# The Columbia

FDR Presidential Library Video 353 The Columbia Historic look at the Columbia River and its development. Woody Guthrie was hired by BPA in 1941 to write the songs for this movie, but its production was delayed by World War II. Produced in 1949 in black and white, this film contains rare footage of Grand Coulee Dam construction, Indian fishing at Celilo Falls and the 1948 Vanport flood.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1949
- By: FDR Presidential Library
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.fdr.353.3.4)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/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)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/gov.fdr.353.3.4?play=1)