1900s - 1920s LN 501-216 LN 501-216 220454 LN 501-216 b/w SIL 23:46:00 - 23:55:46 Challenge of Change
Deals with social change from 1900 through World War One and after.
Military parade on wide avenue, top shot, people on roofs watch, Taft in office signs document (1915). Wide, busy street w/ traffic, horse-drawn carriages, buses, pedestrians. Other busy street w/ only pedestrians, v. grainy. Street with heavy traffic of mostly horse-drawn vehicles, bus.
Title.
Ca. 1900: Women factory workers with female supervisor. Men at forge. Miners with frontal lamp. Women factory workers clock in to work. Factory floor top shot. Immigrants (?) off boat with luggage. Statue of Liberty. Rows of women at work in factory. Coal workers (?). Track on market stalls in immigrant area of city. President Wilson? Etching soldiers shooting crowd at barricade & scenes of social upheaval. Sign "Dept of Labor". Man takes books out of horse-drawn carriage into dept of Labor, carries books inside office. Photograph of Archduke Ferdinand with wife and news headlines re assassination. Cannons fire. Headline "Lusitania sunk by sub", Lusitania sinking. Wilson & Headline 'US declares War!". Troops march in front of Capitol & headlines "Yanks are coming!". Soldiers out of trenches, explosions, planes, tanks.
Inside Dept of Labour office. Various factory workers and women carrying flags, patriotic parades, crowds celebrating, sailors dance. returning soldiers on deck of ship wave, troops disembark.
Man interviewed for job. Cotton-picking. Sewing factory. Steel works? Sports stadium, stand full. Man hanging out of plane. Black jazz musicians. Man and woman dancing 1920s dance, women dancing. City with neon lights. Top of RKO cinema? Sewing factory floor. Elegant dancing and dining place. Women dancing with collapsing drunk men. Car headlights, gun firing in night, man shot (too brief) Pilots into plane, takes off. Celebration in city street, air full of confetti, young man at microphone. CU money changing hands at bank. Riots. Dirty children in work clothes. Manufacturing car bodies. Production lines. Cars out of garage or factory. Sports (cricket?). 10 women in office typing. Board room meeting. Garment factory, sewing. CU men workers. Stock market. Plane landing through panel, acrobatics. Soup kitchen. People queuing out of bank? Deserted industrial landscapes. Track in ghetto market street with stalls. Soup kitchen, old woman served. Poor city children jump rope. President Roosevelt swears oath. Poor farmers family eating outside with 9 children. Offices w/ secretaries, soup kitchens. Official party stands around man signing document at desk. Poor farmers family on doorstep. People on porches in small town. Miners into tunnel , superimposed titles: Social Security Act; Wage and Hour Act.
Car manufacturing. Rural poor family in makeshift house, beds outside/ superimposed title: Unemployment compensation. Labourers shovelling & superimposed title: 8 Hour day. Dirty working children group photo & superimposed title; Outlaw Child Labor. Exterior factory w/ smoking chimneys & title; Wagner Act. Men in street with 'Strike" signs around neck. Board meeting
Mostly very brief shots. Poverty. Industrialisation. Depression

1917 - 1937 LN 501-174 LN 501-174 LN 501-174 B/W SD 12:00:06 - 12:07:11 War Comes To America Reel 3 - Compilation film.
Compilation film. Brief shots 1940s American way of life - AV clover leaf highways - construction - housing - people going to and leaving work - crowds - pedestrians. People going into church - interiors church service. Traffic - beach. Bodies.
12:01:37 1917 - World War One - Big guns firing - soldiers in trenches - over the top. Aircraft and tanks.
12:01:58 Armistice day Nov 11th 1918 - crowds celebrate in New York. Naval ships blown up - graphic re reduction of military strength. Brief establishing shots Europe and Asia.
12:02:30 1931 Japanese play baseball. Map Manchuria. Japan invasion. Washington - Capitol - Sec. of State Stimson superimposed on newspaper denouces Japans invasion.
12:03:18 Bonus March on Washington - depression - gangsters - dustbowl.
12:03:39 1933 High school graduation - man reading paper re Hitler in power. Night shots Hitler watches military display - Day - Nuremberg rally.
12:04:32 1935 Graduation ball - man reads paper re Mussolini attacks Ethiopia. Italian aircraft bombing. Haile Selassie - battle scenes. Capitol Sen Hiram Johnson in congress - "we want no war". Newspaper re Neutrality act.
12;05;25 1936 Young men with first car. Interior cinema - newsreel re Civil War in Spain - German and Italian planes bombing - battle scenes - civilians injured - many children. Franco meets with Hitler.
12:06;20 Exterior American Institute of Public Opinion - Gallup poll - men in office - brief shots American people interviewed. Exterior Capitol - interior Congress - cash and carry ammendment to neutrality act. animated map.
12:07:07 1937. Brief shot news room.

1918 & 1945
220411 220411 220411 b/w Sd 01:41:35 - 01:50:15 Story With Two Endings
WWII Troopship - wives cheering - kisses.
01:42;25 Book - pages open at chapter one and flicked over to The End ?
1918 - Printing press - newspaper headlines Armistice - end of World War One celebrations - crowds - troops marching parade
01:43:08 1920 Car factory - stock market - crowds of women in hats into department store. Shopping for clothes - crowds like sale scrum. Brief shots agriculture and industry. Prices go up in shops. Warehouse and factory. Warehouses overstocked with goods. Closed factories - unemployment - depression. Grocery shop closes down. Rural scene - farmer with equipment - notice Sheriff's Sale - bankruptcy. Deserted railyards. Coal mine closed - sign No Men wanted. Flashback end WWI and montage shots to show economic problems after war.
01:45:37 WWII Military marching - - brief shots - Crowds of men going to work in factory - shoppers in department store - factory with smoking chimneys - combine harvester - Beach and fairground scenes - happy people. Split screen showing economic disaster following WWI and what hopefully will happen after WWII
01:46:23 Mr Charles Trowbridge - economist ? - speaks to camera re importance of stable prices after the war. Graphic shows cost of living. Continues speaking over brief shot of woman in butchers shop. Montage people enjoying themselves - beach - kids playground - tennis - cinema. Queue for War Bonds - men going to work - Woman shopping in small self service grocery store- ration book. Military marching. Montage of 20s depression and contemporary wealth.

