| Twenty-five Years Ago | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1693 |
| Catalog #: | 361382 | |
| Clip Number: | 361382-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 035-001-05 | |
| Timecode: | 00:04:45 - 00:06:35 | |
| Location: | various | |
| Year Shot: | 1936 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DEMONSTRATIONS: Protest GREAT DEPRESSION: Misc INVENTIONS: Transportation LABOR UNIONS: Automobile Workers LABOR UNIONS: Strikes LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Michigan, Detroit PERSONALITIES: Earhart, Amelia SOCIAL SERVICES: Misc TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Experimental | |
| Description: | Twenty-five Years Ago The WPA (Works Progress Association) was in the process of liquidation and protest marchers wanted the governmental relief agency to stay in business. Demonstrators protest WPA cut backs with a rally and march. Sign: STOP! Mass Lay-off on W.P.A. Women marching with signs: Expand WPA. Marchers. One sign in crowd reads - NO PINK SLIPS. Marchers, Policemen, one seen on horse. Sit down strikes spread from France to auto plants. Detroit auto workers are holed up in a plant, displaying picket signs and a dummy hangs from factory window. Snowy factory street. An air-fliver was demonstrated $1500 and 16 miles to the gallon. Plane taking off. Amelia Earhart joins in the search for a missing airliner. Two pilots looking over map. One points to coordinates with pen. Amelia Earhart and partner getting into plane, take off. Mountain. A railroad bus that could travel on the highway or on rails was demonstrated. Road & rail bus. Bus drives down street and picks up passengers by railroad crossing. Hand pushing button. Rail wheels emerge and line up on track. POV from inside bus looking out windshield. Bus driving past a church. CU wheels on rail. Bus on railroad track. | |
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