“BREAKTHROUGH” 1950 NORWEGIAN AURA HYDROPOWER PLANT DOCUMENTARY 65944

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1950 black and white historical educational film directed by Lauritz Faulk takes a personal narrative approach to depicting the inception and construction of Norway’s Aura hydropower plant, located in Sunndalsøra in Sunndal Municipality, Møre and Romsdal County, partially extending into the municipality of Lesja (TRT:18:58). Opening titles, “A.F. Films Inc.” and “Norwegian Documentary Film Presents: Breakthrough” and (0:09). A horse-drawn cart plods down a mountain road. The feet of a teenage boy dangle off the back of the cart. A closeup of the teenager, who wears a coat and cap (0:47). Towering, craggy mountaintops. Whitewater rapids. A waterfall (1:03). The boy helps his family horse at a difficult crossing (1:27). Sundalls Fjord. An electrical pole and log cabins under construction (1:47). The mother of the family approaches two elderly women. A ship unlo