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gov.archives.arc.37058 · Beat 27 · permalink

Canyon

8:58–9:19

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:019:01Frame at 9:089:08Frame at 9:129:12Frame at 9:179:17

Play from 8:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 90–96. 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:2, frame:3, frame:4
Period
1933 evidence: t:9:18
Also said
“Nine anchored aerial cableways spanning the canyon from rim to rim” 9:06 · “As the first bucket of concrete settled into its foundation on June 6, 1933, Hoover Dam began its rise from the depths of Black Canyon.” 9:18
Seen
concrete mixing plant [frame:1], aerial cableway buckets [frame:2, frame:3], canyon walls [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], construction equipment [frame:1, frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: industrial and monumental; themes: large-scale construction, engineering achievement, industrial progress; style notes: wide-angle shots emphasizing scale, high-contrast monochrome, static framing to show engineering scope

Concrete is dispatched from mixing plants to a canyon construction site via aerial cableways, with the first bucket placed on June 6, 1933. The frames show industrial structures, cableway buckets, and the canyon terrain during this phase of Hoover Dam’s construction.

“From the mixing plants,” 9:01 · “Concrete was dispatched to all points of construction.” 9:02 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

US Government work The record names a federal body as the creating agency. A work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person's official duties has no US copyright (17 U.S.C. 105; before 1978, section 8 of the 1909 Act). This says nothing about copyright outside the United States, or about music, stock footage or other material the film may incorporate. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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