# Man Against The River 1937

On Works Progress Administration (WPA) flood relief operations in the Ohio River Valley. Flood waters rage in the Upper Ohio Valley in January, 1937. Boats are used to rescue persons trapped in buildings. The Red Cross distributes food at an outdoor kitchen. The WPA distributes clothing. Nurses inoculate children for typhoid. Levees and sea walls are constructed in the Lower Ohio Valley. Harry Hopkins, Gen. Edward M. Markham, Col. F.C. Harrington, Surgeon General Thomas Parran, and Red Cross representative James L. Fieser inspect water-covered roads in Arkansas and refugee camps at Louisville. Louisville and Cincinnati fires are shown. National Archives Identifier: 12357 Local Identifier: 69.43 * Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent) * From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937 * Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944 * Level of Description: Item * Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images * This item was produced or created: 1937 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937 * General Note(s): Subject summary is available. * Contributor: Producer, Works Progress Administration. Made by Pathe News. * Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Silent * Accession Number(s): 330

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1937
- By: Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ManAgainstTheRiver1937)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.