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The good times of the 1920's turn into the difficult times of the depression in 1930s America
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.
Republican Party notables gather at the Harding home in Marion Ohio at beginning of 1920 Presidential Campaign
Republican Vice Presidential nominee John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.and his wife, Grace Coolidge, arriving by automobile at the home of Presidential nominee, Warren G. Harding, in Marion, Ohio, United States. There is snow on the ground. They are greeted by Warren G. Harding, on the steps to his home. Visitors, wearing white identification tags, form a line on the porch to meet the candidates. The receiving line is headed by Warren Harding, followed by Grace Coolidge, Florence harding, and Calvin Coolidge. Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge converse on the porch, under American flag. Florence Harding and Grace Coolidge converse in front of the Harding house. Warren Harding shakes hands with William Jennings Bryan, who removes his hat. and then turns to enter the house.
Road building in the United States during the 1920s
Men, with horse drawn leveling tools, prepare ground for road construction. Workers with wheelbarrows put concrete into chute of road building machine. Road building machine constructs concrete road along side a railroad track. Road machine moves on chained wheels. Workers with the help of machines build road. Views of automobiles moving along new concrete roads, wide enough to allow cars to pass.
Turkish recruits muster for the Greco-Turkish War circa 1920
Turks muster to fight in the Greco-Turkish War, leaving homes and villages, bidding farewell to loved ones and assembling as infantry and cavalry.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt speaks about the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (ratified on August 18, 1920)
Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt speaks after ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote. She is seated in a chair in an office or library and reads from a prepared script. She traces the roots of the struggle, for the rights of women in America, back to an 1848 convention in Seneca Falls, New York. She notes that grievances related to woman suffrage were the same in number as grievances enumerated by male colonists in America against the British crown. She notes that that it took George Washington 6 years to resolve those grievances via war. But it took 72 years for women to resolve their suffrage grievances via the law.
Scenes of Berlin Germany during the Kapp Putsch of 1920
The Kapp Putsch in Berlin during the Weimar Republic period. In opening scene about 20 Freikorps soldiers in uniform, are seen gathered around a motor vehicle on which an anti aircraft gun is mounted. One wears a fez. One soldier cranks a handle to raise the elevation of the gun to a high angle. Civilian spectators watch the demonstration. A warship can be seen in water behind the soldiers. Masts of docked sailing vessels are seen close behind them. Freikorps soldiers walk about. A military band plays as some of the soldiers stop and listen to them and pedestrians and motorists pass by. Flag of Prussia flies over top of a building. Helmeted German soldiers with rifles, stand about, casually, at the gates of a building. Soldiers, loaded onto a Benz truck, pass out newspaper flyers to passersby. People milling about in the street. Freikorps soldiers lined up as an officer inspects their rifles. Their insignia is visible on their left coat sleeves. Crowd of spectators stand behind barbed wire barrier surrounding a cleared square in the city secured by Army soldiers in steel helmets. One of them has Freikorps insignia on his left sleeve. Weimar Republic officials, including Philipp Scheidemann stroll across the square and proceed through the crowd outside the barbed wire barrier. Soldiers examine papers of civilian officials trying to enter the restricted area. One of them is allowed access. Army troops and Freikorps soldiers mingle together as civilians pass by them.
