An investigation into the extermination policy of the Brazilian State…
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In the 1980s, the military dictatorship in Brazil built the largest hydroelectric dam in the Amazon in the city of Tucuruí in the state of Pará. 40 years later, residents of the Caraipé River within the plant's lake remain without electricity in their homes since then. A filmmaker and crew explore their decision to stay despite the hardships, aiming to uncover their perspectives.
Citation
Main credits
Segtowick, Fernando (film director)
Segtowick, Fernando (screenwriter)
Kato, Victor (film producer)
Manasses, Dayana (film producer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Thiago Pelaes; editing, Frederico Benevides.
Distributor subjects
South America; Environment + Sustainability; Indigenous Peoples; Economics; Fascism + Repression; Activism; Geography; Human Rights; Sociology; AnthropologyKeywords
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To see the Amazon is a dream
in the heart of every Brazilian.
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To conquer the land, control the water,
subdue the forest, were our tasks.
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And in this battle, which has been lasting for centuries,
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we are having one victory after the other.
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Getulio Vargas – President of Brazil
Amazon, 1945
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AMAZON MIRROR
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It’s 7:15 AM.
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Good morning to you tuned in Floresta FM.
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The radio that everybody listens.
Live from Tucuruí, Pará.
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The town of one of the biggest
hydroelectric plants of the planet.
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Good morning to you at the lake islands,
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in the countryside or anywhere in town.
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Good morning.
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Let's stay together till 9:20 AM.
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Thank you for being with us.
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The river is the Tocantins.
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-Where the dam is?
-Yes.
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But as the lake got bigger
than they planned,
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it affected another river.
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The Caraipé River, where we’re going to.
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Okay
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The first thing I wanna do
is to film some trees.
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I’m really into this.
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We must do it very well done.
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If we could find a Brazil Nut tree.
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We can film it in a special way.
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Do these trees still exist?
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Maybe we can find one or the other.
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A huge one?
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Yeah. It would be an awesome take.
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We could edit this take
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with the portraits of the people
that live in the lake for many years.
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Do you think it will be just to point and shoot?
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Not so quick, it's the Amazon.
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Let's remember our shooting plan.
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We'll arrive at the port
and take a boat to the base.
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Then we'll go to Mr. Vicente’s island.
He's one of the oldest.
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Lucas, do you know how to fish?
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-Yes, I fished when I was a boy.
-Such a mama's boy.
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I used to fish at my uncle's house.
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Where?
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A small lake, at his private condominium.
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-Which one?
-GreenVille
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Is there another lighter bag?
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That's enough luggage to travel
for three years through this lake.
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This is a heavy one.
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Let me take these ones.
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They are really equipped,
there’s even a TV here.
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Walk on the board, Fernando.
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You can fall in the water,
but not the film gear!
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This reminds me...
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of a friend of mine.
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To preserve his flip-flops,
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he would take them off and
walk barefoot on the hot sand.
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The flip-flops could get spoilt,
but not his feet.
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Are you shooting that one?
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-Do you want a panoramic shot?
-Yes, please.
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This is not the first time they come here.
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-The entourage?
-Yes, several times now.
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In the last time,
it was the people from the city hall
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to give medicines,
to take people the hospital.
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We went there to wait
that girl called Rosinete.
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-At the community?
- Yes.
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It was just a waste of time.
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At least there was a guy taking
people to the doctor.
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Do you always go to this kind of meeting?
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Yes, always.
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We go there and see
if we can get something.
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Rosinete promised to bring
electric power to us
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with a solar panel.
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-No power from the dam?
-No, no, no.
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Just solar panel´s electricity.
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Batteries.
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Do you know if the
solar panels are on their way?
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All I always had was promises.
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-Just promises?
-Just promises.
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It's always the same.
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Isn't it, Manduca?
He knows, he's been here for a long time.
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-Six years here, already.
-Six years.
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Six years only at this side of the lake?
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Yes, living here, in this area of the lake.
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My wife came first to this side of the lake.
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We worked so much.
He knows how hard we worked.
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Were you here when the
dam started to fill the lake?
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Yes, I was.
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I was already here when they started
to build the bridge.
