Here’s a 1932 clip offering snapshots of the Great Depression -- a period in American history when many experienced unemployment, despair, and poverty.

Grace Moore, an opera singer, stands in front of an orchestra. The room is dark, but her face is illuminated. Moore sings part of John Howard Payne’s “Home, Sweet Home,” then stops to talk about how thousands of unemployed men and women are struggling. Moore asks viewers to share their good fortune with these very Americans who are struggling. She resumes singing as a newspaper with the headline “Depression Cripples U.S.” fills the screen.

Camera zooms in on a photo in the newspaper of a man holding a sign that reads “unemployed.” The still picture changes to a moving clip of people walking past the person holding the previously-mentioned “unemployed” sign.

People in winter coats walk along a sidewalk and past a long line of people who are waiting. A man sets up a small food stand on a stack of wooden crates. People stand around with their breaths visible in the cold.

A man on a bench sews a piece of clothing.

Another man on a bench is slumped over, as if in defeat, with his elbows on his knees and his head resting on his arms.

The sun shines through the blades of a windmill. Fiercely moving wind howls. Dust and dirt blow over barren land.

A muddy road leads to buildings and a school house. A little girl peers out of an open doorway as wind blows through her hair. A home's front door is leaning against the home's exterior at a crooked angle, held up only by the door’s bottom hinge.

The narrator speaks of shattered dreams, despair, fear, and homeless, hungry Americans.

Farmers pile their possessions at the side of a road.

A family stands beside a road. A car passes them by, kicking up dust in their faces.

U.S. President Herbert Hoover speaks at a Welfare and Relief Mobilization Conference about hope coming out of charity.

A line of men, then a line of children, enter soup kitchens. Children take bowls from a counter and sit at long tables to eat.