With plants and bamboo "pipes" as a promise of things to come, the Crystal Cathedral here used mass choirs and marimbas and kettle drums for musical displays.

Note the camera man behind the ferns photographing the congregation joining the choir in hymnody.

Dr. Herman J. Ridder reads scripture. Note the position of the ferns and the great doors, now closed. The attractive interior was such that the drive-in church which harked back to Schuller's original fame in the drive-in ...

Never one to neglect an opportunity to multiply an effect, here the action and sound of the living water is coupled with the growth and life given to the ferns by the water.

The living water of the fountain seems to have given way to having given life to green foliage. Also note the camera man getting close ups of the members of the orchestra.