While the credits are displayed overtop, a man drags a frightened dog in front of a large fenced area containing many larger barking dogs. As the credits end, the man opens the gate and kicks the dog through, where it is immediately chased by the other dogs. A statue by Luigi Gheno is dedicated to
Rudolph Valentino in his hometown of
Castellaneta, Italy. At the event the narrator points out similarities in some local men's faces to Valentino's. In the United States,
Rossano Brazzi has his shirt torn off by a crowd of adoring female fans hunting for his autograph. At the beach in
polyandrous Kiriwina, one of the
Trobriand Islands in
New Guinea, a large crowd of topless native women run after a handful of men, trying to capture them "not only for autographs". On the
French Riviera, a small group of blonde bikini-clad young women on a boat drive by a ship with U.S. sailors, "wooing" them teasingly from the distance by sending them kisses, showing their tongues and flaunting their breasts. In a New Guinean
Chimbu community, a woman whose child was killed
breastfeeds a
piglet whose mother died. Also in New Guinea, at a celebration that recurs every five years, in a matter of hours, dozens of pigs are slaughtered by beating on their heads with wooden poles, and eaten, after which the partly
cannibalistic community returns to its perpetual state of hunger. Dogs, however, are fed some of the pork and treated with affection and respect. At the
Pet Haven Cemetery in
Pasadena, California, dog owners mourn their departed pets. A restaurant sign advertises "FAMOUS DISH ROAST DOG MEAT". Live dogs are shown in cages, and butchered dog parts are shown being cooked. In
Rome, hundreds of
chicks are tinged in many colors and then dried at 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) to be included in
Easter eggs; according to the narrator, of each 100 that undergo it, approximately 70 do not survive the procedure. For
foie gras, geese in
Strasbourg are force-fed using
funnels. In a farm 200 miles from
Tokyo,
Wagyu cattle are treated with care by being massaged and fed beer, so that their meat can eventually be served at luxury restaurants in Tokyo and
New York. On New Guinean
Tabar, the most beautiful women are locked up in small wooden cages and fed
tapioca until they reach 120 kilos (264 pounds) to be offered as wives to the village dictator. In a
Vic Tanny health club in
Los Angeles, overweight women work on losing weight to recover from a previous marriage. At a
Hong Kong market, exotic animals are sold for food. At the New York restaurant
The Colony, canned exotic animals are served for rich Americans. At a
Singapore snake store, a snake is chosen and butchered for consumption. In the Italian village of
Cocullo, on
Saint Dominic's day, the saint's statue is carried in a procession along with large numbers of wild snakes as the centrepiece of a
festival. In
Nocera Terinese, on
Good Friday, each "vattienti" beats their legs with glass shards and spills their blood on the streets where the procession will take place. A parade of the "
Life Savers Girls Association" make their way to
Sydney's
Manly Beach to put on a
surf carnival, including demonstrations of
CPR on young men. Due to the nuclear contamination on
Bikini Atoll, swarms of dead butterflies drift at sea, birds hide in holes in the ground, a species of
Periophthalmus fish migrated to the trees,
sea gulls brood over sterile eggs, and disoriented turtles move inland and die on the atoll's dry sand dunes. Birds nest in the skeletons of turtles, which move in the wind as if they were still alive. In
Malaysian underwater cemeteries,
sharks get accustomed to human flesh. Their fins are dried on the beach and collected by disabled fishermen, who sell them to the Chinese as
aphrodisiacs. A 12-year-old Malaysian boy has been killed by sharks, and the fisherman exact revenge by shoving toxic
sea urchins into the mouths of sharks, releasing them again to slowly die. In Rome's
Capuchin Crypt, bones are arranged as ornaments, while on
Tiber Island, the
Sacconi Rossi ("Red Sacks") guard the bones of nameless victims of the past since around 1600, which on Fridays are cleaned by local families including children. On the
Reeperbahn in
Hamburg, people indulge by drinking beer. They sleep standing up, dance, drunkenly fight, and fool around, then experience
hangovers the following morning.
Tokyo has a
massage parlor catering to men who are drunk. In
Macao, the recently-deceased are tended to with
cosmetics in preparation for their funerals. Congregations of mourners
burn money as a donation for the departed to take with them to the afterlife. Meanwhile, in
Singapore, where 60% of citizens are of
Chinese descent, there is a hotel for the dying members of Chinese families. Relatives await their demise by making merry at restaurants in the plaza nearby. Cars are crushed at a junkyard in
Los Angeles, reduced to metal cubes for recycling. One such cube is put on display at a gallery in
Paris. The French artist
Yves Klein, erroneously introduced as
Czechoslovak, comes forward from one of his monochromatic blue paintings to start of a line of musicians to play his
Monotone Symphony. A group of women employed by Klein immerse themselves in blue paint and use their bodies to create impressions on a canvas that will be sold for 4 million
French francs. In
Honolulu, tourists are showered with
leis and witness a
hula dance. In Nepal,
Gurkha soldiers perform a rite of passage by dressing up in women's clothing on anniversary of the execution of 300 Gurkha
POWs by the
Japanese Imperial Army during
WWII. In a ritualistic contest of strength, they behead buffalo. In Portugal, there is a morning
running of the bulls for working-class citizens and an afternoon bull-taunting inside a stadium for noble-born men in formal costumes. In
Goroka, a city in
Papua New Guinea, there are indigenous tribes who attend Catholic church services. The film concludes with footage of a group of indigenous people who live as part of a
cargo cult in the mountains near
the airport of
Port Moresby. Having encountered and interacted with foreign airmen during World War II, the people have built icons of worship from
bamboo that resemble an airport runway, airplane, and control tower. ==Production==