Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) work with Sheriff's probation officers in enlisting youth for work during the Great Depression in the United States. A juvenile offender undergoes interview with probation officers. Young men work at the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Camp near San Bernardino, California, digging into rock and gravel and dirt piles as they build new roads. Boy workers seated at a table eat food. They are shown seated receiving school lectures, and playing baseball and boxing. The American flag is lowered outside the camp barracks (operating similar to a CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps camp).
Great Depression scenes and recovery efforts in the United States. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President on March 4, 1933. Scenes of Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover leaving the White House together in a top-down convertible limousine before the ceremony. Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol building during the inauguration ceremony as President of the United States. Roosevelt delivering the famous line in his speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Jobless American men wait in unemployment relief lines to get work or jobs. Men in a bread line. Unemployed man with a large sign "Will take any job." Scenes of families migrating in the United States, with vehicles filled with belongings. Families and children suffering poverty and in makeshift camps and tenement dwellings during migration (usually migration west). Troops and bands march with American flags on Constitution Avenue during the Roosevelt Inauguration parade. Exterior view of U.S. Capitol Building framed by tree limbs. Men in an office empty heavy mailbags filled with letters (presumably to congress and senate). Government officials at a long table working on emergency banking laws in March of 1933. Scene of people flooding into a bank and making a run on the bank to retrieve deposits. President Roosevelt signs Emergency Banking Act in his office on March 9, 1933. View of White House lawn and White House. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) is created to put unemployed young men to work on various conservation projects. CCC boys and men working on planting trees with pick axes and mattocks. Men and women in line to sign up for Emergency Work Relief programs. Officials write down the information for each worker as they are put to work in a variety of projects. Women and men, including white and African American men are seen getting assigned to work projects. A sign "USA Work Program WPA" advertising a suspension bridge work project of the Works Progress Administration in Los Angeles, California. People build roads, bridges and post offices. Cable fed out of a large spool as construction of a suspension bridge is shown. People work in factories. Close up views of railroad train locomotive wheels as they start moving and the train on tracks near factories. Various factory scenes including smokestacks, groups of workers entering factory for work shift and closeup view of a steam whistle blowing to mark the start or end of a work shift. A coal mining operation. Automated tools dig coal in shaft. Two coal miners take a break and eat. Crane hoists material at mine. A steel factory and hot molten steel pouring from a ladle.
Evacuation drills for dependents from Castle Air Force Base in California, United States, during the Cold War. Sign at entrance to Castle Air Force Base. An officer telephones and informs a family to vacate the camp. A woman informs other families via a telephone tree or telephone pyramid. Family members including parents and children load essential belongings in cars. View of base housing and suburb housing. People sitting in cars and the cars being drive out of the camp. People get out of the cars and walk on the ground. A young boy is surprised and startled by the motion picture camera and backs up to join his mother. The families gather together at a picnic area or park under palm trees.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, United States. A signboard reads 'Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field, Camp Pendleton, Calif., Elevation 63 Ft.'. A Marine looking through binoculars on top of the control tower with the signboard. Views of the signboard and the Marine looking through binoculars.
Bonus army camp facilities in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Trucks being driven along road. Bonus marchers being loaded on trucks. They walk with luggage. Marchers pitch tents in camp area. Camp facilities at camp area . Food and coffee being served to veterans.
Scenes from the Yellow Stone National Park in Wyoming USA. Men hold a catch of trout fish. Boats and lake in the background. Birds in water. Panorama of camping area, tents, tailors, cars and people. View of a moose grazing in field. Two bear cubs play in the woods. Mother bear beside the cubs.
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