The working of the weather bureau in the United States. The U.S. engineers and members of the weather bureau work in close cooperation for weather forecasting. They coordinate their activities for gathering the data relating to weather. A map locates various places. Animated map depicts the route and the method of their working. A woman talking on phone. The interior of the office of the weather bureau. The employees working in the office. They work for the collection, recording and dissemination of the information. The engineers working near a dam. Men, aboard a special boat working to adjust dam gate settings. They work for the collection of information and weather forecasting as the Ohio River level rises. Smoke from the stacks of the ship anchored nearby. View of the Chris Greene paddle wheel steamboat (sternwheeler) underway near a a dock area on the Ohio River, on route to Cincinnati.
Women sewing clothes for needy families as a part of the WPA program (Works Progress Administration) in Ohio United States during the Great Depression. Close up views of the women seamstress workers as they sew. Young children play with toys and engage in play activities in a nursery school or preschool built for children of working and needy mothers by the WPA. Children work with tools and hammers on projects. Children play in a wooden frame play house. Boy and girl children on swings in the nursery as a teacher watches over them. Smiling children wash up with soap and water using wash basins. One boy jokes and bumps against the girl beside him. The boys and girls lay down on cots for nap time. A boy and a girl sleeping during a nap at the school. Life Guards attend life- saving instructional classes on a beach. Lifeguards rescue a woman from the water and bring her to safety. Men put up a policeman cut out image with sign stating "Slow. School" as a safety measure near a school. People at the improved Toledo Zoo. Families look at a wall built from salvage material in the zoo. Families and children watch a monkey move across a rope ladder at the zoo. A group of monkeys in a pond. The WPA Symphony Orchestra performs in the open band shell amphitheater at the Toledo Zoo (the Zoological Park Amphitheater, Toledo, Ohio). WPA Orchestra with musicians employed through federal funds, are seated on the stage as they perform. Families indulge in swimming and relax in a community swimming pool in Ohio. A young boy climbs a fountain in the pool to take a closer look.
Activities near a waterfall in the United States. A large waterfall (possibly Bridalveil Fall in California). A stream of water with a small waterfall. Men fishing in stream at base of small falls. Ships in a harbor. A railroad train runs along tracks in a mountain valley next to a river.
Creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Small lake at Tennessee River Basin. TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) protects its members and public through its Malaria control program. TVA members on boat spray pesticide next to river area to kill mosquitos. Man with backpack pump walks in shallow water on edge of river, pumping a manual lever on the backpack and applying pesticide along the shoreline.
The film 'The River' about Mississippi river in the United States. View of the rocky mountains. The volume of water increases in the course of the river from the rocky mountains to the Gulf of Mexico. Several views of the flow of water in the river. Trees along the river side. A waterfall.
A dam is constructed under the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Tennessee, United States. A blast. A crane in operation. A dam and a bridge over the Tennessee River. Workers work on construction of a dam. A section of a huge pipe. Gravel is unloaded from a drum. Workers work on gravel with equipment. The dam generating electrical energy. Huge power plant towers.
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