Chimpanzee Ham in space. The chimpanzee aboard NASA Mercury Spacecraft 5 MR-2. View of Chimpanzee Ham seated in couch during flight. Animal chimpanzee's facial expression during space flight.
Dr. Werner Von Braun and General John B Medaris in Pentagon studio, stand next to model of Redstone Missile. Von Braun in his speech states that the Redstone Missile is America's largest ballistic Missile to have reached the test firing stage. Medaris in his speech speaks about its much longer range.
A television program named 'It couldn't be done' hosted by Lee Marvin. Vocal band the 5th Dimension aboard a boat sings the song,"If I had a hammer". Series of brief images show amazing human endeavors underway: Split screen view of face of George Washington being sculpted on Mount Rushmore Memorial by Lincoln Borglum, son of lead sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Animated cartoon image of a bridge from Alaska to Russia and the man behind the idea. View of Golden Gate Bridge under construction and split screen of one of the men who helped build it. View of Hoover Dam and Alaskan Highway. Dam building workers rappel down cliff sides during construction of Hoover Dam. View of Golden Gate Bridge completed. Dam worker throws switch to set off dynamite explosion during Hoover Dam construction process. Alaskan Highway under construction. Worker on Mount Rushmore rappelling over nose on one of the carved faces. NASA Apollo 11 Eagle Landing Module approaching the moon surface and view of moon surface below it. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon during first walk on the moon by a human being. Show host Lee Marvin walks on the beach. Construction workers with hard hats scaling steel girders of a tall skyscraper building under construction in a city.
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.
View, from inside the mouth of a rough earthen tunnel, showing Actor Lee Marvin speaking about Clifford Milburn Holland, who was Chief Engineer on the project to build a tunnel under the Hudson River, linking New York and New Jersey. View inside construction work area. The project's chief designing engineer, Ole Singstad, explains the problem of ventilating the exhaust fumes from cars traversing the tunnel. Scenes of workers down in the tunnel during construction. Governors Arthur H. Moore, of New Jersey, and James Walker, of New York, shake hands at the boundary of their two states, inside the Holland Tunnel,under the Hudson River, during a project completion ceremony. Interestingly, they stand on each other's side of the boundary as they shake hands. Motorcycle policemen escort some of the first cars through the tunnel at its opening. View from rear of a car traversing the tunnel, of other cars following. Engineer Singstad speaking more about the tunnel ventilation.
Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.
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