| Twenty-five Years Ago Today | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1657 |
| Catalog #: | 356134 | |
| Clip Number: | 356134-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 032-024-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:47:49 - 00:50:11 | |
| Location: | Various | |
| Year Shot: | 1934 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/MAMMALS: Cats, Domestic EXHIBITIONS: Animal, Companion Animals ( pets ) GREAT DEPRESSION: Conditions INVENTIONS: Transportation LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York State PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Eleanor PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Seaplanes TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Unusual | |
| Description: | Various stories from 25 years ago. Deep in the heart of taxis...A cab drivers' strike is the answer to taxing taxi rides in New York. It was a turbulent episode - climaxed by a mass meeting outside City Hall. Men in the crowd hold up newspapers with headlines about the strike. Blooper - men are standing on and among cars parked in a lot, one man slips off as he waves to the camera. Signs in crowd include "We Want Recognition of the Union." F.D.R. addressed 4,000 representatives of industry. He called for more jobs. Higher wages. Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks at podium. Large seated audience. Globe-trotting Mrs. F.D.R. (Eleanor Roosevelt) finishes one of her famous junkets - Puerto Rico at that moment - to hurry back to Washington to observe her wedding anniversary. Propeller seaplane is pulled into dock. Smiling Mrs. Roosevelt deplanes. A new type airplane appears on the scene. The inventor had a most novel notion. He designed the plane with a circular wing....Shadows of the flying saucer. Unusual aircraft lands. Invention. Aviation. The bogey-men, Boris and Bela - heroes of horror to lovers of the macabre and gruesome. Karloff and Lugosi - of the weirdly-eerie portrayals presided over a cat show. Black cat show - naturally. Children carry their black cats. One black cat seems to be hissing or meowing angrily. Reckless and defiant in the face of adversity, members of Chicago's Union League Club papered the dining room walls of the club with worthless stocks and securities rendered valueless by the stock market crash. Expensive and lamentable wallpaper - and not exactly conducive to good digestion in this dining room. Men in work clothes put certificates neatly on the wall. Men in business suits examine the wall and laugh. Great Depression. | |
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