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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) members help house owners to find another house for them in Tennessee.

Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Boat moves across in river Tennessee. Animated map shows various dams constructed on Tennessee River Basin. Engineers conduct geological and geographical surveys to determine dam sites and reservoir area. Workers clear the reservoir area of timber. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) member meets owners of houses in the area. He reads out a document to them. The owners sign document. Property dealer visits woman, inspects houses and takes notes. The American flag in front of the building. Owners visit the house to be purchased.

Date: 1935
Duration: 8 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023070
Tennessee Volunteers win the football match against Kentucky Wildcats by 20-7 in Tennessee.

An American football match between Tennessee Volunteers and Kentucky Wildcats in Tennessee. The players playing on the ground. Wildcats winning in the fourth quarter. Johnny Majors scoring goals against Kentucky. Volunteers winning after the fourth quarter. The players playing the match. Tennessee wins against Kentucky by 20-7. The spectators in the stand cheer as Tennessee wins the match.

Date: 1956, October 26
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069751
Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system in United States.

Harnessing rivers in United States. Tennessee River flows with full force. Floods cause damages in farms and towns. The flow of water causes soil erosion. Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system for flood control and to generate surplus electricity to avert waste of water power. Congress passes Tennessee Valley Authority legislation. Construction crew works on the construction of dam. Workers balancing on steel beams, high in the air. Riverters throwing and catching hot rivets. Steam shovels and pneumatic hammers in operation. Concrete being poured and a welder with helmet and torch,at work. Animated map shows the river and tributaries. Several other dams in view. The dams help in electricity power generation and irrigation.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054482
Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Text of 1933 Act creating TVA and scenes of the project.

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.

Date: 1935
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023069
The interstate highway system in America

A man rides a two-wheeled dune bike on the shoreline at Jensen beach, Florida. Cars move on multi-lane Interstate Highway. Many 1970s cars seen. Signs with distances and directions along the roadside and above the highways. Signs for Interstates 40; Hwy 95 in Virginia;Hwy 65 at Birmingham Alabama;Hwy 75 N to Atlanta and S to Macon and Florida;Hwy 80 in Iowa; Hwy 85 in Georgia; and Hwy 15 in Montana. Other destinations include: Chattanooga,Knoxville,and Louisville. Cars repaired in a garage. A car moves out of the garage and takes to the highway. Cars, bikes and buses on a highway. Cars loaded onto a car-carrier truck and transported along the Interstate Highway. A Continental Trailways bus on a highway. Point of view shot from moving vehicle driving on highways near Washington DC area.

Date: 1975
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048711
Involvement of the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Great Depression in the United States.

Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044177