Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: LVIZ-179B

1940AMERICANA

PRODUCED ON THE BEHEST FDR AS A MEANS OF SUPPORTING HIS CONTROVERSIAL NEW DEAL POLICIES, PROVIDES A RECORD OF THE PEOPLE & THE LAND OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 1930s. DRAMATIZES THE COMMON MAN & WOMAN'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL, & THEIR VALIANT CRUSADE TO REPAIR AN AMERICAN DREAM SHATTERED BY ECONOMIC & ECOLOGICAL HARDSHIP. PROMOTES THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION. OBSERVES THE DAILY ACTIVITIES OF A DAIRY FARMING FAMILY IN OHIO. ICONIC FIGURES OF AMERICANA, THEIR DILIGENCE REWARDED BY THE MESSIANIC GOVERNMENT IN THE FORM OF HOME ELECTRICITY. LIFE IS BETTER BECAUSE OF THE CONVENICE OF ELECTRIC POWER.
THE PARKINSON FAMILY. MEMBERS OF THE BELMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ST. CLAIRSVILLLE, OHIO.

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