Policemen relocate hobos and homeless to Arizona from Los Angeles, California.
"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.
Riding the Tornado
CSs of interview with John Kavanagh, unemployed.
HOBOS' CONVENTION
00:00:00:00 Folks greet hobos arriving for convention :20/ meaningless video (0:00)/
1930s Great Depression
insert footage from scene - hobo around campfire night - Great Depression era - insert African-American hobo's hand rubs leg of pinstripe pants
UNEMPLOYMENT IN MANHATTAN (DEPRESSION) 1930S
Two unemployed men sleep on a park bench in Manhattan during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
HOBO FEATURE
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.
TRAMP SIGNS (issue title - WHAT'S IN A NAME ?)
Note: Location of events unknown. <br/> <br/>L/S's of a tramp walking through a village. He has a scruffy beard and wears a shabby coat and hat. The tramp draws a triangular sign on a gate post. The commentator says this sign tells other people that 'know the code' that the path ahead has 'too many callers'. The man draws other signs on a post an example of another is a cross in a circle which mean 'religious but good on the whole'.
News Clip: Last day (of school)
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
DN-115 1 inch
Hoboes Shun Bowery Dives to sip Brew At Philantropist's Bar
Dog with hobo sack walking while whistling
Animated Dog with hobo sack walking while whistling. Royalty Free
News Clip: Home Street Home
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
HOBOS BARRED (LNER)
Item title reads - Hobos barred! Los Angeles police search train on California border. <br/> <br/>America, (USA). <br/> <br/>L/S of scenery from train. M/S of people gathered with their vans and possessions. M/S of two beagles (?) in a basket. Various shots of a train coming around a bend. M/S as the men trying to gain illegal entry are rounded up and have to leave the storage section of the train. <br/> <br/>They are searched and the police look through their possessions and documents. They tell them they will have to return to their homes in El Paso. One of them says "and they call this a free country eh?", the policeman says "well its a lot better than a lot of them even at that". M/S of police chief making a speech saying the solution to the problem should begin at the source and they have been successful. <br/> <br/>Note: this item contains no commentary, just natural sound.
HOBO CONVENTION
00:00:00:00 SOT&apos;s Hoboes talk ab life on the road. (0:00)/
KING HOBO FUNERAL
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.
Overseas News: [January 9, 2024 issue]
1930S DEPRESSION ERA SCENE - 1
Two men rummage through a trashcan during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
IRIS DEMENT performs HOBO BILL on Austin City Limits in 1995
IRIS DEMENT performs HOBO BILL on Austin City Limits in 1995
1972 Small Town
small town - 2 African-American boys play baseball in park - 2 boys hop off - railroad - freight train - hobos