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Power Trip: The Story of Energy
The Farm Woman's Dream
In "A Farm Woman's Dream", a deleted scene from the documentary series “Power Trip: the Story of Energy," marketing campaigns in the early 20th century were designed to show that rural women were the primary beneficiaries of dams and hydro-electric projects that would bring power to rural areas across the United States.
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