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Dew Line Construction Footage, 1955-1957 Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221536-01

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1955

Country: Canada,USA

Location:

TC Begins: 18:00:05

TC Ends: 18:14:24

Duration: 00:14:19

Dew Line Construction Footage, 1955-1957 Pt. 1 of 2 Aerial over snowing landscape & earthmoving equipment scraping landing strip in gravel. Buildings & equipment w/ quonset huts. Radio or ?? antenna tower 18:00:32 C-124 4-engine plane over & comig in for landing; taxiing. Aerial. 18:00:55 Eskimo (?) women & children walking in heavy coats. Children pose for camera. Bright yellow bulldozer across snow on bright sunny day; pulling trailer w/ 55 gallon drums. Family walking down snowy road. Sled dogs on snow pile. 18:02:00 Steel frame of large garage or ??. Heavy mud & ??. 18:02:17 Bright orange corrugated metal airplane w/ single engine w/ external cylinders warming up (Junker W-34 cargo plane). Man w/ camera. CU tractor, truck, roadgrader past. Various tracked vehicles & pulling sled past. CU airplane ski. 18:03:25 Jeep pulling U-1 DeHavilland Beaver plane backwards. Pacific Western mechanic pumping gas into plane. 18:04:00 LS of vehicle on road, village against snow ridge. Aerial over snowscape, landing field below. Road w/ vehicles along. Dog team. 18:04:48 Road grader & earthmover building runway in mud. CU scraping. 16:06:02 Red flags lining snowcovered runway w/ road alongside. Single-engine ski-plane taking off. POV from plane. Aerial over runway, mountains. 18:07:01 Air Force officer, Col. Williamson ARDC representative from Western Electric & civilian, Mr. Baghall of Western Electric at table talking, looking at binder & plans. Talking w/ others at table. 18:08:50 Civilians in office, blackboard. Large man w/ bow tie stands & points to blackboard (not legible). CU of man pointing, talking. 18:11:08 Large meeting of civilians & military around table discussing blueprints, models & samples of equipment. Cold War Defenses; Canadian Arctic Construction; Canada; 1950s;

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