L. Ron Hubbard sits for an on-camera interview aboard a Sea Org vessel, one of the only times an outside news crew got access to the Scientology founder directly. Shot in 1967, the film catches Hubbard at sea, running his organization from shipboard exile as it draws mounting scrutiny on land, and lets him answer questions in his own words rather than through the church's later, more controlled public relations apparatus. Stock footage and contemporary news material fill in the context around the interview, tracing how a science-fiction writer became the leader of a movement already generating controversy and legal trouble by the mid-1960s. There is no narrator standing between Hubbard and the camera for long stretches, which is the point: this is Scientology's founder as a working journalist actually found him, not as the organization later chose to present him. The footage is plain and dated, but the access is the reason it survives as a historical document.