Industrialisation
1932 & 1932 Events - FDR campaigning & nomination, Natural Resources, NYC Skyscraper Construction, Coal Mining, Building Sites.
01:13:26 - 01:20:12 1931 - 1932 B/W SD
1932 & 1932 Events - FDR campaigning & nomination
Governor Roosevelt (FDR) inaugurates Washington Bridge.
Prohibition - Federal agents raiding liquor selling places. Smashing barrels.
Beer parade in New York City - re taxation for beer. Illuminated Statue of Liberty at night. Police arrest and manhandle beer protester. Crowds disperse.
Bonus Army evacuated - violence.
1932 Chicago Democratic Convention. Senator ?? speech
Old blind woman says she's George Nye the Quaker evangelist and talks against alcohol - crackpot.
Democratic Convention - William Gibbs Mcadoo speech. Announcing FDR as Democratic candidate.
FDR's plane lands after nomination. FDR speech after nomination "I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people..."
Roosevelt sailing with family after nomination. LN 505-021 02:01:02 - 02:11:26 1938 B/W SD
Conservation of Natural Resources Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Shots of vars natural resources w/ VO re wastage: waterfalls - oil refinery - petroleum spillage - wagons of coal at goods yard. Polluted river & streams. Farmer w/ horse-drawn plough; eroded landscape. Forest before & after logging. Map of US & animation showing depletion of forested land; logging scenes - "timber!" as huge tree crashes down; 60% of each tree wasted - forest floor littered w/ branches. Man shooting in forest drops cigarette & sparks forest fire - aerials of devastation & flames - wasted timber. Ranger watches for danger signs from lookout tower - men cut fire trails through forest - sign 'Bass River State Forest - Be Careful With Fire'. Log on conveyor through lumber mill - children w/ toys in crate made from previously wasted material - artificial silk made from wood. Forest replanting programme. Land cleared of trees - field being ploughed - topsoil washed away - field cut into large gulleys & made worthless. 02:06:03 River choked by water from gulleys - men repairing swollen riverbanks w/ sandbags - valley flooded w/ houses almost submerged - men building small dam across gulley - beaver caugtht in trap & taken to headwater streams to build dams. Man-made dam. Terraces cut into soil of farmland. 02:07:24 Great Plains of Western US - repeated ploughing of fine topsoil & wind erosion - good Dust Bowl shots - low visibility on road - bank of soil built up against shack - family loading possessions onto truck & leaving. Map of US w/ dust bowl area. Anti-erosion measures - surveying - trees & hedges planted - land returned to grazing use. 02:08:54 Pan across oilfield packed w/ scaffolds - oil gushing out of ground & on fire - wasted. Oil refinery - use made of oil by-products inc. petroleum extraction - man filling car at petrol pump - fuel oil tanker - man lubricating machine in factory - mineral oil - paraffin - workers laying asphalt. 02:10:10 Polluted stream - waste pipe - dead fish. Sewage processing plant. Farmer fertilising field. Man fishing in healthy river - waterfall - healthy forest & fields - river running through dam. People enjoying camp fire & meal outdoors in forest glade. 221031 04:41:11 - 04:42:40 1930 B/W Si
Woods Begins Relief Work; Government To Aid Unemployed
MCU Woods, takes hat off. Good shots of NYC skyscraper construction - men clambering down girders very high up etc. Shipyard scenes - men at work - heavy machinery - welding; hull of ship under construction. Workers off large unfinished / unpainted? ship and along docks. Immigrants ? 221031 04:42:41 - 04:43:29 1930 B/W Si
Franciscan Friars Dole Nickels To Homeless & Hungry For Bed Or Bread
Unemployed men queue on street outside church; men file past friar on steps who hands out a nickel to each of them - men touch hats as they pass. Seen from vars angles. 220461 07:00:02 - 07:00:38 1935 b/w Sd
Twenty five years ago - scenes from the depression
Destitute coal miners make homes in coke ovens, children standing outside.
Row of workers at high speed presses turning out bonds. 220461 07:00:38 - 07:02:50 1929? - 1933? b/w Si
Herbert Hoover in car with wife, crowds lined up. Crowd in rain with umbrellas wait for speech.
Steam train into station, crowded platform with journalists. Hoover out of train with ?? Stand for photograph.
Hoover shown factory or distillery.
Passengers out of train, over bridge. Picketing, demonstration, riot. Fight with police along railway lines. 220461 07:05:08 - 07:08:58 1930s? b/w Sd
WPA (Works Project Administration) action against famine caused by drought in Midwest.
Men clearing debris.
Western plains afflicted by drought. Clouds of dust obscure landscape. Woman and child in dust storm. Rural family brings home sacks of supplies provided by government agency. Children examined by WPA nurses in white uniforms.
Convoy of horse-drawn ploughs and other instruments, refugee farmers. Building dam to conserve future rainfall, destitute farmers employed on project.
PARTIAL 220461 07:15:58 - 07:16:50 1933 b/w Sd
25 years ago today - new deal's WPA
Destitute workers on building site (?). Cu very damaged shoes. Children out of school.
