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Views of the city and points of interest in Kabul, the Capital of Afghanistan during its modernization after World War II
Film opens panning across the capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan. High mountains dominate the background. Scene shifts to a street in the city, with a mosque at its end. Buses travel along the street and numerous pedestrians walk along its sides. Camera focuses on the Kabul River and bridge over it in the Nakhās district of Kabul. A car drives past a monument in a park-like setting. Pedestrians walk along a street, and give way as a bus passes in the center. Views of several mosques in the city. The National House of Parliament, overlooking the city from a hill on the outskirts. A blue and white flag flies from its roof. View of the Tajbeg Palace. Construction taking place in the city of Kabul. Masons pass bricks, one at a time as they build a new structure. A herd of pack animals carrying building materials to a building site. Buildings of modern design.
Morrison and Knudsen construction company building dams in Afghanistan
Opening scene shows view from vehicle traveling from the Pakistan border over the Spinbaldak-Kandahar highway. View from above of a yellow truck on that road and arriving at the Morrison and Knudsen (MK) construction company headquarters near Kandahar. Views of the buildings to house and otherwise provide for MK employees. View of several camels walking away from the camera in a desert area. An MK crane lifts a drag line bucket in process of laying out a canal. An old man and a young boy watch the process. View of the MK-built dam across the Helmand River that will supply canals with water for irrigation. The King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir Shah, arrives with aides to inspect the project. (Narrator notes the King was present at the gate-opening of the dam in 1949.) An MK engineer converses with the King. View of water flowing for the first time into a new canal. (The water approaches a man walking in the dry canal.) Engineers converse while standing above a canal construction site. Below, teams of Afghan workers work on the canal sides. An Afghan surveyor, using a transit, to lay out the center line for a canal, waves his arms to an assistant in the distance. Closeup of man driving a stake and another holding the line that will mark the center line. Earth moving equipment being used to prepare the canal bed. Closeup of machine wheels turning. Glimpse of freshly-dug long canal
Scenes illlustrating the success of the Afghan Government's mondernization program under contracts with Morrison-Knudsen-Afghanistan construction company (MKA).
Various scenes of Afghanistan and its people several years after its post war modernization program. Scenes of Kabul. Older students leaving a school and younger ones walking through a park-like setting. Afghan planners discussing future projects. View of a dam built by MKA. A large Afghan factory building. Afghans loading huge bags of cotton for export. A man shows the contents of one sack. Smoke stack on an Afghan textile plant. Inside, many machines spin cotton into thread. Glimpses of new hospitals, schools and mosques. A modern home and garden. A gardener waters pots of flowers in the garden. Views of a vast field of grain at the MKA experimental farm. The field is seen when green, and then again, when ready for harvest. Afghan farmers harvesting the wheat with machinery. Men walking alongside a harvesting machine in operation.
A medical officer decorates U.S. soldiers with the Purple Hearts in Palermo, Sicily, Italy during World War II.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Water ambulances come in to a pier. A wounded soldier on a litter is placed in a new ambulance. A medical officer decorates U.S. soldiers with the Purple Hearts ion Palermo. Other soldiers lined up in the background. A dead German soldier on a dirt road. Surgeons perform an operation in artificial lights. The medical officer decorates the soldiers.
A USAF B-58 Hustler aircraft flies low over deserts and mountains and lands at Edwards Air Force Base in the United States.
A film about the low angle flying ability of United States air Force B-58 Hustler aircraft in the United States. A B-58 aircraft in flight over lush green fields in New Mexico while on its way to Edwards Air Force Base. A pilot at the controls in the cockpit of the aircraft. Aerial view of mountains. The aircraft in flight over Vandenberg Air Force Base. The aircraft flies over a lake. The B-58 in a low flight over mountains and deserts. It flies low over the Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft carries a free fall bomb pod while in flight. The aircraft lands at Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft taxis and comes to a stand still. The pilot gets off the B-58 aircraft.
The X-15 with Bomber NB-52A in flight and the X-15 lands at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States.
X-15 rocket-powered aircraft piloted by Joseph Albert Walker setting a new altitude record of 169,600 feet in California, United States. The X-15 rocket-powered aircraft with the Bomber NB-52A in flight. The X-15 rocket-powered aircraft lands at the Edwards Air Force Base. The aircraft taxis along the runway. Smoke trails out of the aircraft.
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