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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221397-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1950
Country: Austria
Location: Kaprun Dam
TC Begins: 15:18:52
TC Ends: 15:28:21
Duration: 00:09:29
The Invisible Link R2 of 2 Men working on top of dam, gas welding; foreman down steep wooden stairs w/ mountains behind & view down valley. Men at window getting pay; into cable car & descending to valley. POV from bucket descending, men out of bucket at bottom, walking along road. Power lines across fields, towers. Power station, chimney. 15:20:53 Int. of factory w/ metalworking, spot welding, grinding, CU arc welding. Drill press, CU drilling, belts driving machiens. Men out of factory yard on bicycles. River thru valley w/ city on both sides, traffic across bridges. MCU people boarding electric buses, thru streets. Electric railroad past in CU. POV w/ carriage on wires, CU tracks; freight cars passing in blur. (GOOD) Train into station. 15:23:08 CU man sawing firewood w/ rotary power saw. Farms w/ mountain huts; setting up electric motor to pump fertilizer on pasture, MCU. Man looking at soil in CU. Plowing w/ electric winch pulling plow up hill. CU cable & man plowing. Men plowing by pulling by hand across hillside. 15:26:12 Men raising poles for power lines. CUs. 15:26:33 POV from control room w/ man guiding buckets. Man w/ flags directing lowering buckets & pouring concrete. Men sawing timbers, surveyor; men drilling rocks for blasting. View of reservoir & dam. 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.