Two unemployed men sleep on a park bench in Manhattan during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

"Hobos" and homeless are relocated to other places from Los Angeles, California, enforcing anti-vagrancy laws during the Great Depression. Dilapidated shanty houses and shacks in an area filled with hobos (sometimes called a "jungle.") Policemen talking to a man next to a shack. Vagrant and unemployed men walking on a railroad being escorted away. Railroad train arriving near a station at night and police run beside it looking for hobos on the train. A sign board reads: 'Arizona State Line'. Hobos in police custody empty their pockets and are fingerprinted. Location: Los Angeles California USA. Date: February 10, 1936.

Animated Dog with hobo sack walking while whistling. Royalty Free

Hoboes Shun Bowery Dives to sip Brew At Philantropist's Bar

Hobo College in Chicago

00:00:00:00 Folks greet hobos arriving for convention :20/ meaningless video (0:00)/

Interview

insert footage from scene - hobo around campfire night - Great Depression era - insert African-American hobo's hand rubs leg of pinstripe pants

ORIG. NEG. 250 FT. SOF MAG MS JACK MALONE, BRITAIN'S SUPER HOBO, THUMBING A RIDE. MCU INTERVIEW WITH MALONE. HE SAYS THINGS ARE TOO TOUGH FOR A HOBO IN BRITAIN AND HE'S WRITING A BOOK ABOUT HOBO LIFE. CI: GEOGRAPHIC - ENGLAND, LONDON. PERSONALITIES - MALONE, JACK. SPEECHES - HOBOS.

CSs of interview with John Kavanagh, unemployed.

HOBOS

Passive Resistance Greets Police Raid on Hobo Settlement

The trains to Kansas City are likely to have a few extra passengers this week. That's because there's a Hobo Rail Reunion taking place. For the next ten days, hobos from around the country will be making their way to Kansas City. David Bodden reports.

Two men rummage through a trashcan during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

A hobo cat in Hoboken rail yard

Several Chinese families are made homeless. The squatter huts built in unauthorized centers are torn down. The helpless families stand by as the public work crew under the supervision of law enforcement officers move their belongings into the open. Location: Shanghai China. Date: November 21, 1932.

CS. VS OF HOBOS AT THE 1983 ANNUAL HOBO NATIONAL CONVENTION. CR:53. CU OF CHARLES "MOUNTAIN DEW" TROXEL WHO WAS ELECTED KING OF THE HOBOS. CR:56. VS OF FRIENDS AT TROXEL'S FUNERAL ONE YEAR LATER. CR:58. INTVS/W THEM. VS OF THE CASKET BEING PLACED IN A HEARSE. SU: LOCAL CORRESPONDENT. END CS. NO PICTURE OR SOUND FOR REMAINDER OF TAPE. CI: MANKIND: HOBOS. FUNERALS: TROXEL, CHARLES.

HOBOS (CONT.)

Hobo Heaven

small town - 2 African-American boys play baseball in park - 2 boys hop off - railroad - freight train - hobos

Various CSs of unemployed steelworkers using phone at Canada Employment Centre to find a job.