1920s 220453 220453 b/w SIL 23:49:53 - 23:53:50 Lights and Shadows in a City of Millions
(Funds appeal for Visiting Home Nurses & social welfare work)
Community care in Detroit. Nurses on daily round into house. Nurse wiping brow of sick child in home. Patients in waiting room at clinic. Children's ward in hospital. Amputee on wheelchair down ramp, children around.
Housewife in kitchen helped with baking and cooking.
Boys splashing in water at swimming pool. Men attending lecture in suits and ties. Orphaned infant in matron's arms, small orphan girl on hospital bed with doll. Foreign mothers taught to make clothes at sewing machines, children around.
Run-down shacks with people sitting outside, poor housing conditions.
Black men out of car on St. Antoine Street stretch and yawn. Children out of car into Child Welfare Building. Toddlers line up, play in empty room with 2 children's beds, nurses .
Blind man typing with earphones on.
baby in cot sitting up.
Depression

1920s-1930s ? 220455 220455 b/w SIL 01:45:47 - 01:50:23
Before the Day. Salvation Army.
Office.
Food distribution, outdoors with van and people queuing, many Black. Some soldiers.
Office with rows of secretaries.
Man with several children into town house, talks with girl on doorstep. CU two old men. Blind man with dog crosses street. Mother dresses small child near bathtub. Disabled man with hooks instead of hands uses typewriter. Homeless man sleeps on pavement. Various CU poor-looking people. Window Employment Service. Inside factory . Workers outdoors on construction site or quarry(?). Electric trains in city. Man and woman picnic under tree. Top shot & brief tracking shot office / library
01:47:41 Gold / land Rush ? Wagons assembled and drive at speed after signal as Cavalry man sounds trumpet. Planting stump. CU ploughing with horse. Large field, farmer or pioneer. CU grains harvested. Felling trees for timber by hand. Steam train passes. Panning for gold. Digging the earth. Cattle. Convoy of pioneers in old-fashioned clothes. Cowboy on horseback. Aerial view cattle in wilderness, skyline with steam train trail.
Sign "Wall Street". Office, tickertape box falls to floor. newspaper headlines re stock market crash. Traders on floor panic.
Man in street with sign "Unemployed will take any job". Man gives money to boy. Deserted farm. Farmer's children on back of carriage leaving. Deserted land, dead trees. Dustbowl shots. Family outside tent with baby, watch cars and convoy going past. Insect on cracked earth.
Congress, top shot.
Poverty. Depression

1926 - 1930's 015624 220870 220870 B/W SIL 03:00:04 - 03:03:25 Mayor Jimmy Walker
Celebrations at Tammany Hall after Jimmy Walker's victory. Walker at desk in office with others. City Hall, Mayor Walker exits with King of Siam, both wearing top hats. Walker with Governor of New Jersey. Walker with Channel swimmer Getrude Ederle.
03:01:22 Depression - auction of men for labour. Man handing over cash to another who cries. Demonstrations against unemployment, many women in parade.
03:02:11 Boston Mayor James Curley - leads symbolic funeral parade to bury the depression, "body" dumped in Boston Harbor.
03:02:31 ? hands out food baskets for the needy in Chicago.
03:02:46 New York - Beer parade, mass bands, Jimmy Walker in parade - speaking (mos)

1930 220265 220620 220620 B/W SIL 20:03:41 - 20:04:12 'Help Wanted' Draws Crowds of Jobless to Work Agencies unemployed
Crowds of pedestrians looking at job boards. CU tilt down cards. MCU of men. Men sitting on park bench reading papers. - unemployment, depression

1930 220265 220620 220620 B/W SIL 20:07:09 - 20:07:48 Apples Play Important Role In Providing for Temporary Jobless...
Unemployment - depression
Apples unloaded from truck to men. They carry off & haul away in cars & taxiis. Apples boxes on curbs. Woman buying from man. Police handing out bread & food to people. Mrs Oscar Hammerstein selling.

1930 220265 220620 220620 B/W SIL 20:10:26 - 20:11:02 [Pawn Shop & Medals]
Tilt down from of loan shop. Men looking inside at medals with prices. CU of medals.
pawn shop
Depression
1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:42:24 - 08:42:58 Starving Thousands Fill Bread Line in Unemployed Crisis
Queues of unemployed men given bread rolls and ? by priest. CU feet shuffling along. Group of unemployed men with newspaper.
Depression

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:43:00 - 08:43:34 Unemployed Storm City Bureau As 5000 Battle for 100 Jobs
Queues outside office - entering office - police supervise. Women lined up at counter of city office filling in forms. Line of men outside. Queue jumper taken away by policeman. Mounted police.
Depression

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:43:38 - 08:44:10 Franciscan Friars dole Nickels to Homeless and Hungry
Line of umenployed men queue - friar giving nickels to men as they file past him.
Depression

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:44:13 - 08:44:41 Jobless Seek Work for Board, Bed and 1$ a Week
Group of unemployed men wearing signs giving professions and hats saying $1 A Week.
Men wearing signs walking along street.
Depression

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:44:42 - 08:45:20 Vegetables for a Haircut
Barber patriot accepts produce and wheat to aid Farm Relief.
Line of men stand in queue outside barbers shop carrying sacks and baskets with farm produce to barter. Interior men getting haircut, others waiting.
Depression.

