- Title: VM-1371
- Summary: THIS WAS NOT ON THE MAP (PT.2): HYDRO-ELECTRIC STATION COMPLETE WITH NEW TOWNY, NOT YET SHOWN ON MAP IS BUILT ALONG WITH ALL COMMUNITY NEEDS, INCLUDING MODERN HOUSING, SCHOOLS, SHOPPING, RECREATION AREAS, INDUSTRY, IN SIBERIA, ALONG WITH OTHERS AS DESCRIBED IN PART 1 OF THEIS SERIES. SEE VM-1370 FOR PART 1.
- Description:00:01:03 - PAN MAP OF SOVIET UNION TO AREA WHERE A TOWN, WHICH DOES NOT APPEAR ON MAP, THOUGH IT HAS BEEN NAMED "NABOEE (?)". MLS PAN HUGE MARKER IN GRASSY FIELD, POINTING IN DIRECTION OF FUTURE TOWN, WHERE ANOTHER SIBERIAN HYDRO ELECTRIC STATION IS GOING UP. LS SEVERAL TRUCKS, BUSES ON NEW HIGHWAY, HEADING TO THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE. LARGE OVERHEAD SIGNS WITH FANCY MARKINGS IDENTIFIES THE NEW AREA. CAMERA CAR FOLLOWS LARGE TRUCK TO THE AREA, OTHER TRAFFIC COMING THE OTHER WAY TOWARDS CAMERA. VOICE OVER WOMAN SINGING FOLK SONG (?). MCU TRUCK DRIVER LOWERS SUN VISER TO PROTECT HIS VIEW FROM SUNSHINE. PAN TYGAR (?) RIVER AS SEEN FROM SPEEDING TRUCK. FORMERLY THIS WATERWAY WAS THE ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION HERE (BEFORE NEW HIGHWAY). 00:01:59 - MS SMALL LAUNCH RIDING ON RIVER L TO R. MLS TWO TUG BOATS PULLING LARGE BARGE LADEN WITH TONS OF CARGO. DECK HAND ON TUG SWABS THE DECK. ANOTHER PULLS IN PAIL OF WATER FROM RIVER VIA ROPE ATTACHED TO PAIL. CU DECK HAND CLEANING FISH ON DECK. MS PAN SHEAR ROCKY CLIFFS ALONG RIVER, PAN TO HUGE BARGE BEING TOWED BY TUG, POV TUG. ABOVE VIEW PILES OF CARGO, CEMENT BLOCKS, CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, ON DECK. MLS SMALL HOUSE ALONG RIVER SURROUNDED BY FOREST. PAN THICK FOREST ALONG RIVER. CATTLE GRAZING NEAR RIVER. MLS TRACTOR, LUMBER JACKS CLEARING FORREST OF TREES. MS LUMBERJACK CUTS TREE STUMP WITH CHAIN SAW. 00:03:34 - MS SHIRTLESS DECKHAND WASHING UP ON TUG DECK. ANOTHER PULLS PAIL OF WATER FROM RIVER. LINE PULLING BARGE SEEN IN B/G. TUG CAPTAIN PEERS THROUGH OPEN DOOR OF CABIN WATCHING BARGE AS HE NAVIGATES TREACHEROUS RIVER. MS ONE OF HUGE ROCKS IN RIVER CAPTAIN HAS TO AVOID. VARIOUS SHOTS BARGE WITH LINE TOWARDS CAMERA. VOICE OVER, "THE SLIGHTEST MISCALCULATION, AND THE LOADED BARGES WILL HIT THE CLIFFS". NATIVES ALONG THE RIVER CALLED THIS "THE WITCH DOCTOR'S RAPIDS". ROUGH WATERS SPLASH ALONG LENGTH OF BARGE. 