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You know, that bridge.
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We came to fish here.
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Was the water level high?
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-Yes, it was dammed.
-It was already.
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It was dammed, but at the time
the water was lower than today?
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-Yes.
-The water level was lower...
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No, it was a little bit higher.
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Nowadays the level is seventy four.
Wasn't that lower?
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-Yes!
-Lower, like seventy five!
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-There was a lot of fish.
-Lots of fishes.
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-But the price was lower, right?
-Right.
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At that time we used to take
the fish to Moacir, Isidório...
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Many different middlemen...
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Anytime the woodpecker bit the trees
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the Tucunaré fish would catch the falling pieces.
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We fished with anything we threw.
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Any kind of bait and, when we pulled,
there was a fish already hooked.
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But tell me something
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for me,
younger than you
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and arriving now
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I think it's very difficult.
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in regard to the fishing,
the fish sales.
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In the old days, you went on the shore
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and there were a lot of animals,
like capybara or tapir.
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We could easily see those animals.
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At that time, we could see a lot of them.
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Hello, how are you Mr. Vicente,
how’s everything?
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I’m good, thank God.
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Can we film you telling us
a bit about this story?
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For sure.
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Let's go. then?
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So, as I was saying, at that time,
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the time you were are talking about,
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we would catch a lot of fish.
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Scene nine, shot A, take one.
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Mr.Vicente, looking in my direction...
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please tell us where we are now
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Which island is it?
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This one, it is...
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What do you want me to say?
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Tell me about this place,
in the most spontaneous way.
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Well...
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I think the name is "Twelve Brothers".
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Is it the name of this island?
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-Do the island have a name?
-No, the island...
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No, it doesn't have a name.
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Ok, let's cut. I would like to review it.
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Dude, it's a documentary...
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sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't...
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Maybe he wasn't in a good day, you know?
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Neither do we, I think.
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Do you think that's the way?
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I think so.
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Let's go.
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I already tried to live in the city four times.
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I couldn’t stand it.
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Because there we spent
all of our time struggling to survive.
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In a miserable way.
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We searched for you, in many islands
and many houses.
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Why do you move so often?
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No, it's not like this
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Put yourself in my position
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You are here now.
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But if you find something better,
you won't want to stay here any longer.
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What did I figure out?
I always wished my own place.
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So I can rule.
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To welcome all my friends.
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When you don't have land, it's impossible.
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In my land I welcome everyone,
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the ugly ones,
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the pretty ones,
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the ones who can read,
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the ones who doesn’t,
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the children,
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the elderly,
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I welcome all in my land
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The Tucuruí Project wasn’t
aimed to attend Brazil,
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it was aimed to attend Japan.
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After the first Oil Crisis
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The price of an oil barrel
rised seven times,
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And Japan realized they’d never be able
to produce aluminum again,
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which is the most electro-intensive
industrial product that exists.
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Nothing consumes as much energy
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as the transformation of the bauxite mineral
into aluminum ingot,
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which is primary aluminum.
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So the Japanese came
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in order to build a huge hydroeletric power plant.
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The construction of Tucuruí Plant
started during the Geisel government.
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The Geisel government was the most
technocratic of all military dictatorship.
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It was the most nationalist...
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following a state-centralizing policy.
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It was the most arrogant
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and the president considered
himself a wise man.
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He knew everything.
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He was the source of everything
in his government.
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He was the best in the military force.
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That time sealed the strongest bond
between the technocracy and the military.
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With a completely wrong strategic vision imposed.
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There was no thorough study
about the impact on the reservoir.
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At first there was a terrible proliferation of
mosquitos and other insects.
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Then the loss of the wood.
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In 1980 happened a bidding
in order to extract the wood.
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The chosen company was created
just before the bidding.
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A company with no previous expertise
in this activities.
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It came from the same people of Capemi,
a military insurance company.
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This people created The Agricultural Capemi
just to win the bidding.
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They didn’t clean the reservoir.
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There is even suspicion
about the use of chemicals,
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including Agent Orange to defoliate the trees.
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The main objective of the creation
of Capemi Agricultural was to divert money
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To create a slush fund to the
political campaign of General Otávio Medeiros.
