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Vaudeville stars, Welton and Morgan, known as “The Dapper Dan Duo”, dance and sing onstage

Vaudeville poster of Welton and Morgan, known as “The Dapper Dan Duo”. Vaudeville stars Welton and Morgan tap dance and sing onstage, one of them tap dancing while sitting on a chair. Women clap from a theater box. Welton and Morgan bow after their end their performance.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079039
USA Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Work Theater musicals in Broadway Avenue, New York City

Orchestra plays in a theater during Great Depression in the United States. “U.S.A.!” superimposed on the orchestra. A view of Broadway Avenue and Times Square, New York City during the evening. Night views of neon signs on Broadway from Coca-Cola, Howard 19th clothes and Ballantine’s Scotch Whisky. People entering a Broadway theater, alongside sign that reads, "New Orleans Federal Theatre Presents." A theater marquee saying, “The Fool Now Playing”. Two women look at a displayed playbill and actors’ photos. Theater marquee of Playhouse on Broadway saying “The Devil Passes” Federal Theater Attraction”. Folding signboard advertising “ Herrman the Great”. Men and women lining up to buy theater tickets. Actors and actresses perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” in a Broadway theater.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1936, November 26
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079037
United States Works Progress Administration Federal Theater Project during Great Depression

Newsreel quote saying, “As 30,000 destitute show people clamor for work, a new firm, biggest and richest in the world, enters the theatrical business”. Office lady talking on the phone in her desk. American theatrical producer and director, Hallie Flanagan, discussing about the Federal Theater Project, a theater program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal economic program by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A US Works Progress Administration Portable Theater truck drives in New York. Actors in blackface perform a Minstrel dance onstage. Posters for Federal Theater Project Minstrel shows. An audience watch a performance inside a theater. An actor stands up from a chair onstage. A man reads a Program. Federal Theater Project staff work inside their office. Federal Theater Project Backstage staff arrange stage design. Touring actors enter backstage. Wooden sign says “”The CCC Murder Mystery” by Miss Grace Hayward Presented by Federal Theater Project W.P.A. C.CC. co #5434 Wilderness VA. Wed. Night 7.30 All Welcome”. Actors perform “The CCC Murder Mystery” onstage. The audience, all young men, laugh at the scene where an actress offered a cigarette to the judge.

Location: New York City USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079041
USA Work Progress Administration ( WPA ) Federal Work Theater “H.M.S. Pinafore” cast perform “Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen” onstage

A poster for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pinafore” by the Federal Work Theater of the USA Work Progress Administration. The whole cast of “H.M.S. Pinafore” perform the Act II Finale “Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen” as an ensemble.

Location: Cincinnati Ohio USA
Date: 1936, September 18
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079042
Work Progress Administration Federal Theater Project Marionette play for children in Los Angeles California

A line of parents with their children entering the Marionettes: Theater of the Magic Strings in Los Angeles, California. Marionettes depicting characters such as a chef, an old lady, and some clowns, onstage. Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theater Project puppeteers control their strings from above the stage. A kangaroo king marionette, wearing a crown and a cape, hops onstage. Children watching the marionette play. Marionettes dance onstage as confetti fall. (Great Depression period)

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079043
Work Progress Administration directors review scripts; performance of "It Can't Happen Here" in Boston; WPA African American actors perform

Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079044
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