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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
Agricultural modernization project in Afghanistan undertaken by the Morrison-Knudsen construction Company
Closeup of tractor pulling sheepsfoot compaction rollers. "MKA" (Morrison-Knudsen, Afghanistan) painted on the equipment. Power shovel filling a dump truck. Afghan welder repairing a part. Afghans working on tractors and replacing a huge tire on its rim. Afghans display their knowledge and skills operating heavy construction equipment. View from cab of a power shovel at the Boghra dam and irrigation project, where canals are extending their reach. Camel caravans arriving in the vicinity. Camps set up by Afghan farmers hoping to obtain allotments of irrigated land. The farmers drawing diagrams in the sand and discussing hopeful future plans. Afghan masons building homes for future settlers. Scene shifts to water seen flowing through the main Boghra canal and then emerging into the cultivated section of MKA's experimental farm project. Afghan farmers tending alfalfa hay. Two men walk among fruit trees in an orchard. Other crops, and Afghans tilling soil with machinery. Crops growing on strips of earth fed by small irrigation ditches. Vast field of green growing wheat, then shown later, ready for harvest. View of Afghans harvesting the wheat with machinery.
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.
President Iskander Mirza tours the flood affected areas in Afghanistan.
Iskander Mirza visits Afghanistan during his tenure as the President of Pakistan. President Iskander Mirza of Pakistan aboard an airborne. Aerial views of the flood affected areas. Vast areas submerged in water. President Iskander Mirza gets off an aircraft. He shakes hands with officials at the airport.
Afghani people and children celebrate Eid in Afghanistan.
Children take a ride on a merry-go-round during Eid celebration in Afghanistan. Group of people feast under a walnut tree. Cooks prepare barbecue on live charcoal. Musicians play 'Harmonium' and 'Tabla' . Afghani people dance as onlookers clap and cheer. Afghans take a leisure walk in the park. The Public Works Band in the park plays 'Gaiety in the Air' .
Modernization of Afghanistan transportation and housing in period 1950 to 1960.
Contrasting examples of changes in transportation and housing in Afghanistan during 1950 to 1960. Cattle draw a plow to till a piece of land in the past.. A tractor being used nowadays to till a farm. Men work on a farm with hand cultivators. Nomads migrate from an area on foot. In contrast, a truck is seen being used as a current means of transportation. Men ride on mules and in horse-drawn carts,as they move from one area to another, in the past. In contrast, a man gets into his automobile. People milling about on a street in a village. View of buildings and factories replacing former villages. Machines in operation inside a factory. New homes for factory workers.
