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.
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.
Television program host, Lee Marvin talks about the Erie Canal in New York. View of the Erie Canal that connects Great lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. Still images of the canal in its early days. Modern moving images of a steamer on the canal.
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.