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The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America
Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.
Montage of scenes reflecting life in the United States during the decade of the 1920s, following World War I
Baseball great, Babe Ruth starting to trot around the bases after hitting a home run. An inverted stunt biplane, N57323 with "EM Avery" readable on fuselage while flying inverted. A wing walker is strapped under the airplane (on top wing, now underneath). The airplane rolls over into upright position, trailing white smoke to be more easily seen by spectators on the ground. A 1920s jazz band comprised of African American musicians playing in a night club. A couple and then four women, dancing the Charleston. Point of view (POV) from moving car driving along Broadway in New York City at night, surrounded by neon light signs including some like the Winter Garden Theatre and the Rivoli Theatre. A flagpole sitter atop structure behind an RKO Keith's Advertising sign. Closeup of the man on his perch. A room full of women sewing garments in a factory. Wealthy, formal dressed couples at a city supper club, where an orchestra is playing. Exhausted couples clinging to one another on dance floor during a marathon dance contest. Gangsters firing a machine gun from window of a moving car. Charles A. Lindbergh steps past a policeman, to board his Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St.Louis,"at Roosevelt field, Long Island, New York, on May 20, 1927. View of takeoff roll. Registration number "NX-211," visible atop the right wing. Manhattan ticker tape parade welcoming Lindbergh back to New York City, following his successful solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh speaking at a microphone. Traders on floor of the New York Stock Exchange during era of frantic stock market speculation. Money counted out at bank teller window. Labor strife at the gates of a Massey-Harris Company plant, with workers fleeing attacks by men with clubs hired by the company. Boy workers pose for a photograph While narrator mentions Child labor Act declared unconstitutional (1922). A girl worker. Boys employed as coal miners. Workers installing body panels on cars and working on engines in automobile production and assembly lines. Partially completed vehicles driving out of an automobile factory. Babe Ruth rounding third base and coming to home plate after hitting a home run in a baseball game.
Major changes in lifestyle of the people in United States in the 1920s leading to economic prosperity.
Brief view of Mussolini in Italy wearing a top hat. Clip proceeds on theme of lifestyle of people in United States in the 1920s, also referred to as the "Roaring 20s". Pedestrians and various people on busy streets of New York City as cars and truck move past them. A woman gets her make up done in a makeup studio. A woman in flapper fashions smokes a cigarette. View of a line of women's legs all wearing silk stockings and shorter skirts than in prior times. Women in swimming suits at a beauty pageant. Federal agents smash liquor bottles and break up wooden barrels draining liquor to enforce prohibition. Gangsters killed in an encounter in the street. Gangsters, possibly mafia, being arrested and led away by police at gun point. Men and women perform Charleston dance. A bartender is seen mixing a drink. Men and women enjoy ballroom dancing at a night club. Closeup of a street sign for Wall Street. Brief view of crowds outside New York Stock Exchange building around time of stock market crash of 1929.
A train passes Jeffersonville station, South Salem Station, South Charleston Station and a bridge in the United States.
Railroad station in the United States. A view from a moving railroad train of railroad tracks and bridge as a train crosses over the railroad bridge. The train passing a freight train going in the other direction. A small railroad station at Good Hope. The train passes a road and trucks. Intersection of railroad tracks. Train passes various stations. A small depot. The train passes Jeffersonville Station (possibly Jeffersonville Indiana ?), South Salem Station, South Charleston Station.
African American church and the nearby Rosenwald School for African American children in Ogden, South Carolina.
Clip from a study of educational inequalities between the white and African American populations in South Carolina. A church of African American parishioners. People emerge from their cars and move towards the church. Parishioners entering the church for a church service, and later exiting the church. Views of an African American cemetery. (Charles Hamilton Houston, Dean of the Howard University School of Law, is seen crouched low near a grave beside a young boy. Houston was working together with Thurgood Marshall to film this footage). View of the Crawford Rosenwald School (4009 Saluda Road York County South Carolina) for African American children at Ogden, South Carolina. African American children play and dance at the Ogden School, which was built largely through their efforts due to limited state funding.
Dramatization: Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro-Southern dramatization by actors on the effect of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. Men gather in Masters Hall in the State House of Representatives in South Carolina. Majority of African Americans sit in the hall. An African American speaker speaks in the hall in front of everyone. Another African American man eats on the table. They talk amongst themselves. A man drinks. One of them puts his shoes on the table. A man puts his legs on the table. They misbehave. Speaker asks everyone to wear shoes. White visitors seen in the gallery. An intermarriage bill passed in the meeting. People talk. African American people cheer.
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