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gov.archives.arc.37058 · Beat 61 · permalink

Parker dam

24:00–24:18

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Frame at 24:0324:03Frame at 24:1024:10Frame at 24:1624:16

Play from 24:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 29 · shots 219–221. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
Parker Dam (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen happening
  • Parker Dam is shown with a road and water in front of it. [frame:1]
  • A building with large pipes extending up a hillside is shown. [frame:2]
  • A power substation with transmission towers and a dirt road is shown. [frame:3]
Also said
“modern civil engineering wonders.” 24:12 · “Electrical energy from Parker and Hoover power plants.” 24:15
Seen
Parker Dam, road, water, large pipes, power substation, transmission towers, dirt road
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: informative; themes: civil engineering, infrastructure, public works; style notes: wide exterior shots, bright daylight, static framing, documentary style

The beat shows exterior shots of Parker Dam and associated infrastructure, including power lines and a forebay, while the voiceover describes it as one of America's modern civil engineering wonders and mentions electrical energy from Parker and Hoover power plants. No people are visible or named, and the setting is a desert landscape with mountains and water.

“Parker Dam provides a forebay for the District's Colorado River Aqueduct.” 24:05 · “Another one of America's seven” 24:09 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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