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Wilderness Dam: Huge Project Rises In Quebec Forest

Wilderness Dam: Huge Project Rises In Quebec Forest
Clip: 426459_1_1
Year Shot: 1964 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1730
Original Film: 037-093-01
HD: N/A
Location: Quebec, Canada
Timecode: 00:24:11 - 00:25:15

Rising out of the forest wilderness of Quebec is one of the forest wilderness of Quebec is one of the biggest power projects ever undertaken by man. Part of a multi-dam engineering feat that will harness 7,000,000 horsepower, Manicouagan Dam will be almost a mile long and back of it will be a man-made lake covering 800 square miles. Aerial shot of wilderness of Quebec you see the construction of a huge power project. A construction worker ready to put the plunger down on dynamiting a hill side, off it goes and down comes some of the hill. A huge scoop attached to a crane taking the loose dirt and rock and putting it aside. A lot of construction workers hosing the dirt down with water, scooping it up with cranes and working on the dam itself. Aerial shot - Dam is taking usual horseshoe form, camera widens it picture and you can see the over all view of the power plant taking form.