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:45:26 - 08:46:04 Apples Play Important Role in Providing for Temporary Relief.
Crates of apples handed out to unemployed from back of lorry. Car drives off with crates on back. Street scenes - jobless selling apples on street corners. Police handing out bags of apples. Mrs Oscar Hammerstein selling.
Depression

1930 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:46:10 - 08:46:41 New York City Unemployed
Large line of unemployed men queue for bread line. Good shots men drinking hot tea from mugs and eating chunks of bread. Hoover ? handing out bread.
Depression

1930s ? LN 501-288 220809 220809 B/W SD 14:54:46 - 15:05:07 A Better Massachussetts (WPA)
Montage of unemployed. Depression Men going through trash, sleep in doorways, food lines. Whistle & men to work digging, smoke stacks working again. Family with kids, milk, groceries, kids playground.
14:56:32 Springfield - work on cross town boulevard. Roadworks. Pipes laid
14:56:54 Boston - golf course, construction of club house. Building work on new gymnasium in New Bedford.
14:57:14 Men working on secondary roads. Worcester - sewing rooms, women at sewing machines making clothes for poor and needy. Federal art project restoring paintings. Gloucester harbor, artists painting.
14:58:20 Recreation, people enjoying leisure activities in park and swimming pools. Young boys boxing. Model building class.
14:59:28 Public Safety - woman using simulator of driving wheel. Roads, safety islands for pedestrians. Streets. Improvement work on Park Street transfer station in Boston. Men with pneumatic drill. Man working on granite with cleaning drill - commentary re silicosis.
15:00:35 Coastguard Station at Sandwich on Cape Cod. Demonstration of emergency callout, rescue drill.
15:01:30 Education - Public nursing projects. Mother sits with baby on knee while nurse bathes another baby in bath on table. Nurse giving baby quick checkover.
15:02:02 National Youth Administration - office scenes - POV from boat as approaches dock in Gloucester. Project re breeding of fish and restocking fishing grounds.
15:02:39 Perkins Institution for the blind in Watertown. Interior men making braille maps. Blind people proofreading maps.
15:03:13 Free music lessons - young girl playing piano, young black girl playing piano - Boston harmonica band, play Swanee River.
15:04:20 South Boston Nursery school. Kids eating, on climbing frames, washing up, taking cod liver oil? Children having nap.

1930s 220267 182749 + 181544 B/W sd 14:22:36 - 14:30:03 A Better Pennsylvania
Montage of unemployed. Depression Men going thru trash, sleep in doorways, food lines. Whistle & men to work digging, smoke stacks working again. Family with kids, milk, groceries, kids playground. Road work. Residential street. Highway construction. Social workers, children hospitals. Airport construction, aerial of Philadelphia airport at Hog Island with many workers. Clearing mountain landing site, bulldozer working. 1936 flood scenes & cleanup. Flood control showing building dikes.

1930s 220461 220461 220461 b/w Sd 07:05:08 - 07:08:58
[Midwest Drought]
WPA (Works Project Administration) action against famine caused by drought in Midwest.
Men clearing debris.
Western plains afflicted by drought. Clouds of dust obscure landscape. Woman and child in dust storm. Rural family brings home sacks of supplies provided by government agency. Children examined by WPA nurses in white uniforms.
Convoy of horse-drawn ploughs and other instruments, refugee farmers. Building dam to conserve future rainfall, destitute farmers employed on project.
Famine. Rural poverty. Depression.
PARTIAL

1930s 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 09:00:57 - 09:08:36 Herbert Hoover - selected scenes
Hoover and wife in gardens meeting with military / naval officers and veterans, many disabled in wheelchairs. Good shot exterior Capitol. Intervior - Hoover at desk surrounded by men as he signs ?
Hoover fly fishing / angling. Hoover and wife sitting in gardens, she knitting.
Convention ? - crowds. With Lindbergh / Admiral Byrd / Coolidge campaigning. Battleship with sailors at stations on all decks. Hoover seated on deck. Navy Day ? Parades - banner of Hoover - Iowa welcomes you.
Crowds lining street - ticker-tape parade. Demonstration - Lorry with jobless - sign on side "Hoovers Farm Relief - First Closure then this". Another sign "In Hoover we trusted - Now We're Busted". Convention hall, crowds cheering and waving flags. Exterior Capitol. Hoover, wife and group of VIPs down steps and into waiting cars.
Depression

1930s 220463 220463 220463 b/w Sd 09:16:20 - 09:24:22 A Better West Virginia
Montage depression - closed factories - jobless / unemployed. Better times - montage workers - happy families - land of plenty. Smoking factory chimneys. Construction of Tri-County airport at Clarksburg. Sealing of abandoned mines to prevent pollution. Construction of retaining wall in Morgantown to prevent earth erosion/ subsidence. Construction of unit at Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children. Kids in cots suffering from infantile paralysis. Construction of building in Huntingdon. Gymnasium at Fairview High School Assembly hall for 4-H camp at Jacksons Mill. Swimming pools - people diving etc. Sewing room, women make garments for needy families. Nursery school - small black child in bath tub. Children playing in yard.
09:19:36 men breaking rocks for roadbuilding. Cars along road through rural area. Post office at Helvetia - small town. Old woman sitting churning butter outside farmhouse. Cheese. Tourist spot - Seneca Rocks ? mountains. Germany Valley.
09:20:38 Work of the Conservation Commission - Fish hatchery in Morgan County - fish added. Young women feed deer for restocking of forests.
09:21:03 Charleston - bridge replaced by WPA. Rail crossing improved - steam train.
09:21:42 Floods of 1936
09:22:00 Flood resoration programme - bridge being rebuilt over Potomac near Peterburg. Flood walls and dykes.
09:22:31 Public Improvements - Mercer County Industrial Park - log houses - sort of collective farm.
09:23:08 Camp Fairchance in Boon County. Orphans / institutionalised children now living in happy community conditions. Children getting out of bunk beds - eating at long tables. Young girls sewing. Children playing - swimming - marching behind band - trumpeter on tower as Stars and Stripes lowered.

