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.
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."
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.
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'.
Health care services for Appalachian Mountain residents in the area of Campbell County, Tennessee. Woman straps saddle on horse and mounts it. She rides horse on dirt road, carrying a sick or injured child. She arrives at a building and another woman carries the child into the health facility. Another nurse on horseback picks up an infant child from a concerned Appalachian resident to take to the clinic. Group of men carry a child on a stretcher up a long flight of stairs to a health center. 1930s automobiles navigating rough mountain roads to get to patients. Women arriving by car at a white building atop a hill.
Scenes from a medical mission Appalachian health clinic near Campbell County, Tennessee. Sign "Changing Wash Day on the Farm." Below it is a display of a woman washing clothes by hand in a wooden tub. Transition to a woman operating an early washing machine. Cut to a crowd of mostly women and children gathered outside an appalachian health clinic. They are seated on benches outside a building. Medical mission staff nurses demonstrate health care practices and basic nursing to audience gathered. A young girl serves as the mock patient. Older nurses lecture audience and demonstrate techniques. Younger (teenage) nurses in training check patient's pulse and temperature. They demonstrate technique for bandaging a hand.
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