Mode-Art Can 1410 (R1) (silent)

Description: Outtakes depicting US Army Corps of Engineers projects working to reclaim riverside land from multiple rivers by dredging and building retaining walls. Shot at Markland Locks and Dam, Kentucky, on the Ohio River; New Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Greenup Locks, Kentucky; and elsewhere.

Notes on Leader:

Markland 31 May 1957; US Army Corps of Eng / New Cumberland 19 June 1957 / Greenup 25 July 1957 / Markland 21 August 1957 / Lock No 41 Ohio River / Greenup Gates Taken By Nashville District / Greenup Valves Etc/ Taken by New Orleans District / Tail Mode-Art #572

Notes on Can:

Orig Kodak #295 / US Army Corps of Engineers

Mode-Art production number: 757

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Subjects: Infrastructure; Land use; Construction; People of African origin or descent; Water; Extractive industries

Tags: crane; large construction site; dredging river; barge; retaining walls; land reclamation; conveyor belt; dams; locks; steel railroad bridges; regular people catching fish with nets beneath retaining wall; bicycle on sand; diver in water surveying project ?; DELTA QUEEN riverboat; TRI-STATE tugboat; Nashville Bridge Company construction barge; POC working; Black men working with cranes; Black workers; loading barges; white men welding; bridge construction; "Meet the Upper Ohio Valley" press tour; press conference; steam shovel; locks (hydraulic engineering); people of color; public works

Film Sponsor: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Creator: Mode-Art Pictures

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mode-Art Pictures

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1957-05-31; 1957-06-19; 1957-07-25; 1957-08-21

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Geographical Location: Pennsylvania; Kentucky; Ohio; Tennessee; Markland Locks & Dam, Kentucky; New Cumberland, Pennsylvania; Ohio River

Genre/Form: outtakes and trims

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal, outs/trims

Color: color

Color Process: Kodachrome

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1156