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Adak Alaska USA 1943 stock footage and images

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New electrified inventions for TVA farmers, including Incubators, electric refrigeration, community cold storage, and grinders

Describes advances in farming and rural life due to rural electrification efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). View of incubators and brooders for chicks to hatch. Farmer pushes down a weighted sand bag that pulls up an umbrella over new chicks. An electric refrigerated drum containing milk to be marketed. Farmer checks thermometer in drum. Farmer places milk cans into an electric refrigerator. A community cold storage unit containing baskets of fruits and vegetables. Farmer wheels a cart into the cold storage and places more baskets inside. Farmers demonstrating new labor saving electrified devices including a separator, a corn kernel peeler, and a belt-driven grain grinder. Animated map shows the Tennessee River Basin with TVA developments. View of a power plant and power transmission towers and lines.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 5 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023095
Roads, bars, and restaurants in the Tennessee Valley

The efforts of the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) to improve the lives of rural communities in the Tennessee Valley. Newly laid road in a rural area, with a 1930s era car driving on it. City "problems" being brought to rural areas due to electrification and new infrastructure: Car parked in front of a log cabin with a sign beside the stone chimney that advertises offerings including fast food, reading "Dix's Cabin. Beer on tap. Wines. Liquors. Hot Dogs & Hamburgers." A different store with sign "Brown's Parkside Bar & Grill. Wines. Liquors." Another sign there reads "Parkside Grill Comfort Station."

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023096
Tennessee Village Authority (TVA) provides education to Village people through exhibition of model markets and houses.

Advances in education due to developments from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Visitors at the Blount County Fair see a school exhibit with a sign "15 Years of Progress in Rural Education." It displays a small one room school house in 1920, and then the new expanded school in 1935. It shows a "how we did it" area depicting cooperative efforts of the school board and citizens. A school boy standing near the display at the fair. A stack of canned produce in jars.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023097
Tennessee Valley Authority efforts to unify churches in common efforts to help rural citizens

Drawings depicting efforts of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to unify rural churches of all denominations in common efforts to improve the lives of citizens. Exterior views of rural church buildings. A man riding inside an open elevator, entering a construction site. Men building new buildings at a construction site. A building with sign "Community Building." Men seated in front of the community building with a banner behind them advertising an upcoming 'Dog Show'.

Location: Tennessee United States USA
Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023098
Pastor J.A. Yount and Cora Pearl Jeffcoat in the efforts of the Lutheran Watauga Mission in Appalachia

Animated map shows the location of the Watauga Mission efforts of the Lutheran Church, near Boone, North Carolina. View of the Reverand J.A. Yount ascending stairs of one of the seven churches in the Watauga Mission area, which are served by the Board of American Missions. Pastor J.A. Yount preaching at the pulpit of the church, with the altar in the background. Cora Pearl Jeffcoat organizes Bible Schools, Missionary Societies, Light Brigades within the Watauga Mission. Children seated outside a church receive education from Cora Pearl Jeffcoat. Sign reads 'Clark Creek Camp', one of the camps organized by "Miss Cory." Teenage girls at a camp gather on the porch of a simple wooden home. The girls read together, sitting on a rock, and then set a cooking fire outdoors, cook food, and then wash dishes at a raised basin.

Location: Boone North Carolina USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023107
Appalachian handcrafting of chairs and blankets by Appalachian men and women, with help from Watauga Industries

Appalachian men and women make handcrafts for sale, with assistance from Watauga Industries, part of the Watauga Mission of the Lutheran Church, near Boone, North Carolina. Mr. H.C. Ford, of the mission visits appalachian carpenters who are building handmade chairs. View of a carpenter planing wood for a chair and shaving wood from a cylinder part of the chair. A completed chair and bench. An elderly woman separating cotton fibers using two wired brushes, then weaving the cotton into a blanket at a hand and foot operated loom. Two women holding up the finished blanket. Mr. H.C. Ford brings money to one of the carpenters, earned from the sale of chairs.

Location: Boone North Carolina USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023108
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