Water, Power: Hydro-Imaginaries and the Churchill Falls Project in Crawley Films.

This article analyzes the production of "hydro-imaginaries"—cultural and cinematic representations of hydroelectricity—in the 1967 film *Power in Perpetuity: The Churchill Falls Project*, produced by Crawley Films for the Churchill Falls Labrador Corporation (CFLCo). The film documents the construction of the Churchill Falls Generating Station in Labrador, Canada, portraying hydroelectricity as a symbol of provincial and national modernity and a resource fueling settler futures, while largely omitting the environmental and Indigenous social impacts of the project. By situating the film within broader state-led modernization and nation-building agendas, the article highlights how such sponsored media shaped mid-twentieth-century Canadian energy discourses and contributed to the cultural erasure of Indigenous presence amid large-scale resource extraction. This study contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship on Canadian visual energy histories, settler colonialism, and the environmental humanities.