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American economy strengthens after the Great Depression; also growth and prosperity and civil rights reform in 1950s and 1960s.
Chronicles recovery in America after the Great Depression in the United States, from roughly 1933-1967, but with emphasis on the earlier years of that period. Pre-war work programs such as the Works Progress Administration (WPA) help with employment. Farmers work in their fields with tractors. Officials in an office discuss and prepare graphs. Workers drill and work at a construction site. The 1933 Homeowners Loan Corporation sparks new home building. View of new homes being built and new suburban neighborhoods. Brief scene of bombing at Pearl Harbor. American warships launching from shipyards during World War II. Women war production workers work in factories in the United States. Post-war Marshall Plan aid being sent to European countries. Crates of supplies marked for European countries. Industrial output booming again, and scenes of industrial factories and plants with smoke pouring from chimneys and pollution from stacks. Large pool typists room filled with female typists and clerical workers busy at work in government agency. Close up views of hands of women operating typewriters. Reforms for housing projects, African American Civil Rights and measures taken to stabilize unemployment, with scenes of successive Presidents signing reform bills, including Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. A ship departs from a harbor with goods. A convoy of vehicles on a road. Various Federal buildings in Washington DC. The White House building. An aerial view of an American town and of a factory with pollution smoke emitting from stacks. Letters being delivered to elderly women. People enter a medical clinic and wait in the clinic waiting room. Racially integrated classroom of older high school students or university students, with white and African American students, and both young men and women. A young white woman worker and a young African American working in a machine shop or possibly an academic shop class. A white and a African American man share a sandwich and views of white and black people together in integrated classrooms and factories as segregation begins to wane. Elementary school children in a classroom drawing pictures.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh being greeted by well-wishers during 21 country tour.
Footage from 1933. An aircraft circles on the water surface. Anne Marrow Lindbergh descends from an aircraft. Charles Augustus Lindbergh nicknamed 'The Lone Eagle' and Anne Lindberg welcomed by the people. They get inside a car. From a November 27, 1958 newsreel feature "25 years ago today".
FDR announces formation of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and many work in Forest Service improving fire control
Crews of American young men loading up and organizing for training in fire fighting duties, circa 1920. Unemployed workers in lines and waiting queues in 1933 during Great Depression. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the formation of Civilian Conservation Corps. Civilian Conservation Corps men of the forest service, at work, setting up telephone poles, stringing wire, building roads, building fire lookout towers, and helping to fight fires.
The Great Depression persists as President Franklin D Roosevelt takes the oath of the office in the United States.
Department of Labor women clerical employees seen typing letters and forms. Men in the department meet at a table. Women working inside a textile factory in the United States. Close up of man's face as he works at a factory job. Scene of early trading activity at the New York Stock Exchange. A biplane airplane at an air show event crashes through a wall (seemingly intentionally) while landing, as onlookers watch. The plane is heavily damaged but lands on two wheels. Bread lines and soup lines for the hungry and unemployed men during the Great Depression. Lines at the bank during bank panic or run on a bank during the Great Depression. Vacant lot, stopped idle factory, and stopped railway switch yard during the Great Depression. Busy city street (possibly New York City lower east side) with push carts of street market vendors selling to shoppers and pedestrians. A horse cart is also seen on the street. More scenes of soup kitchens and bread lines for needy. Children jump rope, gathered on a wooden porch. Two men arriving at factory job carrying lunch boxes. Children playing jump rope. Exterior of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. as Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes his first oath for the President of the United States on March 4, 1933, and excerpt from his inaugural address focusing on jobs and putting people back to work.
Women smoke pipes and people fit jigsaw puzzles in the United States.
Fads of 1933 in the United States. A woman pushes a child in a baby carriage while smoking a pipe. A woman cleans doorsteps as she smokes a pipe. Another woman at a desk in an office smokes a pipe while typing. Children seated on steps as they fit a jigsaw puzzle together. A janitor pauses while street cleaning to work on his jigsaw puzzle. A child in a pram tries to fit a jig saw puzzle. A man and woman work on jig saw puzzles while they cross a street. One of them crashes into a pedestrian and the pieces of his puzzle fall on the ground.
Sir Malcolm Campbell with his Blue Bird and Garfield Arthur Wood with his Miss America X set new speed records in the U.S.
New world speed records being set in the United States in 1933. People push race car on Daytona Beach. Sir Malcolm Campbell, a racing motorist drives his "Blue Bird" race car at Daytona Beach, Florida, setting a new speed record. Spectators stand at beach as they watch him. Campbell seated in his racing car as he smokes after the run. People stand around him. Garfield 'Gar' Arthur Wood, a racer using a racing boat named "Miss America X" sets a new world record to win Harmsworth Trophy for his speed run on the St Clair River near Detroit Michigan. View of Gar Wood smiling. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.