Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the country's resources, technical assistance programs, geographical location, barbed wire barricades and bomb shelters, burning of opium pipes and retaliation against vices.

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include appointing staff for the Vietnam Project, moving staff and their families to Saigon ("cultural shock"), transportation, Vietnamese society, issues with housing and slums, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the National Assembly, architecture, Catholicism, the building where the Michigan State University Group is housed, and meetings headed by Dr. Wesley Fishel.

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include security issues in Vietnam, economic and social development, Ngô Đình Diệm's election to the presidency, ad hoc responses to issues brought up by President Diệm, and aid to Vietnamese villages (including farming, and the creation of roads).

Michigan State University professors Dr. Edward Weidner and Dr. Ralph Smuckler discuss the country of Vietnam. Topics include the Michigan State University Group's programs in Vietnam, the National Institute of Administration (NIA) in Saigon, other technical assistance programs worldwide, and the education and police training at the NIA.

MSU Police Advisor Carl Rumpf shoots everyday scenes in Saigon City, including furniture making, ladies wearing nón lás (conical hats), people working in shops, various modes of transportation used in Saigon, farming, and children.

Members of the MSU Vietnam Advisory Group (MSUG) visit various provinces with Vietnamese military personnel.

A Vietnamese film (narrated in English) about the issuance of new plastic identification cards to replace old identification papers. The story focuses on an irritable character, "Mister Ba", who tries to convince his family that the government's idea to create new forms of personal identification is bureaucratic nonsense.