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Roosevelt (FDR) and The New Deal, The WPA, Documentary

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This DVD aims to explore the time during the New Deal, what it meant, and what it did. It explores some of the programs initiated during the New Deal, such as Social Security and the WPA.

 

 

FDR and the New Deal Film Collection on DVD

An original production published by The Classic Archives!

The New Deal is the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of programs and promises he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving relief, reform and recovery to the people and economy of the United States during the Great Depression. Dozens of alphabet agencies (so named because of their acronyms, as with the SEC), were created as a result of the New Deal. Historians distinguish between the "First New Deal" of 1933, which had aimed at short-term recovery programs for all groups in society, and the "Second New Deal" (1935–36), which aimed at a more radical redistribution of power away from business and toward workers, farmers and consumers. Leuchtenburg concludes the Second New Deal was designed not to destroy capitalism but to "discipline business" and "bolster unionization, pension the elderly...give relief to the needy, and extend a hand to the forgotten man."

This DVD aims to explore the time during the New Deal, what it meant, and what it did.  It explores some of the programs initiated during the New Deal, such as Social Security and the WPA.  The WPA put millions of people to work building the nation's infrastructure and helped get us out of the depression.  All these programs increased gov't spending yet released untold amounts of money into the system to get our economy. 

This film collection is perfect for the historian, student, educator, and scholar alike. 

This DVD runs over 2 hours and has a fully interactive menu.  A list of films is as follows:

Better Housing News Flashes (No. 7) (1935)

Theatrical short subject, newsreel-style, promoting the benefits of the National Housing Act for homebuilders, remodelers and would-be homeowners.  June 2004 marked the 70th anniversary of the start of the Federal Housing Administration, and the Better Housing movies provide a good visual explanation of the origins of these then revolutionary home programs. The short model home tour provides more than a few laughs, as well as stereotypical images of family roles, and the virtual absence of minority families.

Sound, B&W, 4:31

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FDR Social Security Act Speech

FDR's speech at the ceremony of the signing of the Social Security Act in 1935.

Sound, B&W, 1:31

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Man Against the River (1937)

Describes the work of members of the Works Projects Administration in helping refugees of a winter flood of the Ohio River.

Sound, B&W, 9:54

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Modern History-Franklin D. Roosevelt - Six Fireside Chats 1933-1938

These clips deal with the New Deal. They include six of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fireside Chats on the economic policy for fighting the Great Depression. All clips are somewhat edited partial Universal Newsreels. In these recordings Roosevelt reads shortened versions of the speeches.

Sound, B&W, 13:51

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National Recovery Administration (NRA) Promo (1933)

New Deal-era promo for the NRA (National Recovery Administration).

Sound, B&W, 2:49

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Rain for the Earth Part 1(1937)

Drought in the Dust Bowl and efforts to combat it.  Shows social and economic wastes resulting from continued drought in the Midwestern dust bowl and efforts of the federal government in attempting to remedy such conditions.  This is part 1 of the movie.  Part 2 has been lost for decades.

Sound, B&W, 9:55

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The River (1937)

Classic documentary history of the exploitation of the resources of the Mississippi River Valley and the work being done to rehabilitate and reclaim the area. Director and writer: Pare Lorentz. Narrator: Thomas Chalmers. Photography: Willard Van Dyke, Stacey Woodard and Floyd Crosby. Editor: Leo Zochling. Music: Virgil Thomson.

Sound, B&W, 31:14

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The Truth About Taxes (1940)

Republican party campaign film on behalf of Wendell Willkie for U.S. president in the 1940 elections.

Sound, B&W, 10:35

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Work Pays America (1937)

How the WPA's program of public works benefits both unemployed workers and American society.

Sound, B&W, 31:56

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Your Social Security (1940s)

 

How the system was designed to work.

 

Sound, B&W, 17:40

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  • Model: DVD-TCA-J51

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