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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
Mr. and Mrs. Croft arrive at their school in Pittsford, Vermont.
A film titled 'a town solves a problem' about a school in Pittsford, Vermont. A snow covered area. Cars drive down a street with snow on sides. Men walk past houses in the village. Mr. Croft, a janitor of a school and Mrs. Croft, a teacher at the school, exit their house. They walk down a street and enter the school. Mrs. Croft looks at a picture of a desk in a book. She plans to order the desk for the school.
Children arrive at a school and learn to write in Pittsford, Vermont.
A film about a school in Pittsford, Vermont. Children get ready to leave for school. The children walk amidst heavy snow to reach the school. They arrive at the school. A teacher, Mrs. Croft, helps the children to take off their heavy winter clothing. She rings a bell and the children take their seats. The children write and learn in the class.
Mrs. Croft talks to parents about the need to provide hot lunch to students at a school in Pittsford, Vermont.
A film about a school in Pittsford, Vermont, where citizens undertake a democratic effort to start a hot lunch program for students. Students of a variety of ages seated in a school classroom, as a teacher talks at the front of the room near the black board. Children go to an area of the room to pickup lunch bags that they brought from home. At lunch time, students eat lunch. A teacher, Mrs. Croft, and her husband who is the janitor also eat lunch. They think of providing hot lunch to the students. Mrs. Croft and her husband walk out of the school house as they discuss about getting a stove to provide hot lunch to students. They meet Mrs. Davis, a student's mother. They talk about the need of hot lunch. Mrs. Davis convinces other parents. Parents of the students attend a meeting at the school. Mrs. Croft asks for their help to provide hot lunch to the boys and girls at school. Mr. William, superintendent of the school, says that an increase in taxes can lead to a hot lunch.
Parents try to muster support about the issue of hot lunch at a school before a town meeting in Pittsford, Vermont.
A film about a school in Pittsford, Vermont. A student's mother, Mrs. Davis, talks to her husband as he removes snow. They discuss about mustering support for hot lunch issue to be discussed at the annual town meeting. Women discuss near a clothes line. A car at a gas station. Men and women read a notice about the annual town meeting at a post office. Exteriors of a church as bells ring.
Interiors of the White House in Washington DC includes an office room, a sitting room and beds in rooms.
The White House in Washington DC. An office table in the White House. Sofas and chairs in a room. A dinning table in a room. A study table. Beds in rooms. A picture on a wall. Sofas near a fireplace. A candle stand on a wall. A dressing table in a room. Lit candles in candle stands on the sides of a mirror.
