Water for Durban

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1131

Date Released

5 Feb 1951

Date Other

Dec 1950

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 7

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Water for Durban. DESCRIPTION: Natal’s great seaport, Durban, has grown so fast that the question of water-supply has been a really big problem. The solution is a new dam, on which work began as long ago as 1939; it’s on a horseshoe bend of the River Umgeni about thirty miles from the city. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. SCU-SV of water pouring from dam. Aerial of Natal - very large. Various maps of the area where dam is being built, on the Umgeni River. Various angle shots of the Nagle Dam under construction. CU huge dam wall. GV cement being carried along cables, emptying cement in position. GV countryside including (thousand hills). GV valley. GV native village, children playing or washing in stream. Mines - engineers coming out (out of camera) in hillside. MS workers cross bridge over mountains. Zulus push & pull large steel pipes, over countryside. Drop one into trench. GV person walks across pipeline over bridge. Various GVs countryside showing the Nagle Dam in centre. LS dam as seen from hilltop, people look at same from foreground.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Environment; Mining; Engineering

Locations

Natal

Card file number

54708

Credits:

Camera: H. Duncan Abraham
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

192

Story extras:

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