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.
Cross sign on hills. Trumpet players dressed in white. Children's choir, in the form of a cross. Large crowd in Hollywood Bowl Stadium (2301 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068, USA).
Hollywood producer Robert Lord is seen in stands of ballpark. Views of a ballpark and crowd in California,United States. Baseball game appears to be ongoing. Hollywood movie star, Joe E. Brown, is seen in St. Louis Cardinal baseball uniform. Three players in outfield, each in a different uniform, suddenly walk rapidly toward infield. They remove their shirts to reveal shoulder pads under their uniforms and laugh and clown around with a "ball player." One throws a fake punch at the "player" who falls to the ground . A man dressed as English butler, serves tea to several "baseball players" in the outfield. Filming for the movie: "Fireman Save My Child" starring Joe E. Brown, who, as part of the story, joins the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
A power plant at Boulder Dam and pictorial depictions of water supplies from Parker Dam and Imperial Dam serving California. The two wings of Boulder Dam power plant, one along each side of the Black Canyon wall. The power plant with different units for generating power. The machinery inside the plant. The major transmission lines that carry power to Los Angeles California metropolitan areas. Two men in the plant near transmission lines. A map depicts the path of power transmission lines. The power plant with turbines. The transmission lines along a desert. A path in the desert. A map depiction of water supply from Parker Dam to the city of Los Angeles. A map depiction of water supply to the Imperial Valley from Imperial Dam. The whole of the Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) in view with water gushing through the gates.
Lee De Forest Building in Hollywood, California. Lee De Forest with a vacuum tube. A sign on the building reads 'Lee De Forest Laboratories'. A view of the buildings in Hollywood. Vehicular traffic on the street.
Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, California. CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Studio building. Cars pass by. Wordings on the building read 'CBS'. A sign reads 'RKO Radio Pictures'. Main gate of the Paramount Studio in view. Aerial view of the buildings in Hollywood.
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