| FREE SUITS - WPA GIVES AWAY $15,000,000 WORTH (aka US GOVERNMENT AIDS CLOTHING INDUSTRY) Good shots of workers in a clothing factory as production is stepped up | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6381 | |
| Catalog #: | 53985 | |
| Clip Number: | 53985-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 38/62 | |
| Timecode: | 01:27:57 - 01:29:05 | |
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1938 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | GREAT DEPRESSION: Legislation GREAT DEPRESSION: Recovery INDUSTRY: Garment LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | "FREE SUITS - WPA GIVES AWAY $15,000,000 WORTH". United States of America. M/S of President Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers sitting at a desk. Commentator explains he has sold the US Government a $15 million dollar idea calculated to bring renewed employment to the clothing industry. Several shots of men and women working on machines and cutting out fabric by hand at a clothing factory. The idea is for WPA (Works Progress / Projects Administration) to purchase a million garments for clients on relief. More shots in the factory as tailors sew by hand, men press garments and move rails of suits about. C/U of Harry Hopkins as he explains the Government's stand. "Vast quantities of clothing have piled up on the shelves of the manufactures of America. The existence of these surplus stocks has paralyzed that industry. We are buying $15 million worth of inexpensive clothing to be used by the unemployed in America. The result of these purchases has been that tens of thousands have already gone back to private jobs and the needy relief people of America are assured of decent clothing this winter." | |
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