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He was the head of the
National Intelligence Service,
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after General João Batista Figueiredo.
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They wanted to interrupt the "slow, safe and gradual
path towards a full democracy"
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proposed by Geisel.
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They diverted this huge amount of money
because they knew
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they were acting against the society interests.
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So they had to impose their political objective.
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And this political objective was dreadful,
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one of the unfolding events was the bomb attack
on Riocentro in 1981.
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The Capemi contract in 1980,
the Riocentro attack in 1981,
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all related to the campaing of
Otávio Medeiros.
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He was the man of the
National Information Services
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of the National Security Council,
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of those refusing to let Brazil
be a democracy again.
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So, the damage was tremendous, because
the trees weren't removed.
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This stone is iron.
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This bucolic and underwood vegetation
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blooms in the middle of the amazon forest
at an altitude of 800 meters,
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in the natural clearings of Carajás mountain range.
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The iron of Carajás mountains was
discovered by chance in 1967
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during the technical landing of a helicopter
in the middle of the flowers.
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The passenger was a geologist,
on a lucky day, searching for manganese.
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Recent researches showed
that these mountains
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are not just about iron and flowers.
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There is much more!
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The fabulous Amazonian treasures
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sought out for centuries, do exist.
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Minerals, hydraulic power
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and even gold.
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Lots of gold!
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The Hydroeletric Plant of Tucuruí,
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with a final capacity of
eight million kilowatts,
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is the first achievement on a large scale
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of the potential of the Amazon Basin rivers,
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estimated in hundred million of kilowatts.
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It started in 1976.
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Tucuruí had to face the predictable problems
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of a pioneer work, in the middle
of a tropical forest,
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thousands of kilometers away
from the supply centers.
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In march 1981, the construction site
looked like this.
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The low-cost production of a huge amount
of electrical power in the Amazon,
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makes feasible audacious projects
to generates external revenue in a short-term.
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Tucuruí means development to our region
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and a green light for the country.
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I worked in the Curupira.
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What was Curupira?
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It was a company.
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They took the animals away
when the water was rising.
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They rescued the animals from the water
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To release them.
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The release was somewhere on dry land.
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But a lot of animals died.
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I heard they threw poison,
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when they were doing the job here,
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a company called Capemi
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They brought a lot of poison
to kill those trees.
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After three days,
all the tree leaves fell.
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So, they started sowing the wood.
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They only took the best wood.
The rest of them stayed.
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What you see here, filled with water,
was once a forest.
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A true lost forest.
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The forest turned into river.
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- Hold on.
- Ok
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- Let’s go then?
- Let`'s go.
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Look, everything you see here
was forest.
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Which tree is that one?
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The huge one.
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Brazilian Nut.
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And the other one there,
Brazilian nut.
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That trunk over there, this one and that one...
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All of them, Brazilian Nut.
00:37:26.163 --> 00:37:29.745
All of these big trunks were Brazilian Nuts.
00:37:33.288 --> 00:37:35.579
There were a lot of trees.
00:37:37.579 --> 00:37:41.788
But for the young people...
00:37:44.371 --> 00:37:47.579
They won´t be able to see them.
00:37:48.080 --> 00:37:51.329
For them it's, literally, something extinct.
00:37:52.247 --> 00:37:54.579
They'll know only if we tell them.
00:37:54.579 --> 00:37:56.830
If my son askes me
00:37:57.247 --> 00:38:00.747
"Which tree is this one?"
I’ll tell him, but he won’t be able
00:38:00.747 --> 00:38:04.497
to see it whole, just what’s left of it,
00:38:04.497 --> 00:38:08.165
because they literally ruined it.
00:39:09.333 --> 00:39:10.583
Sit
00:39:11.209 --> 00:39:12.458
Just sit
00:39:13.084 --> 00:39:14.333
What do you want to eat?
Fish?
00:39:15.417 --> 00:39:16.293
Beans?
00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:18.375
Juice?
00:39:19.001 --> 00:39:20.126
You already had a lot of juice.
