Great Alaska Highway (1942)

Titles read: “GREAT ALASKA HIGHWAY“. Alaska, United States of America. C/U of sign reading ’Start Alaska Highway - Edmonton - Alberta’. Various shots of bulldozers pushing and flattening earth and breaking trees down, clearing the way for the road. Earth excavators at work and endless lines of lorries carrying earth to and fro. Sections of the highway under construction. A car travels along a finished section. Commentator talks of the road being a direct route to Chungking and Russia and an arterial supply line to the Aleutian Islands. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1