Focus on the 30s
Focus on the 30s
The Great Depression, the New Deal, American communists come out of the woodwork, natural disasters wreck havoc, race relations in openly racist America, collective bargaining, strikes and labor unions.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of The Great Depression: unemployed men milling about streets, some sleeping; street sellers; Hooverville shanty towns; men sleeping on train cars; men sleeping in doorways. Still of U.S. socialist propaganda on a wall: "Vote Communist" with crude drawing of hammer & sickle.
Focus on the 30s
TLS/LSs large Communist-led Hunger March in Chicago, 1932. TLS/MSs New York police (some mounted on horses) breaking up a peaceful Communist march in Brooklyn, 1933. TLS/MSs black & white men huddled in a breadline. MS President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT delivering radio address: "In the working out of a great national program that seeks the primary good of a greater number, it is true that the toes of some are being stepped on & are going to be stepped on. But these toes belong to the comparative few who seek to retain or gain position or riches or both by some short cut that is harmful to the greater good." MS unidentified middle class white woman lending her support to Franklin D. Roosevelt and his programs. MS of Father CHARLES COUGHLIN adding his support of FDR: "It is either Roosevelt or ruin." MS President Roosevelt making a special appeal to the American people to honor the implementation of the New Deal.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of unemployed
Focus on the 30s
TLS/MSs CCC program at work: youth arrive at camps via train or bus, setting up tents, exercising, burning overgrowth & brush with flamethrower, digging ditches, putting out fires.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of families of Okies posing beside cars. Stills of dust storms in Dust Bowl cities. Stills of Okies packing up, migrating.
Focus on the 30s
Newsreel of massive flooding: TLS/LSs submerged houses, railyards, cities; LS two men getting around town in a rowboat; TLSs muddy raging river waters; LS house falling into river.
Focus on the 30s
MSs African-American men sitting on stoops, looking despondent; MS black men standing in breadlines. TLSs black men working at construction site. MS black women working at file cabinet. MSs blacks working in office, laundromat. LSs blacks swimming in pool, diving into water from diving board. MS black beauty queen being crowned Miss Bronze America 1934.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of Rex movie theaters for "colored" people only. Still of the Gem "exclusively colored" theater. Still of black laborers on strike. Still of two lynched young black men. Stills of a banner hanging from NAACP building in New York City: "A Man was Lynched Yesterday." Segregation. Race Relations. Jim Crow, Separate but equal. Racism. prejudice.
Focus on the 30s
MS four young Caucasian women water-skiing (water-skiing), holding sign that reads, "1937." Labor montage: TLS striking laborers throwing trucks at truck full of scab workers outside factory; TLS/MSs striking laborers.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of JOHN L. LEWIS. More shots of laborers on strike.
Focus on the 30s
Police & company security goons firing tear gas canisters, strikers overturning a car, the National Guard being called in, labor union leader calling for unionization at steel factories and coal mines. Great stuff. (labor union, strike, demonstration, protest, riot)