Canyon
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Play from 4:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 32–34. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- canyon (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
- Seen happening
- Water is shown rushing through a canyon during dam construction. [frame:1]
- Water is seen violently churning, likely from diverted flow. [frame:2]
- A wide view shows the river diverted through tunnels in canyon walls. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “The first major task was to divert the river around the dam site.” 4:53 · “To do this, four tunnels, two on each side, were drilled through the canyon walls. Each 56 feet in diameter, they averaged 4,000 feet in length.” 4:57
- Seen
- river [frame:1, frame:3], canyon walls [frame:1, frame:3], tunnels [frame:3], rail tracks [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: epic, industrial; themes: human engineering, conquest of nature, infrastructure; style notes: wide landscape shots, high-contrast lighting emphasizing scale and force of nature vs. engineering
The segment shows a river in a canyon with water being diverted through tunnels during dam construction. The transcript describes the scale of the tunnels and the effort to divert the Colorado River.
“The thunder of man's determination to conquer the Colorado” 4:43 · “reverberated between the sheer cliffs of Black Canyon as construction got underway.” 4:47 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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