Challenge of Change - PT4 : Presented by the US Dept. of Labor, about the history of the Dept of Labor, 1913-1933.
Great Depression: TLS panicked crowd inside faltering bank. TLS/MS men working board at New York Stock Exchange. GV inside brokerage office. Great GV stunt plane wobbling, descending, smashing through hoop obstacle.
Great Depression: Several GV/MS somber white men standing in breadlines. MCU/MS men in the street eating bread & sipping hot drinks. Several TLS/MSs crowds of anxious depositors outside faltering banks, panic in the streets.
Great Depression: LS pan small barren town in rural local. GV industrial mill at a standstill. TLS railroad yard filled w/ inactive cars. Traveling TLS along urban ghetto street lined w/ pushcart venders. GV men waiting in breadline. MCU elderly women being served at soup kitchen. GV white kids skipping rope on shabby stoop. MS two white male factory laborers arriving at work to find an empty guard station.
Great Depression: MS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT being sworn in as President, 1933. Audio excerpt of FDR delivering Inaugural Address plays over several images of Inauguration Day (massive crowds, Capitol Building, FDR).
Great Depression: Great GV/MS large rural white family eating supper at picnic table (Dust Bowl, Okies). GVs white female workers at Emergency National Employment offices (late 1930s-early 40s). MS white men eating rations while standing on the street. MS grim white men being served in breadline. MS men receiving hot liquid & bread. MS Red Cross nurses handing out rations. MCU soup being ladled from pot. MS men & women standing in food lines. MS desperate woman strapping the bottom of pot for a bite to eat.
Great Depression: MS President Roosevelt, flanked by members of cabinet including Sec. Of Labor FRANCES PERKINS, signing social security act. GV/MS poor white rural family gathered on front stoop of county home (Dust Bowl, Okies) TLS rural town w/ men gathered outside commercial establishment & boys playing ball in the street. GV front porch packed w/ children of varying ages, maybe an orphanage or group home (poverty).