Summary

RIVERS: THE WORK OF RUNNING WATER

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: RIVERS: THE WORK OF RUNNING WATER
File Number: EBC-256 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Educational
Year: 01/01/1981
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1981 Science documentary on the the geological role played by rivers, specifically the Colorado River and the Mississippi River Mostly nature landscape scenics Narrated by Kerry Frumkin Directed by Bert Van Bork 00:02:30:00 Color 1981 VS natural beauty shots of the Columbia River, its headwaters, and various Rocky Mountain valleys and canyons through which it flows 00:05:21:00 Color 1981 A US Geological Survey field station: VS scientist on gondola suspended from a cable lowers a meter instrument into Colorado River and takes current flow readings and collects a water saltation sample a canoe passes on river below him 00:07:05:00 Color 1981 Colorado River meanders through desert canyons of Utah, VS POV AV 00:08:26:00 Color 1981 VS waters of a flash-flood sweep across desert and run into gulleys 00:09:11:00 Color 1981 The desert canyon confluence of the Green River and the Colorado River, POV AV 00:09:05:00 Color 1981 VS POV AV the dark blue water and beautiful ancient rock formations of Lake Powell, and Glen Canyon Dam 00:11:03:00 Color 1981 The Grand Canyon and the Colorado River, VS POV AV 00:12:26:00 Color 1981 Lake Mead, VS POV AV Hoover Dam, VS VS reservoir water intake station on Lake Mead and pipelines stretching across the landscape 00:14:00:00 Color 1981 Patchwork farm land in desert irrigated by water from the Colorado River, POV AV 00:14:14:00 Color 1981 Farm vehicle in field of grain farm workers picking carrots 00:14:58:00 Color 1981 LANDSAT photograph of the Colorado River delta 00:15:45:00 Color 1981 The muddy water of the Mississippi River, VS POV AV 00:16:14:00 Color 1981 Harvester farm vehicles on a soy bean field 00:16:28:00 Color 1981 Tugboat and barges on Mississippi River 00:16:49:00 Color 1981 St Louis, Missouri: TD the Gateway Arch to tourists walking around base POV AV cityscape with Arch, Mississippi River, bridges, highway cloverleaf and Busch Stadium 00:17:19:00 Color 1981 VS scientist in unusual rail car hanging beneath bridge lowers instrument into river to measure sediment and water flow 00:17:54:00 Color 1981 The Mississippi River, POV AV 00:18:20:00 Color 1981 Infra-red LANDSAT photograph of the Mississippi River 00:18:33:00 Color 1981 Disaster footage of a Mississippi River flood: VS small rural houses and thin stands of trees inundated by rushing flood waters 00:19:02:00 Color 1981 Mississippi River, POV AV 00:19:24:00 Color 1981 Mississippi River, POV AV 00:19:56:00 Color 1981 Tugboat on muddy Mississippi River 00:20:05:00 Color 1981 VS a dredging operation on the Mississippi River 00:20:36:00 Color 1981 New Orleans: cityscape skyline and Mississippi River, POV AV 00:20:43:00 Color 1981 VS freighter ships on the Mississippi River 00:21:00:00 Color 1981 LANDSAT photograph of the Mississippi River delta 00:21:26:00 Color 1981 Marsh land around the Mississippi River delta, VS POV AV
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