Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived. The progress of work, labor, jobs, factories, farming, business, automobiles, advertising, technology, telecommunications, suburbs, marketing, etc., in the United States during the 1920s.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Opening Title & Stills of census takers working.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
TLS/MSs small rural downtown commercial districts, automobiles clogging muddy roads, white men walking along sidewalks, men looking at maps; small town street scenes, pedestrians, storefronts, etc; nice shot row of white men sitting on curb, relaxing; nice shot group of African-American men congregating on street corner.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
MSs farmers harvesting wheat, using scythes & horse-drawn farm equipment including combines and sowers. TLS/MSs mechanized farming methods (i.e., tractors). TLS/MSs famers processing bales of hay.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
MSs women working in textile mill, manning industrial looms. MSs men working on assembly line in automobile factory, assembling cars (steering wheel, engine, grille, cab, etc). MSs workers toiling at oil well. MCU man holding finished iron in factory. MS/CUs man using jigsaw to cut stack of printed cloth. MS/CUs seamstresses at work in factory (sewing, cutting, pressing). MS business suits being stacked. MSs moustachioed man modeling suit in haberdashery. TLS three hackneyed white men modeling business suits in office. MSs dapper business man exiting building, getting into Ford Model A car, tooling off. MS two white businessmen congregating in service club (men's clubs), shaking hands. Labor, business, work.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills of women voting, casting ballots in polling place.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
MSs line of white female traffic police marching by camera; high angle TLS female traffic police directing traffic in city; TLS female police officers helping gaggle of children cross street. MSs white women working in laundromat (laundering). Over the shoulder MS white female telephone operator working at switchboard. MSs white female clerks on automated system.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Still of Piggly Wiggly grocery store. Stills of women shopping. Stills of food products, then-timely print ads for food and household products such as Lorna Doone, Five O'Clock Tea Biscuit, Animal Crackers, Post Toasties, Campbell's Soup, Sun Maid raisins, Del Monte canned veggies, Life Savers, Packard cars.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
CU/MSs mass production of magazines. MS sorter tossing mail into sectioned bags at post office. MS postman delivering mail to doorstep of suburban house. MSs white men & women reading magazines at home. TLS/MSs white businessman purchasing copy of The Dearborn Independent at street newsstand. Birth of the Prosperous Middle Class. MSs white man & young son taking off coats & hat, handing them to happy wife in foyer of home; MS young woman setting dinner table, man entering & kissing her. TLS workers standing on moving platform, working on powerline atop telephone pole. MSs young white woman talking on old wall-mounted two-piece telephone, smilingly taking message. MS young white man talking on similar telephone, writing note.
Focus on the 20s - How We Lived
MS/TLSs two white men getting into Ford Model A Phaeton, driving along rural road. TLS early automobile hauling wooden barrels passing horse-drawn carriage on rural road (away from cam). TLS truck hauling live horses pulling away from curb. LSs bus traveling on empty, rural road. LS white man walking from porch of suburban home, wife standing & waving goodbye; man gets into Ford Model A roadster, pulls out of driveway en route to work. TLS woman stepping from passenger side of Model A, walking up steps of suburban home. TLS filling station (gas station), numerous pumps. Great TLS/LSs urban congestion as automobiles became cheaper, more accessible, more predominant; street scenes, traffic, hustle & bustle, bustling, busy, crowded; delivery trucks, passenger cars, trolleys, buses, etc; includes nice shot of several hook and ladder fire engines pulling from fire department during call.