The Columbia: America's Greatest Power Stream

Creator(s): Department of Energy. Bonneville Power Administration. 10/1/1977- (Most Recent)
Series: Moving Images Relating to Hydroelectric and Wind Power, 1949 - 1985
Record Group 305: Records of the Bonneville Power Administration, 1936 - 2006
Production Date: 1949
Scope & Content: This film tracks the Federal program for the development of the Columbia River and its tributaries. Folk singer Woody Guthrie's voice and original music accompany scenes that examine how the economic depression of the 1920s and its resultant unemployment, the westward movement of migrant workers, and the industrial needs of a country engaged in a world war combined to produce the harvesting of the Columbia's energy and the Grand Coulee Dam.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
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National Archives Identifier: 46886
Local Identifier: 305.1
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