1930s LN 501-212 LN 501-212 LN 501-212 B/W SIL 02:03:57 - 02:10:59 [Depression - Unemployment Need Demonstration, Union Square]
Shot for Acme Theatre. Sign Unemployment Relief Demonstration on Union Square; Daily Worker Newspaper held up. Crowd with speaker at Union Square. Pan over men, police on horseback in background. MCU of workers listening. Marchers with placards arrive. High angle & street level re Unemployment needs. MCU faces, police crowd control. 'Answer Bank Holiday with Rent Holiday'. Women & Young people marching. March was to City Hall to demand trucks for trip to Washington DC.

1930s LN 501-268
220770 220770 B/W SIL 05:21:56 - 05:29:15 [Police raid slum - Hooverville]
Policemen inspect inside several houses. The slum-dwellers come out as police inspect. Policemen and hobos walking on train track Several men are led out of house by police.
05:26:55 Inspection station at border - cars checked. Signs re inspection station.
Depression

1930s SN 797-003 220307 SN 797-003 B/W SIL 01:41:16 - 01:41:52 Father Divine Vendor Making Ices
Peanut Stall - Ice cream stall - Black children waiting while cone being made. Sign Peace and Love on barrow.
Depression

1930s? 220461 220461 220461 b/w Sd 07:02:51 - 07:05:08
[Blindness prevention]
Women repairing and rebinding books.
Children queue up by travelling library in rural area.
Public nursery, nurse bathing baby as mother looks on.
Workers making books and maps in braille for blind people, proof-reading by blind people.
Prevention of trachoma: Poor family in wooden hut in rural area. Clinic bus takes old lady and old men to hospital. Waiting room with patients waiting at clinic. Female nurse tests sight on little girl. Old men get eyes checked.
Warm Springs Foundation to cure children with infantile paralysis: Child lying on platform lowered into water.
Depression. Rural poverty
PARTIAL

1931 220265 220620 220620 B/W SIL 20:19:28 - 20:20:15 Weary Depositors Await Re-opening of Stricken Banks
Lines of people outside windows of banks. Reading newspapers. Lined up waiting. Sign on door. Crowds. Police directing them; holding them back as they rattle doors and gates. Crowds start to go in.
Depression - Economy

1931 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:52:04 - 08:52:46 Abandoned Coke-dump yields fuel for needy - Thousands lay up free winter supply.
Coke heaps with men and women scavenging - digging out coal and putting into sacks. Children helping to dig.
Depression

1931 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:52:49 - 08:53:35 Cares of Jobless Parents Eased by Free Child Feeding
Sign on building, Children's Shelter - queue / line of kids outside. Interior - stew into bowls, children getting plates and sitting at tables eating.
Depression

1931 LN 501-103 LN 501-103 LN 501-103 b/w SIL 01:00:00 - 01:00:54 Sensational Grain Rise Aid Jobless As Flour Sales Rocket
Loading sacks of grain on train
Depression

1932 220462 220462 220462 b/w Sd 08:54:40
08:56:5 - One Killed, Scores Hurt in Bonus Riots
Army - troops on horseback down street followed by small tanks - Infantry running down street. They are going to evict Bonus Army from government buildings which are scheduled for demolition. Riot scenes, smoke bombs and tear gas thrown by troops. Army wearing gas masks as veterans give up. Police putting arrested men into police vans. Makeshift camp being burnt.
Depression

1932 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:53:40 - 08:54:35 Veterans Converge on Capital to Press Bonus Cash Claims
Army veterans getting food at night in encampment near Wash. DC. Sitting & eating. Shaving. Daytime--trucks in convoy up road with vets & banners. Through small town.
Depression - Bonus Army

1932 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:57:04 - 08:57:53 Oyster Money Routs City's Cash Shortage after Bank's Failure
Large bank, front doors. Willapa Harbor National Bank. Man at printing press & stack of certificates. Woman sorting. Cu of $5 w/ oyster on it. People into building and signing for certificates. People buying with it. 'Emergency script' coined by Chamber of Commerce bears the picture of a succulent bi-valve on its face, and takes its name from the shell currency used by local Indians years ago. In four denominations, Two Bits, Four Bits, One Buck and Five Bucks, the temporary bills are in great vogue, $10,000 worth being printed for residents whose funds are tied up in the town's only financial institution, now closed. Also, hundreds of dollars worth have been purchased by coin collectors and curio seekers in all parts of the globe. An unusual experiment in token-coinage that is stimulating prosperity in this section.'
Depression

1932 SN 901-016 220296 SN 901-012-016 B/W SIL 18:19:15 - 18:20:35 Bonus Army enroute to Washington D.C.
Veterans converge on Capital to press bonus cash claims
Soup kitchen - men eating bread and soup. Trucks loaded with men along road through town.
Depression

1932 SN 901-016 220296 SN 901-012-016 B/W SIL 18:22:12 - 18:23:17 Needy Artists in Greenwich Village
Artists open out door salon emulating Paris street exhibits. Crowds looking at paintings hanging on walls and fences. Girl artist painting. - Crowds looking at art - man buying picture.
Depression

1932 SN 901-016 220296 SN 901-012-016 B/W SIL 18:26:55 - 18:28:53 Police Stem Effort by Bonus Hikers to Blockade Railroad. Bonus army gathered by railway tracks - demonstration as men take over train and sit on tracks - police move demonstrators . 18.27.57 Shot of Capitol through trees - bonus army gathered, more arriving by truck - marching - soup kitchen - shanty accomodation.
Depression

1933 c 220011 180049 651847 B/W Sd 00:21:50 - 00:49:14 The Plow that Broke the Plains.
On the causes and effects of the Great Plains' dust bowl.
Reel 1, cattle graze on the grasslands. Homesteaders land rush onto the plains and grow large wheat crops.

