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Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Television series about the Walton family living on Walton's Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In this season, The Blue Ridge chronicle hits the streets, with publisher John-Boy covering everything from a local break-in (Ben is among the suspects) to his eyewitness account of the crash of the Hindenburg; Mary Ellen becomes the first Walton child to marry; Jason works in a honkytonk; Grandma has a set-to with the minister
222) Riding the rails
Pub. Date
c2003,c1997
Description
Tells about the 250,000 teenagers who took to the rails during the Great Depression. Personal narratives of men and women from a variety of backgrounds about traveling cross-country hidden in or on top of freight trains. Includes newsreel interviews and archival footage of teens on top of speeding trains and clips from motion pictures of the day, providing a unique glimpse of the social conditions during this period of American history.
223) Road to perdition
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Description
Mike Sullivan works as a hitman for crime boss John Rooney in Depression-era Chicago. When Mike's son accidentally witnesses what his father does for a living, Mike is on the run, trying to save his son's life while at the same time, looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
224) Cradle Will Rock
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen
Description
A kaleidoscopic look at the extraordinary events of 1930s America, from high society to life on the streets in Depression-era New York City. Based on the events surrounding Marc Blitzstein's controversial musical about a steel strike, to be produced by the Federal Theater Program
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
In the late 1930s, as the Great Depression deepens, jazz thrives. The saxophone emerges as an iconic instrument of the music; this segment introduces two of its masters, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. Young migrates to Kansas City, where a vibrant music scene is prospering with musicians such as trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and drummers Jo Jones and Chick Webb. Out of this ferment emerges pianist Count Basie, who forms a band that epitomizes...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Amid the hard times of the Depression new dances, the Lindy Hop and Swing, caught on at the dance halls of New York even as the jobless lined the streets and drought ruined Midwest farms. Jazz, during 1929 through 1935, lifted the nation's spirit. Record sales boomed while Armstrong became a major entertainer as singer, trumpeter, band leader, radio and film performer. Ellington's elegance, compositions, brilliant band films and recordings created...
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift, Benny Goodman finds himself hailed as the "King of Swing" and becomes the first white bandleader to hire black musicians. He has a host or rivals among them, Chick Webb, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller and Artie Shaw. Louis Armstrong heads a big band of his own, while Duke Ellington continues his independent course, but great black artists still can't eat or sleep in many of the...
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