On 17 May 1960, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen mother, opened the Kariba Dam in Northern Rhodesia. The story of its construction and the difficulties which had to be overcome before the remote Kariba Gorge could become the biggest man-made lake in the world. Building a road into the Gorge; how floods disrupted progress; the power house; pouring the concrete and clearing the rising waters of timber. What the increased water supply and electric power will mean to Central Africa.
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In ACMI's collection
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
005816
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Dams - Design and Construction
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Water-power
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Reservoirs
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Water-storage
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Hydroelectric power plants
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Water-supply
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Rhodesia - Social conditions
People → Elizabeth, Queen, consort of George VI, King of Great Britain, 1900-
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)