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River, The R1 of 3

Reel Number: 221720-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1937

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TC Begins: 00:09:12

TC Ends: 00:19:22

Duration: 00:10:10

Titles R1 of 3 00:09:55 Prologue title. Clouds in time lapse & regular speed; over mountains. 00:10:37 CU water dripping, running over vegatation, rocks, stream building to river. Waterfalls, placid water. 00:11:21 POV from on water of riverbanks & on Mississippi River. 00:12:19 Silhouette of men building dike w/ teams of mules / horses. View of dike, mules along mud & scraping side & dumping. GOOD. 00:13:29 Montage: CU plow turning soil, intercut w/ POV thru cotton field. Cotton picking. MCU Steamboat whistle blowing & stacks w/ black smoke; LS of sternwheel riverboat upstream. Cotton pickers; docking steamboat, men loading burlap bags. CU sternwheel; boat leaving dock; rolling bales onboard; three boats side by side racing (?), CU wake. 00:15:20 Rolling title re Civil War, flames burning, Robert E. Lee. 00:16:07 Flames burning, dissolve to remains of house w/ brick chimneys standing. Deserted large wooden house / mansions, tilt down to eroded soil, pan across other erosion. 00:16:47 Mule pulling wagon loaded w/ household goods, Blacks, family, walk behind. 00:17:11 Large white cumulus cloud bank over tree tops; tilt up tall fir trees, CU axe chopping into bark, falling trees in montage. Final tree falling into river. 00:18:15 Logs down sluice along stream & splashing into river. GOOD. Pan over large pile of logs on riverbank, loggers working on logs in river. Dynamite exploding log jam; logs tumbling into river & floating past camera. Logs moving cut by large sawblade in sawmill. Government Programs; New Deal; Tennessee Valley Authority; TVA; Army Engineers; 1937; 1930s; Classic Documentary; Logging; Construction;

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