# “BREAKTHROUGH” 1950 NORWEGIAN AURA HYDROPOWER PLANT DOCUMENTARY 65944

This 1950 black and white historical educational film directed by Lauritz Faulk takes a personal narrative approach to depicting the inception and construction of Norway’s Aura hydropower plant, located in Sunndalsøra in Sunndal Municipality, Møre and Romsdal County, partially extending into the municipality of Lesja (TRT:18:58). Opening titles, “A.F. Films Inc.” and “Norwegian Documentary Film Presents: Breakthrough” and (0:09). A horse-drawn cart plods down a mountain road. The feet of a teenage boy dangle off the back of the cart. A closeup of the teenager, who wears a coat and cap (0:47). Towering, craggy mountaintops. Whitewater rapids. A waterfall (1:03). The boy helps his family horse at a difficult crossing (1:27). Sundalls Fjord. An electrical pole and log cabins under construction (1:47). The mother of the family approaches two elderly women. A ship unloads cargo at a harbor (2:10). The family approaches a farmhouse (2:41). A young girl with pigtails greets the boy. The pair run through rural fields to a darkened tavern. Rustic men play cards and wrestle near a campfire (3:05). The father is found working on a snowy mountainside. A procession of laborers. Explosions (4:02). The children find and push a mine cart on rail tracks. A train blows a steam whistle and pushes the cart away (4:51). Snowy mountains. A map shows a sequence of mountain lakes and streams (5:28). Cable car tracks extend into the horizon. A long line of workers wait outside an office. One man…

- Kind: Documentary
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/65944-breakthrough-vwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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