| Boulder Dam Construction (Hoover Dam) | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1817 |
| Catalog #: | 515841 | |
| Clip Number: | 515841-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-16-50 | |
| Timecode: | 02:03:37 - 02:04:48 | |
| Location: | Nevada and Arizona | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Dams & Levees ENGINEERING: Dams LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Arizona LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Nevada | |
| Description: | Master 1817 - Tape 2 Text: "Transit mixers placed the concrete in the confined abutment form." Brief elevated LS of dam under construction. Elevated TLS of men at work on the wall. Text: "After the blast, high-sealers swarmed over the cliff's to remove the loose and broken material." MS man in harness scaling the rock wall. MS dump truck dumping dirt. Text: "To provide foot-hold for construction roads and rail lines, thousands of tons of virgin rock were blasted from the age-old walls of..." Elevated LS of canyon. Text: "Heavy duty rigging was designed to handle the pipe sections over cableway." Low angle LS looking up at men on top of huge pipe. Low angle LS looking up at man sliding down pipe by cable. LS men moving the gigantic piece of piping. Text: "Specially designed cars carried the separate units into the tunnels." Text: "In September 1935 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam to the progress of the nation." TLSs power lines lining a desert road, interesting desert foliage is seen. TLS power lines across mountain landscape. Text: "...today, controlling the floods and bending the will of a hitherto ungovernable river to perform the fruitful tasks of a civilization rapidly invading..." Great LS of Boulder Dam/Hoover Dam with water flowing. | |
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