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The Great Depression / WGBH/Boston ; a production of Blackside, Inc. in association with BBC-2 ; executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series creator, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer.
LIBRA VHS HB3717 1929 .G74 1993 v.1-2, 6
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depressions--1929--United States.
- Depressions.
- United States.
- United States--History--1919-1933.
- History.
- United States--History--1933-1945.
- United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
- Economic conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States--Politics and government--1919-1933.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Genre:
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Documentary television programs.
- Television series.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 7 videocassettes (57 min. each) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in. + 1 teacher's guide + 1 index
- 1/2 in.
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, [1993]
- Language Note:
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- VHS, NTSC; monaural.
- analog
- magnetic
- mono
- VHS
- NTSC
- Summary:
- This 7-part series on the Great Depression uses newsreels, archival photographs and footage, Hollywood films, and eyewitness accounts to re-create the time, from the end of the Roaring Twenties to the outbreak of the Second World War, when economic forces, political change, and social turmoil transformed the nation.
- Contents:
- [1]. A job at Ford's [automobile workers, etc.]
- [2]. The road to rock bottom [farmers, veterans, etc.]
- [3]. New Deal, New York [Roosevelt, LaGuardia, etc.]
- [4]. We have a plan [Upton Sinclair, Social Security, etc.]
- [5]. Mean things happening [unions, etc.]
- [6]. To be somebody [civil rights, etc.]
- [7]. Arsenal of democracy [defense industries, etc.].
- Participant:
- Narrator, Joe Morton.
- Notes:
- Videocassette release of the television series originally broadcast on PBS television in 1993.
- Contains:
- Job at Ford's
- Road to rock bottom
- New Deal, New York
- We have a plan
- Mean things happening
- To be somebody
- Arsenal of democracy
- OCLC:
- 30324461
- Publisher Number:
- GDEP-101-GDEP-107
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