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Unhealthy living conditions and shabby slum and tenement housing areas near industrial factories in Great Depression.

Unhealthy living conditions and shabby conditions of people in blue collar slums in the U.S. Factories and industrial areas emit smoke, smog, and pollution from smokestacks in the early morning, as children ascend a set of wooden steps in foreground. Piles of trash outside a residential slum area of factory and coal workers. Landscape of crowded shacks and industrial factories clouded with smog. Children play on wooden walkways and railings near shacks. A boy slides down a railing standing up. Sad looking girl looks on. A little boy in overalls has his hands in his pockets and a sad, blank expression on his face. A train passes by on an overhead trestle a few feet away from simple shack homes. Women and children live in unhealthy conditions during Great Depression. Group of children scamper and run over railroad tracks. Shabby children in the dilapidated slum area. A woman watches them. Fast approaching locomotive train speeds toward camera and passes by. After train passes, a boy races back onto the track area to fetch something there. Many scenes of muddy dirt roads, slums, shacks, and factory mills. A man loads coal pieces into a hand bucket and limps back toward a shack, as his right leg has a prosthetic. African American man brushes chickens away from doorway of wooden shack and enters front door. Woman empties wash basin out front porch as dog looks on. Children ascend wooden steps in tenement complex. Children play with a puppy dog. Glum looking sad boy and girl children stare forward. Woman hands laundry from line as boy walks by and enters outhouse. Man smoking pipe draws water from a hand pump. Elderly woman hangs wash on line. Man returns home carrying lunch box. Young woman and old man and old woman each pump water. Man stands at table with wash basin and soap, and scrubs dirt off hands and face after work. Overweight woman cooks food at a coal stove, adds coal and stirs. Smoke from brick chimney. Black smoke from large steam shovel crane and smoke pollution from railroad trains in marshaling yards.

Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036989
Workers rush on sidewalks and cars for their respective offices located in huge buildings and the fast pace of city life

Workers rush for their respective offices located in huge buildings in the United States. Skyscrapers of Manhattan and in Chicago stand close to each other. Pedestrians exit subway and elevated mass transit, walk on sidewalks near busy roads. Cars and workers rush for office jobs in rush hour. View of hands typing on typewriter keyboard. Large number of women typists and secretaries working at desks in a large office. A huge office building.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036990
Pedestrians walk in congested area on sidewalks, children play unsafe and dangerous games near the city streets of New York

Pedestrians walk in congested area on New York City sidewalks. Ambulance and policemen arrive to help an injured person among the crowd. Children play on the sidewalks, hang dangerously behind trucks and buses. Boys build and play with soapbox derby style homemade play cars. Children search trashcans on roads. Teenager boys dive ans swim from a moored tug boat or barge into New York waters. A dock worker chases them off the boat and into the water. Person enters a parked Queens Taxi Cab car. View of a parked car backing up and striking the bumper of another parked car. A boy playing stickball swings the bat and hits a ball through a nearby window glass pane, shattering it. and car glasses broken by throwing stones.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036991
American civilians dine and eat at diners, lunch counters, and roadside stands. Kitchen workers and wait staff prepare food.

A horse and a woman eat near a road. Civilians eat and dine at various fast food restaurants, lunch counters, diners, and road side stands in the United States. A woman waitress prepares coffee for people at a public diner. People drink coffee at lunch counter or diner. Examples of early fast food automation, including kitchen worker pushing bread loaves through automatic bread slicing machine. Toast pops up from high capacity restaurant toaster. Cheese or meat drops from automated slicer onto counter. Hands seen preparing sandwich at high speed. Automated system dispenses batter onto hot griddle or pan to make pancakes. Man dispenses coffee from large silver coffee urn. Close view of diners eating sandwiches and drinking coffee. Automated pancake flipping spatula on machine turns pancakes. Rapid fire scenes of food preparation. Hand with cloth wipes counter clean from crumbs. Two women wipe their mouths at same time and rise from seats at lunch counter to leave.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036992
Immense rush of pedestrians and vehicles causes traffic jams on roads of New York City, in the United States.

Immense rush of pedestrians, cars and vehicles causes traffic congestions and jams on roads of Manhattan, New York City. Groups of men talk to each other in groups on the sidewalks. Two young women in dresses walk by as group of men look on and admire them. Man in suit drops newspaper in trash can; next man walking behind him takes the newspaper back out and walks on. Rush of 1930's cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicles on city streets. A man attempts to cross the street on foot but cannot find a break in the traffic. A man escorts a young child across busy street. Two women run across street toward a Chop Suey restaurant. Pedestrians pause in middle of road and prepare to finish crossing busy street. All vehicles stopped in a traffic jam on city streets. Close view of a taxi cab meter continuing to run during traffic jam. Another taxi meter view (made by Pittsburgh taximeter company). Impatient man in a taxi stands up and looks through open sun roof at jam of cars. Fare continues to escalate in taxi cab. Man exits cab in middle of jammed street and pays driver. Huge masses of pedestrians moving on sidelwalks and crossing streets, and exiting tall office skyscraper buildings. A giant crowd of men in hats beneath an elevated subway track and heading toward subway entrance. Police officer directs traffic on streets. Automated signal light with moving sign arms is seen. Various police officers directing cars and pedestrians. Many street sign messages shown close up. Man smokes cigar as traffic passes by. Another smokes a cigarette. Mass of traffic and pedestrians.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036993
Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, then scenes of traffic, jams, backups and U.S. roadways featuring 1930's cars

Trinity Church and empty streets of Manhattan, New York City. Instrumental audio begins, accompanying scenes of busy roadways and traffic jams in the United States. Many 1930s automobiles seen from Ford, Chevrolet, Packard, Chrysler, and others. Passenger cars as well as delivery and freight trucks. Scenes of cars driving steadily on the highways and roads in the United States. Number of cars drive steadily on a six lane road. Scenes of cars stuck in long lines of traffic. Exasperated drivers. Drivers get out of their cars in the jam to talk to each other. A mechanic replaces flattened tire of a car on the road side. Many outdoor advertising signs featuring local businesses and services. A boy helps a girl peer over a high stone wall where she sees a "no trespassing" sign. The kids join their parents in a picnic on the roadside. A police officer on a motorcycle shakes his head in disbelief at the traffic. Signs warn drivers about traffic safety. A wooden mannequin of a policeman with arms waving to slow down traffic. A man works on the engine of a car. A crashed car and a crane. View from a valley as a car soars over the edge of the road embankment above and crashes down a mountainside, with pieces flying everywhere.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036994