A story called,"Indian Love Story," is written out in chalk, on a blackboard. Scene shifts to Richard "Dick" Benedict Sanderville, interpreter at the Blackfeet Agency in Browning, Montana,seated on a chair,outdoors. He translates the story into Native American Indian sign language, as follows, while the camera records his movements: Man asks chief 's Daughter Will You Marry Me? She Says No. You're too Poor. Man Is Sad. Goes To War. Kills Two Sioux. Steals Ten Horses And Two Guns. Man Returns After Ten Days. Asks Woman Will You Marry Me? She Says-Yes! Man Says-No!! You Don't Love Me-You Love My Horses'. The signs: 1. MAN ASK CHIEF HIGH (head-chief) CHILD WOMAN , YOU ME MARRY; which translates to: A man asks the head-chief's daughter: "Will you marry me?" 2. WOMAN SAY , NO YOU POOR; which translates to her saying: "No, you are too poor." 3. MAN SAD (heart heavy), GO-TO-WAR; which translates to: The man is sad (his heart is heavy, falls on the ground). He goes to war. 4. KILL TWO SIOUX (3 missing sign), STEAL TEN HORSE, TWO BOW; which translates to: He kills two Sioux, steals ten horses and two bows. 5. GO-TO-WAR COME TEN NIGHT; which means: The man returns (from war) after ten days. 6. SEE WOMAN, SAY YOU ME MARRY; which means: He (visits and) asks the woman: "Will you marry me?" 7. WOMAN YES, MAN SAY NO; which translates to her saying: "Yes!" The man says: "No!" 8. YOU FOND HORSE , YOU HEART FOND (love) FINISHED. Translation: You love (my) horses, ( I ) don't love you anymore. Editor Commentary: The second GO-TO-WAR sign is much shorter because it is part of a compound sign, and the emphasis is now on COME. The actual going to war has already happened. Also, in the last sentence the first YOU is the subject, but the second YOU is the object, and the subject is missing. Finally, in the first sentence the HIGH sign (index finger pointing up above head) is almost unnoticeable, and means "standing high above all others" or "above all, superior, high above the others".
Women Voters' League meeting. Guest speaker from Brazil talks to league meeting attendees. Narrator comments on the work of the women's suffrage movement in the United States that led to this point. Women in classes sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Male instructor at world globe. Female instructor demonstrates how to mark a ballot to vote in election. Woman at store newsstand buys a newspaper. Children play in a street. A group of boys fight and wrestle in the street.. View of a slum area and of abandoned, blighted property. View of old empty derelict home with eroded land in front of it somewhere in America. Union labor picket line demonstration during a strike and men fight and beat another man during a picket line demonstration. Grain truck with sign 'UNRRA' and "Mercy Wheat" sign on it. Mayor of New York Fiorello La Guardia with unidentified farmer during the mercy wheat campaign to aid Europe after World War 2. View of United Nations General assembly in meeting. Men and women meet at home in a citizen's living room. They vote by a show of hands. Woman sits at a desk and writes letter to elected representative and so does a man. Woman places letter in mail box. Woman hands letters to a Senator. Senator reads letters.
During World War 1, a Ford 2-man (3-ton) tank being tested in mud at Ford Factory proving field. The tank moves forward and seems to operate satisfactorily. Scene shifts to a tank nose down and half submerged in mud. Ford employees stand about watching and several use shovels to clear mud away from the tank.
Voice of America broadcast facility in Okinawa. Interior of relay station. Wall clock with hands pointing at 2 o'clock. A lucite sign beneath the clock begins to flash 'On Air'. A sign reading 'Voice of America' is seen at base of clock. Clock with its hands at 3 o'clock .
Movie trailer propaganda advertisement for 'Ordnance for victory. The largest public exhibition of war material ever presented in the United States' during World War 2. Heroic depictions of tanks, ships, and other weapons with music and text. Some of text reads, 'Weapons the Sons of America are using to Win Victory for Freedom and Liberty. The exposition is free to everyone from everywhere. The venue is, the entire 8th floor John Wanamaker. Timing is 10 am to 5 pm except weekdays and Fridays when hours will be noon to 9pm. Huge tanks, tank destroyers, Amphibian jeeps....Thousands of other symbols of similar war accomplishments are displayed which demonstrate America's soldiers of protection of the whole nation.'
Film begins showing the Ford bomber aircraft factory at Willow Run, near Detroit, Michigan, during World War 2. Views of the heavy industrial plant with smoke rising from smoke stacks. Cranes loading ships at various docks. Modern looking administrative buildings at the Willow Run plant. A wheeled tractor pulls a train of flat cars filled with parts for the assembly line, next seen, where B-24 Liberator bombers are being assembled. Partially constructed bomber bodies and wings are seen on a production floor. In another section of the plant, war production workers assemble aircraft engines. View of and engine, enclosed in a nacelle, being lowered by a crane. A gunner's compartment being lowered by a crane. Women's Army Corps (WAC) members at work replacing men called to serve in the armed forces. A contingent of WAC practice donning gas masks. Women in uniforms of United States Women's Naval Reserve (WAVES). Two women attendants service a car at a gas station. Women not engaged in war effort are seen shopping and on a golf course and swimming. A woman hanging clothes to dry on a backyard line. A flight of three B-24 bombers flies overhead, causing women in various pursuits, to look up to the sky. Cars arrive at the Ford bomber plant in Willow Run, carrying women volunteers. One middle aged woman punches a time clock in the factory. More views of the B-24 production line, and parts being stamped by a man operating a press. Scene transitions showing the man gone, and a women replacing him at the press. Women war production workers working on aircraft frameworks. A woman, walking on a sidewalk, pauses to look at advertisements encouraging women to work in the war effort. One read: "Women at war, We can't win without them." A sign outside an office reading: "War Manpower Commission." The woman enters that office.
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