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Depressions 1929 United States Jazz History and criticism Moyers, Bill D United States History 1901-1953 United States History 1919-1933 United States History 1945-1953 United States Politics and government 1901-1953 United States Politics and government 1919-1933 United States Politics and government 1933-1945 World politics 1919-1932Summary: Emerging from the First World War as a leading economic and geopolitical power, America entered a phase of unprecedented prosperity and cultural change-an era often described as the Jazz Age. In this program, teacher and historian Ben Walsh uses archival and newsreel footage to outline and comment on the period, from the Treaty of Versailles to the Wall Street crash of 1929. The video...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This Bill Moyers program features news correspondent Richard Strout, who covered Washington and the White House from 1925 to his retirement in 1984. Strout's reports, filed for the Christian Science Monitor and The New Republic, are studied here not only as chronicles of American history but as milestones circumscribing our nation's capital-and its evolution from a "small town" to the nerve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In this program, Bill Moyers returns to his hometown of Marshall, Texas-discovering, in his words, "a new town perched on the memory of one that's gone." Today it is hoped and expected that all of Marshall's citizens, regardless of racial background, share the responsibilities of living and working in a small town. But there was a time in recent history when the opposite was assumed and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The year 1954 can now be seen as a clarifying point of convergence in American history. Among other things, it was the year that brought the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw racial segregation in the schools of the United States. In this program, Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee tell the story of how the New Deal, World War II, and postwar social changes set the stage for a long-awaited...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In 1911, the first newsreels flickered in America's nickelodeons. In the mid-1960s, they vanished from movie theaters as nightly television newscasts came to dominate visual journalism. In between, newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. In this program, Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The 20th century began with enormous hopes for a future made safe and humane by technology. Although it realized some of these hopes, the century neared its end under the shadow of superweapons that still threaten the earth with annihilation. In this program, Bill Moyers traces the evolution of three instruments that enabled combatants to mass-produce death-the machine gun, the submarine, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The outbreak of World War II saw two motion picture experts from Germany and the United States battle each other with as much ferocity as any army or navy. Their respective missions: to ignite a public desire to wage and win a global conflict. This Bill Moyers program contains an interview with Fritz Hippler, chief filmmaker for the Nazi Party. Hippler unrepentantly claims to have spoken to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a Nazi SA parade. Berlin, Germany: An unprecedented display of power and organization by the brown-shirted forces of the German Chancellor marks the final pre-election activities of the Social Democrats, with long columns of uniformed men in spirited procession down Unter den Linden from Brandenburg Gate to the Lustgarten, with Swastika banners fluttering over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the killings of Alexander I of Yugoslavia and France's Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Universal Newsreel brings you the first actual motion pictures of the murder of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Barthou, shot down in the streets of Marseilles; furious spectators batter the killer to death!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Washington, D.C.: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attacks the methods of lenient parole boards in releasing known criminals. Reel 2, Quantico, Va.: Machineguns rattle as Federal agents "raid" a prop gangster hideout.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns explores how the post-World War I economic boom, the rise of consumer culture, and the birth of new mass media industries fueled the convergence of an incredible array of human and cultural energies, ending with the stock market crash of 1929 and the construction of the Empire State Building. In just over a decade, New...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat No. 2. Washington, D.C.: In a dramatic newsreel interview at the White House, the Chief Executive reviews the accomplishments of his two-months-old administration, promising further legislation designed to better economic conditions throughout the United States and to improve the financial standing of the industrial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the town crier of Provincetown. Provincetown, Mass.: The brassy voice of this historic village's recently appointed town crier forces attention to his recital of community news delivered in time-honored manner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay by Japanese naval aircraft. Footage of the Rape of Nanking is followed by the U.S.S. Panay bombing in its entirety--exactly as photographed! Filmed by Norman Alley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, Fort Meade, Md.: Mechanical monsters of the 66th U.S. Infantry (Light Tanks) sweep everything before them as they advance through smoke and shell fire to the attack. A thrilling sight, from daylight to dark, as the "battle wagons" roll along. Reel 2, Pimlico, Md.: In the horseracing classic of the century, War Admiral, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.: Striking close-up views of President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the White House to take President Hoover to the Capitol for the Inaugural ceremony, and the historic ride of the celebrated pair down Pennsylvania Avenue, with a Congressional escort, as cheering thousands, massed on the sidewalks,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chat No. 4. Washington D.C.: In a dramatic message to the nation, the Chief Executive outlines in clear terms the steps the Government will take to speed economic recovery in America. Mr. Roosevelt describes striking plans for the stabilization of currency, and for mortgage and home relief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the repeal of Prohibition. As the December 5th deadline for the ratification of the 21st Amendment approaches, work is rushed at distilleries and bottling plants to prepare for the renewal of alcohol sales. In some towns, though, the lid is already off as the repeal of Prohibition is celebrated with old-time abandon. Gone are the days when federal agents could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the Hindenburg disaster. Lakehurst, N.J.: Thirty-five persons die and scores of others are injured as the mighty dirigible Hindenburg explodes 300 feet over the landing field at the end of her first voyage of the season from Europe. A terrific burst of flame engulfs the stern of the ship and spreads with the rapidity of lightning to the bow. The inferno of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, North Beach Airport, N.Y.: Taking off from the waters of Bowery Bay, the Flying Colonel and his wife are seen in unusual pictures on the start of their flight to Greenland to survey a route across the North Atlantic for Pan American Airways. Reel 2, Freeport, Ill.: A remarkable screen interview with Mrs. Caroline Mattern as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on the 1935 Toledo Strike. Toledo, Ohio: Huge crowds of picketers patrol the approaches to an automobile factory when negotiations between workers and owners fail. Francis J. Dillon explains the American Federation of Labor's position in the industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on two topics, as follows. Reel 1, New York, N.Y.: Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller, The War of the Worlds, as staged by Orson Welles. Reel 2, London, England: Patients at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street get a great thrill when King George and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a cattle drive in Colorado. Eads, Colorado: Spectacular scenes reminiscent of the Old West are revived as cowboys start their annual round-up of 4,000 steers from the summer ranges in the mountains to the winter grazing grounds in the lowlands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This Universal newsreel focuses on a Congressional racket probe involving "Spike" O'Donnell. Chicago, Ill.: "Spike" O'Donnell, a former South Side beer baron who bears the title of "the most shot-at gangster in the country," tells members of a Federal committee investigating crime of his reaction to the latest Federal drive on kidnappers and other lawbreakers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010