The TVA At Work 1935
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Reel 1 shows rain storms and flooded streams, the flooded Tennessee River valley, Norris Dam and Wilson Dam, and a panorama of eroded land. ...all » 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. ARC ID: 11648 Keywords: Cattle; Electric apparatus and appliances; Electric engineering; Erosion; Floods; Irrigation; Military bases; Rural electrification; Dams--Wilson Dam Fertilizers and Manures; Muscle Shoals (Colbert county, Alabama, United States, North and Central America) inhabited place; Tennessee Valley Authority.; Department of the Interior.«