1937 ca - Depression, USA: WPA Documentary - Uncle Sam, The Greatest Builder

1937 ca - Depression, USA - Government Projects Titles. 02:35:40 High Angle / HA huge excavation; level shot of enormous scaffoldings along cliff face of dam construction, men, tiny, seen working. LS, MS, CUs Rock / soil from excavation moving on conveyor belt. Heavy equipment digging. 02:36:22 LS w/ conveyor dumping in foreground & construction village for Grand Coulee Dam on Columbia River in background. HA LS, MS & CUs Steam shovels loading trailers pulled by large bulldozers thru mud & dumping. 02:37:25 1933 in Montana at headwaters of Missouri. LS of Ft. Peck dam being built. Placing foundation & dramatic view from tunnel. Dredging. Drilling for foundation & spreading. Pile driving, welding, reinforcing steel. 02:38:35 Desert views in Colourado. MS from below of Colourado River Gorge & Boulder Dam. Tilt down to men working on power station / turbine building at base. Electric transmission lines out of canyon. View down face of dame w/ construction hoist descending. Man working on dam face. Towers against cliff. 02:39:25 Truck thru very large steel pipe section. Large truck moved past suspended by cables. 02:39:52 River thru diversion tunnel. 02:40:07 Locks beside dam on the Mississippi River. Low Angle / dramatic shot of team of horses w/ two men & scraping board building dike. Steamboat pushing barge on Mississippi. CU steam whistle. CU Pilot at wheel. Two steamships on river. CU driving arm for paddlewheel. 02:40:52 MS man operating controls to filling locks. CU raising, water flowing. View from wheelhouse of gates opening; paddlewheel shots w/ paddlewheeler leaving. CUs. 02:41:37 Steamboat past slowly w/ name, Mark Twain and paddlewheel in CU. 02:42:15 Columbia River Gorge & Bonneville Dam project under early construction phase. Men working attaching steel rebar; pouring concrete from large hoisted buckets & working concrete. Explosion on cliff rock. 02:44:38 The End title. WPA; Works Progress Administration; 1930s;