What Do You Know ? (Un Series)

Genre: Educational

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: With Alistair Cooke, Margaret Mead & othersMen digging with hand tools in Africa.Alistair Cooke w trowel explaining hand tool's advance and defining difference between rich and poor. United Nations is trying to get better tools into the hands of the poor.U Thant speaking of UN attack on poverty, ignorance & disease.Cooke talks about scientists meeting in Geneva in 1963 to address what could be done. Cars arriving in snow at UNCSAT.Maniquel Thacker of India speaks to conference. Cooke describes papers presented by various nations.Boys in outdoor school at desks. Rivers and streams over rocks. Grain fields. Nurse and mother with baby. Electric railroad, communication antenna, boys on African street corner. Men at drafting boards in Africa. Man at blackboard with atom on board. African woman sewing on singer sewing machine outdoors.Geneva conference addressed by PMS Blackett British Nobel Prize winner in physics. Speaks of a sensible shopping list.Walsh McDermott US representative explains how pipelines can be the solution to getting goods to the poor.Frederick Hobeson (sp?) tells why slow education will not be tolerated by developing countries. Says that education is one of the most technologically backward systems that exists. Needs a scientific revolution to address needs of newly developing countries.Charles Edosion (sp?) head of Nigeria's Ibadan hospital talks of costs of medicine in Africa.Writers Gerald Wendt, Peter Collins & Tibor Mende discussing solutions from the sea: seaweed, desalination, salt resistant plants. Uses of science for benefit of all rather than the rich richer and the application of science for all. Also integrating various disciplines and users.Various people talking about developing people to have power to change and solve problems.Leo Szilard?PMS Blackett?? reading papers.Margaret Mead speaking about changing cultures, family as a unit of change.Alistair Cooke summarises with various statistics including 93% of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive today.