Title card: The Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company delivers Gas
Beginning of film. Brief history of natural gas industry
United states map showing demand for gas
The Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company (TGT) planning pipeline
Views of terrain where pipeline will be installed
Downtown Houston, Texas
Ceremony celebrating the beginning of construction. Takes place near the Cumberland River in Nashville, Tennessee, with dedication by TGT board chairmen Richard Wagner.
TGT executives using aerial maps to plan pipeline routes
Survey parties measure and mark Right-of-Way for pipeline
Difficult terrain for measuring: East Texas, swamps
Clearing trees from Right-of-Way
"Timber!"
Bulldozers clearing tree stumps
Transporting pipes to job sites by train,
by truck
and by side boom tractors
Digging trenches for pipeline
Giant bucket ditchers
Pipe detector
Difficult terrain: solid rock
Dynamite blowing up rock
Backhoe clears blown-up rock
[Pipe bending and joining processes]
Cold wrinkle bending
Tack welding
Pressure welding
[Pipeline Maintenance]
Dehydration plant
Compressor stations
Cooling towers
Housing for plant operators
Coating and wrapping pipe to protect it from corrosive soil
Priming pipe
Enameling pipe, then wrapping with asbestos felt
Electrical detectors checking coating
Lowering pipe into ground
Burying pipeline
Difficult terrain: rivers
Laying charges in Tennessee River, followed by explosions
Clearing rock and shale loosened by dynamite
Burying pipeline in rivers and swamps
Dividing pipeline for Mississippi River (shows bridge in Greenville Mississippi)
Erecting towers to stabilize pipelines traveling over rivers
Aerial view of pipeline over Buffalo River
Sign: Tennessee Gas & Transmission Co. Arthur D. Chilgren Dehydration Plant Aqua Dulce, Texas
Aerial views of terrain where pipeline was installed
Narrator summation, set to scenes of molten metal in steel mills