A new ship is seen going down the ways and hitting the water in a river, with a huge splash. There isn't much superstructure on the ship. A smiling young woman in an office, leafs through a handful of new Liberty Bonds supporting World War 1.
Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge in New York City with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York City and New York City skyline. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central Station or early Penn Station railroad train station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Moving timeline graphic depicts dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numerals, physics, and industrial revolution with electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General Electric company building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Scientist with beakers and test tubes. Scientists in laboratory and looking through microscopes.
A man rides a two-wheeled dune bike on the shoreline at Jensen beach, Florida. Cars move on multi-lane Interstate Highway. Many 1970s cars seen. Signs with distances and directions along the roadside and above the highways. Signs for Interstates 40; Hwy 95 in Virginia;Hwy 65 at Birmingham Alabama;Hwy 75 N to Atlanta and S to Macon and Florida;Hwy 80 in Iowa; Hwy 85 in Georgia; and Hwy 15 in Montana. Other destinations include: Chattanooga,Knoxville,and Louisville. Cars repaired in a garage. A car moves out of the garage and takes to the highway. Cars, bikes and buses on a highway. Cars loaded onto a car-carrier truck and transported along the Interstate Highway. A Continental Trailways bus on a highway. Point of view shot from moving vehicle driving on highways near Washington DC area, including in Prince George's County and near Route 450 Defense Highway near Bladensburg.
Country side with mist rising from the hills. A country blacksmith and helper at work making iron parts for wooden wheels. Assembly of wooden wheels for covered wagon. A loaded covered wagon. Men ride horse drawn wagons in the country side. A wagon train.
A stream flows in the countryside. Early black and white photographs of prospectors and miners panning for gold; working claims; transporting supplies with the help of a mule; operating sluices. Color scenes in 20th century of persons panning for gold, as a hobby or pastime. Includes two men at river side panning, and scenes of family, including young children panning and using a sluice box in search for gold nuggets. A man displays two tiny nuggets retrieved from a sluice box.
Series of vintage cars displayed, from very early to more modern. A highly stylized dune buggy vehicle rides along a two-lane highway and is passed by the photographers car.
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