00:39:29.626 --> 00:39:30.793
Manioc flour
00:39:31.418 --> 00:39:32.501
You haven't eat anything yet
00:39:32.501 --> 00:39:33.668
Only drinking juice
00:39:35.252 --> 00:39:36.418
Juice!
00:39:43.669 --> 00:39:44.835
Bless you
00:44:01.222 --> 00:44:02.139
Can you see?
00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:04.346
Look there.
00:45:01.850 --> 00:45:04.934
If you moved here, would you get
used to it?
00:45:04.934 --> 00:45:07.433
That’s a good question.
It’s very different, right?
00:45:08.767 --> 00:45:10.934
Before it was called Tucuruí,
was there another name?
00:45:10.934 --> 00:45:12.725
Yes, Alcobaça.
00:45:12.725 --> 00:45:14.268
Tucuruí was Alcobaça.
00:45:18.060 --> 00:45:21.434
But after a time,
it became Tucuruí.
00:45:25.810 --> 00:45:29.476
They drowned the railroad.
There was a train before.
00:45:29.476 --> 00:45:31.101
Did you travel on the train?
00:45:31.101 --> 00:45:35.810
Yes, I did, I travelled by train, by litorina.
The litorina was like a…
00:45:37.144 --> 00:45:39.935
a Kombi, but going on rails.
00:45:39.935 --> 00:45:41.061
Really?
00:45:41.061 --> 00:45:44.435
Yes, there were the rails and
it went on top of them.
00:45:44.435 --> 00:45:46.769
It went from Tucuruí to Jatobal.
00:45:46.769 --> 00:45:48.769
Jatobal is near Marabá.
00:45:48.769 --> 00:45:51.351
And what was transported in this train?
00:45:51.351 --> 00:45:53.936
It carried everything.
00:45:53.936 --> 00:45:58.602
Corn, bean, rice,
banana, Brazilian nut.
00:45:59.145 --> 00:46:02.895
From Marabá to Tucuruí.
00:46:02.895 --> 00:46:06.812
Always by train
00:46:06.812 --> 00:46:10.020
to supply Tucuruí with stuff
00:46:10.020 --> 00:46:12.603
there was no road.
00:46:13.020 --> 00:46:14.437
Only train
00:46:14.437 --> 00:46:15.978
There was no dam.
00:46:15.978 --> 00:46:18.103
And, of course, there was no lake.
00:46:18.562 --> 00:46:23.645
We went by boat or train to Marabá.
00:46:24.188 --> 00:46:25.687
There were no cars.
00:46:26.813 --> 00:46:28.395
How did you live then?
00:46:28.729 --> 00:46:29.979
Did you like it?
00:46:29.979 --> 00:46:31.395
Even the meat came from Marabá.
00:46:31.395 --> 00:46:33.188
Everything from Marabá.
00:46:33.979 --> 00:46:36.688
Then shipped to Belém?
00:46:37.104 --> 00:46:38.771
Yeah, it went by boat to Belém.
00:46:38.771 --> 00:46:41.147
Was there a name for this kind of boat?
00:46:41.396 --> 00:46:45.813
There were a lot of boats.
There was one named Jubilee...
00:46:45.813 --> 00:46:48.563
Did you used to go by boat to Belém?
00:46:48.772 --> 00:46:49.521
Yes.
00:46:50.147 --> 00:46:50.814
Yes.
00:46:51.189 --> 00:46:53.855
It would take us three days
to arrive in Belém
00:46:53.855 --> 00:46:54.814
by boat.
00:46:55.354 --> 00:46:57.897
By the time of arrival we had
no more money,
00:46:57.897 --> 00:47:00.772
cause we ate all way along.
00:47:00.897 --> 00:47:03.190
And Manduca, how did you meet him?
00:47:03.522 --> 00:47:04.564
This blessed soul!
00:47:04.564 --> 00:47:06.190
I met him in Tucuruí.
00:47:06.190 --> 00:47:07.190
How was it?
00:47:08.023 --> 00:47:10.231
It was by chance, you know.
00:47:10.231 --> 00:47:13.397
Nobody wanted to date him,
cause he was a peasant.
00:47:13.898 --> 00:47:16.856
So, you know, I gave the guy a chance.
