Better Pennsylvania, A

A Better Pennsylvania 05:19:20 Montage of depression, unemployed, men go thru trash, sleep in doorways, food lines. 05:20:02 Montage: Steam whistle & men to work digging, smoke stacks working again, payday. Family with kids, milk, groceries, kids playground. 05:20:55 Residential street. repaired in Phillipsburg. Highway construction & widening w/ large equipment & men drilling & dynamiting rock. Sealing abandoned coal mines. 05:22:09 Philadelphia Museum of Art & WPA reconstruction & restoration. Blacks working teaching handicraft. Boys doing landscaping project. 05:22:50 Women taught sewing; seamstresses. Garment workers; CU stitching. 05:23:11 Social workers visiting homes & crippled children. Children hospital & treatment; returning to home no longer crippled. 05:23:56 Aerial of plane & countryside; Pittsburgh airport construction by men & bulldozers. Building Harrisburg airport. Laying pipes. Aerial of Philadelphia airport construction at Hog Island w/ many workers. 05:25:05 Clearing mountain landing site, falling trees, dynamiting stumps, bulldozer working. 05:25:33 1936 flood scenes & cleanup (VERY GOOD). Flood control showing building dikes, deepening channel at York. 05:26:34 Construction of recreation areas. Fish hatchery constructed. Paramount Park in Philadelphia improved; Allentown park constructed. Kids fishing. Washington, Pennsylvania park. Nursery schools set up in Scranton; kids play and learn indoors & outdoors. Children eating, napping. The End. Federal Works Project; WPA; Educational Propaganda; Quick Editing; Depression;