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Conditions leading to the dust bowl on the American Great Plains

A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near the plow. An explosion on the land. World War 1 news headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar decline of the wheat market results in overproduction: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground during dust bowl era. Overproduction of wheat. Notice of 'Farms for Sale' in lower prices. Farm machinery is used. The sun rises in the background. A notice of 'Own a farm away from home'. Overproduction of wheat is shown. Over-exuberance in roaring 20s market is shown by a stock market or commodities market ticker running large amounts of ticker tape and a scene of a 1920s African American jazz musician drummer playing the drums enthusiastically and smiles while another band musician in the background plays bass.

Date: 1936
Duration: 8 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045148
A useless farm and wrecked farm equipment at a plain land area in the United States.

From the story of a plow that breaks plains in the Great Plains, United States. Farm machinery and useless farm. Wrecked farm equipment. A boundary of barbed wires on the farms. A wind mill, damaged electricity lines and a homesteader. Rugged terrain and useless farms. A dust storm during the dust bowl era renders a farm useless.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045149
Forced by dust bowl conditions, people leave homes and head west in the United States

People leave their homes in the Great Plains, United States, during the dust bowl and Great Depression. A tower and damaged houses on plain lands. A girl walks near a house. People leave their homes with their belongings. They head towards the west. Views of deserts. People live in tents. Motorcars arrive near a tent. Women unload carts. Two men seated outside the tent. Farm machinery and equipment on the ground. Useless farms and barren trees.

Date: 1936
Duration: 4 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045150
President Franklin Roosevelt denounces war, saying, 'I hate war' in a Chautauqua, New York speech.

U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses a gathering at Chautauqua, New York. President Roosevelt denounces war. He states, 'I have seen war,' and goes on to state, 'I hate war.' The people applaud.

Date: 1936, August 14
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046090
Policemen relocate hobos and homeless to Arizona from Los Angeles, California.

"Hobos" and homeless are relocated to other places from Los Angeles, California, enforcing anti-vagrancy laws during the Great Depression. Dilapidated shanty houses and shacks in an area filled with hobos (sometimes called a "jungle.") Policemen talking to a man next to a shack. Vagrant and unemployed men walking on a railroad being escorted away. Railroad train arriving near a station at night and police run beside it looking for hobos on the train. A sign board reads: 'Arizona State Line'. Hobos in police custody empty their pockets and are fingerprinted.

Date: 1936, February 10
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076827
A demonstration by unemployed people against the state to provide relief to them in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

A demonstration by unemployed people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Buildings in an area. Men seated on the steps of a building. Some of the men sleeping on the floor inside the building. Children seated at a table eating food. They demand immediate action by the state to provide relief funds to the unemployed suffering from the Great Depression.

Date: 1936, July 29
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076828