Colonel Bleep - Ep. 003 - Building an Island Base - 1957 [English]
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00:00Et maintenant, préparez-vous pour l'aventure !
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00:08Dans l'excitante histoire de...
00:12La construction d'une base d'île !
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01:50La construction d'une base d'île !
01:54Here we go !
02:02Looking down on the continent of Africa from high in the sky,
02:06bleep, squeak, and scratch.
02:10See that the Belgian Congo looks something like an ivy leaf.
02:14The stem touches the Atlantic Ocean on the west,
02:18and the central vein of the leaf is formed by the Congo River,
02:22which curves some 3,000 miles into the interior
02:26and is the only river in the world that crosses the equator twice.
02:30The capital city of Leopoldville is a modern, busy river port,
02:34but half of the Belgian Congo is covered by dense equatorial jungle
02:38with a temperature in the 80s almost every day of the year.
02:42If Bleep and his friends were to crash in this land,
02:46they would find jungles that are almost useless to man.
02:50In fact, until recently, the natives lived almost entirely
02:54on game they'd snared or shot with bow and arrow.
02:58Today, civilization is moving into the Congo,
03:02and the wild animals, antelope, zebra, rhinoceros, hippopotamus,
03:06and gorilla are slowly disappearing except in the game reserves,
03:10and the natives are being taught modern farming methods.
03:14The Belgian Congo was first opened to Europeans
03:18by Henry Morton Stanley, the American newspaper man,
03:22the same Mr. Stanley who said,
03:24Dr. Livingston, I presume.
03:26To most people, the Belgian Congo would not be considered
03:30a very pleasant place to live,
03:32but it is an interesting place for Bleep,
03:34Squeak,
03:36and Scratch to visit.