Drugstore exterior with signs for beer at 60 cents per hour. Man in bar drinks three glasses of beer in a row, other drink from one glass with straw, women and men at table drink as fast as possible, group with girl in trousers sitting on top of piano cheering with beer.
End of prohibition.
PARTIAL 220461 07:23:50 - 07:24:16 1934 b/w Si
Large queue outside building in city. Man distributes coins or vouchers.
depression?
PARTIAL 220461 07:24:17 - 07:24:52 1934 b/w Si
Shop Gives Garments to Needy
Long queue in city street, mostly women. Woman let through police cordon. Man and woman fist-fight in front of shop window. People let into shop. Extremely crowded shop, customers raid the store. Women out of store with boxes, smiling.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:25:25 - 07:25:59 1936 b/w Si
Closed Bank still trying to pay off
Exterior Standard National Bank with huge sign painted on wall. Locked door, sign reads "for rent Edwin J. Nelson".
Customer takes out money at desk. Cashiers handling slips and files.
PARTIAL 220461 07:27:01 - 07:27:37 1936 b/w Si
Unemployed Army storms Capitol for relief funds
LS Capitol. LS Poor men sitting on steps. Men sleeping rough on ground around entrance, on benches. Waiting idly in front of building. Man sitting smoking in front of blankets. Child and mother sleeping in grass.
Soup kitchen with men and children eating.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:28:27 - 07:29:22 1933 b/w Si
Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F Reaches the Capital ; Will live in tent city
Long line of men in overcoats and hats walking empty street. Man on road getting injured feet checked ? by two others. Big group of men queue outside tent, Capitol in distance. Unfurling USA flag. Registering with papers?
Men up electricity or telegraph poles.
Tent city, empty. Building camp, helicopter flies over.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:34:31 - 07:35:21 1930s b/w Si
(Bank Reopened?)
Crowd outside Fon du Lac bank in small town. Sign 'Fon du Lac bank". People enter building. Nice old lady shakes hand with man in white suit. Queuing up inside bank. CU bank cashier counting dollar bills, hands them out to customer. Little boy gets coins from cashier. 220461 07:35:25 - 07:37:06 1933 b/w Si
Wild Rioting Marks Waterfront Strike as Troops Mobilize
LS docks. Army on deserted street in front of station fire guns, worker arrested by police. Wounded striker lying on pavement, on stretchers into ambulance.
Army convoy rolls into street. troops loading machine guns behind barricade. Two army guards with guns patrol dock.
Crowd of workers walking in street. Rioting in workers' residential area . Women in back yard throw stones, men with hose. Police arrest Black woman who resists, other tries to pull her away. Strikers into ambulance under police surveillance.
FULL SYNOPSIS
1932 & 1932 Events - FDR campaigning & nomination
Governor Roosevelt (FDR) inaugurates Washington Bridge.
Prohibition - Federal agents raiding liquor selling places. Smashing barrels.
Beer parade in New York City - re taxation for beer. Illuminated Statue of Liberty at night. Police arrest and manhandle beer protester. Crowds disperse.
Bonus Army evacuated - violence.
1932 Chicago Democratic Convention. Senator ?? speech
Old blind woman says she's George Nye the Quaker evangelist and talks against alcohol - crackpot.
Democratic Convention - William Gibbs Mcadoo speech. Announcing FDR as Democratic candidate.
FDR's plane lands after nomination. FDR speech after nomination "I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people..."
Roosevelt sailing with family after nomination. LN 505-021 02:01:02 - 02:11:26 1938 B/W SD
Conservation of Natural Resources Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Shots of vars natural resources w/ VO re wastage: waterfalls - oil refinery - petroleum spillage - wagons of coal at goods yard. Polluted river & streams. Farmer w/ horse-drawn plough; eroded landscape. Forest before & after logging. Map of US & animation showing depletion of forested land; logging scenes - "timber!" as huge tree crashes down; 60% of each tree wasted - forest floor littered w/ branches. Man shooting in forest drops cigarette & sparks forest fire - aerials of devastation & flames - wasted timber. Ranger watches for danger signs from lookout tower - men cut fire trails through forest - sign 'Bass River State Forest - Be Careful With Fire'. Log on conveyor through lumber mill - children w/ toys in crate made from previously wasted material - artificial silk made from wood. Forest replanting programme. Land cleared of trees - field being ploughed - topsoil washed away - field cut into large gulleys & made worthless. 02:06:03 River choked by water from gulleys - men repairing swollen riverbanks w/ sandbags - valley flooded w/ houses almost submerged - men building small dam across gulley - beaver caugtht in trap & taken to headwater streams to build dams. Man-made dam. Terraces cut into soil of farmland. 02:07:24 Great Plains of Western US - repeated ploughing of fine topsoil & wind erosion - good Dust Bowl shots - low visibility on road - bank of soil built up against shack - family loading possessions onto truck & leaving. Map of US w/ dust bowl area. Anti-erosion measures - surveying - trees & hedges planted - land returned to grazing use. 02:08:54 Pan across oilfield packed w/ scaffolds - oil gushing out of ground & on fire - wasted. Oil refinery - use made of oil by-products inc. petroleum extraction - man filling car at petrol pump - fuel oil tanker - man lubricating machine in factory - mineral oil - paraffin - workers laying asphalt. 02:10:10 Polluted stream - waste pipe - dead fish. Sewage processing plant. Farmer fertilising field. Man fishing in healthy river - waterfall - healthy forest & fields - river running through dam. People enjoying camp fire & meal outdoors in forest glade. 221031 04:41:11 - 04:42:40 1930 B/W Si
Woods Begins Relief Work; Government To Aid Unemployed
MCU Woods, takes hat off. Good shots of NYC skyscraper construction - men clambering down girders very high up etc. Shipyard scenes - men at work - heavy machinery - welding; hull of ship under construction. Workers off large unfinished / unpainted? ship and along docks. Immigrants ? 221031 04:42:41 - 04:43:29 1930 B/W Si
Franciscan Friars Dole Nickels To Homeless & Hungry For Bed Or Bread
Unemployed men queue on street outside church; men file past friar on steps who hands out a nickel to each of them - men touch hats as they pass. Seen from vars angles. 220461 07:00:02 - 07:00:38 1935 b/w Sd
Twenty five years ago - scenes from the depression
Destitute coal miners make homes in coke ovens, children standing outside.
