Hello, Neil (1969)

The Nile River, palm trees on the bank, mountains.

The area where the equator line passes.

The "Equator" sign.

Close-ups and general plans of animals - fallow deer, buffalo, lion, hippopotamus, giraffes, elephants.

A crocodile jumps from the bank into the water, a flock of birds takes off, a crocodile swims.

Tropical birds on the bank, in the water, in the air.

Tropical rain.

The stormy foaming waters of the Nile.

A village on the bank of the Nile, fishermen unload the catch from a boat.

A bridge over the Nile, a flooded river, green shoots in the fields, rocky banks of the Nile.

Irrigation wheels are working.

A peasant (fellah) cultivates the land with a hoe, fellahin plough a field with oxen.

A date grove.

Ruins of tombs, sculptures of pharaohs.

Images of people and written signs carved on stones.

A figure of an ancient sphinx against the background of the pyramids.

The modern sphinx is a symbol of Egypt's revival.

Cairo - the city square and streets.

Port Said.

Newsreel (b/w) 1956-57 - The Egyptian national flag flutters.

Ships on the Suez Canal.

The landing of an Anglo-French force in Port Said, in connection with the nationalization of the Suez Canal by the Egyptian government.

Destruction in the city, soldiers on the streets of Port Said.

The poster "Hands off Egypt".

A protest demonstration of Muscovites at the embassy against aggression in the Middle East.

Wire fences and sandbags on the streets of Port Said.

Portrait of G. Husni - an Egyptian patriot executed by the occupiers.

The departure of foreign soldiers from Egypt.

The faces of jubilant Egyptians.

Newsreel (b/w): Jubilant people on the streets of Port Said, tanks of resistance fighters on the streets.

Contemporary footage - Masons at work, newly rebuilt buildings in Port Said.

A plaque with the name of the street "Stalingrad".

An obelisk to the fallen heroes in one of the squares of Port Said.

People lay flowers at the monument.

Schoolchildren go to school.

USSR - (b/w) Monument to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd, schoolchildren in the honor guard at the Eternal Flame, individual fragments of the monument.

Egypt, Cairo - Students on the streets of Cairo, a city square.

The new El-Tahrir cooperative farm: artificial irrigation of fields, breeding poultry and cattle (geese on a pond, turkeys, chickens and roosters on a farm, calves in a barnyard, cows in a pasture).

Members of the cooperative farm feed the poultry and calves.

Desert, sand.

Rapids on the Nile.

General area of Moscow.

Building of Hydroproject.

Hydraulic engineer N. Malyshev (synch.) talks about the Aswan Dam construction project. b/w - N. Malyshev and a group of engineers work on the dam project.

Model of the Aswan construction site at the experimental base of Hydroproject.

Rehearsal of damming the Nile on the model.

Soviet and Arab specialists are present. color. - The dam and hydroelectric power station on the Nile, which will be built by Soviet specialists.

The book "High Aswan Dam", the drawings in the book are cartoon work. b/w - Dump trucks with stones are unloaded, the river bed is filled in.

A mechanization lesson at a training center that trains builders of various profiles.

A Soviet worker teaches an Arab to operate an excavator, excavators are working.

Construction of the Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station in the USSR. color. - Turbine hall of the hydroelectric power station.

An engineer at the control panel. b/w - A vehicle with construction workers enters a tunnel at the Aswan construction site.

A worker lays explosives, a construction blast.

An excavator bucket scoops up rock, loads dump trucks with earth, vehicles with earth drive through the tunnel.

Reinforcement workers work. color. - Engineer A. Amer talks about the construction. b/w - Installation of metal reinforcement in the tunnel, a builder simply bends the walls after the blast, brings down the remaining stones.

Loaded vehicles leave the tunnel, welding work in the tunnel.

The Ngubi Temple, located in the town of Abu Simble near the Sudanese border, which is threatened with flooding by the waters of the artificial sea created by the Aswan Dam.

Sculpture of Pharaoh Ramses II. The temple sculptures are moved piece by piece to a new location.

The statue of the Pharaoh in a new location.

Newsreel 1964 (b/w) - Panorama of the construction of the dam (shot from an airplane).

At the moment of preparation for the explosion of the cofferdam of the new Nile channel, the following are present at the construction site: Minister of Dam Affairs S. Soliman, Deputy Minister Z. Kenawi, Chief Engineer-Expert Radchenko, film and photo reporters.

Entrance to the tunnel, MAZ dump trucks are standing.

The cofferdam explodes, streams of water move along the new channel carved out of the rock.

