America From 1919 to 1935
Opening montage of America's "return to normalcy" after World War One (WWI) : LSs jalopy-like cars infesting roadways; MSs white families picnicking, later picking daisies in field; high angle LSs busy, bustling, congested city streets.
DO NOT USE Host in studio talking to camera.
American pasttime montage: folks attending beaches, amusement parks, professional baseball & football games; sailing, fishing, etc. Farming, factories, saleswomen in store.
DO NOT USE Still Photos.
The Roaring Twenties: MSs white flappers and gentlemen dancing in ballroom, CU hands tinkling ivories (playing piano) superimposed.
Great montage of Ford auto workers building the Model T (auto assembly, manufacturing). Nice LS Ford Model T automobiles rolling off assembly line. LSs Model T's on city and muddy country roads; some great shots of the car bumping into pedestrians, kids playing a game of dodge with them.
DO NOT USE Still Photo.
LSs Model T's on city roads, traffic. Farming, tractor, farm goods transported in a truck.
MS boy turning on the radio in his home, cutaway MS Dixieland jazz band playing in a radio recording studio.
DO NOT USE Still montage of the burgeoning movie industry: behind the scenes promo shots, people in ticket lines, diagrams for palatial theaters, stills of RUDOLPH VALENTINO, CHARLIE CHAPLIN, LAUREL AND HARDY.
Construction. Men building skyscrapers. Water moving over a dam. Montage of the birth of the electricity industry. Electric lines.
DO NOT USE Host in studio talking to camera.
Montage of CHARLES LINDBERGH and his historic 1927 flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis (some great shots of newspapers rolling off the press and being distributed to newsboys and then onto the streets; good shots of the plane taking off and landing; great shots of the New York celebration, of the blizzard of confetti)
Montage of industrial work, men and women working in textile factories.
DO NOT USE Still of Herbert Hoover. HERBERT HOOVER is elected President of the United States.
Men and women woking in various factories (industry).
DO NOT USE Host talking to camera.
DO NOT USE Montage: CUs currency and newspaper headlines and stills.
1929, the Stock Market Crash. MSs Ford Model T cars being stacked into a great pile by a crane; panning MS disenfranchised white family on their farm.
DO NOT USE Depression stills of folks milling on city streets or in the Dust Bowl.
Great Depression. MS homeless white men near a fire at night; TLS white families migrating (Okies); MSs white men riding on trains (riding the rails, hobo). Newsreel of white men shuffling in breadlines
DO NOT USE Still photo
Great Depression. Vendors in the streets, five white kids sleeping in one bed.
DO NOT USE Host in studio talking to camera.
The election of 1932. Newsreel of the Democratic National Convention, FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR) speaking, later being sworn in as President at the foot of the Capitol Building.
DO NOT USE Stills of FDR working at a desk in the Oval Office.
Excellent newsreel of Japan's invasion of Manchuria (laying the groundwork for war in Asia).
DO NOT USE Still of Hitler
Excellent newsreel of ADOLF HITLER and the Nazi Party's rise to political power in Germany.
DO NOT USE Host in studio talking to camera.
Montage of WPA programs (Great Depression) being implemented (great shots of men digging and constructing). FDR in car and speaking to camera. Dams.
DO NOT USE End Credits.