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AFGHANISTAN

 

LC SN 302-003  00:20:48 - 00:30:51           1932   COL      SD        Twice Upon a Caravan R3 by Robert Fulton, Jr.
INCLUDING:

00:23:25 Map of India bike journey going north towards Afghanistan. Soldiers on hill outposts. Military encampment with tents. Soldiers firing arrows at target building. Zeri tower compounds.  VS mountain views. Men making music. Tribal Sword dance. Fulton heads towards eastern end of Khyber Pass. View of Khyber Pass. Enters Afghanistan. Mountain views. Camel Caravans against snowy mountain views. Camel drivers pose for picture. South of Kabul views of two monuments to Mokhmud. Ancient walls of city. People on street. Domed dwellings. Fixing flat tire. Bike stuck in mud during rainy season. Afghans smoking hubble bubble pipe. Filling water from mud puddles. Farming with oxen on barren land. Migrating people with goats, donkeys, camels, etc.  VS of Kabul. No motor traffic. Views of mosques. Camel caravans. 

221548          15:10:34 - 15:18:54            195?   B/W    SD        Afghanistan Celebrates Eid
Front view of palace w/ car leaving w/ King, motorcycle police leading convoy & mounted military accompanying to mosque.
15:11:27  King Mohammed Azhar Shah (?) out of car, military man w/ many medals & others including Prime Minister Muhammad Daoud into mosque.  Shaking hands w/ officials outdoors.  King leading VIPs to Mosque, waving past military lined roadway.  More handshaking, people standing, bowing while standing, kneeling in large open plaza.  Soldiers lining periphery. 
15:12:31  King leaving, putting on white gloves, waving.  Flags & banners, military band.  VIP massive group lead away from Mosque towards camera, back into car & leaving; returns to palace.
15:13:44  People in streets, greeting each other.  Playing w/ kids on small wooden ferris wheel turned by hand by two men.  Children very thin waving.  Merry-go-round swing turned by hand, kids riding animal statues & men watching.
15:15:13 CU small girls.  People walk into the country for picnics under trees, by stream or ditch.  Cooking kebabs over small fires.  Men playng drums, clapping & small laptop pump organ.  Men stand, clap & dance.
Some in white shirts & ties, other in traditional dress.  Paghman Gardens w/ trees in bloom, men walking, civil service band playing in bandstand.  Fountains.  Large ornate pavilion.  The End.



X221412          22:40:57 - 22:50:47            1958   B/W    SD        Russian News of the Day
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22:43:09  Title:  In Friendly Afghanistan.   Moscow airport, Voroshilov leaving for Afghanistan visit shakes hands w/ VIPs, people wave & applaud, Voroshilov bows w/ open arms (GOOD), young kids run up w/ flowers, people smile, wave; Voroshilov waves hat from airplane stairs.  Officials wave as plane starts moving.
22:43:57 



            220510          01:14:58 - 01:16:17            1962 ?           b/w     Si         President Iskander Mirza  of Pakistan visits Afghanistan.
President out of plane and greeted by King Zamir and others. Military band - inspects troops - receives flowers from children - shakes hands with line of VIPs. Top shot Kabul. Street scenes and buildings . Party visit memorial ?



220510          01:55:29 - 02:03:09            1968   col       Si         Afghanistan - Military Parade - Excellent quality and colour
Soviet / Russian built trucks in parade. Afghan officials, guests, diplomats and military attaches on reviewing stand. Parade with Russian built Guideline SA-2s (SAM) missiles on transporter, missile containers - military vehicles / scout cars - armoured personnel carriers. Russian built  T-54 tanks in parade. Excellent shots King Mohammad Zahir Shah getting into open topped royal limousine and leaving area.
01:58:20 More military parade with BTR-50s tracked APC towing radar - SAM missiles on transporter - missile carriers and tanks. Afghan military band marching - locals watching parade. Afghan troops in trucks past - airborne troops in trucks past - aircraft in flypast. Amphibious tracked personnel carrier / prime mover communication trucks - GA2-69 trucks with Snapper anti-tank missiles and truck mounted rocket launchers. VIPs on review stand. King and motorcycle escort arrive at reviewing stand - guests in review stand applaud. Leaflet drop from Afghan AF Mi-4 Hound helicopters. Afghan army colour guard and marching troops in parade.

