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.
A telemetry communicator presses a white button. A paired bantam patch cable is plugged into a patchbay. Beside the auxiliary ports are buttons with labels for the telemetry stations of the Mercury-Atlas 6 network worldwide. Telemetry communicator connecting cables in machine. Two telemetry communicators in a corridor- one is monitoring the machines, the other talks on the phone. Telemetry communicators in Goddard Space Flight Center wait for the countdown of the Friendship 7 launch in Cape Canaveral. Buttons are pressed on reel to reel tape drive. Telemetry communicator operates an IBM 7090 telemetry machine. Telemetry communicator on the printer. Telemetry communicator working on an IBM 7090 computer. Telemetry communicators preparing for Mercury-Atlas 6 launch at Goddard Space Flight Center.
Opening credits of “The Fighting President”, a film about United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Scrolling description about how the economic collapse of the United States made it possible for Americans to vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt as their new President. First Inauguration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt at the eastern front of the U.S. Capitol. “I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So, help me God”. Crowd cheers after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ends his oath.
Policemen rush to contain the resistance by the Bonus Marchers, a group of demonstrators made up of 17 000 United States World War I veterans demanding early cash redemption of their service certificates during the Great Depression. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators throw smoke bombs and fight with police in their trashed Hooverville camp on the Anacostia Flats (now Section C of Anacostia Park in Washington DC). Bonus Expeditionary Force Hooverville camp in flames during confrontation with army sent by General Douglas MacArthur. American soldiers confronting the Bonus Marchers in Anacostia Park. Remnants of Bonus Army camp in smoke. Bonus Expeditionary Force demonstrators cover faces to protect themselves from smoke. Bonus camp in flames, with the United States Capitol dome in the background.
American Airways Ford Trimotor carrying Democrat New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt in flight on the way to Chicago, Illinois for the 1932 Democratic Party National Convention. American Airways plane approaching to land in Chicago Municipal Airport (5700 S Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60638, United States). Democrat supporters crowd airplane at Chicago Municipal Airport airfield to see Franklin Roosevelt after flight lands. Franklin Roosevelt speaking to the convention afterwards, saying, "the 18th Amendment is doomed" and "I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people."
A long line of unemployed men and women waiting for relief assistance outside a charity in America during the Great Depression. A bread line outside a charity that reaches to another block. Hungry, unemployed men waiting for free food from charity. A jobless African American man talking to a charity worker. Long breadline outside charity. Unemployed men enter a charity to receive food and other necessities. Unemployed men look for jobs posted in newspaper together. Unemployed women sells baked goods on the street. Unemployed man looks for a job in newspaper while sitting in bench at a park. Homeless, unemployed man smokes cigarette while sitting in bench with his luggage. Unemployed men and women receive bread and necessities from charity. Policeman and volunteers distribute food packs to unemployed men and women affected by the Great Depression.
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