History

1920s

13161_1841_stocks_boom

Busy trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Footage sped up to…

1920s

13161_1841_stocks_bust

New York Stock exchange in September 1929. Traders going nuts on the…

1910s, 1920s

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Soldier marches around his post protecting a train yard. Soldiers point…

1930s

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A montage of the 1929 economic crash in New York City. First a shot of…

1930s

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Life during the Great Depression in the city. Children warm their hands…

1920s

13161_22765_flappers

CU of women’s legs as they read newspapers on a park bench. CU of…

1920s

13161_22765_dance_big_band

A woman sits at a piano, while a man in a tuxedo plays saxophone into…

1920s

13161_22765_booze_bootleggers

Open sea, with a small bootleggers sail boat bobbing in the water. Rum…

1920s

13161_22765_booze_gangsters

In an underground booze lab, sailors are busily boiling and packaging…

1920s

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Cruise ship and a fishing boat approach harbor in France. Americans…

1920s

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The gates at Versailles, palace of Louis the XIV, open and the camera…

1920s

13161_1841_lindbergh_flight2

French paperboys run down the street yelling and selling Le Monde and…