03/22/71 C0016898 - COLOR MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA: INDOCHINESE GROUP TOURS TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY PROJECTS. NXC 44295 "MUSCLE SHOALS" SHOWS: PAN WILSON DAM: SIGN "MUSCLE SHOALS" INT TURBINE GENERATOR: EXT TVA FERTILIZER DEVELOPMENT CENTER: MEKONG BASIN COMMITTE ENTERS: DR GERALD WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR OF TVA DIVISION OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, WELCOMES GROUP: INT GROUP MEMBERS LOOK AT MACHINERY: BAGS OF FERTILIZER: SIGN "ELECTROFORM" OF E ALTON BAILEY: GROUP ENTERS BAILEY HOUSE: BAILEY TALKING WITH GROUP: EXT TRACTOR RUNS BY: 2 SHOTS PIGLETS NURSING MOTHER PIG: TVA SIGN "NUCLEAR PLANT"L EXT PLANT: GROUP WEARING HARD HATS INSEPCTING PANELS: EXT UNFINISHED PART OF PLANT: EXT GREENHOUSE AND INT GROUP LISTENS TO OFFICIAL: 3 SHOTS TVA LOCKS: (SHOT 03/19/71 88FT) WILLIAMS, GERALD BAILEY, E ALTON ANIMALS - PIGS AGRICULTURE - US ALABAMA - MUSCLE SHOALS DAMS - ALABAMA - MUSCLE SHOALS - WILSON ELECTRIC POWER ASIA - POLITICS & ECONOMICS INTERNATION COOPERATION - GENERAL RIVERS - MEKONG SOUTH VIETNAM - FOREIGN RELATIONS - LAOS SOUTH VIETNAM - FOREIGN RELATIONS - CAMBODIA CAMBODIA - FOREIGN RELATIONS - SOUTH VIETNAM CAMBODIA - FOREIGN RELATIONS - LAOS LAOS - FOREIGN RELATIONS - SOUTH VIETNAM LAOS - FOREIGN RELATIONS - CAMBODIA EVANS / 88 FT / 16 POS / COLOR / 900 FT / 16 POS / COLOR / CUTS /

Thomas Edison, Henry Ford at Muscle Shoals, AL

Recording At Muscle Shoals Studio

Young woman is stretching her legs on the bridge after exercising

Item title reads - A man made Niagara. Giant dam and spillway built at cost of 30 million pounds, inaugurated. Muscle Shoals, USA (U.S.A.) <br/> <br/>L/S of the giant dam and the water washing down the spillway. M/S of one section with water pouring down it, the camera pans down and over the torrent of water at the bottom. <br/> <br/>Intertitle - '150,000 horse power can now be produced at low cost by harnessing force of millions of gallons of water.' L/S of huge amounts of water pouring down and splashing about.

Film regarding creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Picture of United States Capitol building. Text of 1933 Congressional Act creating the TVA, appears progressively as background while scenes of the project are shown. Aerial view of power plant in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. A little girl stands alone, looking over a TVA dam. A utility worker stands on a large electric insulator. View from a barge as it passes under a bridge on the Tennessee River. Bridge under construction over Tennessee River. Aerial view of flooded area. Animated map shows Tennessee River Basin. Location: Tennessee United States USA. Date: 1935.

AN EFFORT IS UNDERWAY TO SAVE SOME CREEK MUSCLES FOUND IN MISSOURI

MUSCLE SHOALS LEVON HELM, RUSSELL SMITH #1, #2

POWER FOR DEFENSE

In 1936 Muscle Shoals, AL, Pres. Franklin Roosevelt speaks about power plants in the TVA

On development and advances from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Men aboard train hands a sack of Phosphate fertilizer to farmer, manufactured at the TVA's Muscle Shoals plant. Train with sign "Knox County Soil Conservation Association" on the side of the train car. Farmer draws horse drawn carriage beside train and is given a bag of the phosphate fertilizer. Farmer applying the fertilizer to his fields with a horse drawn cart. Farmer in hose drawn cart passes a farmhouse. Cows graze in the field. View of houses and electric poles. Farmer shows an electric transmission box attached to a barn. Location: Tennessee United States USA. Date: 1935.

