1939 - USA, Documentary: Even in this Day and Age - A Review of Major Forces Tending To Produce Social Breakdown

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles & credits. 04:18:05 Title card: The purpose of this picture is to encourage THOUGHT, DISCUSSION, ACTION; to remedy demoralizing influences. 04:18:21 Overhead shot of busy NYC 42nd city street intersection, pedestrians on pavement, traffic, tram or streetcar; Park Avenue bridge at Grand Central Station; MCU High angle / HA pedestrians. Street & newspaper stand. Schoolchildren past school. Bus drops off children under trees. Girls past; boys play fighting on lawn. Girls play London Bridge game. 04:19:55 Farmer on tractor plowing field; another sharpens scythe. LS looking down wide street of small suburban town. Girls on lawn outside middle class home skipping / jump rope. CU bread sliced & put in toaster. CU Opening refrigerator door & showing its full of food. Title re lurking destructive forces...poverty.. 04:20:59 Rooftops of large city housing, two women sit w/ babies. Street below w/ people hanging out outside tenements, sit on steps / stoops, children play. 04:21:36 Migrant workers in cardboard & makeshift wooden house among brush. Mothers in tattered clothes hold three crying, ill-looking babies. 04:22:05 Two groups of teenage boys facing each other shown game by man. Children play in street blocked off w/ signs: Driving thru a play street is a traffic violation; Play street closed. Chinatown pedestrians, signs in Chinese. Men & storefronts. Lower East Side & kosher poultry shop. Jewish men talking beneath Hebrew signs. Women at market vendors. 04:23:38 HA Harlem sidewalk & pedestrians. Black kids play on sidewalk, men talk. Children draw on sidewalk, MCUs. White old lady at ticket booth Speaker at consciousness-raising meeting - shot as shadows. Title re industrial strife. 04:24:56 Striking workers picketing w/ USA flags. Demonstration w/ fighting & tear gas. Injured & violence; throwing stones at cars. Title. 04:25:31 Montage. Cars on Westside Highway, NYC. Neon signs advertising alcohol, liquor. Alcohol poured in glass by shaky hands, spills, CU drunken hands w/ keys can’t unlock car, CU steering wheel & hand grabbing. Limp hand in hospital put under blanket. Title re Marijuana rivaling alcohol... 04:26:19 CU Cigarette burning. Smoking cigarette in ashtray. CU newspaper article w/ ‘doped cigarette’ underlined, “Marijuana”. CU hand holds cigarette w/ smoke. Headlines, Westchester; White Plains; 04:27:11 Title card re gambling. Group of young men roll dice, drink & gamble. CU raffle form, punch card. Headline ‘Sweeps Winners”, front page Daily Racing Form, America’s Turf Authority paper. Men w/ cigars fill in betting forms. Church raffle & bingo w/ women selling tickets. Headline: Bingo banned by Lutherans. 04:28:54 Title card re delinquency. Boys steal from fruit stand. Burglar breaks into gas station, searching drawer. CU girl’s hand stealing purse out of lady’s handbag in store, caught. GOOD. 04:29:54 Title re better but for environment. Chain gang walking in front of guard. 04:30:10 End moral titles & what are Christian people going to do? The End. Ethnic minorities; Crime; Childhood; Youth; Juvenile Delinquents; Drugs; Depression; Unemployed; Christian Moralizing; Temperance; Negroes; African-Americans; Sin; 1939; Street Scenes; City Life; Documentary; Educational Film; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. GOOD. Occasional printer kick from timing notches in source film.