Preparations for recommission of USS Midway (CV-41) in San Francisco. Sign board reads "USS Midway CVA-41 Modernization. San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard's Greatest Challenge. Scheduled completion June 1970." Workers and heavy equipment in use near the ship. View of USS Midway at port. Large rail crane in the background.
Moving POV point of view shot as a pedestrian holding a camera walks on sidewalk along Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Crowded sidewalk with pedestrians in 1970's fashions. Manhattan streets busy with cars and trucks and taxis. Vendors selling their products including fruits and jewelry in stands set up on sidewalk. Traffic seen on the roads. A cafe advertising Frankfurters. Large sign "Goldsmith Bros" on the Goldsmith Bros. stationary and office supply store. Sign for "Barney's Discount Center" (Barneys New York).
View from ground of Twin Towers of World Trade Center, still under final construction, in lower Manhattan, New York City. People crowded on a sidewalk in New York City with sidewalk close up shots of pedestrians walking to work, wearing late 1960's and early 1970's fashions. Men and women workers walk.
View of Seatrain lines at harbor in New York City in the United States. People exit from the building of the Department of Marine Aviation and head toward Manhattan office buildings and taxi cabs. View of 1970s car traffic on busy streets and roads of Manhattan, New York City.
View of high rise buildings and skyscrapers, subway and highway in New York City from moving vehicle (brief POV shot). Motorists in a tunnel or bridge entrance merge area in New York City. Heavy traffic congestion at the merge, possibly at a tunnel entrance. Many 1960's and 1970's vehicles including cars and trucks jockeying for progress in the slow traffic jam.
Popular 1970s vocal group the "5th Dimension" sings the song " A pocketful of seeds" by Elliot Willensky as they dance. Scenes of engineers working in the background, on screen, on various engineering projects in the United States. Engineers working at night. Men build railway track.