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...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: During this episode of New York: A Documentary Film, filmmaker Ric Burns documents how the dramatic events that followed the Crash of ’29 fueled the greatest financial depression in American history and plunged the city and the nation into economic gloom. In little more than ten years, immense new forces were unleashed in New York, from the Depression itself to the New Deal, which permanently...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003