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Echo (Eko, Eco, Ekxn) re: Persia aka Iran Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221402-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1973

Country: Iran

Location:

TC Begins: 02:14:43

TC Ends: 02:27:11

Duration: 00:12:28

Iran Pt. 1 of 2 Gas pump into car, counting money; many bills passed from bank window & put into briefcase. Molten ore flowing. 02:15:07 Montage: Man knotting finely patterened rug be hand; crowded traffic in telephoto shot. 02:15:22 Aerial over oil wells, refinery, storage tanks in desert & along coast w/ tank at dock; pipelines out to ships; and brief view from boat on water. More aerials. 02:16:46 Big Ben 11:56. Title: Echo, Ekxn, Echo, Eko, Eco. Stills intercut w/ title graphics. 02:17:14 Aerial over Tehran, skyscrapers & traffic. Modern buildings & monuments. Police directing traffic; pedestrians, women in short skirts; car rear-ends another in accident. 02:18:10 Men & boys weaving & knotting Persian carpets. Man drawing small watercolors, CUs. Men & boys hammering ornate metal trays. 02:19:01 Ornate copper jugs on steps, traffic beyond,people past. POV past industrial warehouses under construction along highway. Aerial over railroad yard, highway & steel mill built by USSR. Int. w/ flowing ore; bucket & bubbling ore. Copper sheets, man pulls one out of ?? 02:20:43 MCU Reza Shah Pahlavi. Sd (French) w/ translation. “We have a Capitalist system here, if you accept what is not Communist is Capitalist. All wealth has been Nationalised, all natural resources such as the forest, the water, the steel & the oil industries....all major industrial companies have been..advised to open their accounts to the public...who will own 49% soon.” 02:21:28 Worker grinding, other industrial scenes. Main frame computers, textile mill, looms, metal working, rubber manufacturing, boots & stockings. Men at machines. Camera past assembly line. Narrator: (Iran) In accordance w/ its neutral position, it does deals regardless of politics.” Cites co-production plants w/ Britain, Japan, Germany, “...Sweden, Czechoslovakia...exchanging oil & gas for credit & technical help.” Glass bottle making. Coca-cola bottling. 02:24:57 “...and the Shah is delivering that promise.” Teletype printing out. Associated Press machine & news release torn off & put in pneumatic tube. Newspaper printing press running. 02:25:36 Shah continues: “Ours is a policy of participation embracing all men & women...carried out within a framework of very advanced social laws...the results speak for themselves.” 02:26:19 Traffic w/ large houses, apartments etc. Hospital desk w/ woman filling out form, othrs waiting. Technicians & doctors. Patients; baby treated by doctor. Continued... Propaganda; Middle East; Travelogue; Educational Film; Near East;

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