Road repairs, 3rd Combat Engineers Part 1

Description

3rd Engineers and laborers work on the repair of road. The opening shot shows a bulldozer clearing dirt. Men placing sandbags near bridge. Korean laborers carrying bags partly filled with sand. Shot, sand being shoveled into bags. Bulldozer pushing dirt up from the riverbank. Head-on Shot, bulldozer pushing dirt toward the camera. Bulldozer backs off into the stream, stops, puts the blade down and starts fwd again. Bulldozer pushing dirt toward camera. Another shot, same, except this time the dirt is pushed toward the camera, full screen. Men shoveling dirt onto the roadbed. Good Shots, bulldozer pushing dirt, tree branches, rubble. Scenes, laborers shoveling dirt into area marked off by tapes. This is the cutting through of a new road. LSs, CUs, steam shovel in operation. Very good shots, jaws of bucket opening and then biting into ground.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities