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Conquest of the Hudson (1938)

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Conquest of the Hudson (1938)
 Sponsor: Port of New York Authority. Producer: Eugene W. Castle. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 19 minutes.

Film about the planning, construction, and operation of the Lincoln Tunnel. Released one year after the structure opened, Conquest of the Hudson shows the tunnel shield, sandhogs in the airlock, and the tunnel service between New York City and New Jersey.

Note: Also released in a silent version.

Resources
Educational Film Catalog, comps. Dorothy E. Cook and Eva Rahbek-Smith (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1939), 169.