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Movie portrayal of "flappers" dancing the Charleston and cavorting at dance hall during Prohibition in the U.S.
Movie portrays three women sharing an apartment. One is quietly writing letters at a desk, while her two roommates get ready to go out and have fun. The two put on lipstick makeup and perfume before leaving. They go down steps to dance hall or speakeasy where they dance the Charleston and cavort with others there. Couples are seen kissing off to the side, and some in the group carry flasks and drink illegal liquor. Women seen throwing dice in a game (woman on right at 1:08 is possibly Texas Guinan). Musicians play various persons in the group play the piano, saxophone, and ukulele. Top down view on phonograph record player as a vinyl record spins on the turntable.
Popular American music and dance, during the "Roaring Twenties."
American composer, George Gershwin, performs solo passage on the piano (likely from Rhapsody in Blue). Gershwin at the piano accompanied by Paul Whiteman's orchestra, with Whiteman conducting. Paul Whiteman playing violin with several other violinists. A Harlem jazz band of African American musicians performing in a jazz club. Couples dancing the Charleston. Band members singing with megaphones as flappers and couples dance, including the Charleston dance.
Actors portraying bootleggers during prohibition receive liquor from ship offshore, and bring it into the United States.
Movie in which actors portray bootleggers receiving liquor from a schooner offshore. They load containers into a small boat and bring them ashore. 'Oil' written on the containers. They pour liquor from the containers into bottles, at their hideout during prohibition.
Movie portrayal of Speakeasy activities during prohibition in the U.S.A.
Actors portray purveyors and consumers of illegal liquor during prohibition in the United States. Sales and consumption in city establishments in the 1920s. Man knocks on a door. He is eyed from inside, slips money through slot and receives bottle of liquor. An innocent-looking package contains bottles of Gordon's gin. A man slips something through a window slot in a speakeasy door and is admitted. Sculpture of the Statue of Liberty at a restaurant where illegal alcohol is served. Men and women in the restaurant. People dance. Men pour liquor in glasses.
Illegal stills, hijackings, bombings, and other mafia or mob violence depicted in movie enactments
Movie portrayal of gangster activities during prohibition, in 1920s in the United States. Illicit liquor trade and gang warfare. Clandestine liquor manufacture. The illicit liquor is loaded onto a truck for transportation. Truck hijacking after truck carrying liquor smashes into a car blocking the road. Metal milk containers filled with liquor being machine gunned by a passing car. Two business establishments being bombed. Gangsters interrogating two men and threatening them while holding handguns. Faceless gangster in 1920s fashions (actor) fires revolver. A policeman with a gun firing at gangsters during a getaway.
The members of American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) help people in France.
Quaker members of American Friends Service Committee help people in France. They work at the Matson Maternelle de la Marne Maternity Hospital in Chalons-sur-Marne, France. Exterior of the hospital. Two nurses come out, holding a baby. Exterior of the hospital which was opened in 1922. Groups of nurses walk in the ground. American, English and French nurses in the hospital. A patient arrives in a horse drawn carriage. Nurses help a pregnant mother to step into hospital. Interior of the hospital ward. Separate ward for dependent children who come in with their mothers. Nurses play with the young children. They feed the babies. Maternity ward. Mother in bed is given baby. Patient leaves hospital with husband and new baby.
