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Construction of the Panama Canal
Construction of the Panama Canal connecting the Caribbean Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. Views of abandoned and failed first attempt by French team led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, with scenes of Panama natives cutting vegetation with machetes. Scene of abandoned canal work area. Scenes of United States work to build the canal beginning in 1903. Steam shovels digging and moving earth. Laborers construct railroad for use in canal building. General Glen Edgerton talks about the construction difficulties from malaria, and the worker prescription of quinine three times daily. Views of British and French workers on the site working and arriving by rail to work. Dynamite explosion removes rumble for railroad construction. View of locks under construction 1000 feet long and 110 feet wide. Excerpt from interview with former Canal Zone Governor and Congressman Maurice Thatcher, who characterizes the project as the greatest liberty that man had ever taken with nature. (Thatcher was honored when the first bridge connecting both sides of the Panama Canal was named after him as "Thatcher Ferry Bridge". In 1979 the name was officially changed to the Bridge of the Americas.) Clip next shows 1970's aerial view of the Panama Canal. Ships moving through the Panama Canal.
Dr Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on development of various aspects of U.S. census from 1790 to 1900 in United States,1960.
George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census. Map of U.S. with an area marked on it appears. Figures of population of 1970 appear on the marked area. On its side 6 questions required for census are seen. A slide with Census 1900 appears on the screen. An official with a gun is seen riding a horse in a forest. He meets a Native American Indian and writes his family details for the census.
Casinos - the major attractions in Las Vegas; neon lights advertising casinos and hotels.
Nighttime views of neon light illuminated attractions, Casinos in Las Vegas: Golden Nugget Gambling Hall, Binion's Horseshoe Casino, Four Queens and Fremont Casino. Visitors walking the sidewalks of the town during the mid 1970s.
Wide, elevated view of casinos and hotels in Las Vegas.
View from high building in the early morning, and then again at evening, of attractions in Las Vegas: Views of Dunes, Holiday Casino, Flamingo, Aladdin (theater for performing arts, with Bing Crosby featured), MGM Grand Hotel, Tropicana (Folies Bergere 76), Paradise Hotel and Casino. Neon signs of various hotels and casinos in the mid 1970s.
People move around and drink wine at The Beverly Wilshire hotel during Heublein rare wine auction in the United States.
Heublein rare wine auction in the United States. A man opens a wine bottle. Another person swirls and tastes a white wine. 1970s and 1980s cars on a road in Los Angeles, driving into Beverly Hills area, and passing a road sign that says "Beverly Hills". A sign by the side of the road reads 'Beverly Hills'.Courtyard of luxury hotel. Rolls Royce Silver Spirit automobile parked. Sign identifies the "Beverly Wilshire." Large sign inside the hall reads: "The Heublein Premier National Auction of Rare Wines (Fifteenth Anniversary)." Tables laden with wine bottles and glasses. Crowd mills about and tastes the various wines. A man sips a glass of wine and speaks about the relationship between markets for California and European wines. A man dressed in 18th century costume holds up a bottles of wine while auctioneer elicits bids. Participants bid by holding up their identification numbers.
Models display Apparel designs in United States; behind the scenes look at apparel design and fashion industry.
Fashion and apparel design industry in the United States in the early 1970s. A girl goes to a showroom of clothes, selects a dress, then changes in a trial room and displays the dress. An old woman is painting, a girl on a desk in an office, makes an apparel design, and then shows it to other two girls. The design is then printed on clothes, interior of a textile industry, machinery at work. Design is then printed on the cloth. Views of a fashion show, models display various outfits on ramp.