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Closed businesses and empty gas stations during San Francisco longshoreman strike
Title card: "Frisco in Grip of Strike!" / MS street with no traffic, bldgs line both sides of street / another city street with only a few cars on it / another view of empty street / Shell gas station pumps and sandwich board type sign...
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Movement Leader Milo Reno explains causes and objectives of the National Farm Strike
Title card: "FARMERS EXPLAIN STRIKE! - Milo Reno, of Des Moines Ia., speaks as leader of movement" / CU Milo Reno, Farmers' Holiday Association, addresses camera / MS farmer husks corn / angled CU SOT farmer addresses camera / CU SOT...
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Business Advisory Council Chairman Gerard Swope
MS and CU Gerard Swope, chairman of the Business Advisory Council and president of General Electric, stands outdoors and speaks / Note: exact day not known
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Gen. Hugh Johnson, head of the National Recovery Administration
VS retired US Gen. Hugh Johnson, director of the National Recovery Administration, stands outside of airplane with the NRA eagle emblem and slogan "We Do Our Part" near its door; man and woman look out from the door; two microphones...
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Five governors of farm states present a farm program to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in Washington, DC
Title card: "Success of NRA Lies in Unity!" / beauty shot US Capitol, framed by cherry blossoms ruffling in breeze / closer view Capitol dome / standing outdoors for photo opportunity, a group of five governors who've presented a farm...
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US farmers on strike due to economic conditions
Striking farmers run toward an approaching truck / men milling around near a couple of cars / farmers pour milk out of metal canisters as they stand on the back of a truck; other men look on / MS at a display of produce and price signs...
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Scores of men in a food line at a US mining settlement
High angle shot men serve other men in food line on street; long queue stretches behind / closer view men taking food from those serving it / VS QS man takes wrapped sandwich; large pot with liquid, maybe soup / slightly high angle shot...
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Miners cross picket line, throw rocks during 1933 PA wage strike
Title card: "Stones Fly in Miners Wage Strike" / miners carrying lunch pails walk across line of picketers, American flags / various shots miners walking by picketers, including women with open umbrellas for relief from sun, boy in fg /...
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Pennsylvania State Police restore order after milk strikes, 1933
Title card: "Nation Backs NRA Drive to End Strikes" / striking men in road blocking oncoming milk truck / men in back of truck pour out milk from cans / maybe striking dairy farmers milling around on road, cars on road and parked in bg /...
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Crowd greets Aimee McPherson at train station, 1930s
Title card: "Los Angeles Greets Aimee McPherson" / Evangelist Amy Semple McPherson with grandchild and bouquet in arms stands with others on rear platform of rail coach, greeting crowd gathered all around, some clapping / she stands...
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Attendees at London Economic Conference in 1933
Asst. US Secretary of State Raymond Moley speaks, with journalist Herbert Bayard Swope looking on / SOT Mole tells of gathering of nations at the London Economic Conference / Note: exact month/day not known
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Cleveland parade celebrates the National Recovery Administration
Quick title card: "NRA jubilee stirs Cleveland - Huge parade show city's response to President Roosevelt's appeal to bring recovery to the nation" / A parade with hundreds of participants and thousands of people watching from the...
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Anniversary Day is celebrated at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York City, as students celebrate the founding of Brooklyn Sunday Schools
Title card: "Brooklyn hails youth in Sunday School parade, ten thousand children gather in Prospect Park on anniversary of union" / A large crowd watches a marching band playing a John Philip Sousa march / VS a color guard, numerous...
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Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appeals to New Yorkers for help improving the local economy
Title card: "LA GUARDIA ASKS YOUR HELP IN FIGHT FOR ECONOMY!" / MCU SOT Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor, New York City re: need for public's help in his efforts to improve the economy in New York City during the Great Depression / Note: exact...
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Edward Armstrong with seadrome model, details pointed out
MS inventor Edward Armstrong standing beside another man behind model of his seadrome for the Trans-Atlantic Airway Service, map behind them / CU seadrome model as hand with pen points out details / CU pen pointing to details / model and...
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Pennsylvania Railroad plans for extensive railroad work with Public Works Administration loan
Title card: "Railroad work adds 25,000 jobs! President Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, explains how 77 million dollars from PWA will be spent" / SOT William Wallace Atterbury, holding a lit cigarette in a holder, talks about his plan...
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During Great Depression unemployed men work on CWA project creating Ravine State Gardens in Palatka, FL
Two shots of men carrying shovels moving forward in line / men carrying shovels walking in line down slope / overhead shot of men digging among trees / overhead shot of men standing next to body of water / four shots of men planting...
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Advisors to President Franklin D. Roosevelt confer with President in Washington, DC, on plans for National Recovery Administration
Two shots of advisors standing on steps of White House posing for photo opportunity after conferring with President / closer shot of three advisors, from left to right Senator Joe T. Robinson, Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings and...
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During Great Depression, members of Ohio National Guard arrive in Youngstown, OH, to maintain order in strike by steelworkers
Title "Keep peace in labor crisis - Youngstown, O." superimposed over shot from moving camera of National Guardsmen marching in formation down street towards camera / two shots of Guardsmen getting off train / Guardsmen marching away...
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During Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "fireside chat" radio broadcast from White House in Washington, DC
Title card: "Spending - FDR asks more relief billions" / two shots of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sitting at desk speaking to camera, saying that democracies have disappeared throughout world because of weak government action in solving...
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Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett speaks on ship headed for Canada
Title card: "Premier Bennett of Canada: Southampton, Eng.-- Premier R. B. Bennett of Canada sails from Southampton for home after visit to England. (Late Dec 1932)" / Prime Minister Richard Bennett on ship deck speaking with ship captain...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt and Rex Tugwell arrive to tour Greenbelt, MD, a government Resettlement Administration town
Title card: "News Flashes!" / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's motorcade preceded by policeman on motorcycle drives toward camera, people on side of road wave / MS Packard car with Roosevelt and Resettlement Administrator Rexford Tugwell...
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Postmaster General Jim Farley speaks about Postal Service plans
CU Postmaster General Jim Farley / Farley sitting behind desk in office; SOT he begins speaking about strides made by Postal Service including expanding airmail service across Atlantic Ocean / Note: exact day not known
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull speaking about peace and prosperity
CU Secretary of State Cordell Hull SOT saying economic prosperity and world peace interrelated / Note: exact day not known