Summary

Unid. Soundie "What the Country Needs"? (Juvenile Jubilee)

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Title: Unid. Soundie "What the Country Needs"? (Juvenile Jubilee)
File Number: PA-3400 Beta SP; PA-0810 Digibeta
Color: B W
Type: Music
Year: 1940s
Description: Unid. Soundie "What the Country Needs"? (Juvenile Jubilee) Park scene at night. 00:11:14:14 - 00:13:48:06 B W Sound 1940s Outdoor city park set at night. Man holding books prepares to lecture crowd, but woman in straw hat begins to sing- "Fellow countrymen hear me out. I've got the whole thing figured out." What the country needs is more moonlight...romance.. feminine charms in masculine arms, etc." (flirtation, romance, love songs). Sailor sits w two women on bench, eating popcorn. Female nurse pushing elderly man in wheelchair smiles at uniformed policeman who waves his nightstick. Shoeshine man buffing woman's shoe, then plays harmonica solo to woman. Elderly man sits on bench w arm around nurse, who smiles at cop. Male newsboy singer performs short verse w scat. Female singer & mustachioed lecturer perform final verse together, crowd joins in.
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