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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.

Location: Kabul Afghanistan
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066740
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

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066743
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.

Location: Afghanistan
Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066747
A water rescue tanker arrives and men drink water in Austin, Texas.

Water rescue in Austin,Texas. A water tanker arrives in the city. A flag flutters in wind atop a building. A banner on the tanker reads highland lakes water for thirsty New Yorkers. Trees in the background. Men stand nearthe tanker. A man shows a document signed by Texas Mayor Taylor Glass. Men fill water in glasses and drink. Men aboard the tanker wave hats and drive off.

Location: Austin Texas USA
Date: 1949, December 30
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073136
Women dressed up in evening gowns drink liquor, and table appointments for dinner in France.

Lifestyle of people in France. A man looks at an 18th century engraving of women at a party. Women dressed up in "New Look" evening gowns open a box and take out a liquor bottle. A woman shaking a cocktail shaker. They fill their glasses and drink. Table appointments including cutlery and crockery are set. Three women chatting.Women light candles on a stand. A woman shows her jewels.

Location: France
Date: 1949, December 30
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073140
Large crowd of civilians gather at the Saint Peter's Square as Pope John XXIII passes away in Vatican City,Rome.

Scenes following news of death of Pope John XXIII in Vatican City,Rome. Large crowd of civilians gather at the Saint Peter's Square. They place pictures of Pope John XXIII. Civilians pray for the recovery of Pope's illness in front of the windows of Pope apartment. Past scenes show: Pope John XXIII meets with the bishops.

Location: Vatican City Rome Italy
Date: 1963, June 3
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073167
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