Soldiers of the 1st Air Cavalry Division of the U.S. Army with a seized North Vietnamese Army weapons cache. They attach sling of cargo net to CH-47 helicopter. Purple colored smoke rises from the LZ (landing zone) as the soldiers signal to a CH-47 Chinook helicopter of the U.S. Army to land. The helicopter hovers in the sky before landing. A soldier stands near a cargo net containing crates of the captured ammunition. The soldier attaches the sling of the cargo net to the helicopter. The helicopter takes off and uplifts the cargo net.
A television program named 'It couldn't be done' hosted by Lee Marvin. Vocal band the 5th Dimension aboard a boat sings the song,"If I had a hammer". Series of brief images show amazing human endeavors underway: Split screen view of face of George Washington being sculpted on Mount Rushmore Memorial by Lincoln Borglum, son of lead sculptor Gutzon Borglum. Animated cartoon image of a bridge from Alaska to Russia and the man behind the idea. View of Golden Gate Bridge under construction and split screen of one of the men who helped build it. View of Hoover Dam and Alaskan Highway. Dam building workers rappel down cliff sides during construction of Hoover Dam. View of Golden Gate Bridge completed. Dam worker throws switch to set off dynamite explosion during Hoover Dam construction process. Alaskan Highway under construction. Worker on Mount Rushmore rappelling over nose on one of the carved faces. NASA Apollo 11 Eagle Landing Module approaching the moon surface and view of moon surface below it. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon during first walk on the moon by a human being. Show host Lee Marvin walks on the beach. Construction workers with hard hats scaling steel girders of a tall skyscraper building under construction in a city.
Children build sand castles on a beach. Artist Gutzon Borglum working in his studio and later on site building the Mount Rushmore Memorial. His son, Lincoln Borglum, is also pictured and interviewed about the project. Footage of the actual carving efforts is shown. The sculpture of the Mount Rushmore Memorial shows face sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in South Dakota, United States. The American flag over the face of Abraham Lincoln's sculpture. Tourists view the Rushmore Memorial.
View of a the Confederate Memorial Carving honoring confederate civil war leaders, located at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Carved figures of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, comprising the largest bas relief sculpture in the world. Each is riding atop their favorite horse, "Little Sorrel", "Traveller", and "Blackjack," respectively. Three sculptors led by Roy Faulkner work and carve the sculpture on rock. Faulkner describes the carving activity, done using the back-blast of jet-fuel-powered torches.
View of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a colossal sculpture in situ, located in Thunderhead Mountain, in the Black HIlls of South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski with his five sons working on the project. He sculpts a model of Chief Crazy Horse known as the Crazy Horse Memorial and he describes the project, including how he declined offers of U.S. government funds for the project. The in-progress sculpted model is of the Oglala Lakota Indian Chief Crazy Horse riding on a horse. A studio down the hill. Korczak Ziolkowski and his sons drill with drilling machine on rock. Dynamite explosion on the rock face. Ziolkowski poses for a photograph in front of a model of the Crazy Horse Memorial with his family.
Brief shot of hands dialing a phone followed by views of United States Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). View of the Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States) and Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) from a moving car. Obelisk of the Washington Monument in Washington DC. Still photographs of the Washington Monument under construction. View of the Washington Monument from different angles. The American flags flutter in front of the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). View of the White House. Cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin are also seen. From a Bell Telephone television advertisement.