 

 

220508          23:29:30 - 23:33:19            1968   col       Si         International Trade Fair - Kabul
Local / native children in traditional dress - people in trees.  Audience at US pavilion - dark.
USAFE "Ambassadors" (dance band) playing on stage. ( MOS )  Audience  including locals / rear view women in covered dress listening
23:31:53 USA pavilion at fair. Entrance to exhibit area with flags of countries represented at fair.
USSR / Russian pavilion at fair.
Aeroflot Mi-8 "Hip" helicopter on display. Natives leaving USA pavilion.

 

 

221451          07:31:53 - 17:41:33           1983 ca          COL      Sd        AFN Special Report on Soviet Danger  Pt. 2 of 2
Dr. Paul Holman, DOD Soviet Specialist interviewed on weapons says US ahead except ground forces technology.  Soviets have been outspending us.  Visuals of USSR military exercises. 
INCLUDING:

07:36:53  Soviet tanks in Afghanistan.  Map of Afghanistan.  Afghanis watching Soviet parade. 
07:37:38  Presenter:  Invasion & occupation; this is the Soviet version of global chess, making calculated moves in order to force defeat.  But it isnt a game.
07:37:53 

 

 

221322          01:05:19 - 01:16:40            1985   COL      SD        [Satellite File: Mujahideen in Pakistan & Afghanistan]   Pt. 2 of 3
INCLUDING:
01:13:07  Benton introduces Afghanistan fighting thru Mujahideen.  Fighters getting pictures taken.  Destroyed village in mountains; fighters w/ old rifles & newer guns from China, Germany & the U.S..  Loading ammunition in clips.  Fighter interviewed; cleaning rifles.  Camp in high mountains; buying supplies & crossing border.  Looking down on truck convoy on valley road.  Explosion & firing explosives at USSR tanks on road.
01:15:52  Two men & boy looking at destroyed homes; fighters w/ guns.  Interviewee saying they will fight as they dont want the Soviets in their country.  Flags over graves of fighters w/ rocky village behind.  Sky & silhouetted mountains.

 

200566          00:04:37 - 00:07:46            1987   COL      SD        USIA Television TV Satellite File No. 5000 (sic):  USA/USSR Relations, Pt. 2 of 4
Summit:  Regional Issues.  Afghan, camel, etc. walking in front of Soviet personnel carrier.  Soviet troops marching in dry Afghanistan camp.
00:04:51  President Reagan speaking:  The next few months will be no time for complacency,  no time to sit back & congratulate ourselves.  The Soviets have rarely before, & not at all in more than three decades, left a country once occupied.  They have often promised to leave, but rarely in their history, and then only under pressure from the West have they done it.  Tank on truck & other military vehicles on road.
00:05:20  Soviet troops walking past stores in Afghanistan.  Army convoy on road.
00:05:26  Pres. spokesman at briefing:  Our understanding of the agreement that was negotiated is that the Soviets committed themselves to complete withdrawal & in that context it would seem logical that Soviet advisors should be part of that.
00:05:46  Planes dropping flares (?) over Afghanistan city; tanks through; Afghans firing weapons.  Iran Iraq war, tanks, mortars & rockets fired.  UN meeting w/ Shultz speaking (MOS), rocket at sea fired from ship.  Soviet ships.  Destroyed Gulf oil platforms on fire w/ fireboats. 
00:06:52  Israel soldiers & Palestine scene w/ kids throwing rocks.
00:06:58  Soviet Minister or negotiator greeting Shultz in Moscow.
00:07:23  Daniel Ortega w/ others in Nicaragua.  Men at peace talk table signing ??  Ortega standing behind.

 

220619          18:22:12 - 18:25:11            1990   Col       sd         UN Relief programmes in Afghanistan (United Nations)
Young boy sitting in deserted village.  Graveyard / cemetery - mourning woman.  Streets with buildings destroyed by war.  Children given food aid.  Freight train into station and sacks unloaded.  Convoy of lorries / tankers. Brief shot rockets fired from multi launch rocket system.  Convoy passes burnt out trucks on side of road. Relief - milk given out to kids.  Woman in burkha (veiled) collects sack of food.
18:23:29 Man ploughing field with oxen.  Sewing seed by hand.
18:23:45 Soldier testing ground for landmines.  Defuses one.
18:23:57 People who have lost limbs  - rear view of little girl walking with peg-leg.  Sick and injured children in hospital, woman crying.  Newborn baby on scales.  Doctor in lab.  Woman carrying baby. Various shots children living in poverty.  AV street scene.  Helicopter over. Rugs.

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