Family on last night of vacation speaks of stars & then of how study of science can help son & daughter make intelligent decisions on problems confronting them in world. Narrator specifies many of opportunities science presents in professions.

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00:29:07:00 B/W 1955
ws Silhouette shots of two men in a rowboat in a lake at dusk;
row to dock, remove string of fish.

00:37:01:00 B/W 1955
ws Montage of brief shots, DISSOLVE together: suburban house;
jet airplane passes overhead; Eiffel Tower; a plaza in Venice;
harvester machines drive through wheatfield; steel furnace.

00:37:38:00 B/W 1955
Montage of images, mostly depicting science professions: young men
in chemistry laboratory; surgeons performing an operation, generic,
brief; male teacher draws peculiar diagram on blackboard;
astronomer looks through gigantic telescope; young women in home
economics class; minister outside church, greeting parishioners as
they leave, good; gawky man with a butterfly net shows some unseen
insect to two teenage girls; teenage boy looking through
microscope; teenage girl in darkroom; CU butterfly collection