- Title: CF387
- Date:1930s
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Summary:
10:52:11 - 10:55:41
Soldiers climb onto an aircraft carrier, propellor planes being started up. Good shot of lots of old airplanes taking off over the sea. US army shots during the war. Franklin D Roosevelt CU. FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta in 1945. American arms and artillery factory. GVs of the Great Depression, lines for unemplyment, farmers, man with a Job Wanted sign around his neck. Roosevelt election campaign poster. Roosevelt speaks at election campaign.
10:55:41 - 10:59:42
Victory parade in NYC for Roosevelt's election win. Good shots of Cotton fields, slave cotton pickers in huts. Wild bison being driven through the plains. American Indians in traditional headdresses. Open Wagon led by horses. GVs badlands in Dakota, New York, Santa Fe, low angle of Statue of Liberty. Shots of early 20th Century American cities. Aristocratic American houses. Picture of the Roosevelt families when Theodore and Franklin were small children. Picture of FDR as part of college football team.
10:59:42 - 11:04:01
FDR in society wearing coat and tails. Abattoir GVs, women sewing. Suffrage marches and women riding bicycles by way of protest. Ford assembly line, great HA shot of ford cars on road. FDR and Eleanor marriage photographs. Campo Belo country house, Lucy Mercer, Eleanor's secretary and love interest of Franklin. FDR campaigning for Ney York Senate. Woofdrow Wilson in the White House.
11:04:01 - 11:08:15
GVs combat scenes, FDR as commander of the Navy. Wilson announces America's involvement in the war. Parades on the streets of America as Soldiers go off to war. Naval vessels across the water, waves crashing over the bows. King George the 5th meets GIs. Good shots of women in ammunition factories and marching with rifles - good for women at war. Women marching again.
11:08:15 - 11:13:11
FDR at Campo Belo, contraction of Polio at summer house. Black band playing country music in Georgia, Warm Springs. Ocean Liner approaching New York. Trading on Wall Street. Flapper dancing, jazz band plays on the wings of a moving plane. Man eating glass, dare devils doing stunts on scaffolding above New York.
11:13:11 - 11:19:22
Wrestling with Lions,dog driving a car. Prohibition scenes. Burlesque dancers, women's suffrage, classical Hollywood stars. Ku Klux Klan march in Washington, 5 million Klansmen march on Capitol Hill. Rural agriculture in USA. Good Stars and Stripes in lights. POV of High Line railway. GVs of Wall Street, busy streets and election campaigns. FDR swears in as Governor of New York. Roosevelt swimming and relaxing with his family. Construction of The Empire State Building. Scenes of Black Thursday. Blimp flies across New York skyline. - TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1930s
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- SOURCE:Filemaker
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- Colour:B&W
- Keywords:USA, DEPRESSION, GREAT DEPRESSION, ROOSEVELT, FDR, ELECTION CAMPAIGN, ELECTIONEERING, POVERTY, POLITICS BLACK FRIDAY
- Master Title:CF387
- Segment:2
- Sound:Sound
