Life in the Tennessee Valley in the 1930s & 1940s | Documentary | 1944

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This short film – originally titled as ‘The Valley of the Tennessee’ – is a 1944 documentary produced by the U.S. Office of War Information. The film shows the hardships of agriculture before the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) came in and built many dams in the 1930s and 1940s to help prevent the problems of flooding, erosion, and poor irrigation. Before the TVA built its many dams there were a lot of farms, houses, and lives lost due to flooding. With the building of the dams and educating of the farmers in the Tennessee River Valley, the TVA helped better the area for generations to come. The film documents the origins and construction of the Tennessee Valley Authority and its effect on the people of the valley.

The film includes footage of President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking on the importance of the TVA for water control and hydroelectric power. It contains scenes of the various dams' construction and shows TVA specialists teaching local farmers new techniques.

The film was narrated by Fredric March. The music is outstanding. The entire production is a masterpiece of film-making at its very best. A must see film!
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND / CONTEXT

The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Georgia and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide. Tennessee Valley is a generally accepted term for North Alabama, anchored by the city of Huntsville.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. The enterprise was a result of the efforts of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society.

TVA's service area covers most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. It was the first large regional planning agency of the federal government and remains the largest. Under the leadership of David Lilienthal ("Mr. TVA"), TVA became a model for America's governmental efforts to seek in assisting the modernization of agrarian societies in the developing world.
Life in the Tennessee Valley in the 1930s & 1940s | Documentary | 1944

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