Enquiry Sent!

Thanks for getting in touch. We’ll get back to you very soon.

Go Back to Homepage

Hungry Steppe, The (196?) R1 of ?

Reel Number: 221202-05

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960s

Country: Kazakhstan,Russia,USSR,Uzbekistan

Location: Kazakhstan,Tashkent,UZBEKISTAN

TC Begins: 12:40:29

TC Ends: 12:51:02

Duration: 00:10:33

The Hungry Steppe (196?) R1 of ? Eagle flying over desert, camel & impala? in desert, operation to reclaim & make land viable for farming. Heavy tracked earthmoving equipment across desert, sandy hills. Woman geologist, surveyor w/ theodolite, heavy machinery digging out reservoir. 12:42:52 Model of reservoir for power plant at Design Institute in Tashkent. Design engineers watch water behavior. Earth movers, good cu wheels traveling over sand. Bulldozers, woman engineer following railroad track laying crane across sand. Tracks laid, aerial tracking shot of tracks. Eagle in flight. AV River Syr Darya, canal running thru desert. Heron or stork. 12:45:19 Engineer arc welding reinforcing rod. Building parts for pumping station. Men walking along concrete irrigation ditches. Pre-formed ditches arrive by truck. Factory where pre-formed ditches are made 12:46:22 LV Industrial area, AV irrigation channels transported by truck, CU drivers. Troughs constructed to form aqueduct. 12:47:58 Manager of State Farm No. 6 driving thru desert, past well. Manager meeting w/ others in desert where new collective farm will be located after irrigation. CU faces. New settlers arriving from Samarkand in back of truck, looking at barren landscape. 12:50:04 Houses for settlement assembled from prefabricated sections. Tractor plowng, CU men's hands with sandy soil running through fingers. Incomplete Irrigation Project; Farming; 1960s; USSR; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

Show more