Synopsis
This color educational film from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is about the construction of a coal burning plant in Paradise, KY. Known as the Paradise Fossil Plant, it operated from 1963 through 2017. The film was copyright in 1964. Opening: Fire, water, they make steam. Title: Tennessee Valley Authority presents "Power From Paradise" (:08-:51). Power lines. A woman plus in a device. A cow is being milked, aerial factory shot. Aerial field. Western Kentucky, the Green River. Paradise, KY, men sit outside a mom & pop shoppe. A dam, water comes down the walls into a river. A barge on a river. Electric power station. Tractor. A forest. Factory aerial shot. Transformer on a pole (:52-2:59). Smoke stacks give off smoke at a factory. Map of TN, AL, GA, NC, VA, KY and Transmission lines connect the stations on the map. Coal burning steam plants are shown on the map. Nighttime city shots. A coal field. Men at work on the field (3:00-4:50). Bulldozers mow down trees. A man uses a jackhammer. The ground is blown up. Men look at a map and point. Trucks move in. Bulldozers go across muddy dirt. Earth and rock are removed. Bulldozers assist. Coal is mined and moved by crane (4:51-6:25). Cars go down a dirt road. Men work on a pipe. Snow on the ground as men head to work. A building is built to house the offices. Men weld. Men cut steel and sheet metal (6:26-7:22). Concrete mixing plant. A truck pulls in, a man turns a knob in a control room. A crane set on a gantry. Men set…
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- Running time
- 32 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
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- Stock Footage