The sunset from a beach in Los Angeles, California. Reflection of sunlight in the water. Sun shines dimly above the waters of ocean. Two birds perch on the shore. Different views of the sunset from the beach. Waves in the sea.
A massive wildfire fire breaks out around Los Angeles, California including the Malibu Beach area. A large blaze of wildfire. Smoke rises from houses. CCC workers as firemen fight the fires. Firefighters try to control the blaze. A burning house. A boy runs away from wildfire. From a November 14, 1960 newsreel recounting events in the Great Depression 25 years earlier.
Landmarks and monuments in Los Angeles, California: desert land, snow covered mountains, land of green beauty, palm trees, orchards, vineyards, the pacific ocean beach, flowers at beach, parks, home near gardens, roses in garden, capitol and city hall. Various scenes of city and city life.
The sunset from a beach in Los Angeles, California. Reflection of sunlight in the water. Sun shines dimly above the waters of ocean. Two birds perch on the shore. Different views of the sunset from the beach.
Preparation for 1984 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The opening scene is a flashback of footage from the 1932 summer Olympics in Los Angeles. A group of men play long horn bugles. Olympic competitors walking on stadium track during opening or closing ceremony of the 1932 Olympics. Scene changes to modern day 1983 views of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (3911 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90037, USA). The entrance door reads 'Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum'. A truck picks up cylindrical containers from the grounds. The truck spreads red paint on the floor and the workers work by the side. Red stone gravels. A worker sprays water on the ground. A stone fence reads 'University of Southern California'. Men stand near an Olympic swimming pool. A crane digs mud. Men work at the construction site.
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.
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