The ‘29 Boom and the ‘30 Depression

Duration: 400 ft.

Creator: McGraw-Hill Films

Complete Record: Shot of The Sun newspaper with stock market crash banner headline. Unemployed men leaving work. Man selling pears on the street Men in line at soup kitchen. Department of Welfare sign Assembly line work. Man crossing out prices on sign. “Employment Office closed” sign. Men getting pubic relief checks Still shot of chart of business activity. Still shot of chart of business cycle. Man getting money from a bank. Hands flipping through a book of drawings of houses. A house being constructed. Men constructing and painting a house. People in meat department of supermarket. Young woman at eye-doctor. Women buying pans. Stockpiles in factory. Calvin Coolidge addressing crowd. Man’s hands counting money. Still chart of Dow-Jones Stock Prices. Still chart of Industrial Production. Boxes being loaded onto barges. Silos. Furniture being loaded onto a truck from woman’s house. Chart of Distribution of Personal income, 1929 Signs at the Stock market . People on the floor of the Stock Market. People in lobby of bank. “Wall St.” sign. Newspaper headlines on day of crash. Piles of ticker tape Sign announcing property auction. Chamber of Commerce sign telling jobless men to keep going. “For Rent” sign. People in long lines for public assistance. Tent city in front of the Capitol building. Men marching with American flag in front of Capitol Building. New York Times banner headline announcing FD Roosevelt’s victory. Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking. “New Deal Program” Shots of outside of Aquarium. School building. Men receiving wages. Man buying jar of something at grocery store. Men looking at blueprints. “Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934” Looking out through glass door of bank. Hands filing index cards. Still shot of page about FDIC legislation. Social security card. Woman knitting Happy people’s faces with social security card overlay. Congress in session. Still shot of page about the employment act of 1946 Outdoor factory shots. Men working in factory.