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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.
Students receive a modern education at school and university level in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A film about the life of people in Afghanistan. Children play at a school. Exteriors of the University of Kabul. Students milling about in the foreground. American and Afghan professors at work. Students in the university campus. Views of students playing football (Soccer), basketball, boxing, throwing the shot put, and wrestling.
Missiles and missile containers on transporters, and T-54 tanks move during Afghan Army parade in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan Army units parade in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan Army armored vehicles passing along a road during the Afghan Army parade in Kabul. Three SA-2 Guidelines, the Soviet designed surface-to-air missiles, on transporters moving along the road. People lined on the side of the road. A few missile containers on transporters move on the road. T-54 tanks with soldiers on it moving along the road during the parade. '4-410' written on a tank. The Army band playing instruments march following the tank. View of men and children watching the parade.
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.
