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Policemen relocate hobos and homeless to Arizona from Los Angeles, California.
"Hobos" and homeless are relocated to other places from Los Angeles, California, enforcing anti-vagrancy laws during the Great Depression. Dilapidated shanty houses and shacks in an area filled with hobos (sometimes called a "jungle.") Policemen talking to a man next to a shack. Vagrant and unemployed men walking on a railroad being escorted away. Railroad train arriving near a station at night and police run beside it looking for hobos on the train. A sign board reads: 'Arizona State Line'. Hobos in police custody empty their pockets and are fingerprinted.
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)
Film executives meeting in Los Angeles; Work Progress Administration staff and actors under WPA Federal Theater Project prepare and perform on stage
View of Paramount Pictures movie studio entrance. Hollywood film executives such as Paramount Picture’s Adolph Zukor in a meeting. View of Motion Picture Daily with news saying “Federal- NBC Units to Use Film Houses”. Two men buy theater tickets for a vaudeville show by the Federal Theater Project of the Great Depression organization called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Works Progress Administration staff under the Federal Theater Project create props and stage design. A Works Progress Administration carpenter uses a Delta woodworking machinery. Works Progress Administration costume designer shows a design for a dress. Close up shot of Works Progress Administration costume designer. WPA technicians work on stage set design. A Works Progress Administration tailor measures a portly actor’s waistline. Seamstresses working in the costume department of the Federal Theater Project. Artist painting a background for a stage play. A seamstress adjusts a high slit dress of an actress. A milliner arranges a Fascinator, with tulle and pom-poms, on an actress’ head. Two actors and an actress practice a dance number together. Men and women dancers practice a dance. A pair of dancers perform a no-touch tango. Theater marquee saying, “Oh say can you sing WPA Music Comedy”. Newspaperman announcing show business news on newspaper. Orchestra plays inside a theater. Actors and actresses, in different period costumes, perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” as an ensemble after the curtains opened. View of faces of audience members as they clap and smile after watching the performance.
Daredevils amaze and thrill the crowds with their stunts during a show in Hollywood,California.
Daredevils amaze and thrill the crowds with their stunts during a show in Hollywood,California. Wild stunts include car doing a flip and stunt man performing a wheelie on his motorcycle.
A 63 year old retired Attorney performs queer acrobatics in Hollywood, California.
Attorney Mering performs queer acrobatics in Hollywood , California. Attorney Mering performs various acrobatic stunts as he balances himself on his head. He performs a hand stand. Mering supports his body horizontally above the ground while he stands on his hands.
Newbauer's stratogyro fails to take off during its maiden flight in Hollywood, California.
A stratogyro during its maiden flight in Hollywood, California. Men load bags aboard the stratogyro contraption as they prepare for the maiden flight of the early flight design twin blade helicopter that looks like an early flight combination of an airplane and a helicopter. Pilot Newbauer is helped to put on his cylindrical helmet. He gets into the cockpit and looks out from the window. The pilot tries to take off the aircraft but fails. Men push the plane back in a shed.