Year

1965 (circa)

Video Details

15:00; color; sound; V-11 CA006; S. 828

Description

Gov. Haydon Burns introduces this film describing the reasons, location and other details of the Cross Florida Barge Canal. The canal was being built at the time the film was made. The film has illustrations showing proposed design, testimony by the geologist, sequences of Florida industry, footage of flooding in March 1960 and an enemy submarine threat sequence. President Johnson sets off the first blast in construction. Produced by Leroy Crooks; sponsored by FDC and the Canal Authority of Florida.

Contributors

Canal Authority of Florida
Florida Development Commission
Leroy Crooks

Corporate Subject

Cross Florida Barge Canal

Geographic Subject

Florida

Personal Subject

Burns, Haydon, 1912-1987
Johnson, Lyndon, 1908-1973

Subject

Economic conditions
Drainage
Flood control--Florida
Governors--Florida
Promotional films
Canals
Inland waterways
Construction
Infrastructure
Cold War