Water, Power: Hydro-Imaginaries and the Churchill Falls Project in Crawley Films
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Large-scale hydroelectric developments have been closely tied to both state-sponsored modernization agendas and nation-building since the twentieth century. This article examines the production of “hydro-imaginaries” about hydroelectricity in Power in Perpetuity: The Churchill Falls Project (Sally MacDonald, 1967), produced by Crawley Films for the Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation. Power in Perpetuity is one of three Crawley productions documenting the construction of the Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Station in central Labrador, Canada between 1967 and 1972. Using film analysis and archival research on the film’s production and circulation, I examine how Power in Perpetuity represents cheap, abundant hydroelectricity as a provincial and national resource, a foundation for modern life, and a fuel for sustaining southern, settler futures. By analyzing cinematic representations of Churchill Falls, this article contributes to scholarly examinations of the Crawley Films archive, filmic representations of the environmental injustices of modernization, and visual histories of energy in Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".