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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.
Farmers sow seeds in farms and canal system of the Helmand River brings water to farms in Afghanistan.
Our House is near the river' shows development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. A farmer comes out of his house with seeds. He goes to his farmland. Farmers sow seeds. A tractor in a field. Monuments along the Helmand River. Canal system of the Helmand River to bring water to farms. Views of desert.
The Kajaki Dam on the Helmand River provides flood control, power and water to the Helmand valley in Afghanistan.
Development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. The Kajaki Dam at the Helmand river provides flood control, produces power and provides irrigation water to the Helmand valley. Water flows in the river. Canals and ditches supply water to farms. Researchers, technicians and a hydroelectric power plant. Teachers help and train farmers and tell them farming methods. Nurses share medical skills with the farmers. Heavy machine operators and engineers assist the farmers. Development of schools, hospitals, offices, houses, bridges, roads and industries near the region of the Helmand River.
Various agriculture commodities are grown and transported and Agriculture Development Bank assists farmers in Afghanistan.
Development of the region near the Helmand River in Afghanistan with the help of the Afghan Government and the U.S. Afghan men pray in a mosque. Stores along a street. A traffic policeman control traffic. Views of building. Afghani people sitting and discuss the Helmand River project. A man speaks. Views of farms showing various crops including grains, pomegranate, water melon and cotton. Afghanis load cotton supplies onto a truck. Ditches supply water to farms. A tractor plows a farm. Men use shovels and dig. Farmers arrange sacks of agriculture commodities. They load the agriculture commodities onto mules. Agriculture Development Bank personnel provide loan to farmers and assist them in purchasing various commodities and farming tools. At Balon Research Farm a man waters plants. Crops and plants in farms. Cattle drink water. Cattle in a stockyard.
