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)
Work Progress Administration (WPA) play readers and directors review piles of scripts made for the Federal Theater Project. Work Progress Administration staff sort out scripts. A Work Progress Administration staff staples a script. View of The Repertory Theater of Boston marquee presenting "It Can't Happen Here", based on a political novel by Sinclair Lewis during the Great Depression. People line up to watch a sold-out performance of "It Can't Happen Here". View of the audience from the stage. From a scene of "It Can't Happen Here", the Minute Men (the paramilitary force of the fascist American government in the story) enter the house of Doremus Jessup to search for material with "questionable morals." The officer confronts Doremus Jessup with a book by Charles Dickens, an author deemed as a "communist." A playbill for "Macbeth" by the WPA Federal Theater African American Unit. African American actors, portraying Macbeth and Macduff, engage in swordfight as the whole stage get swarmed by shrieking soldiers holding feathered props.
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.
A speed skating competition in New York. Speed skaters race each other in a snowy, short track speed skating rink. A contestant slides off the track near the audience. Contestant 18 wins the race. A smiling contestant. A speed skating competition for teenagers begin. Teenage speed skaters flawlessly race in the snowy rink. Audience cheers as the winner approaches the finish line. Teenage speed skating winner, wearing a USA sweater. Female skaters begin speed skating in the snowy, short track speed skating rink. Contestant 458 finishes the race first. Winner of the speed skating- women’s division, wearing an “Iceland” sweatshirt with New York Yankee logo on the arm.
Crowds in Santa Anita Park racetrack in Arcadia, California (285 W. Huntington, Arcadia, CA 91007, United States). A horse gallops as it enters the racetrack. A portly man, wearing glasses, reads a newspaper. The starting gate opens. The horses leave the barrier stalls after the race started. Horses race around the racetrack. Men in coats and fedora hats watch the race with binoculars. View of horses racing in track. Audience watch the horse race. "Dear Diary," "Morning Breeze" and "Hasten Henry" finish one two and three for the California Breeders' Stakes 6th race at Santa Anita park, Arcadia.
Two wrestlers competing in a wrestling ring in Miami Beach, Florida. A wrestler, wearing black trunks, loses his balance and falls after his opponent lifted his foot. The wrestlers attempt to pull or throw each other to the ground. A wrestler, wearing lighter trunks, jumps and catch his opponent’s head with his legs to make him fall to the ground with him. The referee, wearing a white singlet tucked in khaki pants, watches the match closely. The wrestler, wearing black trunks, crosses the wrestling ropes and mockingly smiles. The opponent holds on to the rope, jumps, and grabs his opponent back to the ring. The wrestler, in black trunks, grabs his opponent to pinch his ears. The referee intervenes to stop the foul move. Wrestler, wearing lighter trunks, jump kicks his opponent. The wrestler proceeds to throw his opponent into the pool surrounding the wrestling ring.
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