00:47:16.856 --> 00:47:21.148
His family was from Cametá too
and it worked out.
00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:23.565
We started going out
00:47:25.066 --> 00:47:27.481
and we’ve been together ever since.
00:47:27.481 --> 00:47:29.191
For how long?
00:47:30.232 --> 00:47:33.691
We're married for forty-nine years,
00:47:34.565 --> 00:47:36.774
but we had an eight-year experience before.
00:47:36.774 --> 00:47:38.441
Experience?
00:47:38.441 --> 00:47:40.524
We lived together, before getting married.
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:06.692
And my heart sings
00:48:08.068 --> 00:48:10.483
for the Virgin of Nazareth.
00:49:37.612 --> 00:49:39.446
So, this is really gratifying.
00:49:39.446 --> 00:49:43.655
Because in each of them,
in each one of us, Jesus is present
00:49:43.655 --> 00:49:45.446
to make it happen.
00:49:45.863 --> 00:49:47.072
For everybody.
00:49:47.072 --> 00:49:48.447
To open the door.
00:49:48.447 --> 00:49:52.239
Even if we risk ourselves opening
a door at night, at home,
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:53.822
because we don’t know who it is.
00:49:53.822 --> 00:49:56.030
First, we give ourselves to God.
00:49:56.030 --> 00:50:00.363
"Lord, I’m going to open the door,
but make it be a blessed person."
00:50:00.363 --> 00:50:02.948
Because we can’t deny.
00:50:02.948 --> 00:50:05.572
Or we won’t be welcoming Jesus,
00:50:05.572 --> 00:50:08.323
we don’t know in which person he’s coming.
00:50:08.323 --> 00:50:10.406
It’s how I understand.
00:50:17.614 --> 00:50:19.698
How many siblings do you have?
00:50:19.698 --> 00:50:20.199
Four.
00:50:20.531 --> 00:50:21.781
Who are they?
00:50:21.949 --> 00:50:22.573
Me,
00:50:23.406 --> 00:50:24.199
Elton,
00:50:24.824 --> 00:50:26.074
Vitória and Lora.
00:50:26.448 --> 00:50:27.615
What´s their age?
00:50:27.907 --> 00:50:29.074
How old they are?
00:50:29.990 --> 00:50:31.907
Elton is twelve.
00:50:34.283 --> 00:50:35.990
Yeah, twelve I think.
00:50:38.532 --> 00:50:40.116
Vitória is...
00:50:41.325 --> 00:50:42.158
six.
00:50:44.866 --> 00:50:47.283
Lora is eleven.
00:50:48.490 --> 00:50:50.407
And I’m six.
00:50:53.283 --> 00:50:54.200
Now you play.
00:50:55.491 --> 00:50:56.491
Now it poops!
00:50:56.741 --> 00:50:57.825
Now it poops!
00:51:00.284 --> 00:51:01.284
I'm gonna win!
00:51:01.408 --> 00:51:02.284
I'm gonna win!
00:51:02.366 --> 00:51:03.408
I'm gonna win this.
00:51:04.491 --> 00:51:07.326
I'm gonna win the soda and the pan.
00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.617
Let's go to the next number
00:51:17.242 --> 00:51:18.243
Thirty-nine!
00:51:18.243 --> 00:51:20.534
The age of Mr. Manduca.
00:51:21.742 --> 00:51:24.118
Thirty-nine here.
00:51:25.534 --> 00:51:27.077
And now
00:51:27.742 --> 00:51:28.868
the best one
00:51:28.868 --> 00:51:29.993
Thirteen!
00:51:30.243 --> 00:51:31.327
Thank you!
00:51:31.327 --> 00:51:33.868
She said she’s thirteen,
definitely with the workers party.
00:51:33.868 --> 00:51:36.410
- You just have to ask.
- You got it.
00:51:36.410 --> 00:51:39.035
- Who wants more?
- Twenty-nine for me,
00:51:39.535 --> 00:51:40.618
and ten.
00:51:41.161 --> 00:51:42.286
Alright.
00:51:42.993 --> 00:51:45.493
And the next one is...
00:51:45.493 --> 00:51:47.203
- Number three.
- Thanks!
