Players of Australia win U.S. National Singles Championship of tennis in Forest Hills, New York. Margaret Court of Australia, plays tennis match with Darlene Hard and wins the U.S. National Women's Singles Championship title. Spectators watch the match and cheers the players. Rod Laver of Australia plays tennis match with his opponent Roy Stanley Emerson. Rod Laver wins the U.S. National Men's Singles Championship title. Spectators give standing ovation to Rod Laver. Rod Laver holds the trophy and smiles.
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A film 'The Story of Hoover Dam' shows how proposal of the dam is passed in the United States. A sign reads 'A Modern Civil Engineering Wonder of The United States'. Aerial view of the Hoover Dam. Automobile traffic across the top of the dam. Architecture of the dam. People enter onto dam to see reclamation project and listen to the story of Hoover Dam. View of Black Canyon. Animated map of geographical climate of the Colorado River. Views of mountains and flooded water. Dried crops and bare trees due to raging waters of the river. A wind mill seen. Proposal of construction of Hoover Dam comes in the House of Representatives of U.S. Capitol for Congressional approval to regulate and control the Colorado River, in 1928. View of President Calvin Coolidge addressing Congress in the U.S. Capitol in 1928. President Herbert Hoover in his office in the White House in 1930, signs the bill of appropriation for construction of the dam.
Creation of hydro electric operations at Hoover Dam in the United States. Hydro electric units are built in power house. Creation of hydro electric operations that provide electricity to California, Nevada and Arizona. An engineer works during manufacture of generator N8. Manufacturing of Hoover generator. A man works on welding. Men carry steel plates. Views of turbine wheel and men working near the wheel. Rail car transports N8 parts. N8 parts are transfered from canyon to power house via cable ways. A man signals. Manned cable way operator operated during dam construction. The interior of Nevada wing power house. Technicians assemble the engines installed. The crewmen prepare N8 equipped for receiving generating unit. The men remove temporary slab from turbine. Steel lamination plates stacked around rotary frames. An overhead crane carries the N8 parts. N8 parts assembled. On December 1961, world's largest hydro electric plant is completed.
Aerial View of the Hoover Dam in Nevada. Automobile traffic driving alongside of and on top of Hoover Dam. Generators in the power house of Hoover Dam. Wide shot of Hoover Dam. Closeup us raging Colorado River water, followed by shot of controlled stream from Hoover Dam.
Reclamation projects in the United States. Colorado River forces its water into Lake Mead. Views of the Lake Mead. Automobile traffic across the top of the dam. Sail boats at the river. People enjoy their vacation by boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing at reclamation projects. Diversion tunnels of the dam. Animated diagram of Hoover hydroelectric power plant. Workings of transformers, towers and power units. The river flows along dam. Electricity is generated. Water flows from pump.
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