A closer look at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and how it works to control water flow in the Tennessee Valley in this Department of Interior video.
Part 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. Part 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.
The TVA at Work, 1935
CREATED BY
Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures.
ARC ID 11648
LOCAL IDENTIFIER 48.16
REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
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SUBJECTS
Cattle; Dams; Electric apparatus and appliances; Electric engineering; Erosion; Floods; Irrigation; Military bases; Rural electrification; Fertilizers and Manures
Tennessee Valley Authority. (1933 -9999 ); Department of the Interior. (1849 -9999 ), Producer
Muscle Shoals (Colbert county, Alabama, United States)
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