Aerial view of an intricate set of flyovers on a modern highway network. as cars move on the highways. Traffic on an Interstate highway and developments along the highway. A sign reads ' Treasure Island'. Signs are seen for hotels and motels like Holiday Inn, Marriott, restaurant, and for car rentals Avis and Hertz.
Television program host, Lee Marvin talks about the Erie Canal in New York. Historic still images from 1800s showing the Erie Canal and surroundings. View of the Erie Canal that connects Great lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Modern moving images of a steamer on the Erie canal.
View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.
In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.
Popular 1970s vocal group the "5th Dimension" sings the song " A pocketful of seeds" by Elliot Willensky as they dance. Scenes of engineers working in the background, on screen, on various engineering projects in the United States. Engineers working at night. Men build railway track.
Taking down the tents and packing up a circus. Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus workers and local workers disassemble the tents and stages, load wagons and with help from elephants and bulldozers they pack up before heading to a new city. These scenes appear to be 1950s-196s. The circus train moving at speed. Following scenes appear to be early 1970s: Circus managers seated at a table planning a circus act. Scenes of the decorated performers in a real circus. Clowns performing. Circus managers viewing a potential new act involving trapeze,cycles, and acrobatic feats. Performers practicing without an audience.