Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
A biography of the life and times of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Part 1
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
President Franklin D Roosevelt speaking to Congress.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Great Depression. People at teller windows in banks. Mounted policeman keeping the rabble in line outside a bank as worried depositors scrambled to get their money out. CU sign: This Bank Closed Until Further Notice".
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
March 12, 1933 Franklin D Roosevelt delivering first Fireside Chat regarding the Bank Holiday. "The bank holiday, while resulting in many cases in great inconvenience, is affording us the opportunity to supply the currency necessary to meet the situation. No sound bank is a dollar worse off than it was when it closed its door I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than to keep it under the mattress.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Farm problems. Numerous men, wielding planks and other objects trying to stop a truck from passing their roadblock. Farmers at auctions (probably buying back the belongings of a bank-foreclosed farm). Men delivery crops to grocery store.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Unemployment. Man wearing fedora looking at job posting board. Several WPA / PWA / CCC projects (men digging ditches, uprooting roads, shoveling dirt, picking trenches). New Deal.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
The Beer Bill is passed, the end of Prohibition. Beer bottles being filled on an assembly line. A glass being filled with beer. Men singing "Happy Days are Here Again" and toasting merrily at Paris Inn. Young Caucasian woman drinking, smiling.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Low angle of an NRA flag flying from building. NRA news delivery truck on city street. NRA parade in New York City: marchers, marching bands, floats, American flags, crowds.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
President Franklin D Roosevelt in a convertiblesurrounded by crowds. FDR in a grandstand with officials.
Biography: Franklin D. Roosevelt (some scratches on film)
Franklin D Roosevelt driving a convertible by a crowd of children holding American flags in Warm Springs, Georgia. MSs of children afflicted by polio related infantile paralysis sitting in wicker chairs at a Thanksgiving dinner. FDR jokes with the children about spinach before carving the turkey, Eleanor Roosevelt at his side. Cute Caucasian girl eating turkey, smiling.