US Aid to Iran ca 1960
Title card: arab
Boys looking up at men building large railroad bridge over wide river. MCU men using large equipment to lift sections of rails & ties & moving into place. Men working w/ picks & rakes behind grading device pulling over road bed. Men pushing by hand crane carrying rail section & placing; bolting sections together by hand. Moving another section into place & men in suits tightening last section. American (?) & Iranian, shaking hands. Watching more sections moved up.
03:04:02 Diesel passenger train around bend towards, & runby camera. Barren mountains in background.
03:04:18 Title card: Arab
More railroad equipment moved into place w/ crane lifting military equipment. Truck pulling string of jeeps w/ Iranians at wheel. MCU AID symbol. Iranian officers watching artillery moved. Tanks, artillery on flatcars.
03:06:01 Title card: Arab
POV inside car driving on paved road, stopped for check point. Signs pointing: To Abadan; To Ahwaz; To Kut Abdullah. POV soldiers & military vehicles along road; soldiers stopping traffic. CU sign: Traffic Post. Soldier stopping Chevrolet w/ Iranian family; searching man, inspecting trunk. Bus pulls up w/ people and a lot of goods. CU police or soldiers. Man off bus, searched. CU man w/ telegraph key on lap; bus pulls out.
03:07:40 Meeting of Arab leaders in robes, Iranian military officers speaking. Arabs stand & speak (MOS).
03:09:14 Iranian soldiers in classroom, at blackboard in literacy class. Learning to write. Reading instruction.
03:10:24 Large group of people behind fence watching military firing mortars & machine guns from pits; dust. Tracers fired.
03:11:55 Title: Arab
Woman & baby at hospital reception desk. Nurse putting baby on bed, weighing, taking notes. Doctor at desk, given notes & he examines baby. (GOOD).
Military diplomacy; Middle East; 1960s; Railroad Construction;
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US Aid to Iran ca 1960 Title card: arab Boys looking up at men building large railroad bridge over wide river. MCU men using large equipment to lift sections of rails & ties & moving into place. Men working w/ picks & rakes behind grading device pulling over road bed. Men pushing by hand crane carrying rail section & placing; bolting sections together by hand. Moving another section into place & men in suits tightening last section. American (?) & Iranian, shaking hands. Watching more sections moved up. 03:04:02 Diesel passenger train around bend towards, & runby camera. Barren mountains in background. 03:04:18 Title card: Arab More railroad equipment moved into place w/ crane lifting military equipment. Truck pulling string of jeeps w/ Iranians at wheel. MCU AID symbol. Iranian officers watching artillery moved. Tanks, artillery on flatcars. 03:06:01 Title card: Arab POV inside car driving on paved road, stopped for check point. Signs pointing: To Abadan; To Ahwaz; To Kut Abdullah. POV soldiers & military vehicles along road; soldiers stopping traffic. CU sign: Traffic Post. Soldier stopping Chevrolet w/ Iranian family; searching man, inspecting trunk. Bus pulls up w/ people and a lot of goods. CU police or soldiers. Man off bus, searched. CU man w/ telegraph key on lap; bus pulls out. 03:07:40 Meeting of Arab leaders in robes, Iranian military officers speaking. Arabs stand & speak (MOS). 03:09:14 Iranian soldiers in classroom, at blackboard in literacy class. Learning to write. Reading instruction. 03:10:24 Large group of people behind fence watching military firing mortars & machine guns from pits; dust. Tracers fired. 03:11:55 Title: Arab Woman & baby at hospital reception desk. Nurse putting baby on bed, weighing, taking notes. Doctor at desk, given notes & he examines baby. (GOOD). Military diplomacy; Middle East; 1960s; Railroad Construction;