Policemen destroy shacks of unemployed men in a shanty village in New York, United States during the Great Depression. A rubbled area being demolished by police and workers. The policemen watching the area. Other men and residents standing near the damaged shacks that are being removed.
Dairymen protest in Mukwonago, Wisconsin during Great Depression. They protest to maintain a higher price level for their product. Men gather outside a building. Milk containers being loaded on a truck. Containers on the ground. Men spilling milk from a truckload along a road to reduce supply and influence price.
The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) marches in Washington DC, United States. The Bonus Army marches. Two of the men holding U.S. flags. The U.S. Capitol in the background.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, United States. He inspects the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps. He shake hands with the young men there. The President seated at a table with some of the men.. They eat food. Tents in the background. The President talking to the CCC boys during the Great Depression.
Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.
Aviator Jimmie Mattern in Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Jimmie Mattern boards the aircraft and takes off for his trip across the Atlantic. Crowd watches as the young Texas pilot takes off.