- Title: VM-575B
- Summary: NEW GIRL IN TOWN: AFGHANISTAN VILLAGE LIFESTYLE. COMMUNAL VILLAGE WELL. IRRIGATION SYSTEM. BUILDING NEW DISINFECTED WELL, LATRINE. SANITATION. HEALTH CENTER. HEALTH CARE WORKERS. VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING. RITUALS. FARMING. RURAL DEVELOPMENT. INVENTIONS THAT CHANGED CIVILIZATION.
- Description:00:58:59 - MEN DRAWING WATER FROM A VILLAGE PUMP, MEN WASH FACES & CUP HANDS TO DRINK WATER, AFGHANISTAN 01:01:23 - MONTAGE VALLEY OF KOBUL, SHEPHERD MOVING HERD, 01:01:51 - AFGHAN FARMING RITUAL, FARMERS DANCING WHIRLING LIKE DERVISHES WIELDING SCYTHES, BEFORE HARVEST. 01:02:15 - MONTAGE WATER FLOWING DOWN FROM MOUNTAINS, MOVING THROUGH CANALS, IRRIGATION SYSTEM 01:02:39 - MS WORKER IN WATER, STEPS ON IMPLEMENT WHICH FILLS WITH WATER. GATHERING WATER 01:02:51 - CU MAN BENDING OVER STREAM WASHING FACE, CU WOMAN FILLING WATER VESSEL, VASE. 01:03:17 - MS OPEN LATRINE 01:03:22 - CU FLIES EATING BERRIES, FRUIT 01:03:34 - MERCHANT SELLING FLAT BREAD TO CUSTOMER. CU FLIES ON BREAD 01:03:41 - RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT COMMITTEE MEETING WORKING ON SANITATION PROBLEMS. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SCHEME 01:04:05 - WORKERS DIGGING HOLES FOR PROTECTED DISINFECTED WELLS, POURING DISINFECTION CHEMICALS INTO HOLE UNDERGROUND STREAMS 01:04:34 - MONTAGE INAUGURATING THE PUMP, PUMPING FIRST WELL WATER, CU VILLAGERS, MEN CUPPING HANDS & DRINKING WATER, MS VILLAGERS CLAPPING HANDS, APPLAUDING SUCCESS 01:05:13 - MS KABUL VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING, COUNCILMEN SITTING CROSS LEGGED ON CARPET SPREAD ON GROUND MEN RAISING HANDS, VOTING 01:05:50 - CU VILLAGERS LOADING CONCRETE SLABS ON DONKEY'S BACK 01:05:58 - VILLAGERS CASTING CEMENT SLABS 01:06:07 - VILLAGERS BUILDING SANITARY LATRINE, SEALING DISPOSAL SHAFT. 01:06:34 - FEMALE VILLAGER FILLING VASE WITH WELL WATER 01:06:37 - AFGHAN PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE VISITING PREGNANT WOMAN'S HOME, TRYING TO GET HER TO REGISTER AT HEALTH CENTER, TALKING IN LARGE COURTYARD OF HER HOME 01:07:47 - HUSBAND ARRIVES HOME FROM WORK, ASKS PERMISSION FROM HUSBAND, HUSBAND SHAKES HEAD NO, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE TALKS HIM INTO LETTING WIFE GET PRENATAL CARE 01:08:26 - WOMAN BRINGS FLAT BREAD TO HEALTH CARE NURSE WHO TAKES & EATS PIECE OF BREAD 01:08:43 - AFGHAN WOMEN, COMPLETELY COVERED FROM HEAD TO TOE GOING TO HEALTH CENTER WITH CHILDREN 01:09:07 - PREGNANT WOMAN & YOUNG DAUGHTER ARRIVE AT HEALTH CENTER, NURSE SHOWS CHILD TO PLAYGROUND, CHILDREN PLAYING IN PLAYGROUND, ON SWING SET, 01:09:34 - INTERIOR AFGHAN HEALTH CENTER, MOTHERS WITH BABIES GETTING CHECK UPS. DOCTOR EXAMINING BABY BOY. BABY BEING WEIGHED. MOTHERS RECEIVING MILK POWDER. POWDERED MILK. DOCTOR GIVING BABY SHOT INOCULATION AGAINST SMALLPOX. DOCTOR EXAMINING MOTHER, TONGUE DEPRESSOR. 01:10:55 - CU PHARMACIST FILLING BOTTLE WITH MEDICINE AT DISPENSARY. PRESCRIPTION. 01:11:08 - HEALTH CARE WORKERS GIVING MOTHERS A NUTRITION DEMONSTRATION, COOKING LESSON 01:11:32 - MOTHERS REGISTERING AT HEALTH CENTER 01:11:55 - PREGNANT WOMAN GETTING PRENATAL EXAMINATION 01:12:25 - VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING, MAN IN WESTERN SUIT STANDING LECTURING TO AFGHAN MEN IN TRADITIONAL DRESS 01:12:42 - AFGHAN GIRLS AT SCHOOL, CLASSROOM, EDUCATING GIRLS, SINGLE SEX EDUCATION 01:12:58 - MONTAGE WOMEN LEARNING SKILLED CRAFTS, WEAVING ON LOOMS, EMBROIDERY SKILLS, SEWING MINIATURE CAMELS, STUFFING THEM. MAKING TOYS 01:13:22 - MS YOUNG BOYS CARRYING ROOSTERS, DOCTOR GIVING POULTRY MEDICINE ON EYE DROPPER, PROTECTING POULTRY AGAINST DISEASE. 01:13:38 - VILLAGERS SPRAYING PLANTS, PROTECTING CROPS FROM PESTS 01:14:08 - HEALTH CARE NURSE GOING TO DELIVER BABY, NERVOUS FATHER WAITING IN FRONT OF HOUSE, PRAYING USING MUSLIM EQUIVALENT OF ROSERY BEADS 01:14:52 - NURSES PREPARING WOMAN FOR DELIVER 01:15:10 - SOUND OF TICKING CLOCK AUDIBLE AS HUSBAND LOOKS NERVOUSLY AT HOUSE, PRAYING, HEARS BABY CRY, SMILES. NEW FATHER. WOMAN COMES OUT, TELLS HIM HE HAS A SON, HAPPY PAPPY 01:15:46 - NEW FATHER BOWS TO NURSES, WOMAN GIVES THEM SWEETS 01:16:28 - INTERIOR HEALTH CENTER, CU NEWBORN BABY SLEEPING IN MOTHER'S ARMS, NURSE CUTS OFF SUPERSTITIOUS CHARM FROM BABIES NECK, DOCTOR EXAMINING BABY 01:17:28 - CHILDREN PLAYING AT HEALTH CENTER PLAYGROUND, GROUP OF CHILDREN DANCING 01:17:35 - LITTLE GIRL RUNS TO MOTHER & NEW BROTHER, GOING HOME 01:18:02 - NARRATOR INTERVIEWS ERNEST C. GREIG ? SP, ECONOMICS PROFESSOR, EXPERT IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS, CHIEF OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP OF THE UNITED NATIONS 01:25:13 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-575B