Summary:
Promotional footage introducing the metric system in American education and society. This segment features children in a classroom learning about the metric system from a yardstick. Melodie Wilson then asks how viewers measure up to this new system in the wake of the Metric Conversion Act passed by Congress in 1975.
This mini documentary is dated February 1977.
| Series: | Special Report and Other Footage |
| Date: | Undated |
| Reporter: | Melodie Wilson |
| Film Segment: | 1 |
| Film Reel: | SR360 |
| Soundtrack: | Magnetic |
| B/W or Color: | Color |
| Positive/Negative: | Postive |
| Condition: | Good |
| Script: | No |
| Citation: | [ CREATE A BRIEF TITLE BASED ON SUMMARY PROVIDED ], undated, Special Report and Other Footage, Milwaukee Journal Stations Records, Milwaukee Mss Collection 203, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives Department. |
| Rights: | Copyright © WTMJ-TV |