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Sailors aboard USS Ortolan catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.
USS Ortolan underway off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. sailor aboard USS Ortolan catches a fish with the help of a fishing rod. The fish being pulled aboard. A sailor holds the fish. In a humorous moment, Navy sailors throw two of their fellow sailors into the ocean, while having fun.
Traditional Agricultural activities in Afghanistan
Film shows various crops grown in the fertile valley farms of Afghanistan, that are irrigated by snow melt from the mountains. Men cultivating cotton plants using hand tools. Fields of clover and alfalfa. Closeup of Grains being harvested by hand. Extensive rice paddies. Grape arbors seen with towering snow-covered mountains in the background. Men picking melons in a patch. Men walking through orchards of fruit trees. Closeup of oranges on trees. Donkeys carrying agricultural products on their backs on the way to market. Several pack animals carrying goods into a small town trading center.
The Morrison and Knudsen construction company contracts to build dams in Afghanistan and commences operations
Film opens with camera panning over the rugged, arid regions of Afghanistan. Broad view of the city of Kandahar, where modern buildings are being erected. Street scene in Kandahar shows numerous pedestrians walking along a road. View of new homes and other buildings recently constructed. Scene shifts to agricultural activities and products. Men bring products to market carried on backs of donkeys. A man harvesting some type of crop in a valley farm. Houses in a valley farm. View of a river. View of camels grazing on semiarid land. Executives of Morris and Knudsen construction company are seen in their offices, discussing a contract to build dams and irrigation canals in Afghanistan. Next, are shown stacks of skins from new born Karakul sheep, which earn Afghanistan millions of dollars annually in exports, and would, along with other assets, pay for the project. Morrison and Knudsen engineers are seen working over plans for the project. Potential employees for the project are seen being interviewed. A field engineer is seen receiving his passport as he prepares to fly to Afghanistan. A uniformed officer enters an office building to present the first requisition for supplies to be obtained for the project. A man reads a Radiogram requesting supplies. A purchasing agent begins processing the requests. A woman types necessary requisitions and others work on the requests. A steam locomotive is seen speeding along a railroad, as supplies begin arriving at American seaports for shipment abroad. A freighter loading supplies for trans-shipment to Pakistan. Longshoremen use pikes to roll heavy timbers for loading. Forklifts move heavy crates for loading. A freighter crew loads large wooden crates by means of the ship's cranes. The supplies,including prefabricated structural items are loaded into the ship hold. A sea bird perches on a ship. View of the stern and wake of a ship carrying supplies for the Afghanistan project. View of Karachi, Pakistan (where Morrison and Knudsen maintain an expediting office). Local people walking and riding bicycles. A camel pulls a wagon heavily laden with cargo. Views of cargo being offloaded from a freighter. Men on the dock load cargoes into cars of the Pakistan Northwest Railway. A freight train heading North toward the Afghanistan border. Views from the moving train as it enters a tunnel. Views, from the train, of rural Pakistan.
Morrison-Knudsen construction company builds dams and irrigation canals in Afghanistan
Opening scene shows the Boghra diversion dam and associated irrigation canal built by Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company (MK) along the Helmand River in Afghanistan. Three MKA (Morrison-Knudsen-Afghanistan) engineers stand on the bank of the new irrigation canal of this project. Glimpse of a small power plant built on the canal. A man turns a large wheel releasing water from lateral canals into the main canal which would irrigate an experimental farming area. An MKA yellow truck,carrying three Afghans in the back, drives through an ancient gate to the headquarters for this experimental farm at an ancient caravan fortress named Nad-e Ali. Next, an Afghan is seen driving a tractor pulling a set of harrows to till the soil. A field where seed was planted. Scene shifts to later when the seeds have grown and an Afghan farmers are seen harvesting the new grain by hand. The next year, fields of alfalfa are seen from the first year's seeding. Another tractor is seen working at the edge of a field of crop. Afghan farmers use hand cultivators to tend the crops. View of large fields of crops. An Afghan boy stands on the bank of the Boghra canal. View of camels grazing in sparse desert area. Scene shifts to Afghan and MKA officials negotiating another contract. View of brass sign on the Export Import Bank in Washington, DC. Inside, officials of the Bank are seated around a table. (Narrator states the Bank provided a 22 million dollar loan for the new extended construction contract.) View of the Helmand River (and its deep canyon Northwest of Kandahar) and the Arghandab River, where large dams were to be constructed. Dump trucks are next seen commencing work at the Arghandab site, building a work road atop a dike along the side of the river. Camera pans across the broad sweep of the project underway. Construction equipment of all types seen moving along the work road and at work atop the dam. Afghan workers operating power shovels. Earth and stones moving on a conveyor belt. Wooden forms being built and steel reinforcing bars being installed. Afghans clearing areas for drilling operations. Afghan powder men ram charges into areas to be blasted. View of man pushing handle to ignite the charges. Explosion raises smoke, debris and dust. More views of construction equipment in operation Views of the dam at about the 200 foot height.
A Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad train operating along its main line in Ohio
Steam locomotive, number 79, of the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railway on a slightly elevated track, next to a coal car.in a train yard. Worker is examining and possibly oiling parts of engine drive. Scene shifts to interior of locomotive maintenance shop where men work on a train car parked next to a locomotive. Scene shifts, again, to view from rear of moving train as it traverses route along the valley floor, from vicinity of Spargursville (AKA Spargurs) to Bainbridge, including bridges over Sulphur Creek , Alexander Hollow Rd, and both bridges over Paint Creek between the two towns. The train passes a tender connected to some sort steam driven machine (probably a pile driver as they are working on trestles). Also shown are box cars converted into bunk houses used by the work crew, which appear to be parked at Storms, only 6.9 miles from Summit, where the work is likely being undertaken. . The film ends at the Bainbridge train station. (Note: regarding the reference to work going on at Summit. Although not seen in this sequence, the track there was so steep that trains had to be broken down and moved up a few cars, at a time, to the top, where the train was then reassembled before proceeding.)
African American students attend lectures and work on different instruments at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Education for African American college students at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. A telephone operator at a desk as she attends phone calls using a small switchboard. Two African American professors at a desk as they confer and smile. Students in a classroom take down notes. Students work with a Monroe adding machine as they take down notes. African American student operating a mimeograph duplication machine. Another student operates what it appears to be a early photographic copying machine for paper documents.
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