00:05:05 - MS BUS PULLS UP TO STOP ON ROAD WHERE MEN AND WOMEN CLIMB ABOARD TO GO TO WORK. MS GROUP YOUNG MEN WALK TO WORK ON TYPICAL WORK DAY FOR NEW TOWNS PEOPLE. VARIOUS VIEWS PARENTS, CHILDREN, WALKING TO SCHOOL ON SEPTEMBER 1ST, FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. MS DOG WALKS ALONGSIDE TEEN AGE GIRL. CHILDREN, PARENTS ENTERING SCHOOL BUILDING. MCU DOG SITS AND WAITS OUTSIDE. 00:06:39 - CU YOUNG MALE STEEPLE JACKS PUTS ON HARD HATS AS, ADJUST THEIR MOUNTAIN CLIMBING EQUIPMENT THEY PREPARE TO DO THEIR DANGEROUS WORK BUILDING DAM. WORKERS START ON THEIR EXHAUSTING JOURNEY TO TOP OF HILL, CLIMBING 394 WOODEN STEPS TO TOP, AS HIGH AS A 30 STORY BUILDING. CU FEET CLIMBING STEPS. MS STEEPLE JACK ATTACHES ROPE TO STEEL ROD, DRIVEN IN GROUND, STARTS DAREDEVIL JOURNEY DOWN SIDE OF HILL (LIKE MOUNTAINEER), WHERE HE USES JACK HAMMER AND CROW BAR TO CHOP AWAY CHUNKS OF ROCK FROM SIDE OF HILL. MS LOOSENED DIRT AND ROCK CASCADES DOWN HILL TO BOTTOM. 00 07 58 MLS GOOD SHOTS TWO HARD HATS PERCHED PRECARIOUSLY ON EDGE OF CLIFF, CHOPPING AWAY AT ROCK. daredevils. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN WORKING AT BOTTOM OF HILL WHICH NOT LONG AGO WAS THE YANGARRA RIVER WHICH WAS DRAINED AND CUT OFF WITH AN EMBANKMENT. 00:08:14 - VARIOUS SHOTS FRILLERS SINKING BORE HOLES FOR DYNAMITE PLANTERS. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN PLANTING DYNAMITE AND FUSES IN BORE HOLES. WIRES CRISS-CROSS THE AREA TO BE DYNAMITED. CU DEMITRI PEDON, LEADER OF THE DEMOLITION MEN ATTACHES WIRES TOGETHER. THE MEN ARE PREPARING THE FOUNDATION FOR A FUTURE DAM WHICH WILL RISE TO A HEIGHT OF 90 METERS. MCU DYNAMITER PLANTS STICKS OF DYNAMITE IN BORE HOLE, JAMS THEM IN PLACE WITH LONG ROD. MS SIGN IN RUSSIAN "DANGER ZONE, EXPLOSION". SIREN SOUNDS, VARIOUS SHOTS HUGE EXPLOSIONS, LIFTING UP TONS OF EARTH. 00:09:38 - CU ROCK PILE BEING MOVED BY BULLDOZER, TOWARDS CAMERA. ROCKS BEING SCOOPED UP BY DERRICK, DUMPED INTO DUMP TRUCKS. ABOVE VIEW DUMP TRUCKS MOVING ALONG WHAT ONE WAS RIVER BED. POV DERRICK. AERIAL PAN HUGE CONSTRUCTION SITE ALONG YANGARRA RIVER. GOOD SHOTS DUMP TRUCKS DUMPING THEIR LOADS OF ROCKS INTO RIVER FROM BRIDGE. 00:10:32 - LS FREIGHT TRAIN SPEEDING ACROSS TOP OF DAM, TILT DOWN TO WATER CASCADING THROUGH DAM TO BOTTOM. CU VIEW WATER CASCADING FROM DAM. VIEWS OF INDUSTRIAL SITES ON SHORE, POV BOAT SPEEDING ALONG RIVER. INDUSTRY AND APARTMENT COMPLEX POV SPEEDING CAR. VOICE OVER QUOTES LENIN. 00:11:40 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-1371