Hoover Dam 2000 World Super Power (1983)

This DVD contains classic 1930s black and white film footage of the dams construction including creation of the diversion tunnels and dramas associated with the perilous and arduous task of drilling and dynamiting using highscalers suspended by cable dangling hundreds of feet over the river bed This production of Hoover Dam 2000 salutes one of mans greatest achievements and is dedicated to the workers who constructed this engineering wonder of the 20th century Constructed from 19311935 the Hoover Dam was listed on the national register of historic monuments in 1981 By taming the Colorado River it has provided power and life to the wild west for decades Today the Hoover Dam stands as a monument to its builders and mans ingenuity in creating a worldclass super power