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Opening ceremony for Wheeler Dam, the third huge project of the TVA

Title: "The Camera Reporter" superimposed over Pathe News cameraman using movie camera / High angle WS cars driving over dam / MS three cars driving toward camera on dam "Wheeler Dam" written on overhead structure / MS section of dam with generators (possibly) and electrical transmission poles / VS Alabama Governor Bibb Graves and Speaker of the House William Bankhead in white suits (Graves is the taller one) and entourage walk touring dam / MS transmission towers / High angle crowd of people walking down steps on hillside / High angle man and woman pull back American flag and Confederate flag to reveal plaque / CU plaque "Wheeler Dam Named in Honor of Joseph Wheeler General in the Army of the Confederacy and a Leader of the U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish American War--Built for the People of the United States of American by the Tennessee Valley Authority Under Direction of the Congress and the President 1933 - 1936"
Title: "The Camera Reporter" superimposed over Pathe News cameraman using movie camera / High angle WS cars driving over dam / MS three cars driving toward camera on dam "Wheeler Dam" written on overhead structure / MS section of dam with generators (possibly) and electrical transmission poles / VS Alabama Governor Bibb Graves and Speaker of the House William Bankhead in white suits (Graves is the taller one) and entourage walk touring dam / MS transmission towers / High angle crowd of people walking down steps on hillside / High angle man and woman pull back American flag and Confederate flag to reveal plaque / CU plaque "Wheeler Dam Named in Honor of Joseph Wheeler General in the Army of the Confederacy and a Leader of the U.S. Volunteers in the Spanish American War--Built for the People of the United States of American by the Tennessee Valley Authority Under Direction of the Congress and the President 1933 - 1936"
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
1291669952
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
September 11, 1937
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:00:43:20
Location:
Florence, Alabama, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004591_01_01