Row of workers at high speed presses turning out bonds. 220461 07:00:38 - 07:02:50 1929? - 1933? b/w Si
Herbert Hoover in car with wife, crowds lined up. Crowd in rain with umbrellas wait for speech.
Steam train into station, crowded platform with journalists. Hoover out of train with ?? Stand for photograph.
Hoover shown factory or distillery.
Passengers out of train, over bridge. Picketing, demonstration, riot. Fight with police along railway lines. 220461 07:05:08 - 07:08:58 1930s? b/w Sd
WPA (Works Project Administration) action against famine caused by drought in Midwest.
Men clearing debris.
Western plains afflicted by drought. Clouds of dust obscure landscape. Woman and child in dust storm. Rural family brings home sacks of supplies provided by government agency. Children examined by WPA nurses in white uniforms.
Convoy of horse-drawn ploughs and other instruments, refugee farmers. Building dam to conserve future rainfall, destitute farmers employed on project.
PARTIAL 220461 07:15:58 - 07:16:50 1933 b/w Sd
25 years ago today - new deal's WPA
Destitute workers on building site (?). Cu very damaged shoes. Children out of school.
Drugstore exterior with signs for beer at 60 cents per hour. Man in bar drinks three glasses of beer in a row, other drink from one glass with straw, women and men at table drink as fast as possible, group with girl in trousers sitting on top of piano cheering with beer.
End of prohibition.
PARTIAL 220461 07:23:50 - 07:24:16 1934 b/w Si
Large queue outside building in city. Man distributes coins or vouchers.
depression?
PARTIAL 220461 07:24:17 - 07:24:52 1934 b/w Si
Shop Gives Garments to Needy
Long queue in city street, mostly women. Woman let through police cordon. Man and woman fist-fight in front of shop window. People let into shop. Extremely crowded shop, customers raid the store. Women out of store with boxes, smiling.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:25:25 - 07:25:59 1936 b/w Si
Closed Bank still trying to pay off
Exterior Standard National Bank with huge sign painted on wall. Locked door, sign reads "for rent Edwin J. Nelson".
Customer takes out money at desk. Cashiers handling slips and files.
PARTIAL 220461 07:27:01 - 07:27:37 1936 b/w Si
Unemployed Army storms Capitol for relief funds
LS Capitol. LS Poor men sitting on steps. Men sleeping rough on ground around entrance, on benches. Waiting idly in front of building. Man sitting smoking in front of blankets. Child and mother sleeping in grass.
Soup kitchen with men and children eating.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:28:27 - 07:29:22 1933 b/w Si
Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F Reaches the Capital ; Will live in tent city
Long line of men in overcoats and hats walking empty street. Man on road getting injured feet checked ? by two others. Big group of men queue outside tent, Capitol in distance. Unfurling USA flag. Registering with papers?
Men up electricity or telegraph poles.
Tent city, empty. Building camp, helicopter flies over.
PARTIAL? 220461 07:34:31 - 07:35:21 1930s b/w Si
(Bank Reopened?)
Crowd outside Fon du Lac bank in small town. Sign 'Fon du Lac bank". People enter building. Nice old lady shakes hand with man in white suit. Queuing up inside bank. CU bank cashier counting dollar bills, hands them out to customer. Little boy gets coins from cashier. 220461 07:35:25 - 07:37:06 1933 b/w Si
Wild Rioting Marks Waterfront Strike as Troops Mobilize
LS docks. Army on deserted street in front of station fire guns, worker arrested by police. Wounded striker lying on pavement, on stretchers into ambulance.
Army convoy rolls into street. troops loading machine guns behind barricade. Two army guards with guns patrol dock.
Crowd of workers walking in street. Rioting in workers' residential area . Women in back yard throw stones, men with hose. Police arrest Black woman who resists, other tries to pull her away. Strikers into ambulance under police surveillance.