| US MOUNTAINEERS MOVED ON (may also be known as MOUNTAIN DWELLERS MOVED TO LOWLANDS) Poor families from mountains rehoused in department of agriculture homestead | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6353 |
| Catalog #: | 489128 | |
| Clip Number: | 489128-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 37/101 | |
| Timecode: | 01:22:19 - 01:24:01 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1937 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ECONOMICS: Poverty GREAT DEPRESSION: Conditions GREAT DEPRESSION: Recovery HABITATS, HUMAN: Affordable Housing HABITATS, HUMAN: Rural Village LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA | |
| Description: | US mountaineers moved on. United States of America (USA). Various shots of wooden shacks in mountain wilderness (probably Appalachia). C/U of old man holding a rifle (looks like a hillbilly type). M/S of trucks driving up to wooden house. Various shots people loading furniture and belongings onto trucks. M/S of family walking across front porch of ramshackle wooden house. Family look quite poor, father wears dungarees and carries a rifle. M/S of men and dog climbing onto back of truck. C/U of sign that reads 'US Departments of Agriculture Madison Unit Shenandoah Homesteads Construction Division'. M/S of new bungalow on field. C/U of man with son sitting on his knee. Man talks to camera, seems happy. M/S of family moving into bungalow. L/S of lots of new bungalows built on prairie land. | |
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