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Stock market traders crowding around market maker in the stock trading pit of the New York Stock Exchange reenacting the 1929 stock market crash

October 29, 1929 MONTAGE Factory production grinding to a halt and workers standing in line at the employment office as the stock market crashes / London, England

Exterior of bank, street scene / people running up to bank to withdraw their money / people holding bank notes in hand / street scene / people lined up outside bank after stock market crash panic, 1929

crowds of people standing outside bank / stock traders at the New York Stock Exchange board, traders waving papers in air and writing on board / CU man writing numbers on chalk board under stock symbols / traders on floor during stock...

HD footage of 1929 London. Shots include a policeman directing traffic at Marble Arch; a chimney sweep; a postman; the Household Cavalry; a knife grinder; a group of women shelling peas in Covent Garden market; street hawkers; motorcars...

HD footage of 1929 London. Shots include traffic and pedestrians on a busy street; a street artist; 'church parade' in Rotten Row; people relaxing in chairs in the park; people riding horses; men speaking to a crowd at Speakers' Corner,...

Man looking into trash can - sleeping rough - factory gates close - Hoover speaking - scene of Hoover at work - Shantytowns called 'Hoovervilles' - scenes indicating the crash and subsequent poverty - breadlines

Old locomotive train works hard moving down the tracks. Sony EX1,HD,High definition,locked down

Men entering doup kitchen - beaten men on benches - President Hoover on podium - Sign for Wall Street - cleaning up stock exchange after crash

Narrator discusses General Carl Tooey Spaatz and Lieutenant General Ira C Eaker flying for seven days straight / General Carl Tooey Spaatz in 1953 discussing mid air fueling / Spaatz explains how mid air fueling was Lieutenant General...

James 'Jimmy' Doolittle performs first blind flight / Doolittle in plane pulling hood over his head / Doolittle narrates his flight: 'taking off under a hood flying a prescribed course and landing back under the hood without ever having...

/ Saint Joseph's shrine under construction / thousands of people wandering on lawn with partly built shrine in background / Zouaves and visitors leaving shrine.

B/W 1929 Admiral Byrd + others drinking coffee + talking after flight to South Pole

HD footage of the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, England in 1929. Shots include the Household Cavalry; Duke of Connaught; Prince of Wales; Duke of York; Lord Lascelles; Horse Guards Parade; Grenadier Guards

Two Treaties Drawn up in Washington

Heinrich Brüning, Ernst Thälmann, Joseph Goebbels and others during the election campaign, 1929 Berlin.

Citizens clamor to reclaim their savings after the 1929 stock market crash.

The unemployment lines - savers wait in line outside banks - NO MEN WANTED

Unemployed workers accept charity during the Great Depression.

Post-Wall Street Crash unemployment in US, communism in Germany, Red Front with leader, Thälmann, 1929

Scraps of paper cover the floor of the New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash of the stock market.