The video description says Fontana Dam is in Tennessee. You got that wrong. The video itself got it right. It's in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina in Graham County. I know. I live 27 miles from Fontana Dam and have been there many, many times. Many of my family members helped build the dam and I am familiar with the project and all the disappointment locals experienced due to the broken promises made by the government concerning property, homes, and cemeteries in the area that were completely destroyed or otherwise cut off. We were promised a road to access those areas, but they never delivered and many people lost so much because of their broken promises and "The Road to Nowhere.". A tunnel was erected in Swain County, which costed taxpayers a LOT of money, but the road itself was never completed. Sadly, most everyone who lived during that time are now gone and were never again able to access or visit their family cemeteries 9r former homesteads. It's just a really sad story and yet another example of how the powers that be can make and break promises. Eminent domain laws allow them to drive people from their properties and destroy their homes, neighborhoods and communities to build roads, bridges, dams or whatever they wish, but not to satisfy the people whose land they took and homes they destroyed. Sure, there were benefits from the building of the dam, but there was also corruption, lies, destruction and disappointment. I don't think this is exactly what he meant when J.F.K. said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.". I feel like our "country" just takes and takes and takes and never gives back sometimes, not caring at all if all the taking destroys lives or what it might cost its citizens. Property owners are barely compensated if at all when their land is taken and then to wait for decades for the country to deliver on a promise it made only to be slapped in the face when it never happens. Fontana Dam was built by TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), which is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee and I assume is tye reason the person(s) who uplpaded this video stated in the description that it was built in Tennessee.
I live not far from the dam. The Little Tennessee River, runs through our town. The "Village" is still a big tourist destination. Thanks for your work.
Given that the movie was produced by Sam Orleans & Assoc. in Knoxville, one can't help but think that the theater organ used for the background music was recorded on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ in the Tennessee Theater on Gay St. downtown Knoxville. Thanks to a multi-million dollar renovation project in the 2000s that included a basic restoration of the organ, you can still hear the Mighty Wurlitzer in action to this day.
When I visited they said one main reason for it, other than the general reasoning for the whole TVA was to power aluminum refining, something in short supply during the war. definitely NOT for Oak Ridge.
They built a lot of locks and dams in the 1930s. One time they were going to reface the lock chamber of one of these locks. They drilled down into the concrete and placed blasting charges. Set them off and......nothing. Nothing happened. They had to go WAY up in the amount of explosives to even get the old concrete to budge. That's how well made the concrete was back during Hoover dam days.
The good! the bad! the ugly ! The huge generators are inside the dam itself. And now, 70 years later, we learn EMF breaks down the molecular bond of concrete over time ! She's going to go, Boys ! Fontana local humor !
I was told that they had an anti-aircraft gun installation on the hill next to the dam. I was even shown the spot where it was at. Has anybody heard of this?
10:27 - Electric vibrators? Those would have been EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS when standing in a field of wet concrete. Further, the motor weight would most certainly have been overwhelming. I submit that the vibrators were pneumatic, as were most other machines of this sort used in building similar dams in that era. A pneumatic engine compared to an electrical unit of equivalent horsepower is a mere fraction of the weight, and not NEARLY AS dangerous in wet environments. 22:13 - It is NOT a "TURBAN". A TURBAN is what Sikhs wear on their heads. --->>> This machine is properly pronounced "TUR-BINE." Well, hell? Look at the spelling? I have customers who manufacture turbines. Deal with it. They certainly made me do so? 🙂 ...
I work in the electric industry, it bothers me tremendously how the word turbine is pronounced. Tur-bin is what everyone in a large nuclear company I worked for would say. I refused and would always say tur-bine, rhymes with the farm equipment combine. At least aviation tends to say jet turbine correctly.
"A concrete vibrator is a machine used for construction-based purposes. These machines can come in several different shapes and sizes. Some are small and run strictly on battery power, while others are much larger with a primary power source stemming from electric power cords."
I posted a comment and link to some of my photos on Flickr of Fontana dam earlier today. First to comment to be exact. I never saw my comment. Was it deleted?
@@PeriscopeFilm Hey, Thanks for the reply. Not your fault. YT does some strange stuff. BTW, I shared this video with family and several friends as we all live less than 30 miles from Fontana dam as the crow flies. I have some really cool night shots of Fontana. I wish I could share them in the comments. And thank you for posting all the content you do. I really enjoy it.
