| SALVATION ARMY CARES FOR POOR AND HUNGRY OF PARIS Members of the Salvation Army help out those in need in depression hit Paris. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7551 |
| Catalog #: | 507126 | |
| Clip Number: | 507126-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 64 L | |
| Timecode: | 01:48:55 - 01:50:56 | |
| Location: | Paris, France | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ECONOMICS: Poverty ECONOMICS: Unemployment GREAT DEPRESSION: Conditions LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France, Paris OCCUPATIONS: Unemployed ORGANIZATIONS: Salvation Army SOCIAL SERVICES: Shelters SOCIAL SERVICES: Soup Kitchens / Food Pantry | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 492813 Tape 7551 B Scenes of poverty and charity in 1930s France in this footage showing work of the Salvation Army there. Commentary in French. Paris, France The word "misere" (misery) written in cursive on wall. MS downtrodden man trudging toward foot of bridge. MS the homeless man sleeping under bridge. MS homeless woman with 2 children huddled in corner. MLS Salvation Army members come walking out of their storefront HQ, carrying newspapers; 2 old women in severe bonnets are walking toward cam. Hign angle MLS crowds of poor people coming into Salvation Army hall. People sit down at long tables. MCUs men eating soup. Interior: door with sign Asile (Shelter); Salvation Army ladies and some homeless men entering. Interior shelter with men in bunks; a Salv. Army man walks along checking things out; he stops and reprimands a man for smoking. Pan over row of men sleeping on cots very close together. "Les Halles at 2 A.M." People stand around eating soup being served from a mobile soup kitchen. MCU the Salvation Army ladies dip up steaming bowls of soup. CU man eating soup. CU a young man eating soup. CU another man eating. "For the children of the area" LS Salv. Army man and woman walk down brick road with some dilapidated houses. MLS Salvation Army lady visits a family at their shanty. LS a little boy walks down road past another shanty. MLS young woman and 2 children stand in street in front of old dilapidated houses. CU little girl c. age 3 looks sadly at camera. MLS in the shantytown; at left a man is pulling a toddler up steps into their tiny home; at rt. 2 mrn stand talking by old caravan. MS small girl and baby looking out little window of a boxcar or caravan home. MLS cute toddler in front of a row of totally chaotic looking structures. High angle MLS at Salvation Army Christmas party in what looks like a barn; a Christmas tree is at rt. poor kids are gathered round watching S.A. ladies down front; one seems to be reading out names? Another throws a package out into the crowd; MLS children shouting and talking happily after the party; they all seem to be clutching little bags of goodies. | |