00:30:20 Reel 2, Drought - dustbowl conditions. Headlines re World War One intercut with agricultural production. Government posters re Free Land or Farms for Sale. Combine harvesters. The postwar decline of the wheat market results in overproduction. Farm machinery is used and then abandoned. Drought - dead animals

00:40:00 Reel 3, Dust storm renders a farm useless. Farmers leave their homes and head West. Deserted farms. Dustbowl. Convoy of cars heading West. Depression. Unemployed living in camps. Shots dead trees and deserted Plains. Animated map explains what happened to the Plains. Houses built for resettled farmers. New small farms. Drought conditions.

1933 220461 220461 220461 b/w Sd 07:12:53 - 07:15:18 25 years ago today -
Herbert Hoover leaves White House for last time as president. Drives in car with president elect FDR.
Inauguration ceremony - Roosevelt speech.
Mounted police in city street with crowd. Man makes rubber check out of tyre. CU rubber check. Stretching rubber strip. Man with violin case into grocery store. Shop sign "You don't need money - What have you got? We will take anything". Swaps violin for food.
CU beer bottled. Barrel rolling, serving beer in bar after end of prohibition. Barrels rolled into bank building. Cash till with sign "The bank gave 3% - We give 3.2%".
Women through 'women entrance'.
depression. inflation.
PARTIAL

1933 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:28:27 - 07:29:22 Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F Reaches the Capital ; Will Live in Tent City
Long line of men in overcoats and hats walking empty street. Man on road getting injured feet checked ? by two others. Big group of men queue outside tent, Capitol in distance. Unfurling USA flag. Registering with papers?
Men up electricity or telegraph poles.
Tent city, empty. Building camp, helicopter flies over.
Depression.
PARTIAL?

1933 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:29:28 - 07:30:06 "Bonuseers" Amazed by U.S. Hospitality and free Government Food
Distributing supplies in small town, men queuing. Men wash up faces at tap. Outdoor soup kitchen, ladling out food. Men eating on grass.
Poverty. Drought? Depression. Veterans War service bonuses .
PARTIAL?

1933 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:30:06 - 07:47:03 Bonus Army cheers as Mrs Roosevelt inspects tent city
Eleanor Roosevelt surrounded by a large group of men in suits walks through tent city. Stands and poses. Climbs into car and drives off.
Depression. Veterans War service bonuses .
PARTIAL?

1933 220462 220462 220462 b/w Sd 08:57:58 - 09:00:55 President Roosevelt's Emergency Bank Bill Passed by Congress
Congress in session - unidentified man making speech from podium re re-opening of banks. Man at petrol station bartering with crate of apples. Woman getting groceries - sign in shop window - Never Mind the Holidays - We will trust you. Another sign You don't need money. What Have you got. We will take anything. Man bartering guitar for vegetables. Flashback - Banks closed - bank armoured car taking away money. Police control queue / line of women waiting to enter store - women rushing through department store - buying - out of doors with bags.
Depression

1933 LN 800-002 220315 220315 B/W Sd 19:53:28 - 19:54:40 25 Years Ago - FDR Inauguration and Depression
Capitol - Herbert Hoover leaving White House - in car with Roosevelt in parade down Pennsylvania. FDR makes inaugural speech. Street scenes on Bank Holiday after inauguration. Security vans carrying money.
Incomplete

1934 c 220267 182749 + 181544 B/W sd 14:13:05 25 Years Ago Today (Teachers Strike)
Teachers picket along Chicago Loop. Placards, depression signs. strike

1934 220270 220270 220622 220622 B/W SIL 22:31:10 - 22:31:55 Highlights of The News - [New Bonus Army Gathers]
Men at table with Capitol dome behind. Check army papers. Large tents pitched on mall. Bugler & men come out & line up with metal plates. Eating standing in sun. MCU.
Depression

1934 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:23:12 - 07:23:44 [Drought]
Cattle out of pen. Dead cattle lying on ground.
Farmers fill truck with water; others fill containers and into cars. Cows in field drinking. Large herd.
Depression. Farming.
PARTIAL

1934 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:23:50 - 07:24:16 Large queue outside building in city. Man distributes coins or vouchers.
depression?
PARTIAL

1934 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:24:17 - 07:24:52 Shop Gives Garments to Needy
Long queue in city street, mostly women. Woman let through police cordon. Man and woman fist-fight in front of shop window. People let into shop. Extremely crowded shop, customers raid the store. Women out of store with boxes, smiling.
depression. Poverty
Partial?

