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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221623-18
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1933
Country: USA
Location: Michigan,Mt,Pleasant
TC Begins: 08:14:30
TC Ends: 08:17:07
Duration: 00:02:37
Prosperity Script Issued By Merchants In ??? (Mar33) 08:14:39 Man hands paper to woman at desk wo fills out & issues other paper. 08:14:51 CU Prosperity Script Issued March 24, 1933 One Dollar. W/ picture of Uncle Sam. 08:14:57 Woman w/ basket at counter in grocery store; man accepting script. 08:15:09 Store & woman giving script to woman clerk who puts purchase in bag. 08:15:18 Town street, two men in top hat on wagon / hearse pulled by team; crowd lining street, as other horse drawn wagon follows, then truck w/ band. 08:15:46 People watch as hearse opened & men take out large fake casket & carry to stream, throw in. 08:16:12 High angle of marching band, float 7 cars up street lined w/ parked cars. Military veterans (?) w/ US flags & rifles marching, boy scout w/ flag; band; Prosperity Script float w/ Uncle Sam & bag w/ $ sign. 08:16:45 Man on roof w/ bugle or trumpet; Uncle Sam w/ bag throwing ??. Crowd below catching 1930s Depression; Economics; Mt. Pleasant, Michigan Local Money; 1933; Oddities; Economy;