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MONTAGE Factory production grinding to a halt, workers abandoning facilities, and the gates being closed behind them / United Kingdom
MONTAGE Factory production grinding to a halt, workers abandoning facilities, and the gates being closed behind them / United Kingdom
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1937 PAN Line of men in suits and tattered overcoats with hands in pockets / United Kingdom
1937 PAN Line of men in suits and tattered overcoats with hands in pockets / United Kingdom
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MONTAGE Unemployed men walking and begging, and abandoned mines and factories / United Kingdom
MONTAGE Unemployed men walking and begging, and abandoned mines and factories / United Kingdom
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Migrant worker after the Dust Bowl
Migrant worker remembers the lush fields of his farmland / Farmers processing corn syrup / pan of fertile landscape / CU of farmer talking about his land Migrant worker after the Dust Bowl on April 02, 1942 in Iowa (Footage by Getty...
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Soil erosion destroys crops and forestry after Dust Bowl
Sun beating down on soil eroded land / dry crops and muddy water / barren hilltops. Soil erosion destroys crops and forestry after Dust Bowl on April 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Dust Bowl economy affects farmers
Farmers leave good farm because of Dust Bowl economy / Healthy cattle and the occasional pig milling or laying about / driving past nice houses and maintained farms / crop fields, horse and cart carrying straw / filling the hay loft /...
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Floyd Parsons denounces Technocracy
Title card: "What do those who disagree with Technocracy think of it? Floyd W. Parsons, engineer and editor, voices his objections" / CU Parsons speaking declaring that Technocracy would abolish gold standard, private property and set up...
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Former NY Gov. Al Smith speaking at religious service marking the beginning of the Holy Year, Radio City Music Hall, New York
Title card: "Former Governor Alfred E Smith" / three shots of Smith standing at podium on stage of Radio City Music Hall speaking during a religious service marking the beginning of the Holy Year, SOT saying it is duty of society to help...
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Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Governor of new Farm Credit Administration, talking to camera in Washington, DC
Title card: "Attention farmers! Meet Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Governor of new Farm Credit Administration" / two shots of Morgenthau sitting at desk talking to camera / Note: exact day not known
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Pres. Herbert Hoover speech in New York City; Bernard Baruch speech in Washington, DC
SOT Pres. Herbert Hoover, in white tie, speaks from the dais as he addresses the National Republican Club: "The problem before the world is to restore confidence and hope by the release of the strong, natural forces of recovery which are...
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Pathe News shows film of unemployed men put to work panning for gold to US Senate Committee in Washington, DC
Title card: "Pathe News' unemployed plan studied in Senate!" / title card: "Editor's note: Continuing our campaign to grubstake unemployed so that they can be put to work panning gold, we show Pathe News pictures of placer mining in a...
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President Franklin Roosevelt's Cabinet appointments include first woman to serve
Title card: "First Woman in Cabinet!" dissolve to title card: "Editor's Note: President Roosevelt's appointment of Miss Frances Perkins marks the first time American womanhood has received recognition in the Cabinet. And now meet our new...
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Miners unearth gold from the War Dance Shaft in Center City, Colorado
Title card: "GOLD, GOLD, YELLOW AND COLD!" / dissolve to title card: "Editor's note: Pathe News has waged for two years a campaign to grubstake the unemployed by putting them to work panning gold. The latest strike in Colorado proves...
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Work for food in Depression-era California
Title cards: "God helps those who help themselves" and "Editor's Note: Unemployment is a stark reality. We are all worrying and demanding an end to it. Let us show you California's self-aid plan giving food for pay to those willing to...
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US Gen. Pelham Glassford testifies before US Senate Committee in Washington, DC, on crisis of homeless boys
Title card: "Homeless boy crisis told to Senate Committee" / title card: "Editor's note: Inside halls of Congress we attend hearing on the Cutting bill authorizing $15,000,000 fund to help homeless boys, with General P. D. Glassford...
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Boston children sign up with the National Recovery Administration
Title card: "JUNIOR NRA ARMY FORMED IN BOSTON! Boys and Girls of Bay State enroll under the Blue Eagle" / CU child / MS group shot of children in front of National Recovery Administration banner / CU Leo Hines of West Roxbury, MA / CU...
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Former NY Gov. Al Smith urges support for Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration
Title card: "AL SMITH ASKS YOU TO SUPPORT NRA!" / MCU Former New York Governor Al Smith addresses camera; SOT Smith: encourages viewers to support Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration / CU Smith / Note: exact...
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During Great Depression, farmers blockade road somewhere in US to prevent farm products from reaching market
Title card: "News Flashes!" / supporting idea of Farmers' Holiday, farmers blockade road and force approaching car pulling trailer to pull off road / two shots of same men taking containers off trailer and spilling milk from them on road...