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Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work

Public Domain Stock Footage Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work

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Synopsis: Construction of a dam and power plant to harness the power of Canada's Saguenay River...(read more)

  • Date: 1943
  • Duration: 00:01:01
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Canada, Saguenay River

Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work

Canada Rushes Huge Power Plant For War Work

Harnessing the rushing waters of the Saguenay River, Canada is completing a mammoth war project capable of producing more power than America's mighty Boulder Dam. Despite the icy cold Canadian winter workmen are winning a gigantic battle against time and the elements. Already they are a year and a half ahead of schedule. Here goes forty-one tons of TNT.

By the end of the year the development will be generating more than a million horsepower, power for the Dominion's great aluminum industry. For when these power lines begin to hum Canada will lead the world in the production of aluminum. Three quarters of a billion pounds a year for the United Nations war effort.

Shot List:

01:02:08:00

Massive dynamite (TNT) explosion.

01:02:29:25

Scenes of hydro-electric generators, electrical transformers, electrical high voltage transmission towers and lines.