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Beer Ban Lifted As Start Of Prohibition Repeal
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keywords: alcohol prohibition, beer ban lifted, barmen in training, drinking beer
Synopsis: Months before the full repeal of prohibition of alcohol the ban on beer is lifted starting a flurry of beer brewing, training of a new generation of barmen and of course those lining up to taste an old friend...(read more)
- Date: 1933
- Duration: 00:01:06
- Sound: No
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Beer Ban Lifted As Start Of Prohibition Repeal
In April 1933, a few months before the full-on repeal of prohibition, Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act which deemed beer with 3.2 percent alcohol by volume “nonintoxicating” thru permitting its manufacture and distribution.
Shows training of Barmen at Local 278 Union Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois as the “ban on beer” is lifted. Barrels of beer are loaded on trucks and the brewery trucks roll on the stroke of midnight. Hordes of applicants for bar license as crowds pack the bars to drink “light” beer.
- Related Titles:
- Newsreels: 1933 - April 6
