Country: Argentina,Bolivia,Chile,Peru,United Arab Emirates,Venezuela
Location: andes,Las Pampas,South America
TC Begins: 22:27:34
TC Ends: 22:40:41
Duration: 00:13:07
The Bridge Pt 1 of 2 (title missing)
Documentary on South America & the war effort during WWII. NB film not usable due to shrinkage till 22:28:10 occasionally after.
Map showing shipping trade between South America & Europe. Vars wrecked / junked cargo ships.
22:28:10 Cotton bales unloaded by South Americans; warehouses filled w/ cotton & coffee crops, more than can be used at home & can’t be sent to Europe due to War. Cattle herd on open plains, wheat processing. Surplus corn stored outdoors in huge piles. Argentinian corn used as fuel in factory furnaces, blacksmith burning corn on forge.
22:30:23 Nigth time scenes of industry furnaces. Drilling oil for US war effort; new Venezuelan oil well in jungle, first oil extracted. Blasting nitrate in Chilean desert, railcars dumped. Freight train from Bolivia en route to US seaports. Copper ore blasted in largest open-pit mine, Chile. INT steel mill, huge furnaces, metal sheeting driven past on trolleys by workers. Pouring molten metal.
22:33:25 Aerial South American town w/ market square. Andes market scenes, local traders in traditional dress. CUs of men women & children, VO re disease & poverty. Women grind corn on mortar, daughter walks to town water pump to fill old oil can.
22:36:46 Mother feeds several children, lack of vitamins; baby given sugar & water; father gets some meat. Family makes pack saddles for mules. Weaving garment on hand loom; newly mechanised weaving at cotton mill / textile factory - female workers.
22:39:21 Farmer w/ oxen pulls wooden plow across field; grain threshed by horses; thrown into wind. Fields of wheat & fields eroded. Mother & children outside shack, problem of malnutrition.
Agriculture; Poverty; Progress; Mechanisation; Industrialisation; Latin America; WW2; 1940s;
NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.
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The Bridge Pt 1 of 2 (title missing) Documentary on South America & the war effort during WWII. NB film not usable due to shrinkage till 22:28:10 occasionally after. Map showing shipping trade between South America & Europe. Vars wrecked / junked cargo ships. 22:28:10 Cotton bales unloaded by South Americans; warehouses filled w/ cotton & coffee crops, more than can be used at home & can’t be sent to Europe due to War. Cattle herd on open plains, wheat processing. Surplus corn stored outdoors in huge piles. Argentinian corn used as fuel in factory furnaces, blacksmith burning corn on forge. 22:30:23 Nigth time scenes of industry furnaces. Drilling oil for US war effort; new Venezuelan oil well in jungle, first oil extracted. Blasting nitrate in Chilean desert, railcars dumped. Freight train from Bolivia en route to US seaports. Copper ore blasted in largest open-pit mine, Chile. INT steel mill, huge furnaces, metal sheeting driven past on trolleys by workers. Pouring molten metal. 22:33:25 Aerial South American town w/ market square. Andes market scenes, local traders in traditional dress. CUs of men women & children, VO re disease & poverty. Women grind corn on mortar, daughter walks to town water pump to fill old oil can. 22:36:46 Mother feeds several children, lack of vitamins; baby given sugar & water; father gets some meat. Family makes pack saddles for mules. Weaving garment on hand loom; newly mechanised weaving at cotton mill / textile factory - female workers. 22:39:21 Farmer w/ oxen pulls wooden plow across field; grain threshed by horses; thrown into wind. Fields of wheat & fields eroded. Mother & children outside shack, problem of malnutrition. Agriculture; Poverty; Progress; Mechanisation; Industrialisation; Latin America; WW2; 1940s; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.