Filmed by Bonneville Power Administration w/ songs written & sung by Woody Guthrie. Pt. 1 of 2
00:00:45 Pan over Columbia river gorge & several shots of river in eastern Washington state.
00:01:25 US map & zoom in on Pacific Northwest; dissolve to Columbia river views. Map of river; pan forest shot. Freighter on river. Rapids of river & Celilo Falls w/ salmon leaping up falls & falling back. Bear catching salmon.
00:03:11 American Indian dip netting salmon from platforms at Celilo.
00:03:24 Montage: depression & migrants in car w/ furniture tied on going down highway in 1930s. Men riding on top of railroad cars. Car pulling covered wagon like trailer. Men walking down road w/ suitcases.
00:03:43 Montage: logging, timber in millpond, sawmill; log rafts on river; lumber on dock at Portland Lumber Mills. Abandoned sawmill.
00:04:06 Unemployed men outside hiring hall; on street corner, outside S. Chybke pharmacy; in suits outside other storefronts.
00:04:28 Montage: Dust bowl, storm; drifted dirt. Farmer; people along highway. Woman & child. Loading belongings onto truck & kids riding in back. Car along dirt road. Migrant camp w/ signs on cars & trucks, California or Bust. Tents. Laborers in field picking crops intercut w/ loaded cars on highway w/ Guthrie voice over. Car w/ sign: On To Oregon. PoV road toward Mt. Hood. Columbia basin w/ sagebrush, cracked dirt, rolling tumbleweeds, piled against tumble down shacks.
00:07:09 PoV along highway. Eastern Washington road signs near Coulee Dam. Entering Grand Coulee. Dam under construction; men working on cliff, explosions blasting rock. Large shovels loading trucks, conveyor belts w/ rocks, pouring concrete w/ giant buckets & men tamping. Men riding on crane lines.
00:10:01 Bonneville Dam construction w/ coffer dams & rushing water (brief). Aerial over completed dam & views of spillways. Tug & barge in locks. Continued...
Industry; Geography; Electrical Power; Natural Resources; Natural Disasters; Economics; Economy; Okies; Poverty; Fish; 1949; 1940s; Folk Songs; U.S.A. Government Propaganda;
NOTE: Celilo Falls was flooded in 1957 by The Dalles Dam.
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Filmed by Bonneville Power Administration w/ songs written & sung by Woody Guthrie. Pt. 1 of 2 00:00:45 Pan over Columbia river gorge & several shots of river in eastern Washington state. 00:01:25 US map & zoom in on Pacific Northwest; dissolve to Columbia river views. Map of river; pan forest shot. Freighter on river. Rapids of river & Celilo Falls w/ salmon leaping up falls & falling back. Bear catching salmon. 00:03:11 American Indian dip netting salmon from platforms at Celilo. 00:03:24 Montage: depression & migrants in car w/ furniture tied on going down highway in 1930s. Men riding on top of railroad cars. Car pulling covered wagon like trailer. Men walking down road w/ suitcases. 00:03:43 Montage: logging, timber in millpond, sawmill; log rafts on river; lumber on dock at Portland Lumber Mills. Abandoned sawmill. 00:04:06 Unemployed men outside hiring hall; on street corner, outside S. Chybke pharmacy; in suits outside other storefronts. 00:04:28 Montage: Dust bowl, storm; drifted dirt. Farmer; people along highway. Woman & child. Loading belongings onto truck & kids riding in back. Car along dirt road. Migrant camp w/ signs on cars & trucks, California or Bust. Tents. Laborers in field picking crops intercut w/ loaded cars on highway w/ Guthrie voice over. Car w/ sign: On To Oregon. PoV road toward Mt. Hood. Columbia basin w/ sagebrush, cracked dirt, rolling tumbleweeds, piled against tumble down shacks. 00:07:09 PoV along highway. Eastern Washington road signs near Coulee Dam. Entering Grand Coulee. Dam under construction; men working on cliff, explosions blasting rock. Large shovels loading trucks, conveyor belts w/ rocks, pouring concrete w/ giant buckets & men tamping. Men riding on crane lines. 00:10:01 Bonneville Dam construction w/ coffer dams & rushing water (brief). Aerial over completed dam & views of spillways. Tug & barge in locks. Continued... Industry; Geography; Electrical Power; Natural Resources; Natural Disasters; Economics; Economy; Okies; Poverty; Fish; 1949; 1940s; Folk Songs; U.S.A. Government Propaganda; NOTE: Celilo Falls was flooded in 1957 by The Dalles Dam.