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During Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Mobilization of Human Needs Conference
Title: "Be a good neighbor" / superimposed over Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at podium getting ready to speak to the Mobilization of Human Needs Conference / wider shot of Roosevelt standing at podium on the South Portico of the...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, strikers riot at Auto-Lite Plant in Toledo, OH
Title card: "Rioting menaces recovery!" / shot of exterior of plant / closer shot of broken windows in plant / Ohio National Guardsmen standing in front of plant amid rubble / two overturned cars / Guardsmen standing next to rubble /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, Federal Transient Bureau building in Lynchburg, VA, is destroyed by fire
Two shots of firemen inside building clearing wreckage/ two fireman on stairs of building clearing wreckage / wreckage inside building / three transient men looking through wreckage inside building / one-legged transient man sitting...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks to a group of farmers from the South Portico of the White House
Title card: "Roosevelt defense of AAA" / man standing on balcony of South Portico introducing Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, crowd below listening / Roosevelt waving at crowd / people in crowd waving hats, cheering / Roosevelt speaking in...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, promotes "baby bonds"
Title card: "News flashes!" / Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting at desk, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., sitting on his right, Postmaster General James Farley sitting on his left; model ship on credenza behind / close shot...
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Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes talks of housing and natural resources
CU Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes / Ickes sitting at desk, telephone in fg; SOT he begins speech about plans for second term, Public Works Administration will complete almost all low-rent housing projects and continue prudent use...
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Conservation camp chopping down trees
Title card: "First Jobless Get Work! Luray, VA - Vanguard of 200 quits breadline! Camp Roosevelt, first of Civilian Conservation units, opens for 'business'" / men formerly on welfare walking in wooded area in the Blue Ridge Mountains as...
Hearst Metrotone News
Cars loaded with furniture leave a farm in Oklahoma.
Cars loaded with furniture leave a farm in Oklahoma.
Hearst Metrotone News
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill for a three-day bank holiday at a desk.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill for a three-day bank holiday at a desk.
Hearst Metrotone News
A newspaper headline reads Depression Cripples U.S, and a man wears an unemployed sandwich board.
A newspaper headline reads Depression Cripples U.S, and a man wears an unemployed sandwich board.
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Mountaineer William Dodson on Old Rag Mountain in Shenandoah National Park in 1937
Looking down hillside at shack with Blue Ridge Mountains in bg / shack with mountain behind it / MS long-time mountaineer William Dodson, with beard, holding rifle; the CCC will soon move him from his mountain home / CU hand holding gun,...
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New houses in settlement in Madison, VA, for families being moved by CCC from mountain shacks
House with sign in front reading 'US Department of Agriculture Madison Unit, Shenandoah Homesteads Construction Division' / house, barn and poultry house / man talking while holding child and surrounded by family members
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CCC moves families from mountain shacks in Shenandoah Park
Trucks moving down dirt road to shack, mountains in bg / truck backed up to house as men load up truck with household goods / men walking down path carrying goods / loading truck, children watching / man hands keg to man in back of truck...
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Black Sunday Dust Storm in Texas
Title card: 'Dust more dust' / VS long pan of arid, rutted fields with partially buried farm houses and barns / man exits cyclone shelter or root cellar / VS weakened cattle with a dog standing in open portion of wall; wind ruffles his...
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Lita Grey Chaplin makes appeal for benefit at the Palace Theater
Lita Grey (wife of Charlie Chaplin) stands at left with four women wearing berets next to her under the flashing lights of the Palace Theater marquee ("F B Keith's Palace, Benny Meroff and Orch, Burns and Allen, Janet Reade, Serge Flash,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression Henry L. Stevens, Jr., National Commander of American Legion, speaking in Washington, DC
Title card: "American Legion's new commander defends veterans, Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of North Carolina declares attacks on comrades unjustified / two shots of Stevens standing in room speaking to camera, defending members of American...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, Bethlehem Steel Corporation's board chairman Charles M. Schwab speaks in NY City
Title card: "Charles M. Schwab sees prosperity ahead for America" / title card: "Editor's note: In this significant statement, the chairman of the Board of Bethlehem Steel Corporation recalls recoveries from crises of the past and...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Official at National Railway Labor Conference in US during Great Depression discussing unemployment in railway industry
Official standing at chart on wall using chart to illustrate unemployment levels in different groups in railroad industry / same man standing at chart using chart to illustrate unemployment levels / Note: exact day not known;...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Politician speaks in Washington, DC in the early 1930s
MS politician in dark suit stands in front of black curtain, speaks to camera (possibly about Pres. Herbert Hoover's plan to fight deflation) / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete; film has nitrate deterioratino
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Ogden L. Mills reads statement
[NO AUDIO - FOR AUDIO OF THIS STATEMENT, SEE SR003979_01_03] MS US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills, standing outdoors, reads from a document; he wears a black armband / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Audio statement by US Treasury official Ogden L. Mills re Hoover administration's plans to alleviate the Depression
[AUDIO ONLY/VIDEO AVAILABLE ON SR003979_01_01 AND/OR SR003979_01_02] VO US Treasury official Ogden Mills reads statement concerning Pres. Herbert Hoover's recommendations; mentions consumer purchasing power, bank receivership,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
A squatter talks about 'advantages' of being homeless
Various takes: A seated man in a newsboy's cap reading from "Vogue" magazine as another washes clothing at a squatter's camp; the man reads that someone paid $15,000 for a yacht; "If I had fifteen thousand right now, I'd stop washing" /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Squatter at the Hudson River
A man on his knees hammers metal in the doorway of a shack hung with battered cookware at the bank of the Hudson River / A man stops by to speak with him and he says he could get a meal with the brass he's hammering / He walks to the...