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Spirit of the West aka TVA (main title missing) R2 of 2

Reel Number: 221720-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1940

Country: USA

Location: Alabama,Dalton,Georgia,Muscle Shoals,Tennessee,white Pine

TC Begins: 01:25:26

TC Ends: 01:34:15

Duration: 00:08:49

R2 of 2 Power lines & transformers; electric lines across farm fields to homes. Sign: Electro Development Farm, “Tip Top” Vick & Flossie Foster. 01:25:58 Man feeding chickens in yard; walks to barn. Sign: Demonstration Farm T.V.A. Power, Dalton, Georgia. Man moving irrigation pipeline, starts electric motor & sprinklers. 01:26:51 Sign: White Pine, Tennessee Community Refrigerator. Man opening ice-box type freezer. 01:27:12 Pickup truck pulling fertilizer spreader. Pan over terraced fields & man pitchforking manure & spreading fertilizer by horse team. CU bag Concentrated Phosphate Fertilizer. Filling bags at Muscle Scholls, Alabama; loading onto truck. 01:28:20 Aerial over contour terraced farms. 01:28:45 Men working in reforestation tree seedling nursery. CCC planting in eroded gully. 01:29:09 Sign: Research over entrance, chemical laboratory, chemists researching. Chemicals. Dramatic lighting. 01:30:10 Dump truck unloading ore, recovering, sorting on conveyor. Electro Manganese production. Sheet aluminum off rolling mill. 01:31:07 Women working on canvas for training aircraft / airplanes. Men assembling. 01:31:33 Factory w/ small furnaces; man moving shell casings; gauging shells; inking boxes “for U.S. Navy”. 01:32:00 Boilers wait shipment; men arc welding. 01:32:17 Tilt down steel beam tower at Muscle Shoals to re-convert fertilizer factory to nitrate explosives. Fiery machinery. 01:33:03 LS dam; men & women workers leaving factory superimposed w/ dams, waterways, farming, etc. The End WW2 Industrial Manufacturing; Electrical Power Production; WWII; Factories; Factory; War Effort; Americana Homefront; USA; 1940s; Soil Conservation;

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