| ROAD MAKING IN WEST INDIES West Indians work in diggers to clear the way for a road. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 8265 |
| Catalog #: | 521901 | |
| Clip Number: | 521901-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 4577 K | |
| Timecode: | 01:48:54 - 01:53:21 | |
| Location: | Caribbean | |
| Year Shot: | 1972 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Equipment CONSTRUCTION: Excavation CONSTRUCTION: Roads & Highways ENGINEERING: Roads & Highways LOCATIONS/CARIBBEAN: Misc | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 94750 ROAD MAKING IN WEST INDIES West Indians work in diggers to clear the way for a road. Construction crew cutting a road through rain forest; specific country unidentified, somewhere in Caribbean. (infrastructure, developing countries, third world, progress, environment, destruction) Man in digger (Caterpillar) picks up soil and moves it to the other side where it falls down the side. LS Bulldozer scooping piles of earth and dumping down a steep hillside; can see river running at the bottom. On a higher level on hillside earth moving machines are pushing dirt down to the bulldozers which then dump it on down the cliff. Various shots of earth moving machines pushing dirt; jungle in BG. View from Caterpillar tractor at work. CU tractor driver on moving tractor. Bull tied up on the back of a truck stopped on the unfinished road; apparently waiting to get through. | |
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