Reel

Depression Days

Clip#:
Audio:
Location:
499761_1_1
No
United States
Year Shot:
Video:
Timecode:
1930  (Estimated Year)
B/W
01:29:36 - 01:30:33
Tape Master:
Original Film:
HD:
1480
HFR-SFL-35-006
N/A
Master 1480 - Tape 1 MS white men and women hoisting & swinging filled beer steins while singing, celebrating repeal of Prohibition via FDR's Beer Bill. MS four unemployed white men squatting on street, eating hot meal & drinking coffee during Great Depression. TLS/LSs dilapidated wood houses & abandoned mills in rural farming communities and company towns during the Great Depression era, including one shot with a scrawny dog wandering along dirt road, passing by wood shack. TLSs white people standing in line to receive ration of coal; MS men wheeling carts or carrying sacks of coal. MS elderly Jewish man with long white beard pushing cart of coal across street, passing through crowd of pedestrians.