1935 220461 220461 220461 b/w Sd 07:00:02 - 07:00:38 Twenty five years ago - scenes from the depression
Destitute coal miners make homes in coke ovens, children standing outside.
Row of workers at high speed presses turning out bonds.
PARTIAL

1935 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:24:55 - 07:25:23 [Shop Gives Away Clothes]
Shop assistants in suits taking racks of clothes out on the streets. Men incl some in farmers clothes queuing up and trying on coats. Leaving with coats on, smiling. Store manager shakes hands with them.
Poverty. depression.
partial

1935 220462 220462 220462 b/w SIL 08:40:00 - 08:40:23 Supreme Court Rules NRA Unconstitutional
Exteriors and interior Supreme Court sitting - unemployed - locked factory gates - empty factory. Sign Schechter's. Queue outside poultry market
Depression

1935 LN 000-006 220321 LN 000-006 B/W Sd 00:53:37 - 00:54:30 Huey
Long on Bonus Army Veto.
Speaking from desk - says "These three million soldiers their wives and their children had already figured what each of them would do with the few hundred dollars that each one of them were to get ... pay debts .. buy food ... educate children ...". Says how cruel it was of FDR to make such an event of Vetoing their bonus. Short shot of Congress from dais.
Depression

1935 LN 000-006 220321 LN 000-006 B/W Sd 00:54:32 - 00:55:10 Father Coughlin on Bonus Army Veto.
Coughlin in front of microphones addressing large meeting. "May I remind the President (FDR) that not one of these soldiers cast a ballot in 1917 to force a peace loving nation like ours to take up arms for the profiteers and the exploiters of mankind". Crowd cheering.
Depression

1935 LN 000-006 220321 LN 000-006 B/W SIL 00:50:15 - 00:53:35 President Reads Bonus Veto to Joint Congress
Crowds gathered outside Congress, President Roosevelt removes hat and smiles. Interiors as FDR speaks from dias. (MOS)
08:50:16 Family in middle class sitting room sitting round radio listening. Various sequences of different families listening intercut with congress. Hospital with men listening to radio. Extererior Capitol, FDR in car, rear view as car drives off.
Depression

1935 LN 501-265 220758 220758 B/W SD 23:30:09 - 23:32:20 25 Years Ago
Depression - destitute miners live in Pennsylvania coke ovens - poverty - children.
Government Baby bonds printed on high speed presses. Preesident Roosevelt buys first bond from Postmaster General Farley.
Louisiana - Huey Long (sd)
Wiley Post with aircraft Winnie May
Malcolm Campbell sets record on Daytona Beach in Bluebird. Tyre with no tread after run. Campbell celebrates with crew.

1936 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:25:59 - 07:27:01 Hoboes get the Bum's Rush
Police rout "Knights of the Road" from jungles they've lived in undisturbed for nineteen years in a vigorous drive to keep indigents and tramps out of the State. Hundreds of penniless travellers are turned back to Yuma, Arizona. Shows police in wasteland shantytown slum evicting men from makeshift houses. Walking them on railway line.
Sign "Arizona state line". Searching tramps.
Police look under passing train at night, looking for hoboes. Hoboes empty pockets on tables, fingerprints taken.
Poverty. Housing. Depression
PARTIAL?

1936 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:27:01 - 07:27:37 Unemployed Army storms Capitol for relief funds
LS Capitol. LS Poor men sitting on steps. Men sleeping rough on ground around entrance, on benches. Waiting idly in front of building. Man sitting smoking in front of blankets. Child and mother sleeping in grass.
Soup kitchen with men and children eating.
Poverty. Depression.
PARTIAL?

1936 220461 220461 220461 b/w SIL 07:27:43 - 07:28:23 Drought - Stricken areas get water from Kansas City
Water tank train car with sign "Free water from Kansas City, Mo, to Louisburg, Kansas". Man in front turns wheel to open and other pours water from bucket into tank. Water tank train moving with men sitting on it.
Various shots pouring water from hoses into containers, group of rural children around well. Small dog pulls cart filled with water.
Depression.
PARTIAL?

1936 LN 501-065 LN 501-065 LN 501-065 b/w SIL 08:06:54 - 08:13:02 Depression Dust Storm & Farm Family - Disasters - weather
Tumbleweed blowing on fence with dust behind. Drifts. Paper on fence 'Capper's Farmer 'Is This Fair''. Basement house with driftr beside. Man runs up. Shot from inside. Field with drifted sand & sun blotted out. Equipment buried in sand. Farmer inside house reading while woman has head on hand looking worried. Sand & dirt on table, child draws house in sand on table. CU of bible that man's reading with dust on it.

1936 LN 501-188 LN 501-188 LN 501-188 B/W SIL 08:16:32 - 08:24:23 Harlem Street Scenes & Father Divine's Establishments
Coal truck / coal down chute - sign re Love - sign Authorized dealer for Salem Hill coal - truck painted with signs re peace, righteousness and God. Black men sitting outside Prosperity Barber Shop. Father Divine Delicatessen and Grocery. Sign re Father Divine's Headquarters have moved. People in and out of the Sweet Shop. Peace signs. Women dressed in white enter door with sign Peace to All and We Thank You Father. Women entering and leaving.
08:22:00 Summer - Street scenes - pedestrians - traffic. Kids playing in the street. Tenement buildings
08:23:59 Father Divine estate - trees.
Depression

1936 LN 501-188 LN 501-188 LN 501-188 B/W SIL 08:24:24 - 08:30:22 Harlem Street Scenes & Father Divine's Establishments
Exterior New Day laundry and furniture store. Peace signs on windows. Window of Sunshine dress shop. Exterior large house, zoom in on number 1887. Exterior Fish Fruit and vegetable market. Exterior Tailor shop. Sign re "Peace" shine. Vendor Making Ices - Ice cream stall - Black children waiting while cone being made. Sign Peace and Love on barrow. - Shoe Shine parlour. Ice cream cart with peace signs.
Depression

1936 LN 501-318 LN 501-318 LN 501-318 B/W SD 02:34:35 - 02:34:57 Highlight of the News - Kansas City Man Gives Away Overcoats For Winter
Clothes merchant distributes free coats to unemployed men. Long queue in front of shop and men trying on coats.
Depression