Those gathered at the construction site applaud.

Dump trucks dump stones and granite blocks into the old Nile channel, bulldozers work.

Fellahin builders dig a canal channel for irrigation of arid lands, streams of water spill out.

Dump trucks dump stones into the ditch.

Color. - Excavators dig a canal in the sand, Russian and Arab builders talk, the canal channel.

Tractors destined for shipment to Egypt stand on railway platforms in the yard of the Volgograd Tractor Plant.

Soviet tractors with seeders work in the fields of Egypt.

Irrigated fields of the El-Takhir farm, residential buildings, outbuildings, citrus plantations, oranges on a tree.

An excavator works, a dump truck passes.

A Russian and an Egyptian engineer examine a drawing of a canal.

Pyramids - different plans, an entrance to a pyramid.

Backfilling of the Aswan Dam.

Soviet documentarians - creators of the film interview the main expert of the construction K. I. Smirnov. K. I. Smirnov speaks (synch.). b/w material - The overflowing Nile, flooded fields, dwellings on the islands.

Fellahin pick cotton.

Palm trees and other vegetation in the water, people with things walk on the water. color. shooting - the city of Cairo (shot from an elevated point).

Panorama of the dam. b/w material - Earth cracked from heat and lack of water. color. shooting - Reservoir - Lake Nassr.

Egyptian Minister of Irrigation I. Z. Kenawi gives an interview in his office (synch. ).

High-voltage power line on the bank of the Nile, electric welding of reinforcement. K. I. Smirnov and I. Z. Kenawi among builders.

Pipes of a water pumping station, a canal.

Women harvest rice in a field.

Jaggery field, harvesting jaggery by hand.

Village, new houses, hospital buildings.

Doctor seeing patients.

Children playing drums, dancing, singing.

Aswan Rapids, sailboat on the river.

Aswan city - new neighborhoods, bus driving down the street.

Aswan Dam.

Construction of a hydroelectric power station.

Soviet and Arab specialists working.

Soviet and Arab children playing on the playground.

Construction of a dam (shot from above). S. Soliman in a group of builders at the site.

USSR - Open-hearth shop of the Novolipetsk Plant.

Smelting in progress, steelmakers at the furnace, molten metal pouring.

Workers of the transformer shop of the Leningrad Electrosila plant manufacture rotors for the Aswan Dam generators.

Workers of the Leningrad Metal Plant, where the turbine wheels for the Aswan Dam were manufactured, check the unit.

Neva, a boat on the river, a sphinx on the embankment.

Work in the workshop of the Metal Plant.

Soviet and Arab specialists in the workshop and at the drawings.

Assembly of insulators for the power lines of the Aswan Dam at the Zaporizhzhya Transformer Plant.

Egypt - Installation of a high-voltage transmission line, installation of insulators.

Installation of metal reinforcement at the construction of the Aswan Hydroelectric Power Station, welders at work.

Egyptian President G. A. Nasser visits the construction of the Aswan Dam - greets the builders, inspects the construction sites, accompanied by Z. Kenawi.

Turbine hall of the hydroelectric power station.

A rigger at work.

Russian and Arab workers at the construction site.

Turbine hall of the Aswan hydroelectric power station. b/w material (newsreel from 1967) - K. I. Smirnov, Soviet and Arab engineers and specialists in the turbine hall during the start-up of the first unit of the hydroelectric power station.

Engineers at the instruments. K. I. Smirnov and N. Malyshev are observing. color material - Turbine hall, dam, Arab engineer-dispatcher at the main control panel talking on the phone.

Arab and Russian engineers at the control panel.

High-voltage power line in the desert.

Chemical plant building.

Cairo - bridge over the Nile, ancient and modern buildings.

Classes at school - teacher tells children about the Soviet Union (synchronized in Arabic).

Children answer questions (synchronized).

Moscow - bridge over the Moskva River, building of the Historical Museum, Gorky Street, Kalinin Avenue, Pushkin monument, flowers at the monument.

People walking on the streets, a young couple with a baby carriage.

A geography lesson at a Moscow school.

The teacher tells the students about Egypt (synch).

The students listen.

Egypt - Helwan Iron and Steel Works.

Rolling and processing of red-hot blanks.

Construction of the new Helwan Plant.

Arab and Soviet engineers at the construction site.

Metal structures of the new workshop.

The finished workshop.

Work in the workshop and on the stocks of the shipyard in Alexandria.

Manufacturing of ship parts.

The port of Alexandria - ships in the port.

High-voltage power line in the desert.

The Aswan Dam.

A working turbine.