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Summary
Black and white film on the Alaskan (Alcan) Highway. Exact date of filming unknown.
Footage Information
Source | CONUS Archive |
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Record ID | 322274 |
Story Slug | HISTORICAL FILM: ALASKAN HIGHWAY FILM (1940’s) Pt 3 |
Location | ALASKA |
Format | VO |
Date | 1/1/1944 |
Archive Time | 01:52:47 |
TRT | 0:01:47 |
Video Description | Black and white film, moving POV shots from trains and trucks along the Alcan highway. Nice beauty shots as we pass thru forests and mountains, and pass a small town's tiny depot. Aerial shot of paddle boat moving across water, pushing pontoon float carrying heavy equipment. Various shots workers building large bridge. Dizzying shot looking down steep incline of steel cables. MS of truck crossing temporary pontoon bridge. Skiffs, small boats used to float bridge. Good MS of Jeeps rolling out of supply truck, over ramps, and onto dirt road. Great jeep "establishing" shots. Tractor with tank like treads rolls off. WS of small town in Alaska or British Columbia, Yukon. Shots of work equipment, road graders, rollers, etc, waiting for action. Great shot of pack horses walking slowly up hill, led by Eskimo (Inuit) man. Good generic footage of horses riding down the trail, thru scenic Western mountains, trees, etc. Yukon. U.S. soldiers dismount, take supplies off the pack horses. They set up surveying equipment. Scary shot of truck driving off edge of cliff and crashing! (looks like a drill). Soldiers rush to the scene and unload barrels of oil and pass them back up the hill. |
Description | Black and white film on the Alaskan (Alcan) Highway. Exact date of filming unknown. |
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Keywords
Alaska
wild
alcan highway
highway construction
scenery
scenics
GI laundry
Alaskan riverboat
Working on the ALCAN Highway
oil drums
pontoon bridge
Alaskan ship convoy
landing of troops and equipment in Alaska
wilderness
wild
wild animals