Summary

Challenge of Change

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Challenge of Change
File Number: DN-1 1 inch
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1933; footage from 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s
Subjects: Flappers; Wing-walking; Depression - Bread lines; Industry - Halted; Games - Rope skipping; Inauguration - 1933; Workers - Office; Migrants; Pickets - Placards; Montage - 1920's - Jazz; Stock Market; Unemployment; History - Labor
Description: 00:25:55:20 - 00:36:03:14 B W 1933 footage from 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s Challenge of Change Turn of Century workers labor Lower East Side Samuel Gompers WWI montage (including spinning newspaper headlines) 1920s textile mill women leaving work 1920s organized labor parade & demonstration WWI armistice celebration & homecoming 1920s montage: wing walking, flappers dancing the Charleston, flagpole sitting, jazz band, machine guns, marathon dancers, Lindbergh takes off in Spirit of St. Louis. 1929 stock market crash labor riots auto assembly line (looks 1920s) baseball stock market blackboard plane stunt bread lines & soup lines (scattered) run on banks Social Security signed unemployment pickets. Taft, President Gompers, Samuel Ruth, Babe Roosevelt, President
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