| Alcan Highway (Alaska-Canadian Highway) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1814 |
| Catalog #: | 525041 | |
| Clip Number: | 525041-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-DFS-16-113 | |
| Timecode: | 01:52:40 - 01:54:30 | |
| Location: | Canada | |
| Year Shot: | 1946 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Equipment CONSTRUCTION: Roads & Highways LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada TRANSPORTATION: Highways | |
| Description: | Master 1814 - Tape 1 Map of western coastline of Canada. Aerial of road through mountainous Canadian landscape. MS as man exits building with sign reading "Headquarters-Whitehorse Sector-Alcan Highway." TLS two cars driving on crude mud road, they slip and slide, a bulldozer is seen moving at a slow pace next to the cars. TLS men walking out of the woods. MS man using land surveying equipment as a second man takes notes on paper. MS/TLS bulldozer plowing through forest knocking down evergreen trees. MS men chopping trees. MS men walking thick cables down cliffside. Low angle MS looking up side of cliff where one man is using a jackhammer at the top, pan down to man using a shovel on cliffside, pan down to man at bottom of cliff using sledgehammer and pickaxe to break large rocks. MS military vehicles rolling past camera. MS earth flattening rollers moving past camera. Traveling MS of pick-up truck driving through deep standing water. Slightly elevated TLS of earthmoving operations with bulldozers dumping dirt into truck bed. TLS bulldozer shoveling and then dumping dirt into truck bed. LS/MS pan of trucks loaded with loose soil moving across temporary bridge. TLS convoy of trucks moving along crude road, lead truck dumps load of dirt in the bed. Aerial of Canadian coastline. | |
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