Cadillac Desert Film clips

#1: (0-3:33)

Dominy as Messiah for American West: Saviour

Led to Dam Craze on every River in US and world

Video #2:

(5:45-9:53)

-Dominy on wild, wasteful, threatening Colorado River

Reisner on we love nature regulated, not wild

-Director of Interior on cites that depend on two great dams: Hoover and Glen Canyon

-Brower: rivers should run to the ocean

-Colorado River Compact

Video #3: (520- end)

Reisner on Man as God through Dams

-Dominy on dams for man to live in great numbers in an unsustainable desert

-Hoover Dam created LA, largest area of produce farming in the world, supported Armed Forces in WWII

Video #4:

-Hoover and Glen and now Grand Canyon Dam proposals

-Flood Sistine Chapel? (Muir's spiritual argument)

-Dominy in Crusader for Man: need to put water to work for man even in a National Park

Ed Abbey's Speech on Wilderness and Glen Canyon