00:51:48.410 --> 00:51:50.119
Three!
01:00:29.517 --> 01:00:33.352
Oh, San Francisco!
01:00:33.977 --> 01:00:36.477
Oh, San Francisco!
01:00:36.768 --> 01:00:39.602
I'm going to live San Francisco!
01:00:53.269 --> 01:00:57.436
I will take you to the USA
01:00:59.229 --> 01:01:03.811
I dreamed of you in a beautiful place
01:01:05.104 --> 01:01:10.062
I am from Brazil, I am from the North
01:01:10.644 --> 01:01:13.812
I am latin american
01:01:13.979 --> 01:01:16.562
from the Amazon River
01:01:16.729 --> 01:01:20.271
Here it's just sadness, my love
01:01:21.520 --> 01:01:26.729
I'm an adventurer miner from Sertão
01:02:52.900 --> 01:02:56.275
Hey, sound test, sound test.
01:02:58.483 --> 01:03:00.859
Guys, we have food.
01:03:00.859 --> 01:03:03.817
Vatapá, $1. Also Pastel, $0,40.
01:03:03.817 --> 01:03:06.234
Hot dogs for just $0,80
01:03:06.234 --> 01:03:08.360
Soup just $0,80 also.
01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:10.775
We have juice for only $0,20.
01:03:10.775 --> 01:03:14.276
Come and see all the offers at Rosa's Bar
01:03:15.692 --> 01:03:19.360
Let's get wild with Megaton Band.
01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:20.901
Let's dance!
01:03:23.860 --> 01:03:25.276
Queen
01:03:25.401 --> 01:03:26.818
Princess
01:03:26.901 --> 01:03:27.776
Desire
01:03:27.985 --> 01:03:29.401
You have won my heart.
01:03:29.860 --> 01:03:31.277
Queen
01:03:31.401 --> 01:03:32.818
Princess
01:03:32.901 --> 01:03:33.776
Desire
01:03:33.986 --> 01:03:35.401
You have won my heart.
01:03:37.236 --> 01:03:38.485
Come on, let's dance!
01:03:38.819 --> 01:03:41.610
It's Bregaço of the Megaton Band!
01:03:42.777 --> 01:03:44.485
Go crazy!
01:03:46.861 --> 01:03:49.652
Of all the girls I saw here
01:03:49.652 --> 01:03:52.444
You are the only one I felt in love
01:03:52.777 --> 01:03:55.736
They call you queen, princess, desire.
01:03:55.736 --> 01:03:58.694
But I have already won your heart!
01:03:58.694 --> 01:04:01.569
You arrived at the party and I got stucked on you
01:04:01.569 --> 01:04:03.903
I looked at you and you got it
01:04:03.903 --> 01:04:07.028
You came dancing and got closer to me.
01:04:07.028 --> 01:04:10.278
I couldn't believe we had the same feeling
01:04:10.278 --> 01:04:13.528
You got on the stage and started to dance
01:04:13.528 --> 01:04:16.570
Everybody started to look at you
01:04:16.570 --> 01:04:19.154
The crowd started to applause
01:04:19.154 --> 01:04:21.570
and with me they sang a chorus like this
01:13:13.428 --> 01:13:17.971
Our Amazon, the richest place on Earth.
01:13:17.971 --> 01:13:23.512
We will celebrate a marriage between
development and environmental preservation
01:13:23.512 --> 01:13:28.638
and Amazon we will be more than the heart of Brazil,
01:13:28.638 --> 01:13:32.763
it will become the economic soul of our Brazil.
01:13:32.763 --> 01:13:38.721
Amazon has everything to make Brazil
a high-proflie country
01:13:38.721 --> 01:13:40.805
We have biodiversity,
01:13:40.805 --> 01:13:42.554
mineral resources,
01:13:42.554 --> 01:13:44.097
drinkable water,
01:13:44.097 --> 01:13:46.347
great empty spaces.
01:17:03.273 --> 01:17:11.315
Dedicated to all the people
who lives at Tucurui's lake
Distributor: Pragda Films
Length: 78 minutes
Date: 2020
Genre: Expository
Language: Portuguese
Grade: High School, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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