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"The Impossible Dream" - Oroville Dam
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Notes to User
Due to original recording and/or condition when digitized: r01: audio/video cuts out occasionally, such as as 00:13:36
r02_p01: begins and ends abruptly
r02_p02: has warbling, such as 00:00:11 and sections of no audio such as 00:00:45
r02_p01: begins and ends abruptly
r02_p02: has warbling, such as 00:00:11 and sections of no audio such as 00:00:45
Title
"The Impossible Dream" - Oroville Dam
Created Date
1976
Description
KOVR-TV special report about the construction of Oroville Dam and the development of the area in Butte County
features reporter Bill Branch.
features reporter Bill Branch.
Item or Container Annotations
Written on Stock Film Shot Sheet inside container r01: "Day: HSFC; Show: 'The Impossible Dream'; No file No., No Date. Est. 1976; No index card in file.
:00-:30 Oak Tree + Foothills/Wheat;
:44 W/S of Mission;
:50 C/u Hands holding straw;
1:15 Stream;
1:33 Mission Aqueduct (sign);
1:50 Fields irrigation;
2:20 Calif. Maps;
4:28 aerials - Periffial Canal;
Stop down;
5:03 Reporter Bill Branch / Telescope;
5:57 View from Dam site overlook parking lot;
6:35 Pan shot of earth fill dam.;
7:55 Inside tunnel at Oroville Dam;
8:25 Reporter Bill Branch; Turbines / control room;
9:50 cu of Turbine;
10:44 Aerials of Oroville rock piles;
11:11 Train and gravel cars;
11:23 Rockers tripping cars;
12:30 Conveyers/heavy equip;
13:20 Packing face & Dam leveling;
14:00 Map layout and train system;
17:00 water;
17:42 Sign "Webb Crest Farm" and aerials;
18:00 Bill Branch (Sloe to story); Wilderness Circle landmark; River, Mtns, etc. Plus landmark turning pan shot to end.;
23:22 end. 2 reels. 23:22 A roll picture; 23:22 C roll sound; HS 11-93."
Creators and Contributors
Creator:
KOVR
Genre
Language
Media Type
Format
16mm film
Extent
2
Reels
Base Type
Acetate
Stock Manufacturer
Kodak
Color or Black and White
Color
Track Standard
Film
Silent or Sound
Sound
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Country of Creation
United States
Contributing Organization
Call Number
2016/009/KOVR00035A
2016/009/KOVR00035B
2016/009/KOVR00035B
Contributing Organization Contact Information
Email: csh@cityofsacramento.org
Phone: (916) 808-7072
Phone: (916) 808-7072
Organization Websites
Link to Internet Archive
Additional Technical Notes for Item
r01: Color Reversal; Composite Magnetic Soundtrack; Composite Optical Soundtrack; Variable Area Soundtrack; Single Perforation; Double Perforation; B-Wind; Ektachrome stock with 1965 and 1967 date codes
r02_p01: Color Reversal; Composite Magnetic Soundtrack; Acetate Base; Single Perforation; B-Wind; Ektachrome stock with 1967 date code; Most of reel is fullcoat magnetic sound sections with head countdowns; Short 4 foot image section starts about 300 feet from head;
r02_p02: A-Wind; Single Perforation; Fullcoat magnetic soundtrack; Short 4 foot color reversal section between 331ft to 335ft contains magnetic sound stripe; Several built-in audio dropouts;
Duration
0:45:53