| Dancing, Drinking, Crime & Rioting | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1040 |
| Catalog #: | 433662 | |
| Clip Number: | 433662-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 501-4, 501-7, 501-9 | |
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| Location: | USA | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FADS AND TRENDS: 1920s LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA RETROSPECTIVES: 1920s | |
| Description: | Dance marathon, grim-looking dancers clinging to each other. A barber tries to shave a man drooped over the shoulders of his partner. 01:10:47 CU newspaper headline "Peerless Plant Bombed!" 01:10:51 gangsters in getaway car (brief), holding up store owner, spraying something over clothing in store. More headlines read "Local Merchants Terrorized", "Cleaning Establishment Damaged by Acid" (using what journalists refer to as "End of the World type"). Montage continues with shot of gangsters shooting holes in milk pails, and lurid headline saying "City Milk Supply Threatened." 01:11:16 LS group of men fighting, cops on motorcycles ride in en masse and break it up with pistol shots 01:11:22 MS men in front of store, they throw rocks through windows as owner gestures helplessly 01:11:29 MS brawl, group of men fighting while woman looks on anxiously. The floor is a tangle of arms and legs as one after another falls and is jumped by another. 01:11:49 LS entrance to cleaners & dyers store, men come out and jump into getaway car and drive off, just in time, storefront building explodes. 01:12:04 LS striking auto workers fighting with police outside factory. Film is scratched, but these are authentic scenes from early UAW strike. Tear gas, fighting, and lots of baton work by Detroit police. 01:12:20 LS female dancers doing floor show. CU people at table drinking, looks like speakeasy. Champagne bottle getting chilled and poured into glasses. 01:13:12 MS crowd of men in brawl as before, repeat of newspaper headline sequence with film reversed. 01:13:46 CU man getting mugged in dark parking lot, he falls to the ground | |
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