# 1950s NATO - PRODUCED ICELAND DOCUMENTARY FILM REYKJAVIK 64684

This short documentary from the 1950s NATO-produced The Atlantic Community film series focuses on the island nation of Iceland. The film touches on various aspects of life in Iceland, including the terrain, industries, and social life. The film opens with shots of each NATO member’s flag waving in the wind before cutting to a statue of a Leif Eriksson (01:32). This is followed by shots of volcanic rock (02:00), an aerial shot of Iceland’s mountains and glaciers, and footage of the country’s rivers and waterfalls, including Gullfoss (02:44). Construction of a hydro-electric dam on a river begins (03:14). A woman cooks with a pot in a hot spring (03:44); women wash clothes in another hot spring. Women and children harvest food in one of Iceland’s many greenhouses (04:10). A boy moves milk containers at a dairy co-op (04:40). Soil experts evaluate land (05:13), and a young man helps harvest hay (05:32). Two boys ride Iceland ponies (05:50), bringing hay down from the highlands. Iceland ponies are rounded up (06:22) and herded up a road and into corrals. Men move sheep onto a plane (07:25) for transport to market centers. Textiles turn wool into cloth (07:58). Women walk along a shopping street in Reykjavik (08:23); there are more shots of the capital city’s streets and the port. Icelanders ride a plane to get around the island (08:58); a plane flies over a town. Fishermen haul in a net on a deep-sea trawler (09:34). Women wave to a fishing boat passing by as they salt herring…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/64684TheAtlanticCommunityIcelandVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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