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Format:
Government document
Video
Contributor:
United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : sound, black and white
Place of Publication:
[Washington, D.C.] : National Archives and Records Administration, [1935]
Summary:
Reel 1 shows rain storms and flooded streams, the flooded Tennessee River valley, Norris Dam and Wilson Dam, and a panorama of eroded land. Phosphate fertilizer is made in an electric furnace at Muscle Shoals, is bagged, and is shipped to the farmer. Contrasts productivity of fertilized and non-fertilized land. Reel 2 shows crops and cattle on a farm, a delegation of farmers conferring with a county agent, the power house at Wilson Dam, electric power lines and towers, a reservoir, and a close-up of an electric light burning. A farmer installs an electric stove in his home.
Notes:
Title from title screen (viewed May 24, 2006).
OCLC:
69244093

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