@@slabriprock5329 Yes, that should work. I would assume they would do that since I can't post a link. The photos are in an album called Fontana Dam. Hey, I like you handle. Fan of JetFlix too!
Fascinating film, but it’s a shame that an organist was driven insane recording the score. Seriously- there are moments of utterly batshit insane organ playing in this film.
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous RUclips users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
@@PeriscopeFilm I'm not sure you own copyright to these videos. You are reuploading public domain works, not seeing how this could be construed as a derivative work.
Yep, if you're interested in getting a ticket, ride the Dragon!!! Last time I rode it there was a Tenn trooper coming out of the 1st curve after we crossed the state line. And another, and another, and another, you get the idea ;-)
@@n7565j During Tourist season in the middle of the day on a weekend, Sure but, If you get there between 4:15 and %515 AM on a Tuesday, , You can Ride as hard as you want.. Used to be part of my commute. .
@@redneckhippiefreak My wife and I ride on our anniversary trip in mid July, unfortunately that's slap in the middle of "tourist" season... We live about 3 hours east just below Boone. Safe travels my friend👍🙏
The video description says Fontana Dam is in Tennessee. You got that wrong. The video itself got it right. It's in the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina in Graham County. I know. I live 27 miles from Fontana Dam and have been there many, many times. Many of my family members helped build the dam and I am familiar with the project and all the disappointment locals experienced due to the broken promises made by the government concerning property, homes, and cemeteries in the area that were completely destroyed or otherwise cut off. We were promised a road to access those areas, but they never delivered and many people lost so much because of their broken promises and "The Road to Nowhere.". A tunnel was erected in Swain County, which costed taxpayers a LOT of money, but the road itself was never completed. Sadly, most everyone who lived during that time are now gone and were never again able to access or visit their family cemeteries 9r former homesteads. It's just a really sad story and yet another example of how the powers that be can make and break promises. Eminent domain laws allow them to drive people from their properties and destroy their homes, neighborhoods and communities to build roads, bridges, dams or whatever they wish, but not to satisfy the people whose land they took and homes they destroyed. Sure, there were benefits from the building of the dam, but there was also corruption, lies, destruction and disappointment. I don't think this is exactly what he meant when J.F.K. said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.". I feel like our "country" just takes and takes and takes and never gives back sometimes, not caring at all if all the taking destroys lives or what it might cost its citizens. Property owners are barely compensated if at all when their land is taken and then to wait for decades for the country to deliver on a promise it made only to be slapped in the face when it never happens.
Fontana Dam was built by TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), which is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee and I assume is tye reason the person(s) who uplpaded this video stated in the description that it was built in Tennessee.
Man, that cool organ music. Feel like I'm at a hockey game.
I live not far from the dam. The Little Tennessee River, runs through our town. The "Village" is still a big tourist destination. Thanks for your work.
Given that the movie was produced by Sam Orleans & Assoc. in Knoxville, one can't help but think that the theater organ used for the background music was recorded on the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ in the Tennessee Theater on Gay St. downtown Knoxville. Thanks to a multi-million dollar renovation project in the 2000s that included a basic restoration of the organ, you can still hear the Mighty Wurlitzer in action to this day.
I watched this dam film and thought it was very good!
So cool! I remember going to Fontana Village as a kid. The TVA project was interesting.
Me too.
Cool to watch how she was built, after visiting the dam back in 2019, learning about the TVA by way of welcome centre whilst on my US Roadtrip.
Just building the plant and equipment to build the day was a major accomplishment.
I've stood on this. Entire area is motorcycle paradise.
I’d be very interested in any old TVA videos of Browns ferry nuclear plant.
What they couldn't tell anyone when they were building it was that the electricity was for Oak Ridge....to extract the uranium for The Bomb.
Y12 calutrons
Nope ... was not open till nov 44
When I visited they said one main reason for it, other than the general reasoning for the whole TVA was to power aluminum refining, something in short supply during the war. definitely NOT for Oak Ridge.
Sounds like a young Bob Barker.
They built a lot of locks and dams in the 1930s. One time they were going to reface the lock chamber of one of these locks. They drilled down into the concrete and placed blasting charges. Set them off and......nothing. Nothing happened. They had to go WAY up in the amount of explosives to even get the old concrete to budge. That's how well made the concrete was back during Hoover dam days.
Partly. But also, good concrete gets stronger with time.
The good! the bad! the ugly !
The huge generators are inside the dam itself.
