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Eighth Sea, The Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221441-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1958

Country: Canada,USA

Location: Montreal

TC Begins: 07:32:44

TC Ends: 07:47:06

Duration: 00:14:22

Titles. Waves breaking on coast; paintings of sailing ships in harbors. Map & covered wagons heading west super-imposted. Great Lakes on map & seen w/ St. Lawrence River shown flowing smoothly, w/ rapids. 07:35:09 Men talking about canals & locks as solution, but two men say cost will be prohibitive. 07:35:39 Walter Cronkite: “And it is being done...right now over 3000 pieces of equipment.” At map on wall describes. 07:36:19 Canal w/ ore carriers passing alongside road. Large ocean liner that will use the new canal to be built at cost of one billion dollars to be recovered w/ tolls. 07:38:06 Locks shown w/ large ship passing thru, workmen w/ ropes, operating pumps, opening gates, ship leaving lock. Model. Montreal harbor from American side. Large drag-line cranes excavating St. Lambert lock. Bulldozers pushing rock to block river for canal excavation by earthmovers. Bridge over deepened channel. Canal construction & lock being built. Men & equipment pouring concrete. Lake St. Louis w/ dredging to allow ship movements to next rapids where small canal exists. 07:42:34 Explosion of dynamite; giant shovels moving rock & stone drilled. Model & locks shown to Lake St. Francis on river. 07:44:05 Aerial over International Rapids section. CU water in rapids. Construction of locks w/ large cranes & concrete forms for power dam. Large coffer dam in place; steel pilings placed. Cornwall canal w/ tunnels dug beneath & ships over conveyor built moving aggregate to job site, dumping into stock piles & mixed for concrete & poured from large suspended buckets. Construction Projects; Inland Seaway; Waterway; International Cooperation; Borders; Promotion; Sponsored Films; 1950s; NOTE: Each part sold at per reel rate, or any continuous thirteen minutes for per reel rate.

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