Preview Cassette 220739 For United Fund of St. Joseph County, IN., Calhoun Cartwright, PR. This is a fund raising film, and shows many civic charitable operations.
00.00.14 Fade in on a map of America onto which question marks are superimposed. Dissolve to title: AMERICA as song says, "What is America to me?" Map of America; cut to American flag filling the screen
00.43 Mailman delivering the mail to a row of suburban homes. Flowers in a garden. A quiet, tree lined street with a car in the BG. A grocery store as the owner, standing in front, waves to a passerby who waves to him. Children playing on teeter totter in a playground; a group of girls on the playground pass the camera. Tilt up of church bell tower; cut to a statue of a saint in front of a church. Tilt up building front; cut to a pan from street scene to home; cut to CU of window of the house. Street scene downtown as cars pass over the pavement. Yellow blossoms. Tilt up of steeple. High school students coming out of metropolitan high school. Domed court house. Postman finishing his row of deliveries. People exiting a factory; all of this in synch with the song... "The house I live in, the people that I meet..." etc.
01.39 Dissolve to main titles: The United Fund of St. Joseph County, Inc. presents "Operation 32" followed by credit titles. Mort Linder narrates; Notre Dame choir sings the title and background music.
02.07 United Fund logo on street sign. Building and sign tilt down as man enters the UF headquarters building.
02.30 United Fund logo followed by montage of the logos of the UF group; end with UF logo again.
02.55 Boy Scouts of America poster. Boy Scouts preparing a campsite. Cut to feather Indian war bonnet, pull back to see a scout in Indian makeup and dress putting the bonnet on. Cub scouts working with their leader on model airplane engine. CU of engine. Cubs working with hammer and die on leather work. Sea Scouts working with semaphore Morse code signal equipment; cut to a group of scouts with one boy petting a small animal.
03.59 A group of small children eating a meal at a table. A boy is talking, a girl taking a slice of bread from a loaf. Cut back to the group and back to a CU of girl and camera drops to her plate of food. African American and Caucasian children.
04.28 Children playing on a playground (merry-go-round). Cut to slide and swings. Shots of the children playing, swinging, sliding, etc.
04.58 Sign "Circle of Mercy Day Nursery". Mother with child walking down the street to the Circle of Mercy Children's Dispensary, and entering as camera tilts up to sign.
05.21 A row of children waiting, sitting on chairs, African American and Caucasian children. Dentist working on a young boy.
05.44 Doctor examines a boy, a girl and a baby with stethoscope and tongue depressor. Pan the doctor's office, past the doctor and patient, past the nurse, down to an open drawer full of lollipops. African American and Caucasian children.
06.19 A sign "Visiting Nurse Assoc.", pull back to MS of office with sign and nurse with her bag leaving the building. Dissolve to her arriving at a home, entering and giving an injection to an elderly African American woman. Vaccine.
06.55 Hearing test. A boy wearing a headset as a woman works with her audio test equipment; he raises one finger when he hears the tone. CU of his hand and finger being raised.
07.14 Goodwill industries truck passing the camera. Man upholstering with a hammer and tacks; we see him work with a magnetized hammer, placing tacks from his mouth to the hammer, and then pounding them into place. A handicapped man polishing a child's cycle. Elderly woman sewing; tilt up to see another woman ironing in the BG, the garments they have repaired hanging on racks.
07.58 A minister delivering a sermon, pan to the worshippers. CU of various worshippers, MS of Minister, ECU of Bible.
08.29 Pie chart superimpositions pictures of the agencies funded, followed by the allocations of the funds. Super UF logo and super 32 over that. Pan colorful display of the agency logos. Return to UF/32 supers.
09.46 All shots are repeats of images earlier in the film. As song are reprised, repeat scenes from above in synch with the choir and narrator. People exiting a factory. Postman finishing his row of deliveries. Suburban street with cars. A grocery store, the owner chats with a customer. People exiting a factory. Children on a playground. Cub Scout working on a project. Nurse exiting through a door. 10.58