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Invisible Link, The R1 of 2

Reel Number: 221397-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1950

Country: Austria

Location: Kaprun Dam

TC Begins: 15:14:31

TC Ends: 15:18:39

Duration: 00:04:08

The Invisible Link R1 of 2 Victor Vicas Films 15:15:10 Alps w/ glaciers, tilt down to stream & melting snow field w/ crevices. Water dripping into streams & falling over rocks, thru forest & rocky canyon. GOOD CUs. Reservoir behind dam & buckets across w/ materials. Man w/ headset giving instructions as men guide new bucket up. View from bucket above dam, men below. Bucket lowered as foreman (narrator) watches. 15:17:36 CU dropping concrete from bucket, pouring, moving concrete. Vibrating machines packing concrete; men shoveling. Watering. Kaprun Dam Construction; Post-WWII Marshall Plan; Austria; European Economic Assistance; Note: Kaprun Dam designed by Austrian architect Edith Lassmann won 1946 (?) annuomour competition because all male jury assumed her drawings were by a man. She refused to decline the award & suffered harrassment & resentment.

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