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- The high school press club is awaiting the teacher's decision about the new editor-in-chief. As they wait, they make mental judgements about other students. The film ends with discussion questions.
- Teenager Sally is starting to understand the power of emotions. Her teacher demonstrates how we sometimes become irrational without thinking by springing a rubber snake on the classroom. She realizes that by bringing reasoning to a situation, you don't have to let your feelings dictate your behavior. This knowledge allows her to make the right decision and not go with boyfriend Hank to "Lovers' Lane" after the big spring dance.
- A young married couple appears to their friends, neighbors and relatives to be very happy and content, but in actuality, there are some serious conflicts and issues boiling just beneath the surface that threatens their "charming" marriage..
- This short animated film explains the primary and secondary characteristics of sexual development during puberty of boys and girls. The problems associated with physical and glandular growth in both sexes are covered, as are the general problems of adolescence.
- Teenager Mary has strong physical yearnings for her boyfriend, so she asks her mother for advice on what she should do about said carnal cravings.
- An abstract story of a butterfly who dares to distract mechanized workers as they worship their machines. The supervisor is a robot who does not allow any distractions or feelings of individuality. He captures the butterfly and makes it No. 00173 in his collection.
- Glimpses into the lives of five fifth grade children show that each is a complex and unique pattern. Emphasizes that the teacher must discover how she can best meet the needs of each child.
- A number of young couples are at the marriage license office, each couple somewhat indistinguishable from each other to the clerk perhaps beyond each couple seemingly in love. But each person waiting in line is different from each other. Hopefully each person in that office has chosen the person to who he or she should be married as a certain personality characteristic that one person possesses may be something someone adores, but that would drive another person crazy.
- Jim and Pat, nineteen and eighteen years old respectively, want to get married, but their parents, while not denying them outright, want them to wait a year in believing that they are too young right now. Both have graduated from high school, both are working, but Jim is thinking about going to college. As such, Jim and Pat turn to their clergy, Dr. Hamilton, for advice. Stating the caveat that he realizes that no two couples are exactly the same, Dr. Hamilton decides to tell them the story of two other young couples he married that had many of the same characteristics as Jim and Pat as a couple. What he wants them to do in telling them about these other couples is for them to place themselves in grown-up and largely unexpected situations that marriage may throw at them and if they feel they would be able to handle them.
- A City Decides chronicles the events that led to the integration of the St. Louis public schools in 1954.
- Married Mike Jackson and Virginia Chase seem to love each other, but are constantly arguing, leading to Mike storming out of the house. While there are many associated issues, the primary item of contention is that Ginny works outside of the house, they working together at a newspaper, he a copy writer and she a photographer, often on the same articles. Because Ginny wants to work for various reasons, each feels that he/she is forced to give up something in their marriage, and that the other will not make accommodations for this fact. As such, their marriage has ended up being more like a competition about who's the boss. They as of yet have no children, children at this stage which would only complicate matters. They will have to figure out how to save their marriage by making those necessary accommodations, and if they are unwilling, it may mean divorce court.
- An educational film. Dave has problems and becomes a juvenile delinquent.
- An educational short film based on Your Marriage and Family Living by Paul H. Landis that offers tips on resolving marital issues by presenting a series of dramatized potential conflicts. The film follows two couples, the Kanes and the Addams, who have parallel arguments in their neighboring homes.
- A training film for salesman that offers unusual advice on hunting for potential customers.
- Frank and Honey Carson, an office worker and housewife respectively, have been married for eleven months, after a five month courtship. The luster has come off their marriage where they are constantly at each other's throat in each not seeming to care about how the other is feeling, especially concerning problematic issues. One typical evening in their marriage is shown, at dinner after which they were planning on spending time with friends. But because of the strain at dinner where neither was listening to the other in being preoccupied by their own individual problems, their planned outing may not occur as each stews by him/herself after dinner. Each is initially shown in how the other probably views him/her. Each is then shown how he/she views him/herself compared to the other in their marriage. An invested bystander laments how their relationship has deteriorated as each contemplates what to do as a next step this evening.