ROMANCE OF A RIVER

Duration: 20 min

Year Published: 1944

Creator: Ontario hydro-electric

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: Portrays the results of a broad and far-reaching undertaking known as the Ogoki Diversion. Reveals many interesting phases of this engineering achievement. A trip to Niagara Falls development, near St Catharines is shown how rapids and waterfalls, by this use, were changed from hindrances to aids to man's progress. Traces the development of water power, chief in the United States, from the small mill of the early colonist to Niagara, Boulder Dam, and the Tennessee Valley. The informative sequence on the transformation of kinetic energy of the waterfalls into potential energy through the hydro-electric plant with illustrative technical animation explaining the turbine. Concludes with a worldwide survey of potential water power on the main river systems of the continents.

Complete Record: Dewey number: 621.312 Audience level: sh-c-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-color-*loan Distributors / rental: Not shown in source

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946