Host Lee Marvin. The Triple span arch Eads Bridge at St. Louis, connecting St. Louis and East St. Louis, Illinois. View of the bridge spanning the Mississippi River. View of the Eads Bridge with the St. Louis Arch in the background. Boat passes under the bridge. Aerial views of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. Portraits of John Augustus Roebling, then of his son, Washington, and his wife Emily Warren Roebling, and the story of how he gave her his instructions on how to build the bridge by tapping on her arm, due to his caisson illness. Views of the Brooklyn bridge from various angles. Early moving image footage of the nearby Williamsburg Bridge, still under construction and not yet completed, shot in 1902. The scene shows recent fire damage to the Williamsburg Bridge. Next scene shows September 22, 1899 Edison footage of the Brooklyn Bridge taken aboard a moving train moving toward the bridge.
Vocal group the 5th Dimension sing and dance aboard a boat in San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California. The boat passes under the Golden Gate Bridge. Vehicles drive on the bridge. Band members sing and dance.
View of waterfalls, mountains and serene lakes in California. Song in background about western United States before railroads existed there. Still photos and sketches railroad pioneer Theodore Dehone Judah, and of Chinese workers and other laborers as they work to build the railroad through the Sierra Nevada mountains beginning in 1865. Pictures of early railroad building, westward expansion, and men building a railroad bridge. Train moving between mountain valleys. Still photo from May 10, 1869 of workers from the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads celebrating at Promontory, Utah, when their two railroad lines were joined together to realize the goal of the Transcontinental Railroad.
The Gateway Arch also known as Gateway to the West, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial. The Memorial is 630 feet tall and 630 feet wide. View of Gateway Arch with sun setting in the background at dusk.
Animated pictures of a proposed bridge from Alaska to Siberia, over the Bering Sea, linking the U.S. with Russia. Interview with Dr. T.Y. Lin (Tung-Yen Lin) of the University of California, Berkeley, as he describes his Intercontinental Peace Bridge proposal. Narration by Lee Marvin.
Construction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. A small model of the buildings. A pilot seated in cockpit of helicopter. Aerial view of the city of New York with its tall buildings, viewed from the height and location of the not-yet-completed World Trade Center. Workers construct the World Trade Center building. One of the twin towers partially completed. A steel worker, John McCeever stands in front of the building and talks about his participation in building the tallest building in the world. Views of cranes, steel beams, and workers building one of the towers.