Getting Acquainted with Engineering (1950)

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man from waist down walking along sidewalks carrying leather briefcase. Young man wearing yellow v-neck sweater enters building; sign for “Testing Bureau” back of young man wearing yellow sweater looking at blackboard divided into three sections with words written in white chalk: Performance, Aptitudes, Interests; pan over words written in chalk on blackboard Performance, Aptitudes and Interests; young man in yellow sweater greets man in gray suit as he enters classroom; man in grey suit plots young man’s test results on chalkboard writing in each of three categories, man draws in chalk two bars above average under performance, one bar is for IQ, the other for high school performance; man in grey suit draws bar to about average line for verbal aptitude, above average for computational aptitude, space duration and mechanical aptitude above average; man in grey suit tells boy that maybe he shouldn’t study engineering but become and auto mechanic; man draws lines on chart showing boy has great interest in mechanics, science and art but not literature; man says Bill could be an engineer but has to work on “the communication art” his verbal skills. Man seated at desk wearing light colored suit with red tie, 1950s style, reaches for notebook and opens to page with water color of a classroom of boys and girls; water color of typical 1950s high school classroom; audio track man says girls usually don’t take an interest in engineering “so let’s eliminate the girls”, page turns to…

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22 minutes

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