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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.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058688
Building of roads through National Parks and forests in United States

Men with horse carts on Mount Hood loop road that circles the peak in Oregon National Park. View of Mount Hood. Car drives on a road through Crater Lake National forest. View of crater lake.

Location: Oregon United States USA
Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025635
Volunteers undergo training for Emergency Conservation Work and President Roosevelt visits these camps.

From the film, "Forests and Men. The President's Conservation Corps at Work." President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document regarding the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. F. A. Silcox, Chief of United States Forest Service talks about the need for forest conservation. American flag on a pole. President Franklin Roosevelt visits an ECM (Emergency Conservation Work) camp. He has lunch with other officials. ECW workers and officals pose for a photograph with the President. View of the Shenandoah National Park CCC camp #3 from a hilltop, with letters "CAMP NIRA" (National Industrial Recovery Act) visible painted on the roof of one of the buildings. Woman hands over a sheet of paper to the Director of ECW, Robert Fechner. People stand outside United States Army recruitment camp and an Agriculture Department building. ECW volunteers being trained by the U.S. Army at Fort Washington in Virginia. Volunteers undergo training at camps and are sent to various forest conservation areas. Cooks cut meat. Men stand in line to receive food and are seated at outdoor tables eating food.

Location: Virginia United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023603
Sign for various plants and trees in Native American Indian sign language by General Hugh L. Scott, United States

A film titled 'Dictionary of Indian Sign Language' starts. General Hugh L. Scott of Smithsonian Institute, is seated on a chair demonstrates Indian sign language. General Scott demonstrates signs for grass, brush, tree, grove, forest, flower, fruit, nut, hay and hard wood.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033096
World's Champion Horseshoe pitcher, Ted Allen, demonstrates skills, after his win in Moline, Illinois

Approximately 20 contestants, dressed in white, are seen at horseshoe pitching lanes in a fenced enclosure. Spectators are seated in bleachers nearby. A stray dog wanders in the foreground. View of the spectators (mostly men). View of a shoe landing as a ringer. View from the pins as a contestant throws five shoes at four pins. One shoe appears to have landed closed against the first pin. The remaining four are all ringers. In a complete change of scene, Ted Allen, wearing a sweater emblazoned with his name and title: "World's Champion," gives a demonstration. He throws four ringers at one pin, while an intrepid assistant leans over, with his hand atop the pin, confident that he won't be hit by one of the horseshoes. Final view is a closeup of Ted Allen posing with his face framed by a horseshoe. (Note: Ted Allen was born in Kansas. His family moved to Colorado in 1922; to Oregon in 1932; to California in 1933; and finally back to Colorado, in 1936.)

Location: Moline Illinois USA
Date: 1935, September 4
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043351
Great Depression era; westward migration; views of port area of the Columbia River and dust bowl dust storm in United States.

Trucks and cars on roads in America going west during the Great Depression. The vehicles are laden down with lots of gear and possessions as people migrate westward in search of work and better conditions during the Great Depression. One unusual view shows a car towing a covered wagon. Two men walking west on road with their baggage. Logging men or lumberjacks cutting a giant tree into logs of wood and floating the logs down a river to a sawmill. Two men working in the sawmill as the giant sawblade cuts the logs into lumber. Aerial view of little activity at the Portland Lumber Mills of Portland Oregon, as the Depression cut into business. Abandoned sawmills in disrepair. A man talking to a group of workers seeking jobs. Idle men who are unemployed on a street corner, standing in front of the Julian S Chybke Pharmacist and Chemist shop at the corner of East 13th Avenue and Spokane Avenue in Portland, Oregon. Unemployed men stand together looking dejected and talking. Views of dust storm underway during the Dust Bowl. Farm equipment covered in dust and dirt. A man crossing over dust dunes. A farmer looking at dust bowl devastation, and a woman with her child in a dust ravaged area.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1933
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032612
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