The Name of the Game

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1974

Complete Record: Opens with teenage boys playing basketball. Girls enter gymnasium, and the game intensifies. Cuts to one of the players talking to a young woman. Shots of air traffic controllers answering phones and writing down information, and people in military uniforms processing documents in an office. The basketball game goes on. Nurses and dentists examine patients and operate complex machinery. Scientists use microscopes and mix chemicals. More basketball. A young woman speaks to teenagers in a classroom, who wear stereotypical 70s clothing. A woman in a navy uniform uses a camera. People focus on making maps and etchings. Another teenager talks to the same young woman from before. More military personnel operating machinery, then huge trucks and military vehicles drive by. Ends with the same basketball game.