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Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
North Western Native American Indians gather at their traditional salmon netting grounds at the Celilo Falls

Northwestern Indians gather at their traditional salmon netting grounds at the Celilo Falls in Oregon. The Native Americans do traditional dipnet fishing at the fishing sites at the Celilo Falls. The Chief of the tribe along with other people of the tribe have a last look at the traditional salmon netting grounds. View of the new Dalles Dam constructed which will submerge the area. White citizens gather and take pictures and photograph the Indians' final visit fishing for salmon fish at the site. Narrator describes a cash payment agreement between the tribes and the U.S. government for the tribes to relinquish the fishing rights. Narrator declares "Once again red man bows before white man's march of progress."

Location: Oregon United States USA
Date: 1956, September 13
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041382
Men and women working in different war production factories for the production of raw materials and armament for World War 2 effort

The production of war materiel and supplies for soldiers and sailors in the United States during World War II. Newspaper headlines read: '1942 income 117 billions'. Men working in war production factories. Manufacture of aluminum and steel for the war effort. Sheet of aluminum rolling down conveyor in factory. View of assembly floor in a production plant building bomber aircraft. Brass being processed in factories, and hands of a worker sifting through new bullet casings in an ammunition factory. Use of copper exemplified in engine wiring and telephone communications applications. Steel being forged in factory. War ship being launched and a new Liberty ship SS Richard Bassett being launched from ship building slips on May 22, 1942. Tanks being built in a factory. Elevated view of many wood army barracks being built at an army base or camp. Then a view of homes being built as housing for war production workers. Lumber operations underway and coal miner in coal mines. A chart depicts the last year's production goals and then animated chart showing the production goals for the coming year shooting sky high. A sign on a door reads: 'Lt. Gen Brehon Somervell, Commanding General, ASF'. Lt. General Somervell seated at a desk in his office. He talks about engineers and technicians working for the U.S. Army and making materials go further to do more jobs than ever before.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076710
United States 3rd Army Division soldiers enter houses and engage in street fighting in Cologne (WW2)

United States 3rd Army Division soldiers patrol through Bocklemünd on the north-western outskirts of Cologne, Germany in World War II. U.S. Army soldiers enter houses in the city and walk on the streets. Some soldiers run as they cross a street to evade snipers. Some infantry soldiers fire at German snipers. Soldiers forcefully break house doors open. Soldiers leaving house after search. Tanks moving on the street. Infantry soldiers search a village for snipers. Road sign showing the distance to Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Wuppertal, Aachen, Koblenz, and Bonn. A soldier walks past a “Stadtmitte” sign directing to Cologne city center.

Location: Cologne Germany
Date: 1945, March 5
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080542
Scenes from the 1942 AAU championship championship track and field games in New York City

The AAU championships at Randall's Island. Hal Davis, fastest man in the world, wins 100 meters. Bill Cummins wins 110 meters hurdles from Joe Batiste. Al Blozis wins the Shot, and Cornelius Warmerdam wins the Pole Vault . The winners seen. Huge crowd gathered to watch the event.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1942, June 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040841
USAF aircraft at an AFB on the Eniwetok Atoll in Marshall Island,Pacific Ocean.

Nuclear detonation on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Operation Red Wing. A resultant mushroom cloud. Scenes of landing of several United States Air Force aircraft like B-52, B-47,B-66, B-57 on a United States AFB situated on the Eniwetok atoll (sometimes spelled Enewetak or Eniewetok) in Marshall Islands. Shows the aircraft carrier USS Badoeng Strait in Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Several US-airplanes like F-84F, F-101, B-52 and B-36 can be seen on the AFB. Maintenance crew can be seen working on a B-52's (Stratofortress) engines. Men working on the nose and wing section of a F-101 Voodoo. Technician working on the F-101's electronics equipment, opens its nose dome to reveal photo panel radiation gauges. Airman removes motion picture camera from the nose of F101. Technicians work at the instrumental panel of a B-57. Radiometer attached at tail section of B-66. Technician removes dust for radiation sample. Technicians work on the horizontal stabilizer of B-47 tail section.

Location: Eniwetok Atoll Marshall Islands
Date: 1956, March
Duration: 6 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028979
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