Urban renewal in New York City, United States. Old wooden dwelling, still inhabited,with laundry hanging on clothes line, stands in midst of rubble from surrounding construction activity. Steel frame structure of a modern building under construction nearby. A huge mobile crane hoists a bucket of concrete to the top of a reinforced concrete building under construction. Temporary wooden posts support top story while concrete cures. Steel framework of modern buildings under construction. Two trees stand alone in rubble, surrounded by numerous high rise buildings under construction.
A new mechanized mine layer being used at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, United States. United States Army engineers display an automatic mine layer which digs the divot. Man works on a mine and mine being planted automatically. Earth being replaced over the mine by a bulldozer.
John Lomax and Lead Belly also known as Huddie William Ledbetter, an American folk and blues musician in the United States. They reenact events of their relationship. A car pulls up at an Essolene gas station from a snow covered road. Lead Belly gets out of the car as his employer, Lomax, sits inside the car. Lead Belly opens one side of the car hood and a station attendant adds a quart of oil to the engine crankcase. Lead Belly, the driver, pays the attendant, gets back into the car and they drive away. A sign reads 'Wilton Town'.
Milestone arrow with Pisinimo written on it. Cactus plant with a cross over it in front of a church. View of a Native American Indian carpet that includes two swastika symbols, used commonly by the American Indian before its use by Germany. The murals on ceiling include 'The Last supper' done in traditional, centuries old geometric pottery design. Indian priests walk out of the church, located on the Tohono O'odham reservation (sometimes previously called the Papago Reservation), wearing white robes.
Anti-Castro Cuban refugees picket the meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization at the University of Florida. The pickets claim the United Nation money spent for politics in Cuba. Men and women hold banners written with 'Cuba hungry because of Castro', 'Cuba Food Hungry', 'Castro sold country to Communists'.
Hippies kill their name in a mock funeral adopting the name of Freebies in San Francisco. A "dead" man, symbolizing the old Hippie name, is lifted by the hippies during a procession through Haight-Ashbury. The hippie crowd performs and dances around a bonfire, and jumps over the burning remains.
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