The Great Depression - PT2
1932 - The Great Depression - Bonus Army March on Washington
WWI veterans marching, arriving in trucks and cars; USMC General Smedley Butler speaking to the Bonus Army.
1932 - The Great Depression - Bonus Army March on Washington
Crowd cheering outside the Capitol Building; US Army tanks rolling along street; mounted squadron of 3rd Cavalry Regiment on street.
1930s - The Great Depression - Unhoused Migration
Caucasian men jumping trains, riding the rails; groups of haggard hungry dirty desperate men hitching rides on boxcars and flatbeds; African-American man getting off moving train.
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.
1930s - The Great Depression - African American Community
Montage regarding the welfare & depressed state of affairs of African-American community: African American woman standing on street corner; African American men working on New Deal paving project with Caucasian men; African American women sweeping doorstep; African American man breaking ice; African American woman brushing hair of daughter on stoop; young African American man using hose to water landscape plants; young unhoused African American man on street curb; ramshackle homes of African-Americans in rural south, families sitting on front porch. Poor Caucasian family on front porch of shack.