Summary

President Franklin D Roosevelt dedicates the Boulder Dam by pressing a key in Washington DC to signal the start up of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # 5712
Clip SR005549_08_01.mov
Date 09/11/1936
Title President Franklin D Roosevelt dedicates the Boulder Dam by pressing a key in Washington DC to signal the start up of the dam's first hydroelectric generator in Nevada
Description Title Card: “F.D.R. Stirs Boulder Dam Power to Life” / Intertitle: “Washington D.C.” superimposed over President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking from podium / WS audience / WS photographers taking pictures of Pres. Roosevelt speaking from podium / WS audience / CU President Roosevelt speaking, photographers in foreground: “In the name of the people of the United States, to whom you Boulder Dam are a symbol of greater things in the future. I call you to life” / MS President Roosevelt presses electric button / Intertitle: “Boulder City, Nevada, superimposed over Boulder Dam / MS generator, part spinning / CU turnbine turning / Top shot workers working in electric plant / CU gauge // Washington DC MS Pres. Roosevelt presses electric button // Nevada PAN houses in Nevada / MS Boulder Dam / MS INT generator / CU turnbine turning / Top view of workers working in electric plant / CU gauge / WS generators under construction, label on generator read: General Electric / MS Boulder Dam, water being released on one side, then on the other side / CU water being released from dam / CU PAN water gushing out of mouths of pipes / Top view pan of water flowing out of dam water release pipes, to water flowing down / CU large amount of water flowing down / Tilt up Dam water being released on both sides of the dam / PAN water gushing out of water release pipes to meet with water being discharged from another side of the dam water release pipes / High shot water running down on spillway / WS water being released on both sides of the dam above spillway
Personality Franklin D Roosevelt
Country United States
City Washington DC

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