Focus on the 30s
Focus on the 30s
Brief profiles of the deeds performed by Franklin Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Dillinger, Al Capone, Howard Hughes, King Edward VII, and Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1930s.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of FDR.
Focus on the 30s
MS President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT riding in open convertible, slew of Secret Service standing & walking; MSs FDR smiling, posing with son, standing on naval ship. MS/CUs three young white women standing by a radio, listening. MS President FDR speaking: "We in America know that our own democratic institutions can be preserved & made to work. But in order to preserve them we need to need to act together, to meet the problems of the nation boldly." MSs Secretary of Labor FRANCIS PERKINS speaking to cam on how to build up consumption & mass production power. CU FATHER CHARLES COUGHLIN speaking to the camera, criticizing the New Deal program & those who have "suffered" from it. MS/CUs DR. FRANCIS TOWNSEND (Townsend Pension Plan, forerunner to Social Security) talking about establishing a universal sales tax to pay for a retirement fund. MS Louisiana Governor HUEY LONG speaking about the possibility of forming a third political party to challenge the two-party system. MS FDR speaking to cam: "If the people during these last few years had chosen a reactionary administration or a do-nothing Congress, Social Security would still be in the conversational stage. A beautiful dream that might come true in the dim, distant future."
Focus on the 30s
MSs famed aviator CHARLES LINDBERGH & wife ANNE MORROW boarding a private seaplane; panning TLS seaplane flying over field, ascending. LS Lindbergh home. MS/TLSs Anne Morrow pushing Charles Lindbergh Jr. in baby carriage. CU Lima News headline: "Get Killers, Either Dead or Alive! Order to Police. (crime, kidnapping)
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TLS heavily armed detectives leading a shackled criminal along airport tarmac. MS/CUs man shoveling seized firearms into furnace fire. MS two sailors dumping seized guns into sea. MSs gangster AL CAPONE (Alfonse Capone) walking out of courthouse, surrounded by pressmen, getting into car. CU newspapers with word "G-Men" superimposed. MSs FBI agents at target practice (human-shaped targets in windows of mock-building), nighttime sky lit up by machine gun fire. MS lettering on glass door: "Identification Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation." MS FBI Director J. EDGAR HOOVER speaking to cam about the FBI. MSs FBI special agents at target practice, firing machine guns, handguns. CUs fingerprinting records, mug shots, criminal files (names on files include John Dillinger, Babyface Nelson). CU Wanted poster for John Dillinger on printing press. MS/CUs JOHN DILLINGER posing with Crown Point, Indiana, sheriff LILLIAN HOLLEY & arresting officers. MS Dillinger corpse in Chicago coroner's office, a tear of blood sliding from his eye (no joke!). CUs Wanted poster for Lester M. Gillis (aka Babyface Nelson). TLSs prison cell block during lockdown. MSs J. Edgar Hoover accepting an award from the Boys Club of America: "It's been a we job, not an I job." (crime, organized crime, mobster, gangster)
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Newsreel of a tickertape parade in honor of HOWARD HUGHES after his record 4 day worldwide flight. MS KING EDWARD VIII (royalty) inspecting British navy.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of Wallis Simpson.
Focus on the 30s
MSs people sitting by radios, listening. Audio of KING EDWARD VIII abdication address: ... And to discharge my duties as King, as I would wish to without the help & support of the woman I love.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of Edward and Wallis' wedding. Still of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Focus on the 30s
TLS/MSs First Lady ELEANOR ROOSEVELT christening a ship. TLS/MSs Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to a large group of women in that high, affected nasally voice of hers.