America: 10--The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken

America: 10--The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken reels 1 and 2 Deals with the promise of unlimited prosperity after World War I, the boom of the 1920's, the depression, and the New Deal.

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Summary

Presents Alistair Cooke who shows how the Depression came after the war to end all wars and after the promise of unlimited prosperity symbolized by a Model - T Ford and a mail order catalog. Exp.ains how the mills stayed closed until the United States returned to war.

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, genre, description, catalog record, video
  2. Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education) — title, creator, length, color, description