A closer look at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and how it works to control water flow in the Tennessee Valley in this Department of Interior video.

Part 1 shows rain storms and flooded streams, the flooded Tennessee River valley, Norris Dam and Wilson Dam, and a panorama of eroded land. Phosphate fertilizer is made in an electric furnace at Muscle Shoals, is bagged, and is shipped to the farmer. Contrasts productivity of fertilized and nonfertilized land. Part 2 shows crops and cattle on a farm, a delegation of farmers conferring with a county agent, the power house at Wilson Dam, electric power lines and towers, a reservoir, and a closeup of an electric light burning. A farmer installs an electric stove in his home.

The TVA at Work, 1935

CREATED BY
Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures.

ARC ID 11648
LOCAL IDENTIFIER 48.16

REPOSITORY:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 207406001.

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SUBJECTS
Cattle; Dams; Electric apparatus and appliances; Electric engineering; Erosion; Floods; Irrigation; Military bases; Rural electrification; Fertilizers and Manures
Tennessee Valley Authority. (1933 9999 ); Department of the Interior. (1849 9999 ), Producer
Muscle Shoals (Colbert county, Alabama, United States)

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