The Work of the River

About

Educational film about the grand importance of rivers, using the Columbia River as an example.

From 16mm Educational Films index:

"Shows the work of rivers. From The Of All Things Series"

From Educational Film Guide, 1945: "An Educational Films Corporation of America production available only to schools. Here we have a description of some of the many ways in which rivers serve mankind. Gravel is taken from a river bed for concrete; a river is damned (sic) to aid navigation and supply power and irrigation. The Columbia River, which makes Portland a tideless seaport 110 miles from the sea, is seen as an important travel way for salmon. Striking views of the salmon running at spawning time, with leaping waterfalls, are shown. Weirs and nets catch many for canning, but sportsmen fish with hook and line. Finally, there are rivers carrying commercial and pleasure boats, running turbines for factories and for lighting, while water is diverted from a river to make a desert bloom. With captions."

Title on film can is inaccurate.

Can: # 16162 Ethiopia X 2007

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

Licence or status

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Credit

Educational Films Corporation of America, Robert C. Bruce Instructional Films

Language

English

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