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Title card: "WPA Aids the Blind" / VS WPA (Works Progress Administration) workshop men work at two long tables making talking book machine / CU sign over door "Every man working here is doing his part to make the blind of the country happier" / man saws piece of material/ CU hands fit sawed material over box with motor / VS workers fit motor into case with handle / SOT WPA head Harry Hopkins, sitting with Helen Keller, says: "The Works Progress Administration has established a project for making talking book machines for the blind. Five thousand of these talking book machines have been made." He describes how the machines will be used, SOT adds "The person who suggested this project and is responsible for it is Miss Helen Keller, not only the most outstanding sightless person in America but one of the Republic's foremost citizens." / man working on talking book machine / MS two men and one woman working at sound board / man reads "The Vicar of Wakefield" for talking book recording / machine making disc / CU man reads book for recording / CU lower half of woman as she sits in chair, reads braille label on disc and puts it in player / MS woman listens to talking book machine next to her / blind woman reacts to talking book machine "Oh, swell. Now I can read everything from the latest detective story to back to Shakespeare. Oh, I forgot love stories." / Robert Irwin, executive director of American Foundation for the Blind, react to talking book machine "Splendid. It makes me independent, enables me to read without imposing on the good nature of my friends" / Note: exact month/day not known