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NY Yankees win charity baseball game against NY Giants in Yankee Stadium in NY City
Title card: "60,000 turn out to see Yanks beat Giants 7-3 in game sponsored by the Acting Mayor, Mr. McKee" / New York City acting mayor Joseph V McKee in stands throws out ball during charity game to benefit the Mayor's unemployment...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Dust storm in the US during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s
VS wall of dust billows, blocking out the sky, during Dust Bowl dust storm / cow stands on desolate farmland as dust blows / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete
Hearst Metrotone News
Men wear labels to advertise their skills hoping to work for one dollar per week.
Men wear labels to advertise their skills hoping to work for one dollar per week.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs one of the New Deal's historic programs
LS occupied floor of US Congress in session / MS good shot of U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt signing New Deal document, seated at desk with US flag behind / MS Americans walking on street outside Congressional building / CU FDR...
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US Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace
CU Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace speaks / Note: exact day not known
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During Great Depression, increased activity in Cleveland steel plants
Title card: "Steel mills busy! Increased winter production renews activities in Cleveland plants" / steelworkers pushing rod into glowing furnace / steelworker pushing rod into glowing furnace / molten steel pouring out of furnace /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Torch light parade for presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in Chicago, 1932
Title card: "Roosevelt For Action! - Chicago's rousing torch-light parade marked climax of country-wide tour" / NIGHT crowd with torches line street, lots of smoke / MS car with Franklin D. Roosevelt drives down street, Franklin...
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Canadian PM Bennett honors Lord Baldwin at Imperial Conference
Title card: "British Hail Trade Pact! - Prime Minister Bennett of Canada sums up work of Imperial Conference at Ottawa" / Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bennett speaking ,standing at table, raised throne behind him, can see others at...
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During Great Depression, businessman Samuel Insull on trial in Chicago for defrauding investors
Title card: "Insull's defense!" / Samuel Insull walking along amid small crowd of men / Insull talking to reporters and being photographed by photographers / Insull getting into taxicab / cab pulls away / Insull sitting inside beside his...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, increased economic activity throughout US
Title card: "Business shows a new activity - Industry encouraged as indications point to upward trend in trade" / men loading bales of cotton onto train / two shots of men loading bales of cotton onto ship / spools of thread spinning in...
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Columbia professor proposes technocracy to remedy effects of the Great Depression
Title card: "WHAT IS TECHNOCRACY?" / dissolve to title card: "Editor's note: One of its advocates, Professor Rautenstrauch of Columbia University, briefly outlines its major purpose. Next week, we will give some interesting details...
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Bridge project helps veterans' unemployment problem
Title card: "Bridge Project Gives Work to Ohio Veterans - Greyton Mastick Road span helps to solve unemployment problem" / WS bridge being built across Rocky River Valley, an Ohio National Guard plane flies across / MS men operate steam...
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Plan to fight Great Depression by paying workers scrip is tested in Hawarden, IA
Title card: "Whips Depression! Novel plan provides work and makes money for Hawarden, Ia." / dollar scrip being printed as inventor of plan Charles Zylstra looks on / close shot of scrip / Zylstra sitting at desk looking over scrip /...
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Animated short illustrates Franklin Roosevelt's plan to offset financial losses to farmers and consumers
Title card: "THE NEW ROOSEVELT DOLLAR" / ANIMATION featuring dollar bills and various coins, shows how the "Roosevelt dollar" has only 13.93 grains of gold, compared to 23.22 grains previously / bar graph animation shows government...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's first fireside chat urges confidence in banks and lists steps taken to ease fear
SOT Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sitting at desk speaking outlining steps to restore banking system during banking holiday, allowing federal reserve banks to issue additional currency backed by good assets, that hoarding makes no profit;...
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During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt delivers his sixth fireside chat radio broadcast from Washington, DC
Title card: "Roosevelt looks ahead" / close shot of President Franklin D. Roosevelt sitting at desk ready to speak / close shot of Roosevelt speaking / family at home sitting around radio listening / couple sitting at home next to radio...
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Parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC at Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's second inauguration, 1937
High overhead shot of parade / closer shot of military band marching down street / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt in reviewing stand with other officials watching parade / military band marching past reviewing stand / Roosevelt and officials...
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During Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt urges people to respond to Unemployment Census
Title card: "Census! Roosevelt urges jobless to sign" / close shot of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt getting ready to speak / SOT Roosevelt sitting at desk speaking to camera, urging unemployed and partly employed to answer questions on census...
Hearst Metrotone News
A group of men walk in a long unemployment line.
A group of men walk in a long unemployment line.
Hearst Metrotone News
The wind blows dust across drought stricken land.
The wind blows dust across drought stricken land.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Americans caught between radical left and conservative right politics during the thick of the Great Depression
Title card: 'Editor's Note: The fall elections are more than local in importance. The voters will determine which road we are to take - liberal, conservative, or radical.' / title card: 'America At The Crossroads' / first title card...
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During Great Depression, men find employment working on skyscraper under construction in NY City
Title card: "In New York, skyscraper job makes steel workers happy" / shot of exterior of skyscraper under construction, sign in front of it saying "Rockefeller Center" / tilt up skyscraper / three shots of steel beams being moved into...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, US Army General James G. Harbord speaks in NY City of danger of Bonus Army
Title card: "Gen. J. G. Harbord sees a menace in Bonus Army - Former Commander of 2nd Division AEF says marchers aim to intimidate Congress" / Two shots of Gen. James G. Harbord standing in room speaking, declaring veterans demanding...
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Amelia Earhart christens Essex Terraplane automobile
Title Card: "Work for 8,000 men! Increased activity in Detroit automobile activity in Detroit automobile plant is indicating of Fall business recovery" / Hundreds of workers walk to and past the camera / A parking lot with hundreds of...