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THE PANIC IS ON: THE GREAT AMERICAN DEPRESSION AS SEEN BY THE COMMON MAN
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DVD - THE PANIC IS ON: THE GREAT AMERICAN DEPRESSION AS SEEN BY THE COMMON MAN
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DVD/CD/booklet set. Newsreel film, documentaries, and eyewitness accounts providing perspective of the economic unrest experienced by the everyday American during the time. Features vignettes of a soup kitchen in Manhattan, striking workers in North Carolina, Zuni Indians in New Mexico offering advice on how the white man should deal with the Depression, more. Also includes government-made films and documentary accounts of poverty of the time, and the courage and inventiveness of workers who overcame these difficulties. 23-track CD includes news reports, comical satire, music from artists of the day such as Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie, Roy Acuff, Eddie Cantor, others. 32-page booklet presents letters and written accounts of the struggles, as well as photographs from the period. DVD is b&w, 2 hrs.
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$29.70
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Contents:
DVD:
- Introduction
- Jimmy Durante sings for the NRA
- People struggle with the Depression's impact
- New York soup kitchen tends to the needy
- The Boswell Sisters perform for congressmen
- The unemployed march for relief
- A Zuni Indian offers perspective on the white man's Depression
- Unemployed and down and out on the streets of Los Angeles
- Dance Marathons
- The Wall Street crash
- A debutante sells her chinchilla coat
- Fanny Brice and showgirls knit sweaters for the unemployed
- Union textile workers strike
- Dust storms on the Great Plains
- Mississippi River floods of the mid-1930s
- Storefront soup kitchen closed
- Government programs in action
- African-Americans put to work by the WPA
Extras:
- Our Daily Bread (excerpt from King Vidor's classic feature)
- Electricity changes life in rural America
CD:
- (Everything's Gonna Be) OK America - ART KASSEL and his Kassels in the Air
- The Panic is On - HEZEKIAH JENKINS
- If I Ever Get a Job Again - DICK ROBERTSON and his Orchestra
- NRA Blues - BILL COX
- The Clouds Will Soon Roll By - EDDY DUCHIN and his Orchestra
- Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) - BESSIE SMITH
- We're In The Money (The Gold Digger's Song) - CHARLIE PALLOY
- The Great Dust Storm - WOODY GUTHRIE
- Headin' for Better Times - TED LEWIS and his Band
- Bad Times Blues - BARBECUE BOB
- Brother can You Spare a Dime? - CHARLIE PALLOY and his Orchestra
- Bread Line Blues - "SLIM" SMITH
- Welfare Store Blues - SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON
- Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again - BILL COX
- I Can't Go to the Porhouse - DICK ROBERTSON
- Old Age Pension Check - ROY ACUFF and his Crazy Tennesseans
- When My Stocks Come Tumbling Down - FIELDS and HALL
- Down on Penny's Farm - THE BENTLEY BOYS
- A tale of the Ticker - FRANK CRUMIT
- In the Fall of `29 - W. LEE O'DANIEL and his Light Crust Doughboys
- Starvation Blues - CHARLIE JORDAN
- Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! - EDDIE CANTOR
- Good Old Times (Are Coming Back Again) - DICK ROBERTSON
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