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WPA improved facilities at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York during the Great Depression. An Eastern Airlines DC-3 passenger airplane with painted words on side "The Great Silver Fleet" taxis on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport field by Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Narrator describes WPA improvements to the airport. Plane parks atop a novel turntable and then is rotated to desired position. Rear hatch opens and crew member steps out. Trap door on ground near plane opens revealing a stairwell downward which debarking passengers then use to walk toward the main terminal. View of skyport landing and takeoff area on the East River and a pontoon-equipped small aircraft coming in for landing at one of these two skyports providing air taxi service from Manhattan Island. Narrator indicates that one skyport is located at 31st Street and another at Wall Street.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062812
Children play games and receive instructions in handicraft during WPA supported play programs in New York City

Great Depression era Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City. A sign reads: 'Play Street Closed'. Children play various games and sports on a street in New York City that has been closed to traffic, under the supervision of WPA employees. A man instructs them. They play checkers, jacks, and a small court tennis game using ping pong paddles. They play round games holding hands and moving together. Children seen entering the toyery, an experimental program at the Heckscher Foundation For Children. A boy smiles as a woman in the toyery hands him a truck toy to borrow from the lending library of toys. Several children are shown trading in a toy for a different toy. Children seated in a room show each other flashcards to improve their reading skills, during remedial instruction time. Women in a Long Island City kitchen prepare school lunches for 800 needy children. A woman cook prepares a sandwich and a group of women wrap up batches of sandwiches. View of a day nursery, with a nap or rest area with small beds. A nurse in the nursery examines a child's mouth with a tongue depressor. Young children play with blocks in the nursery. They sit at tables in a dining room. Children drink milk and eat food.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062814
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.

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.

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.

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.

Date: 1936, September 18
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079042