The Great Depression - PT2
The Great Depression - PT2
Also found in catalog #432759 The Great Depression - PT2: Documentary covering the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, FDR Inauguration, the New Deal, Bonus Army, labor woes, the Memorial Day Massacre, the militarization of America shortly before her entrance in WWII.
The Great Depression - PT2
DO NOT USE: Gentleman talking about his experiences the 1930s Bonus Army protest.
The Great Depression - PT2
Bonus Army march on Washington, DC, 1932: TLS/MSs WWI veterans marching, arriving in trucks and cars; MSs USMC General SMEDLEY BUTLER (retired) speaking to the Bonus Army.
The Great Depression - PT2
Bonus Army march on Washington, DC, 1932: TLS crowd cheering outside the Capitol Building; TLS US Army tanks rolling along street; TLS/MSs mounted squadron of 3rd Cavalry Regiment on street.
The Great Depression - PT2
TLS/MSs dispossessed Caucasian men jumping trains, riding the rails; groups of haggard hungry dirty desperate men hitching rides on boxcars and flatbeds; the hobo mystique; TLS African-American man (hobo) getting off moving train.
The Great Depression - PT2
DO NOT USE: Hughes Rudd discusses the Great Depression.
The Great Depression - PT2
Scenes of wealthy (white) Americans maintaining their lifestyle well into the Great Depression: MS fancy black car pulling through private driveway; TLS/MSs folks in tuxedo and evening wear swaying, dancing on crowded ballroom floor; MSs champagne being poured at dining table.
The Great Depression - PT2
Inauguration Day, Washington DC, March 4, 1933: MS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT & HERBERT HOOVER in car outside White House; TLS Capitol Dome, tilt down to gallery; TLS crowd gathered to hear speech.
The Great Depression - PT2
Inauguration Day, Washington DC, March 4, 1933: TLSs FDR delivering Inaugural speech, calling for national action and broad executive power, if necessary.
The Great Depression - PT2
LS/TLSs patriotic NRA (National Recovery Act) parade in unidentified city, American flags abounding.
The Great Depression - PT2
National Recovery Act: MS NRA signs being positioned (or already in place) in store windows of a Jewish delicatessen, a restaurant, a barber shop, a clothing store, and a branch of the Pennsylvania Exchange Bank. Woman says, "I got a position at this bank after being out of work for two years and am I happy."
The Great Depression - PT2
Montage of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) projects: explosions, construction of dam, turbines, u-handle electric switch being thrown, electricity being distributed, TVA workers on telephone poles and transformers and transporters.
The Great Depression - PT2
DO NOT USE: Still of two members of FDR's Brain Trust, BENJAMIN COHEN and THOMAS CORCORAN. Interview with Benjamin Cohen and Thomas Corcoran, 1970s.
The Great Depression - PT2
High angle LS group of workers forming "CCC" in field. TLS/MSs of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) marching about camp and into forest, uprooting field, fighting forest fire; TLS line of pack mules on trail in forest. WPA (Works Progress Administration) and PWA (Public Works Administration) projects: TLS workers tearing up road at construction project in unidentified city; MS sign for WPA work program in Minnesota; MS African-American man speedily laying bricks on road project; MS workers hammering wooden stacks into ground w/large mallets; MSs workers shoveling wet cement.
The Great Depression - PT2
DO NOT USE: Shots of political cartoons lampooning the WPA.
The Great Depression - PT2
WPA (Works Progress Administration) and PWA (Public Works Administration) projects: TLS workers constructing levee dam; MSs workers breaking rocks, cityscape in BG; MS PWA sign; TLSs bridges, including the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Great Depression - PT2
DO NOT USE: Interview with Caroline Bird. Interview with Paul McCracken.
The Great Depression - PT2
Archival MSs Caucasian men testifying to the greatness of the New Deal in terms of the economy and the welfare of the working man. City street scenes, 1930s: TLS/MSs trolley cars, pedestrians, crowded bustling sidewalks, women boarding bus, woman window shopping.
The Great Depression - PT2
Montage regarding the welfare & depressed state of affairs of African-American community, 1930s: MCU African American woman standing on street corner; TLS/MS black men working on New Deal paving project with white men; MS black women sweeping doorstep; MS black man breaking ice; MS black woman brushing hair of daughter on stoop; MS young African American man using hose to water landscape plants; MS young male hobo on street curb; TLSs ramshackle homes of African-Americans in rural south, families sitting on front porch. TLS/MSs poor Caucasian family on front porch of shack (Appalachia?).