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Demolition of old buildings in Federal Triangle of Washington DC and construction of new federal buildings in early 1930s
From film dealing with sesquicentennial in Washington DC, released 1950. Review of development of Washington, DC. Model of the Memorial Bridge and the Constitution Avenue in the year 1930. A model of the Jefferson Memorial. The Agriculture Building and building for the members of the House of Representatives. Elevated view of 15 blocks of old slum and run down home and office buildings in the Federal Triangle area that had been marked for destruction. Narrator characterizes them as "unsightly and useless sections of the city." Men work in demolition of slum area. They push over a building wall during clearing of the area. Crane with wrecking ball demolishes building in the Federal Triangle area. View of Department of Commerce under construction circa 1931. Construction of the Post Office Department building is seen underway in the same period.
Decline in industry and jobs, and Stock Market crash and start of Great Depression in the United States.
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). Landmarks in Washington DC: 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. Scene changes to the American West and a herd of sheep and of cattle grazes on pastures or ranch. Cowboys on horseback herd cattle on a giant field with snow covered mountains in the background. Farmers work in a field picking cotton. Scene changes to New York City with view of Manhattan skyline including Empire State Building, with new skyscrapers in construction in the foreground. View of market area and tenements; push cart vendors lined up on a street in a lower east side 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 tenement 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 stock 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.
Men leave their homes for work and emerging businesses housed in offices like the Fendall Building in Washington DC
A 1920's film on advances in transportation depicts men walking to work in the early 1900s. Footage is 1920s, but actors are wearing very early 1900's fashions and depicting that earlier period. A man and a woman stand at their urban house house doorstep as the man prepares to leave for work. Women on their doorsteps of their houses after men leave. Men walking to work. Camera slowly pans from street level upward showing the Fendall Building, a law office building, at the corner of Indiana Avenue and 4 1/2 Street NW, Washington, DC (which is now 300 Indiana Avenue NW, Washington DC. That address was later the site of the "Municipal Center Building" and today is the site of the Henry J. Daly Building that houses the Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters. The Fendall Building was torn down in 1931-1932). Dramatized view of workers and officials entering and leaving the Fendall Building via a stair into a door with sign "Fendall Building" above the door.
United States Navy Blue Angels squadron prepare their fighters before 27th Paris Air Show.
United States Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron prepare aircraft before the 27th Paris Air Show as part of its European Tour during the Cold War. A United States Navy Blue Angels plane Captain Lcor. Billy “Bill” V. Wheat wiping down the windshield of his Grumman F-11A fighter. The name “Lcor. Bill Wheat” is written on the right side of the cockpit. Close up crew tightening fasteners on fuselage of the F-11A with a hand drill. Maintenance crew working on internals of the F-11A. Crewmen cleaning the exhaust port of the F-11A. One of the maintenance crewmen pulling an auxiliary power unit past the nose of the Blue Angels’ aircraft. Sideview of the F-11A with crewmen tending the power unit hooked up to the aircraft, man standing by the hose in the background. The Blue Angels insignia is seen on the aircraft. Crewmen are seen wearing shirts with words “Blue Angels” written on the back. One of the crewmen on the ground next to the Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) with other crewmen in the cockpit of the F-11A, during start up and test of the fighter, as seen from the rear view. The maintenance crewmen wheeling the APU up to the side of the aircraft, one man makes the hook-up to the hose beside the aircraft, another man is up on the left wing. Blue Angel crewmen in the cockpit giving thumbs-up, second man seen in lower foreground. The name "LT JOHN ALLEN" is painted on side of the cockpit. Lieutenant John Allen, a Blue Angels Slot Pilot, is seated in the cockpit. Maintenance crewmen working around the F-11A; French flag flying from the vertical stabilizer of the aircraft, man gives "two fingers up". Two maintenance crewmen pulling APU up to the side of another Blue Angels' aircraft. The APU hooked up to the fighter, man standing by the APU giving a signal to the man in the cockpit. Horizontal stabilizer being operated. One of the Blue Angels' aircraft in the parking area with maintenance crewmen around the aircraft; oxygen bottles are on a small two-wheeled cart. Maintenance crewmen around F-11A, wiping it down, some working over the top of the fuselage. The Blue Angels' F-11A fighter on the line with maintenance crewmen working over the aircraft.
Airship USS Los Angeles moored to the mast of USS Patoka in Newport, Rhode Island.
Rigid airship USS Los Angeles moored to a mast of a ship in Newport, Rhode Island. USS Los Angeles moving slowly into position for mooring above the USS Patoka. She maneuvers into position and is moored to the mast of the USS Patoka. The back of the airship. 'US Navy' written on the side of the Los Angeles. Small boats pass in the water. The nose of the airship moored to the mast.
View of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, DC, with cars driving past
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. A 1931 Plymouth roadster is seen parked on the West side of the Lincoln Memorial. Several other automobiles drive past during the brief filming.
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