Also found in catalog #432759 The Great Depression - PT1: 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.
DO NOT USE: Shots of American people in unemployment office, receiving unemployment checks during recession, 1970s. Opening credits.
Great Depression footage: MSs crowds of unemployed Caucasian men standing outside employment agencies; MS men standing in breadline snaking outside soup kitchen
DO NOT USE: Man saying 1976 recession has no relationship to the Great Depression
MS white man sleeping in doorway outside residence; MS men being served hot coffee in breadline.
DO NOT USE: Hughes Rudd makes introductory remarks.
Post-World War One America and the Twenties Boom : TLSs parade for returning US soldiers (military bands, soldiers, fire trucks, crowds); TLS strip of townhouses in prosperous suburban neighborhood; TLS city street, a police officer directing automobile traffic with help of an umbrella on which is painted the words "Go" and "Stop"; TLS exterior of Monroe Clothing store, two American flags flying over entrance (patriotism).
Post-World War One America and the Twenties Boom : TLS/MSs wealthy Caucasians crowding urban sidewalks (a sea of top hats and fur coats and formal wear, mixed in with trench coats and fedoras and knee-high skirts and floppy women's hats); TLS Ford Model T automobiles leaving factory, followed by MSs workers on assembly line, constructing cars.
Post-World War One America and the Twenties Boom : Shots of ads using credit lines as a way of getting people to buy and live beyond their means; shots of American CEOs adorning covers of Time Magazine.
Post-World War One America and the Twenties Boom : MS Wall Street sign (Nassau Street); MSs stock brokers on trading floor, buying and selling; MSs brokers on telephones, at processing stations; stock market action; MSs paper being sorted into bins, processed.
DO NOT USE: Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith, 1970s.
The Stock Market Crash of 1929: MSs stock brokers on trading floor; MCUs price board at New York Stock Exchange; MS broker looking at board rather despondently; clips of newspapers reporting on the Crash, with headlines such as "Wall Street Lays An Egg".
The Great Depression: LSs idle factories, smokestacks emitting no smoke; MSs unemployed outside employment agencies; MCUs Caucasian people looking at posted job listings.
The Great Depression: MSs police officers handing out food to the needy on street. TLSs crowds waiting in breadlines snaking along sidewalks (a litany of long heavy coats and fedoras or Gatsby / newsboy hats); MS/CUs people in line outside soup kitchen.
The Great Depression: MSs priest handing out money to line of men who doff their hats in thanks; CU shuffling line of patent leather shoes (feet); excerpt of newsreel depicting San Francisco-based relief worker Mother Jordan doling out stew with two hands to unending line of needy hungry men.
The Great Depression: TLS/MSs men unloading crates of apples from truck, loading them onto cars and trucks, apple sellers on streets.
DO NOT USE: Interview with Caroline Bird, 1970s.
The Great Depression: Agriculture, 1930s: TLS/MSs of foreclosure auction of farm equipment, Holstein cow; TLS/MSs farmers stopping car at roadblock, dumping raw unprocessed milk on road to protest price drop in prices.