field. Typist types a script for the same training film. Director and cameramen record. Editor assembles and edits the films, and is seen reviewing frames of the film and building film reels.
U.S. Navy sailors work aboard a ship in the United States. Sailors work in the engine room of a ship. Two sailors in front of a large instrument with dials. They take readings. The engine room telegraph. The sailors rotate a wheel looking at the dials on a panel. Navy officers and sailors around an instrument. The navy officers and the sailors look at a large panel with instruments.
A film shows various activities of U.S. Navy sailors in the United States likely during a training event. A group of sailors peel potato vegetables. Giant pile of potatoes beside the sailors. The sailors take their seats in an outdoor mess and eat. The sailors write on papers.
A training film based on biological warfare defense and decontamination of U.S. ships in the United States. A U.S. Task Force underway. U.S. officers look through binoculars. An officer turns on a chemical alarm aboard a ship. Gun crews put on their protective gas masks.
Atomic weapons development in the United States Army. Exterior of a building. An officer briefs men about the new technology. Men work behind computers. A technician fixes a machine. Trainees watch an atom through a microscope and work on it. Soldiers train to become atomic technicians in the military. Soldier trainees attend a lecture. The professor discusses the atom structure and the mechanics of the atom. A man inspects a rocking rocket.
'So's Your Old Man' depicts activities of older American men in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Recruitment of older men in coast guard service. A doctor examines an old man. The man seated with his wife in his house listening to a radio. He arrives at a building. 'US Coast Guard Volunteer Security Force' written on the top of a cabin. The man talks to other man seated in the cabin. Training being given to the older men. They march. Buildings along a side. The men seated in a class room. An officer explains a model to them. They practice drilling. They hit target boards with pistols. The men in coast guard uniforms stand in formation. An officer reviews them. Auxiliary Coast Guard patrol vessels. Men guard Liberty ships and warehouses. Women give them coffee and doughnuts.
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