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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221173-02
Color: Colour
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1954
Country: Bangladesh,Pakistan,Senegal
Location: dakar,ganges delta,indus river,Karachi,lahore
TC Begins: 22:16:59
TC Ends: 22:30:22
Duration: 00:13:23
Titles. Pakistan Independence Day parade - ceremonial guard on horseback - people in white robes marching. Map of northern India bordered by West Pakistan & East Pakistan now Bangladesh - separated by 1000 miles. VO re different languages, climate but both Muslim. LS Pakistani mosque. City streets w/ traffic, market traders & pedestrians. VS craftsmen, housewives, farmers. 22:18:45 East Pakistan: rainy region. VS Pakistanis on small riverboats, boy in coracle - style craft, Ganges delta. Riverside mosque & market. Rice paddy, men plowing w/ oxen, women planting rice shoots. People & oxen thresh rice. Men up to waists in water picking jute crop; men & women separate jute fibers from bark & wash in stream, hanging to dry. Dakar street scenes. 22:21:10 West Pakistan - map of Punjab region. Farmers irrigate dry land, waterwheel pulled by oxen. Seeds planted; oxen eating. Outdoor trading - farmers buying produce. Basket weaver, shoemaker, blacksmith shoeing horse. Clothes brought to riverbank to be washed by the “Laundry Man” - old man treading laundry in soapy barrel & drying on rock. Oxen pulling carts. Bus & railroad train. Map showing Lahore - ancient city gates, street scenes & white mosque. 22:23:55 Map of dryer Southwest region - Indus River - capital city Karachi. Man w/ camel caravan, stop at oasis to eat. Peasants cultivate soil, carry sheep on shoulders - feeding cows. 22:25:01 Travel on Indus riverboat pulling into shore packed w/ people; people onto bus for journey across desert. Karachi street scenes, modern building; camel thru narrow market streets. Cart piled w/ wood timbers; man weighing wood - lumber unloaded from train. Bales of cotton being traded. Cargo ships in dock - bamboo sticks unloaded, cheap building material for poor, bananas from India & sugar cane sold on harbor. Bartering tradesmen carry sugar cane to street stalls, chop up & sell as candy. CU flies on mound of chopped cane. Oranges, chickens & pigeons on market stalls - man selling from tray around neck - baker preparing chapatti bread, fish cut & dried, fried in wok - man being shaved by outdoor barber. 22:29:04 LS construction site. MCU Billboard ‘Keep Machines Going - Workers - Contact Employment Bureau’. Factory being built, construction workers on wooden scaffold passing up cement to pour by hand. Ancient building methods, workers w/ bowls on head. Pan across apartment blocks w/ shacks for workers & jobless below. 22:29:49 Recap montage - riverboats in humid rainy area of East Pakistan - farmers w/ oxen in irrigated fields of the Punjab - camels in desert area of Karachi - mosque uniting regions in Muslim faith. Travelogues; Tourism; Agriculture; Industry; Commerce; Slums; Poverty; Asia; Educational Film; Geography; History; Moslem Religion; NOTE: Any continuous one minute sold at per reel price.