A film titled 'New Orleans' about New Orleans in Louisiana. Exteriors of various public buildings. The United States Court of Appeals building in New Orleans. Pedestrians, cars, horse drawn wagons and street cars on Canal Street.
A country fair or carnival in the United States. Amusement rides in operation. Children enjoy cotton candy. Men with horses. Teenage boys look on. People look from behind a railing. Children ride on a ferris wheel. People load food on their plates from picnic tables. An amusement ride in operation. People look on as a band parades. Lettering on drum appears to say St. James High School Wildcats (implying location may be St James Parish Louisiana.) An oxen ride. A woman with a horse driven plow. A child with a foal. A man follows with a horse.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly) singing in a prison in United States. Lead Belly and other two African American men wearing striped prison uniform in a cell. Lead Belly sings and plays a guitar. Muisicologist John Lomax appreciates folk song sung by Lead Belly and says that he has recorded the songs on recorder. lead Belly refers to sending the recording to Governor Allen (Oscar K. Allen) of Louisiana, in hopes of influencing him to commute his sentence.
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.
Reenactment shows American folk blues musician Lead Belly in a prison cell in the United States. Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter) wearing striped uniform in a cell. Other African American prisoners seated. Lead Belly plays his guitar and sings verses from his song,"Good Night Irene." John Lomax praises Lead Belly and his song and says that he has recorded it on a machine. Lead Belly says he hopes they can send it to Louisiana Governor Allen.
Scenic views of landmarks and landscapes in the United States in the mid 1960s. A couple strolling among cherry blossom trees during Spring, at the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. The Jefferson Memorial seen in the background. A university or college campus. Aerial view of skyscraper buildings in lower Manhattan, New York City. Street scenes in New York City with car traffic on street and pedestrians walking on sidewalks and crossing an intersection. Seven harvesters operating in parallel on a wheat field. Street scene in San Francisco, with cable car approaching passengers gathered at the Powell Street turnaround, near Ellis Street. Sign for Golden State Hotel is seen on Powell Street. Powell Street crowded with parked cars, shops and pedestrians. The Golden Gate Bridge. Waterfall and river in Yosemite National Park. Visitors watching Niagara Falls. "Maid of the Mist" tour boat moving along the base of the falls. View from car driving through forest in National Park. Cars driving on street in New Orleans, Louisiana. Cowboys herding cattle on a ranch in southwest or western United States. Beautiful scenes of America's natural outdoors including mountain ranges and a rushing river. A woman riding a horse on a rocky coastline with the ocean behind her, at sunset. Closeup of the American flag waving.
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