1937 220462 220462 220462 b/w Sd 08:47:32 - 08:48:12 Thousands March to protest cuts in WPA Projects
Demonstrators marching with band, banners and floats. Women marchers.
Depression

1937 LN 501-287 220789 220789 B/W SD 05:47:13 - 05:54:58 We Work Again
Documentary: On the employment of Negroes in Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects.
Depression scenes, black men on doorsteps and street corners. Young black men whittling. Line of unemployed black men and women.
Montage black people working in Federal Work programmes intercut with breadlines.
05:48:50 Black labourers reporting to construction office for work assignments. Labourers work on road improvements.
05:49:45 New York City, WPA demolition project underway, old blocks of flats being torn down for new housing. Building of new bath house next to swimming pool in Harlem.
05:50:36 Swimming pool - children off diving boards and in pool. Colonial park paddling pool and playground area, swings and slides.
05:51:34 Nursery school, kids playing and eating. Getting medicine from nurse. Afternoon rest, kids asleep.
05:52:07 Adult education, older women learning to read and write. Adults in Spanish language class. Clerical workers in the WPA scheme, filing cards, working in land records offices. Women in typing pool.
05:53:15 Household training schools, black women having domestic science / cookery lesson. Cooking, turning mattress on bed, making beds. Healh education, hospital.
05:54:38 Community sewing rooms.

1938 ? SN 901-019 220317 SN 901-017-019 B/w SIL 23:17:13 - 23:18:54 Father Divine Shops
Entrance to The Sweet Shop - restaurant and delicatessen (Father Divine). Sign Best food at Divine Prices. Peace shop. Black women wearing white overalls enter door with sign Peace to All - We Thank You Father. Women out of door two takes.
Depression

1938 ? SN 901-019 220317 SN 901-017-019 B/w SIL 23:18:55 - 23:21:19 Harlem Street scenes.
Good shots with pedestrians. 127th Street & Lenox Avenue ? summertime, with pedestrians and traffic.
23:19:36. Street scenes, children playing in streets, people sitting on stoops (steps). Groups of men standing around talking. Tenemant buildings - street games. Father Divine Estate.
Depression

1940s LN 501-140 LN 501-140 LN 501-140 b/w Sd 12:38:32 - 12:45:57

[Trip Past the Statue of Liberty Through the U.S.A.] Part 1
German propaganda
Statue of Liberty & harbor from water & air. Army firing tear gas at strikers various places. Bloodied strikers. Wounded into ambulances. Photographers. Arrests. Breaking windows in Detroit. Army riding coal train out of mine. Miners escorted in. Miner with pistol. Woman demonstrate for milk. Dumping milk. Produce trucks. Crowds running. Depression Migrant camp with Okies off road in car; standing about. Crime - Dillinger. City apartments with laundry hanging. Eleanor Roosevelt modeling expensive gown.

1945 220469 220469 220469 B/W SD 03:25:18 - 03:33: 08 Roosevelt Dies Suddenly
Headlines
FDR as young State Senator; Asst. Secretary in the Navy; swimming and playing ball in pool with polio kids. By fireplace with Eleanor and sons. First inauguration as president incl. speech. Headlines re FDR's actions against depression: incl. closing of banks. FDR signing New Deal reform (foundation social security?)
FDR starts operation of ?? Dam.
03:27:05 "Fear is vanishing" speech.
FDR in car with family and dog Fala on holiday. On fishing trip.
03:27:41 "I have seen war... I hate war" anti-war speech. FDR with his mother before Pearl Harbor. Queen Elizabeth and George VI with FDR. FDR reviews fleet. Speech in Canada promising help if Canada is threatened. Signing lend-lease agreement. Atlantic Charter meeting on Battleship Prince of Wales with Churchill. FDR and Eleanor outside church with priest. Speech after Pearl Harbor declaring war on Japan. Reviewing troops in North Africa - Casablanca. Tehran Conference with Stalin and Churchill. FDR & MacArthur. FDR & Nimitz. Roosevelt sworn in for fourth terms. Yalta conference, FDR looking ill shaking hands with Russians?. Churchill walks by FDR's car. With King Farouk of Egypt (aboard ship?). With Ibn Saud aboard ship. Last public appearance reporting to Congress and speech. With American delegation to San Francisco United Nations conference. Headlines re allies approaching Berlin and Elbe. Truman sworn in. Good CU FDR.
Titles: Join 7th War Loan Victory Drive

