| Wilderness Dam: Huge Project Rises In Quebec Forest | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1730 |
| Catalog #: | 426459 | |
| Clip Number: | 426459-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 037-093-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:24:11 - 00:25:15 | |
| Location: | Quebec, Canada | |
| Year Shot: | 1964 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Dams & Levees CONSTRUCTION: Earth Movers CONSTRUCTION: Equipment CONSTRUCTION: Excavation ENGINEERING: Dams LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: Canada, Quebec | |
| Description: | Rising out of the forest wilderness of Quebec is one of the forest wilderness of Quebec is one of the biggest power projects ever undertaken by man. Part of a multi-dam engineering feat that will harness 7,000,000 horsepower, Manicouagan Dam will be almost a mile long and back of it will be a man-made lake covering 800 square miles. Aerial shot of wilderness of Quebec you see the construction of a huge power project. A construction worker ready to put the plunger down on dynamiting a hill side, off it goes and down comes some of the hill. A huge scoop attached to a crane taking the loose dirt and rock and putting it aside. A lot of construction workers hosing the dirt down with water, scooping it up with cranes and working on the dam itself. Aerial shot - Dam is taking usual horseshoe form, camera widens it picture and you can see the over all view of the power plant taking form. | |
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