High angle view

Map depicting Norris Dam and Muscle Shoals nitrate plant; aerials of dam and plant following Supreme Court decision on TVA in 1936

Scenes from Army Day on April 6, 1934. Secretary of War George Henry Dern, in broadcast to the nation about importance of the Army, in peacetime. Brief glimpses of the Yellowstone River lower falls and Old Faithful and Beehive geysers erupting in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. View amongst log buildings in Reproduction of Army Fort Dearborn, at the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. A pioneer wagon; Native American Indians in ceremonial regalia; antique locomotives and trains at the Exposition. Army General Leonard Wood being sworn in as the Governor General of the Philippines. Closeup of General of the Armies, John J. Pershing, America's highest ranking Military officer. Headquarters of Walter Reed Army hospital, in Washington, DC, named for U.S. Army Major Walter Reed, who confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquito. Acting on this, the U.S. was able to complete the Panama Canal. View of French dredging equipment sitting idle in the water after Yellow Fever prevented them from completing the canal. Closeup of U.S. Army General William C. Gorgas, who, in 1904, headed the Sanitary Department that controlled mosquitoes and eradicated Yellow Fever, so the canal could be finished. View of a cayman in swamp near the canal. Photograph of George Washington Goethals, Chief Engineer credited with making the canal happen. Explosives employed in canal construction. Earth and rocks being loaded into open rail cars. A steamship transiting the Panama Canal. The Washington Monument; U.S. Library of Congress; and the Lincoln Memorial, cited as examples of accomplishments by U.S. Army engineers. The Wilson Dam, under construction by Army engineers, in Muscle Shoals, Alabama and system of levees being built to control the Mississippi River. The raging Mississippi River during 1927 flood. Flood victims being assisted by U.S. Army soldiers, at a tent camp, receiving food and clothing. An Army airplane flying over a forest fire. Army personnel supervising men in the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. Mail being loaded aboard an Army airplane, as airmail service is being opened between Washington DC and New York City. President Woodrow Wilson talking with Army pilot Major Reuben H. Fleet. Mail being loaded into the nose of an airplane. U.S. Army Douglas World Cruiser airplanes in flight, returning from their trip around the world in 1924. A pilot sitting in front seat of a Douglas O-38 airplane, pulls a fabric hood over his cockpit to practice "blind flying". View of the aircraft in flight, with instructor pilot in the open rear cockpit. Army aviators taking a camera and a rifle aboard their airplane as they prepare to leave on an aerial mapping flight. Aerial view of skyscrapers of Manhattan Island, New York City. Army Signal Corps personnel working on communications devices. A cable laying ship operating at sea, in support of the U.S. Army's Alaskan cable and telegraph system. Men loading chemicals into hoppers on Army crop dusting airplane. Several views of Army airplanes crop dusting. Glimpse of boll weevil, the target of their efforts. Closeup of Karl Connell, who as a major in the AEF, in World War I, invented a superior gas mask known as the "Connell" or "Victory" mask. A group of miners wearing gas masks enter a smoky mine entrance. The Army invented tear gas, which is shown being used to thwart a bank robbery, in a staged demonstration. Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt, as head of the Great Depression era National Recovery Administration, or NRA, is seen about to give a speech. Narrator cites him as an example of U.S. Army officers who also serve the country in civilian life. Scene shifts to cadets on parade at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Location: United States USA. Date: 1934.

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[ A National Program In The Tennessee Valley] VS LS of Tennessee valley. LS of miner. VS farm scenes. VS flood waters. HAS flooded area. LS Roosevelt. HAS of Muscle Shoals. LS Wilson Dam. MS map showing TVA objectives. VS HAS Norris Dam.