And now, 70 years later, we learn EMF breaks down the molecular bond of concrete over time !
She's going to go, Boys ! Fontana local humor !
12:54 ... I'm surprised they took a day off each week ? probably Sundays by law ... in those old days ... these periscope films are great !
I was told that they had an anti-aircraft gun installation on the hill next to the dam. I was even shown the spot where it was at. Has anybody heard of this?
Well, dam... That was fun.
That sounds like The Mighty Wurlitzer.
what about those poor towns that were destroyed?
and the poor families that were forced from their homes and businesses, my ancestors.
10:27 - Electric vibrators? Those would have been EXTRAORDINARILY DANGEROUS when standing in a field of wet concrete. Further, the motor weight would most certainly have been overwhelming.
I submit that the vibrators were pneumatic, as were most other machines of this sort used in building similar dams in that era.
A pneumatic engine compared to an electrical unit of equivalent horsepower is a mere fraction of the weight, and not NEARLY AS dangerous in wet environments.
22:13 - It is NOT a "TURBAN". A TURBAN is what Sikhs wear on their heads.
--->>> This machine is properly pronounced "TUR-BINE."
Well, hell? Look at the spelling?
I have customers who manufacture turbines. Deal with it. They certainly made me do so?
🙂
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1947... they all dead now.
I work in the electric industry, it bothers me tremendously how the word turbine is pronounced. Tur-bin is what everyone in a large nuclear company I worked for would say. I refused and would always say tur-bine, rhymes with the farm equipment combine.
At least aviation tends to say jet turbine correctly.
@@ianwalton284.....they are ghosts maybe......never know so maybe you can still tell them off
Stupid ghosts
@@ChristinaK1024......or they pronounce it ( tur-been )
"A concrete vibrator is a machine used for construction-based purposes. These machines can come in several different shapes and sizes. Some are small and run strictly on battery power, while others are much larger with a primary power source stemming from electric power cords."
I posted a comment and link to some of my photos on Flickr of Fontana dam earlier today. First to comment to be exact. I never saw my comment. Was it deleted?
It's most likely been held back by RUclips -- they reject a lot of outside links. Sorry!
@@PeriscopeFilm Hey, Thanks for the reply. Not your fault. YT does some strange stuff. BTW, I shared this video with family and several friends as we all live less than 30 miles from Fontana dam as the crow flies. I have some really cool night shots of Fontana. I wish I could share them in the comments. And thank you for posting all the content you do. I really enjoy it.
@@PatrickRosenbalm maybe you could tell people to go to flicker and search your name?
@@slabriprock5329 Yes, that should work. I would assume they would do that since I can't post a link.
The photos are in an album called Fontana Dam.
Hey, I like you handle. Fan of JetFlix too!
My new favorite word: abutment.😏
Fascinating film, but it’s a shame that an organist was driven insane recording the score. Seriously- there are moments of utterly batshit insane organ playing in this film.
That was pretty dry looking concrete in a few places..... guaranteed that it didn't hold
Dam is still there and holding!😂
@@GratefulNachos......I was talking about the concrete lined stilling basin for tail water
@@GratefulNachos LOL right
Did an adult review this prior to release? This is so discombobulated as to be of little use!
meaning?
I wish this channel would do away with the clock on the screen! Is it really necessary?
Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes.
In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous RUclips users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do.
Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
@@PeriscopeFilm I'm not sure you own copyright to these videos. You are reuploading public domain works, not seeing how this could be construed as a derivative work.
@@tedeby5351 they’re not violating copyright if it is public domain. Idiot.
@@tedeby5351 You should sue them for emotional damages.
Ahh...The Tail of the Dragon.. Great ride, Awesome views..Too bad its in Tennessee. XP
Yep, if you're interested in getting a ticket, ride the Dragon!!! Last time I rode it there was a Tenn trooper coming out of the 1st curve after we crossed the state line. And another, and another, and another, you get the idea ;-)
The dam is in NC.
@@GratefulNachos Ahh.. I always came from the Tennessee side .
@@n7565j During Tourist season in the middle of the day on a weekend, Sure but, If you get there between 4:15 and %515 AM on a Tuesday, , You can Ride as hard as you want.. Used to be part of my commute.
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@@redneckhippiefreak My wife and I ride on our anniversary trip in mid July, unfortunately that's slap in the middle of "tourist" season... We live about 3 hours east just below Boone. Safe travels my friend👍🙏