Focus on the 30s
Focus on the 30s
Recreation, entertainment, and pastimes of the 1930s American public.
Focus on the 30s
MS/TLSs men sitting on flagpoles, trying to break world records. LSs stunt daredevils leaping from planes, opening parachutes. MSs stuntman Buddy Dryton (sp) and his wife performing highwire stunts over Los Angeles skyline. Coney Island amusement park montage: TLS/MSs people on merry go rounds, slides, funhouses, swings and other amusement rides. MSs New Jersey couple getting married on a Coney Island roller coaster.
Focus on the 30s
TLS/LSs man threatening to jump from building in New York City (suicide jumper), authorities trying to talk him down. End of Prohibition montage: TLS/MSs people drinking, bartenders shaking & pouring martinis; MCUs chef pulling wine form wine rack; MS men in Bavarian garb balancing steins of beer, then toasting & drinking. TLS/MSs Wellesley College girls rehearsing dance number for musical review. LS/MSs summer camp girls doing a Busby Berkeley-style rowing & swimming routine in a lake. MSs kids & their dads flying gas-powered model airplanes in field. TLS/MSs revelers celebrating the New Year in Times Square, 1936.
Focus on the 30s
MS/CUs astrologist BELLE BART making predictions for 1936.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of Christian marchers
Focus on the 30s
EST shot St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City; LS/MSs parishioners entering church; MSs priest administering Roman Catholic mass. MS Jewish bris ceremony. Great MSs mass Baptist baptism being held in a lake, African-Americans testifying, getting dunked. (religion)
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Still of Baptist baptism. Car at gas station.
Focus on the 30s
TLSs line snaking out DMV office; MS white man attaching Michigan license plate to grille of car. Newsreel of NYC elevator operator strike: LS picketers on street; MS/CUs feet walking up stairs; MSs strikers marching; CU African-American woman on phone, saying she's not coming to work b/c of the strike and her dog-tired feet. MSs world's most perfect back contest in Los Angeles, 1931, chiropractors analyzing the exposed backs of women. 1937 newsreel of a senior citizens bathing beauty contest... that's right, grannies in swimwear. MSs spring fashion show held aboard a commercial Clipper plane, models in swimsuits modeling in aisle. MSs French designer fashion show along a lake, models modeling swimwear, light weather clothes. CUs women modeling the Up-Sweep hairstyle (movie star hairdos). MSs fancy models at a nightclub.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of Xavier Cugat, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong & Benny Goodman.
Focus on the 30s
Excellent montage of Caucasian kids swing dancing in New York City, Chicago and Venice Beach; MSs swing band musicians performing; crazy low angle shots of California dancers swinging on beach.
Focus on the 30s
DO NOT USE Stills of dispossessed Depression era families.
Focus on the 30s
End Credits over a couple dancing on a rooftop.