# Reclamation In The Arid West 1936

Shows the Colorado River, electric power transmission lines, and a steel plant in operation. A train brings materials, fuel, and workmen to Boulder City to build Boulder Dam. Close-ups are shown of buckets on cable cars dumping cement into the coffer dam. Includes views of the power lines and towers at the dam site, the switches to control the power, and the completed dam; and the farms, homes, and orchards made possible by power and water from the dam. National Archives Identifier: 11674 Local Identifier: 48.43 Creator(s): Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures. (? - ?) (Most Recent) From: Series : Motion Picture Film Documentation of the Diverse Activities of the Department of the Interior, compiled 1916 - 1976 * Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 2009 Level of Description: Item Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images This item was produced or created: 1936 The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1916 - 1976 Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted Use Restriction(s): Undetermined Sound Type: Sound Accession Number(s): III-NAV-193 Online Resource(s): YouTube This video is available on the U.S. National Archives' channel on YouTube. * Transcript A transcript of this video is available online as a PDF. Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): * Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. (06/20/1923 - 11/06/1979), Producer

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1936
- By: Department of the Interior. Division of Motion Pictures
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ReclamationInTheAridWest1936)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens 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.