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Roosevelt talks about ways to combat unemployment during a speech announcing Works Relief Program in Washington DC.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt delivers a speech on Works Relief Program in Washington DC, United States (became the Works Progress Administration or W.P.A.). The President speaks standing in front of a number of microphones. He speaks about the Works Relief Program enacted by the Congress to combat unemployment during the Great Depression. He says that the first step is to put men and women on relief rolls. It is for the first time in five years that the relief rolls have declined in the winter months. He says that even though unemployment persists in the US, they have coined some remedial measures in which there are provisions to rule out future unemployment and to help those who are unemployed in the present emergency and the Work Relief Program helps to achieve this.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1935, April 28
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054707
Initial processes in the construction of Boulder Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River in the United States.

The beginning of the construction of Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River in the United States. Rocks on the side of the river. A boat in the river. A map shows the course of the Colorado River through different states of the country. The river causes floods in towns and farming districts of California. The dam site in the Black Canyon, where the river forms a boundary between Nevada and Arizona. A map shows the dam site. Materials at the dam site. Trains bring supplies. Power lines to the dam site. Men assemble materials for construction work. Men at a survey. Workmen come to the dam site in trucks from other states.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054708
Arrangements in Boulder City for workmen during the construction of Boulder Dam over the Colorado River in the United States.

Boulder City at the time of the construction of Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River in the United States. A desert area with mountains in view. Houses and buildings in Boulder City. A park with many trees. A walkway in a park. A building at a distance. The Office of the Bureau of Reclamation. A lawn around the building. A stores building. A vehicle near the building. Arcades in front of houses provide protection from the sun. Workmen's houses and buildings in clusters. Dormitories for single workmen. Two men at work in a workmen's mess. Several workmen seated at tables in a mess hall. Passenger motor trucks in front of the workmen's houses. The workmen get into the trucks. The trucks drive on a path. The workmen get down from the trucks at the dam site.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054709
The construction of Boulder Dam under way and rocks blasted in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River in the United States.

Boulder Dam under construction over the Colorado River in the United States. The Colorado River and work under way in the Black Canyon. Rocks on both sides of the river. Men in a boat bring supplies to the site. The site of work. Men cross the river on a bridge. Rocks of the canyon being blasted for providing foothold for roads and rail lines to the dam site.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054710
Boring of diversion tunnels during the construction of Boulder Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River in the U.S.

Diversion tunnels made for the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States. The dam site in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River. Rocks on either side of the river. A bridge on the river. A small tunnel on one side of the river. Several workmen at the mouth of the tunnel. Men operate drilling jumbos mounted on a motor truck. A man on a ladder. Workmen drill holes into rocks with drifter drills. Equipment for drilling. Trucks and power shovels in a bore to remove shattered material. A truck comes out of the tunnel. Workmen watch the truck. Trucks move in a line on a road along the canyon walls. The trucks dispose off wastes in gulches. Men at work in the tunnel. A man operates a concrete machine. A gantry crane is operated by workmen to lay lining of concrete on sidewalls of the tunnel. Men near movable steel forms. A man operates a machine.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054711
Rocks blasted and workmen over cliffs during the construction of Boulder Dam on the Colorado River in the United States.

Work men at work during the construction of Boulder Dam over the Colorado River in the United States. Rocks blasted in the Black Canyon for the end support of the dam. The work site of the dam. Men at the site. An aerial cable way carries workmen. Men in the cable way taken to their positions on cliffs. A man on a cliff prepares ropes. The workmen descend the cliffs with the help of the ropes.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054712
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