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News from Suriname: reservoir behind the Brokopondo Dam

Week number 64-18

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

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The jungle behind the Afobaka Dam in Brokopondo is slowly flooded after the closing of the dam. In the village of Koffiekamp the community centre, the chuch and the houses are half flooded. With archive material of the closing of the dam by governor Archibald Currie.

Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Publication date:
1 May 1964
Length:
02:04

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video
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User:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
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