Depicts the work of Kenneth G. Killinger as a mountain missionary of the Lutheran Church in Smyth County and other towns of rural southern appalachia. Man with a primitive moonshine operation at his liquor still in the rural southern appalachian mountains. Shack of logs with barrel lying on ground next to him. Killinger meeting the man. The man being baptized and then reading from a book in a mission church. Portrays travels of Killinger recruiting new Christians. Killinger with lumbermen beside a stand of felled timber. Killinger baptizing a young girl, then driving on mountain dirt roads in a black car. Views of two churches from the exterior, and Killinger preaching in one of them.
Deals with the appalachian mission ministry of Lutheran Pastor Kenneth Killinger. View of downtown Marion, Virginia, located in Smyth County. The Hotel Marion visible on a corner. A black Ford drives up and parks. A fellow Pastor, Brother Ciero Plummer, emerges from the car, enters Killinger's office. The two men chat across Killinger's desk about the need to expand their missionary operations and bring on new seminarians. They view a nearly empty offering plate showing limited funds.
Japanese workers work at Akita Oil fields in Yabase, Japan. Laborers swing I-beam into place on new well. View of the oil well and a tower.
A 1970 television program hosted by Lee Marvin regarding construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco beginning in 1933 and completing in 1937. View of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in New York, and the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco built by Joseph Strauss. Newspaper headlines during debate about whether to construct the bridge, such as 'Jobs Loom' and 'Span for Vote', and "The Golden Gate is One of Nature's Perfect Pictures -- Let's Not Disfigure It". View of the north and south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Boat passes under the bridge during its construction. Stages of Golden Gate Bridge under construction and discussion on the difficulties of setting the towers in the bed of the bay. A blimp passes over the bridge. Engineers work under bad weather conditions. Two men walk on cables connecting the bridge towers. Walter Cathey, construction supervisor, talks about the difficulties during construction and an incident where two bridge builders died during construction. Seagulls on shore. Painting of the bridge using the color known as International Orange. Boat in San Francisco Bay passes under the bridge. Opening ceremonies for the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937 and traffic crossing the bridge for the first time.
Men dig new radar installation platform. Aerial view of French lighthouse on a hill. Man looks through binoculars from a lookout tower on top of a mountain. View of ships in Cam Ranh Bay through a bunker slit. Wrecked old French lighthouse. Harbor Patrol Command Post on top of the mountain.
German civilians forced by U.S. Army soldiers in World War 2 to dig mass graves for Nazi atrocity victims of the Gardelegen Massacre, in Gardelegen, Germany. Bodies of slave laborer political prisoners on the ground, including Russians, Poles, and French, many of whom had come from the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp and the Hannover-Stöcken Concentration Camp . A large barn in the background on the Isenschnibbe estate, showing evidence of fire damage, where many victims were found by the U.S. Army 102nd Infantry Division on April 14, 1945, after having been locked in the barn which was then set on fire on April 13, 1945. German civilians uncover nearby existing hastily dug mass graves containing piled victims. Dead bodies placed in new graves and covered with dirt. Civilians under U.S. Army direction dig long, mass grave trenches to bury the dead.
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