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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.
United States Air Corps aircraft flying in formation over New York City before WW2.
Formation of aircraft in flight over New York City before WWII. Five Thomas-Morse O-19C observation biplanes in flight over Manhattan, New York City. A pilot operates controls as seen inside cockpit of aircraft. United States Air Corps bi-winged aircraft flying in formation.
President of Federation of Jews Benjamin Winters outlines the purpose of campaign for Polish Jews
Committee of Federation of Polish Jews in America. Committee members are seated around table for discussion. Benjamin Winters as President of Jews Federation. Benjamin outlines the purposes and causes of the campaign for Polish Jews and lays emphasis on funds to be raised for helping Jews.
President of the Federation of Polish Jews, Benjamin Winters appeals to committee to raise funds to help Polish Jews.
Benjamin Winters as President of Federation of Polish Jews appeals to the members to raise funds to help Jews. He speaks about the bad condition of Jewish people and children in Poland under influence by Nazi Germany.
A member of committee for Federation of Polish Jews introduces the President of Federation Benjamin Winters to speak for Jews.
View at committee for Federation of Polish Jews. A member of committee introduces the President of Federation, Benjamin Winters, who speaks on the condition of Polish Jews.
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.