The film 'The Unfinished Revolution' opens by showing people recovering after the Great Depression in the United States. Most scenes circa 1929 - 1931 (but film produced in 1960s). The United States Capitol building with 1940s and 1950s cars and taxi cabs on roads in foreground. View of exterior of Supreme Court building. Closer view of U.S. Capitol and then of the White House in Washington DC. Also the Washington Monument. A herd of sheep and of cattle grazes on pastures. Cowboys on horseback herd cattle on a giant field with snow covered mountains in the background. Farmers work in a field picking cotton. View of Manhattan skyline including Empire State Building, with new skyscrapers in construction in the foreground. View of market vendors with carts lined up on a street in a New York City neighborhood, and a Ford sedan on the street. Busy New York City streets filled with cars and pedestrians at end of 1920s. Children standing on fire escape in poor downtown area look down over suspended laundry lines between buildings. An officer looks out from small window of a raised booth traffic light as the lights on the booth change color. A Ford automobile assembly line. Engineers work in a factory with minimum wages. A farmer plows a field of potatoes using four horses. A wheat thresher working a field. Trains at a crossing, on a bridge, and coal cars lined up at a coal yard. Busy New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) floor filled with people around time of 1929 market crash and start of Great Depression. Frenzied stock market scenes. Board outside a factory reads 'No Men Wanted'. Scenes of silent railroad yards and dormant factories. A man plays an accordian and collects coin donations. Jobless people wait in relief lines, soup kitchen lines, unemployment lines or queues and bread lines. Unemployed and homeless men asleep in public areas.
Newsreel clip showing baseball great Babe Ruth exercising indoors during the winter of 1932. Title card says he is demanding $80,000 contract -- he would receive a reported $75,000 instead. Ruth, wearing shorts and sweatshirt, climbs on stationary cycle and begins pedaling as a man rides another cycle beside him. Camera pans down to Ruth's well-known skinny legs. Ruth looks at clock on wall, wipes sweat from his face. Next, Ruth sits in 1930s-style sauna box and takes a sauna with a towel over his head. Other man playfully shoves his head while he is inside the box. Same man later seen wearing boxing gloves and throwing several punches at Ruth's stomach. Ruth takes a few, then delivers a left-handed punch to the head that pushes the much smaller man away.
Boxing match between Baer and Heeney with Manassa Mauler as referee, in New York City. Muddled count by official timekeeper compels Dempsey to declare Baer as winner .1931.
A Dornier DOX flying boat aircraft lands in New York, United States on August 5th, 1931. Dornier DOX flying boat in flight with the pilot at controls. A mechanic fixes up an engine while the flying boat is in flight. Passengers aboard the airborne plane. Passengers dance in the aircraft. Control room of the flying boat. Navigators at a plotting board. Flying boat flies over the Statue of Liberty. Chef prepares food aboard the luxury flying boat. People eat sandwiches. Aerial views of Manhattan. Flying boat comes in for landing on Hudson river. Flying boat on the river with buildings in the background. Two men raise a flag on the wing of DOX.
Figure skating in Coney Island, New York. Trudy Bronson and Paul Carriere performs while adapting various dance movement to skating. 1931.
Edward Blood from University of New Hampshire establishes ski record in interstate tournament. 12000 spectators watch his 150 feet jump at Bear Mountain, New York. 1931.
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