1950 LN 501-162 220610 220610 b/w Sd 08:11:29 - 08:23:03 Marshall Plan At Work In Great Britain
London stockshots - Tower Bridge - horseguards on sentry duty. Horse-drawn delivery van from Scotts of Piccadilly - drivers in top hats. Two men in top hats having conversation. Rural countryside - farms - agriculture. Manor house - home of Washington family. Gravestone of William Penn. Farmer driving tractor in orchard. Tractor ploughing- good shot line of tractors through field (British farmers are the most mechanised in the world).
08:13:26 Night shots - Houses of Parliament - night shots Piccadilly - London West end with lights. Bovril sign. 08:13:40 Blackout and blitz during WWII.
08:14:03 Construction / building work in post war London - bricklayers. Blocks of council flats. Interior grocery shop / store - woman buying food - weighing bacon on scales - weighing butter - some food still on ration. Cheese weighed. Exterior Lipton grocery shop. Housewife having ration book marked. Housewife leaves with her shopping.
08:15:38 Flashback to Jarrow in 1930s - closed factories. Depression, men on street corners - closed shops.
08:16:01 Summer 1950 - same street, shops open and propering. Shipyards - docks - stock of ships propellors. 08:16:31 Open cast mining of ?. Farmland next to factories. Interior factory - production lines - women workers taking bars of soap? from line. Interior cotton mill - women working on looms.
08:17:29 Scotland - whisky production. Shots distillery - old man rolling barrels marked with Glenlivet etc. Interior man in white coat smelling whisky in glasses and identifying which malt they are. Bottling plant - bottles on production line - being babelled.
08:18:33 Export shops for tourists - tax free. Man being shown suiting material, socks and other mens clothes. Wife trying jumper.
08:19:11 Exterior Firestone factory - interior tyre / tire production. Rubber - carbon black - Finished tyre. Tractor factory - man driving finished tractor at speed. Tractors on back of flatbed truck for transportation. Trucks - British road services - loaded with various machinery for export to help the economy.
08:20:06 Line of Vauxhall cars along road - sign in window Manufactured by Vauxhall of Luton. Cars lined up on dock waiting for loading onto ship. 08.20.38 Barge taking on grain
08:20:50 USA - shops in America selling British goods. Traffic on roads. 5th Avenue shops. Woman shopping in British Tweed store. British furniture and Church's shoe shop in New York.
08:21:34 UK - Food imports - unloading meat / carcasses at docks. Port of London.
08:21:47 English leisure pursuits - crowds at swimming pool - men playing bowls - Old Pub - interior pub people drinking. Landlord calls time. Montage shots - going to work, walking across bridge - traffic - Train crossing bridge (Forth ?).

1954 LN 501-111 220540 220540 Col Sd 15:19:52 - 15:29:40 The U.S. Overseas Information Program
Introduced by Theodore C. Streibert, director USIA. Speaks on the purposes of USIA - says there is throughout the World misunderstanding of the American peoples and that the Communists are taking advantage of this by means of Soviet propaganda. Map showing Russian expansionist aims and how propaganda has been used by Russians. Animated Eagle and Hate America Campaign. Montage of American film cut together by Russians to show American decadence including beauty shows - nightclubs. Intercut by Russians with scenes of depression - shows Black soldiers which according to Russian commentary are "ornamental" - Blacks living in poverty - police breaking up demonstration.
15:25:45 Poster made by Russians portraying US atrocities in Korea. More Soviet propaganda posters.
15:26:20 Map showing Free World - commentary says much of the Free World are uninformed about America - Graphic showing French opinion of Americans
15:27:20 Montage shots from around the world showing importance of raw materials etc and locals, native peoples living in poverty and fighting disease. Man "communist agitator" inciting - pro communist demonstration. Graphic re Deeds more important than words. Still photo president Eisenhowe watching as Dr Streibert takes oath of office. Graphic showing how Overseas Information Programs, which were previously carried out by The Mutual Security Agency and the State Department have now been combined to for the US Information Agency.
Cold War

1959 1934 LN 501-251 220747 220747 B/W SD 08:46:42 - 08:48:58 25 Years Ago Today
Teachers strike - picket along Chicago Loop. Placards , depression signs and signs re importance of education.
08:47:15 Camden shipyard & pickets, workers lining streets.
08:47:29 FDR with Vincent Astor shaking hands on sailing trip. Roosevelt with son James, Astor and unid. man posing on boat, smiling. Boat leaving dock. He waves hat.
08:48:03 Men punching timeclocks & working on car assembly lines. Good montage of auto assembly line in factory. Workers eating in factory.
08:48:25 Pirelli anti-skid tyres manufactured by grooving crossride grooves. Depth shown. Car on wet pavement stops for camera. Accident - A car skids into woman & baby carriage knocking carriage over and woman lying on pavement. Said to be dead. Anti skid tyres.
1959 SN 901-005 220293 220293 B/W Sd 12:36:04 - 12:38:27 25 years ago Today - Taxi Drivers Strike
NRA meeting, President Roosevelt (FDR) addresses - Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt returns from tour of Caribbean Islands on board clipper sea plane - Invention - plane with saucer on top - Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi judge black cat show - crowds of children with their pussies, two cats spitting at each other. 12:37:55 Depression, Chicago's Union League Club decorates hall with worthless security bonds - using them as wallpaper, elderly man reading stocks and bonds.

1961 1936 LN 501-247 220728 220728 B/W SD 09:10:06 - 09:12:30 25 Years Ago (NJ Sit-in; Aviation & Auto Inventions; KY Derby)
Depression - State House, Trenton, NJ. People march in and have sit-in. Sitting around tables with mock speaker.
09:10:33 Pusher plane chosen by government as safest. Take off w/ Capitol behind.
09:10:52 Flying pancake shown on ground, takes off at 30 mph.
09:11:15 3-wheeled car with inventor. CU of motor. View running down highway. 5 passenger front seat 09:11:39 Kentucky Derby & betting windows, crowds, close finish won by Bold Venture by head.
(Safety Inventions)

200258 200258 200258 B/W SD 02:03:57 - 02:06:35 The New South - Cotton pickers in South East America - Farming / agriculture
Tobacco processing - coming out of shredder, man looking at handful. Ready made cigarettes on conveyor belt and through machine
02:04:16 Picking cotton in fields. Exterior processing factory. Cotton bales weighed, Black workers. Interior cotton mill - yarn on spools etc.
02:04:58 Depression / poverty - farmer talking to official. Small farming homestead, woman holds baby and watches daughter washing clothes on board in tin bath
02:05:15 Top soil erosion - children, mostly barefoot, leaving wooden hut that is school. White tennant farmers working in fields.
02:05:47 Top shot shanty town. GV - poor White men leaving building.
02:05:59 Town - street scene - restaurant Booker T Luncheons - sign in window Coloreds only. Pedestrians, mostly Black. Black housing, children playing on street. Modern school house for black children. Interior classroom, older children at desks. Black school master. Sign Colored Department outside hospital.
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