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The Unfinished Revolution
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keywords: american society, great depression, pres franklin d. roosevelt, democratic national convention, pres john f. kennedy
Synopsis: Documenting American society and the economy from the late 1920's, into the great depression, the election of Franklin D Roosevelt in 1932...(read more)
- Date: 1920s-1940s
- Duration: 00:26:43
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
The Unfinished Revolution
Images of the Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, and White House in Washington DC in the 1920's -1930's. Shows a flock of sheep and cowboys driving a herd of cattle. Eroded land, farmhand shack, farm hands picking cotton. Skyline of New York City, pushcart street vendors, traffic on New York City street, and traffic tower. Assembly line automobile factory workers assemble Ford cars in plant, new cars and autos drive out of plant.
Images depicting depression: lights turned off in factory, scenes of the floor of the New York stock exchange as the stock market crashes, drive wheels of train steam engine slowly comes to a stop, scene of factory smokestacks with no smoke spewing out, idle machines in manufacturing plant, blind accordion player with tin cup symbolizing “can you spare a dime brother”, line of unemployed workers seeking a job, lounging on a park bench, workers sleeping in doorway, out of work man searches trash can, food line, poverty. Shows housing for workers and their families, woman with child in her arms in soup line with men. Shows shacks as housing for the unemployed.
People march with sign (banner) that reads “abolish Bread Lines. Vote For Roosevelt”. The Democratic Convention meeting in Chicago nominated FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the first ballot. On March 4, 1933 Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. In his inaugural address FDR stated “So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror that paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance”.
Men shuffling along in a bread line, sign that reads “Unemployed, Will Take Any Job”. Families drifting from homeless camp to homeless camp seeking work. FDR inaugural parade. To recover from the Great Depression Congress passed emergency banking laws to restore confidence in the banking system and stop the run on banks. Shows boys working with the CCC (Civil Conservation Corp), Men and women were put to work on needed public projects.
Drive wheels of train steam engine start to move depicting improvement or movement of the economy, shows workers in factories, blowing of work shift steam whistle at factory, steel mill producing steel, cotton bales being loaded on river boat. Shows effects of depression on farmers before farm programs enacted. Shows farm life in the Tennessee Valley before the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority or TVA, floods, and erosion of the land. Shows building of hydro-electric dams and power transmission lines. Teaching soil conservation to the farmers as electricity brought electric lights and modern conveniences.
Scenes of Congress, polling booths, politicians debating, depicting democracy at work. Government backed loans for housing, aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, shows women aiding the war effort in the production of goods for war, the Marshall plan after WWII, labor reforms, smokestacks belching smoke, the age of new technology, John F. Kennedy as President, and the unfinished and continuing task of creating a better society and life for all.
Scenes that recall the depression 30-years earlier with scenes of unemployed on park benches, in bread line, shacks for housing. Ends with better days and President John F Kennedy signing into law the Manpower Development and Training Act in 1962.
