Knickerbocker Productions

Informational film explaining the work of the New York Stock Exchange.

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the United States Air Force's White Alice Communications System in Alaska. Introduces the people and geography of the new state as well as the Western Electric radio-relay system, which links far-flung military sites, alert stations, and missile-warning facilities. Ralph Caplan praised the film's "intrinsically dramatic and highly photogenic" portrayal of communications equipment.

Jimmy is a young man who likes to go his own way, not bothering or caring what anyone else thinks. Flashbacks show how his "permissive" parents didn't discipline him sufficiently--or, as the film says, neglected the "educational aspect of punishment"--that turned him into the cocky, anti-social, dangerous non-conformist that he is today.