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
A phosphate mine in the United States. African American men work with shovels and pick axes to dig by hand and fill rail road gondola cars. African American workers dig out phosphate with shovels and picks. Smoke rises in the background. A foreman in a long coat stands and watches over the workers. Railroad gondolas loaded with phosphate ore. The small railroad cars are moved by locomotive train engine to an elevated dumping area. Crates of ore ascend the rail track to the top dumping station and are emptied. They are then rolled back down empty, and diverted to a different track via a rail switch. A railroad gondola train leaves the depot area towing empty cars back to the mining area. Clip ends showing a large spinning industrial drum used in part of the phosphate processing.
Areas near the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The Pioneer Monument in downtown Denver, Colorado, with equestrian statue of Kit Carson on the top (sculpted by Frederick William MacMonnies in 1911). Old automobiles drive by in the background behind the monument. A man walks down a snow-covered slope of the Rockies among evergreen trees. Snow covered the mountain in the background. A view of Longs Peak and the Rockies surrounding the area. Aerial view of the Colorado Capitol Building (200 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, United States) in Denver, Colorado. The skyline of Denver and buildings and landmarks in the downtown Denver area. A small locomotive engine on a railroad track beside rock rubble. Two people walk past the steam locomotive. A waterfall in the Rockies. Water comes down the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
During the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee for veterans of the American Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Encampment tents during the reunion. Civil war veterans wash at a long table with basins and towel rack. The veterans loaded onto trucks as they go for an inspection of the former battlefield. The veterans pose near a civil war cannon. A minister speaks from a platform at Iowa Monument. The veterans and soldiers on the platform. The veterans at the Minnesota Monument. View of Vicksburg Battlefield. View of Union Naval Monument.
Displays in windows of different stores in New York City, United States. A woman serves fresh oysters at a shop. Sign reads, "Fresh Long Island Oysters". A restaurant with sign "B/G. A meal a minute" and a chef turning chickens on a rotisserie. A pizza maker tosses a large crust into the air as onlookers watch him through the restaurant window. Numerous watches on display in the window of a jewelry shop. A man at work in the shop. At a cobbler shop, a sign on a window reads 'Ripple soles'. Cooks grilling steaks over a grated fire in a restaurant.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. A barrage balloon in flight over a convoy of Allied ship off the coast of Gela. The barrage balloon is shot down and it falls into water. Liberty ship SS Robert Rowan is hit with an incendiary bomb dropped by a German aircraft. The ship on fire. Smoke rises. Explosives on the ship blow up. A huge column of smoke rises from the ship. Other ships in the background and landing barges in the foreground. A long trail of smoke left by the burning ship.
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