Time Capsule: The Depression to World War II

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Year Published: 1970

Creator: Xerox Films.

Complete Record: See also: 4399 NEARLY ALL STILLS! Montage, set to music. Uses photographs, newsreel clips, advertisements, and other materials to document America's history for the period from the depression to World War II. Includes views of Lindbergh's first flight, flagpole sitters, Calvin and Grace Coolidge, Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, and of other people and events. The Social, political and economic conditions of the Depression years and events leading to World War II are reflected in this unique presentation. Works of art, photographs and snapshots from the period, clips from newsreels and motion pictures, newspaper headlines, advertisements, political cartoons, posters and other original source materials were filmed iconographically and edited, with appropriate music and sound effects creating a kaleidoscope of these important years in America’s history. Social phenomena and events depicted range from the first Miss America Contest, the Charleston, talking motion pictures, New York City, the Big Apple, flagpole flag pole sitters, goldfish-swallowing, King Kong, the growing influence of advertising, and the growing importance of machines in the lives of people to Prohibition, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, Charles Lindbergh’s first Atlantic flight, the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the “America First” movement, the panda craze, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Bonus March, breadlines bread lines, Hoovervilles and the National Recovery Act. Political and military figures shown include Calvin and Grace Coolidge, Jimmy Walker, Ghandi, Einstein, Herbert Hoover, Adolf Hitler, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Emperor Hirohito, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Mussolini, Fiorello La Guardia, Franco, Alf Landon, Huey P. Long, neville Chamberlain, Deoard Daladier, Stalin, Sumner Wells, Harry Hopkins, James A. Farley, Douglas MacArthur, John Nance Garner and the British Royal Family. Famous and infamous persons shown are Peaches Browning and Daddy, Al Capone, Amelia Earhart, Bruno Hauptmann, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Pope Pius XI. Prominent entertainment and sports figures such as Babe Ruth, Helen Wills, Kate Smith, Lou Gehrig, Shirley Temple, Jesse Owens, Bob Hope, Rudy Vallee, Joe E. Brown, Artie Shaw, Fred Astaire and Joe DiMaggio appear. Important world events noted in the film include Japan’s invasion of Manchuria, rise of Hitler, the Hindenburg disaster, death of George V, Spanish Civil War, the Munich Agreement and the invasion of Poland.