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A land that is rich and full of promise. The earth is fertile. In some places the topsoil is 30ft thick. Three crops of corn can be grown in a year or three crops of cotton. Tobacco. Sugarcane harvesting never stops above the earth and below it riches to equal a king's ransom. The coffee the world drinks, and the emeralds Madame wears to the opera on opening night. Come from here. Here. From this land of potential abundance. I'm writing you this letter from Colombia. I have come here to make one of those films about progress that you see from time to time new housing, industry, machinery progress with a big P that you can measure in tons of bricks and miles of road. This is about my search for that progress. What I found and where I look to find it. Here. There was much left to be done in this land where death was accepted as a part of daily life. These are children's coffins.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=10.38,84.35"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eUnidentified:\u003c/strong\u003e I know my baby lady. I live.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=99.74,105.41"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e In Greece. I don't have any money. The official face of progress is the inauguration, where dignitaries speak at openings of new schools or housing projects or health centers. But what one needed to know when President Berlin Shell placed a brick in celebration of the 5000 house to be built in one development Was. What is the real nature of Colombia's progress? A family of 12 crammed into a bamboo hut. They live here while they build a new home. The Colombian government has had, in effect for some time, a program to provide housing for people like these. A loan is made to the family to build a home in a supervised housing development. In most cases, the people do the work themselves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=105.68,148.85"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Henry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=149.9,149.9"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e This woman had eight children. Four of those children had the mumps, and her oldest son had been bitten by a dog. And she took him every morning to the clinic for shots four miles on foot because she couldn't pay the carfare. And still she smiled. And for the first time in Colombia, I stopped to look closely at her face. Today, Colombia is a part of the Alliance for progress. But long before any such alliance existed, Colombians had decided that they would progress. They worked out a plan to see what they could do themselves, to take the steps so vitally needed to make Colombia into a modern nation. In the Kalka Valley, hundreds of square miles of the richest farmland on earth. Badly farmed, badly irrigated. Much of Italy and which the Colombian plan started with the land. Along the Kalka River. Pumping stations are being constructed as part of the enormous Kalka Valley flood control land reclamation project, which is now underway. The development of the valley is making new industry possible. The establishment of new plants, which will not only provide jobs on their own right, but will stimulate jobs and other fields better, utilizing the strength of the nation and giving the worker better pay. While that goes on, others are learning more about the earth beneath their feet, how crops grow, how to grow new ones. There are three schools in Colombia now forming young men and the teachers of agriculture. Many of them begin training as young boys. They will stay five years. They come from families that are in only a few cents a day, from a few rows of potatoes on a hillside, or from a little bit of plumpness, a sugar cane or a few coffee trees. Badly cared for a few orange trees growing well. These are the sons of campesinos upon the faces in this school. An intense look of learning. Remember that look. We'll find it later somewhere else. After five years, the students become teachers in small villages, rural areas. They use their knowledge to awaken interest in the community and new farm techniques, instructing children in modern farm practices and the adults in the solutions to their particular problem. And suddenly, the sign of a step ahead. Not machines, no factories, no steam driven turbines, but a spark of interest in an old man's eyes. The look of the student learning. You remember when there was nothing more he thought he might learn. A kind of miracle in a chicken coop. And such interest, once aroused, can be turned by the instructor in the community action. This village received funds for this school because they were interested enough to work for it themselves. To tell the truth, no one was actually working when we made this picture. There was little work left to be done, but these people had worked to build a school and they all wanted to be shown together, working as a community. At that point, I wondered if it was still important to go around collecting shots of factories, mills, housing and other usual symbols of progress. They all look alike. Progress on the march throughout the nation today. Progress is in every hard progress for our power, for progress, for machines, for industry and industry, for better living. Throughout the nation today. It's full speed ahead. But there was a different kind of progress in Colombia. Even more important, a kind of progress that had more to do with that woman who smiled. And with irrigation ditches or new factories, more to do with a look in the eye of the student and the look in the eye of the old man. And more to do with my group of painters all crowded together on a school porch, all wanting to be photographed as a community. This kind of progress I found here. This is a housing project. 15,000 people live here. They would not wait to be helped. They formed a cooperative and saved money. They bought the reclaimed land that the government had made available. In the spirit of the Alliance for progress. These people helped themselves. This is California during the gold Rush, but Nome, Alaska during the Gold Rush, or Oklahoma after the land rush. With their land, the people have a future. And with that hope for the future, a sense of belonging to a community has been born within each person.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=151.34,454.87"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eUnidentified:\u003c/strong\u003e But I consider that good now equals once again. Tell us again. And this is how you can be. Yes, it is an idea. Once that big a day could be. Yes. But it isn't entirely.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=456.1,470.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e And we'd be invited.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=470.95,471.61"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Continue to do this now on Sundays and holidays. People do what work they can to improve their house. There is no water yet, nor is there electricity. But the people are confident that they will get what they need through community action. And that is the real nature of the progress I've found in Colombia, a step without which no other material progress can be made. The people's knowledge that they do belong to a community. Now, Colombians sacrifice their evenings when need be, to help build a health center or a new school or a community hall. While as if overnight new industry takes shape. Hanging the night sky with new and splendid galaxies. These were the landless who lived in huts of bamboo mud and recuperated wood clinging to a city's flanks. Now, through private or government programs, in the spirit of the Alliance for progress, these people who have never before owned land, receive their plot of ground by which they enter for the first time into the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=475.96,562.08"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I get it, I get. 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I'm writing you this letter from Columbia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988#t=574.11,594.18"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/236/collection_resources/14114/file/192988/transcript/76688/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e With. 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