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A tractor is driven along a field in Tennessee, United States.

Tractor is driven along a muddy field at a farm in Tennessee, United States. Man follows the tractor. The wheels of tractor get covered by mud. Tractor moves on field. Dense clouds in the sky.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050021
Men burns pile of bushes and dead vegetation at a farm in Tennessee, United States.

Activities of natives at a farm in Tennessee, United States. A man puts his hands inside a hole in ground. Man puts a stick inside a pile of brush and dead vegetation. The pile is burned. Smoke rises from the burning pile.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050022
Workers split long slabs of rock at the Norris Dam site in Tennessee, United States.

Workers separate horizontal slabs of layered rock with picks, at Norris Dam site in Tennessee, United States. A man inserts blade of pick between layers of rock and uses it as lever to separate them.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050026
Workers work at machines to manufacture clothes and shoes in Tennessee, United States.

Cloth and shoe manufacturing in Tennessee, United States. Looms at a plant. The looms are in operation. Women work on the looms. Clothes roll on machines. Workers work on sewing machines. They sew clothes. Clothes are sealed and packed. The workers sew army uniforms. A worker pushes a trolley rack. Uniforms on the trolley rack. Workers work at machines. Shoes are manufactured. A woman packs shoes into boxes.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058128
Phosphate mining, manganese processing and aluminum processing in Tennessee, United States.

Mineral processing in Tennessee, United States. Phosphate rocks are moved by a crane to a plant. The crane drops phosphorus rocks in the plant. They move on a conveyor belt. Views of exterior of the plant. The plant produces fertilizers. Molten metal is poured into a bucket. Two men, wearing eye gear, push a rope. Towers for generating power. Machines are used to break manganese blocks into sheets and then into pieces. They are packed into a container and sealed. A sign on the seal: 'Electro Manganese 99.9%'. Signs: 'Danger, High Voltage' and 'Interchange Bank 154000 Volts, Oil Circuit Breaker'. Towers seen. Machines are used to make aluminum sheets. Aluminum is broken down to make bombs. Aluminum passes through machines. (World War II period).

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058129
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.

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