Santee-Cooper Dam

Description: Item Description Title Santee-Cooper Dam Date Note Circa 1939-1941. Subjects Dams. South Carolina. Lakes. Construction projects. Hydroelectric power plants. Santee Cooper Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. South Carolina Public Service Authority (Moncks Corner, S.C.) Content Description Various scenes of the construction of the Pinopolis Dam on the Cooper River and the creation of Lake Moultrie in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The dam represented the highest single-lift lock in the world when it was completed in 1941, as part of the Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project. Contributing Institution University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections Rights Copyright: University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections. All rights reserved. For further information please contact University of South Carolina, Moving Image Research Collections, Columbia, SC 29208. Geographical Location Moncks Corner (S.C.) Moultrie, Lake (S.C.) Pinopolis (S.C.) SC County Berkeley County (S.C.) Digital Collection South Carolina Film and Video Collection Collection Name General Collections Collection Description This collection is a miscellaneous collection consisting of theatrical releases, educational films, working materials, and other various films that have been donated with film collections but made by persons or companies other than the donor, etc. Item Title SCAR 19 Citation Santee-Cooper Dam. General Collections. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina. Type Moving Image Format video/H264 Media Type Motion pictures (visual works) Run Time 22:05 Digitization Specifications This standard definition .h264 video is an access copy derived from a film original. Title Id SCAR 19 Date Digital 2021-02-10 Decade 1930 1940 Time Period World War II (1939-1945) Physical Notes Film: 16mm Silent Color Reversal: positive 1.37:1 (Academy) Acetate. Website https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/south-carolina-film-and-video-collection/