Panic Is On: The Great American Depression as Seen by the Common Man (DVD + CD)

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DVD Details

Number of Discs: 2
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 3 hours, 10 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Released: July 14, 2009
Originally Released: 1932
Label: Shanachie

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Product Description:

A stunning collection of photographs, newsreel and vintage documentary footage, era-specific pop music, and mesmerizing eyewitness accounts make for a palpable time capsule of the Great Depression of 1929.

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Introduction [DVD]
2.Give a Man a Job [DVD]
3.Life in the Thirties [DVD][Excerpt]
4.Mr. Zero Gives to the Needy [DVD]
5.The Boswell Sisters Perform for Legislators [DVD]
6.The Unemployed March for Relief [DVD]
7.A Zuni Indian Offers Perspective on the Depression [DVD]
8.Millions of Us [DVD][Excerpt]
9.Dance Marathons [DVD]
10.The Jazz Age [DVD][Excerpt]
11.A Debutante Sells Her Chinchilla Coat [DVD]
12.Knitting Sweaters for the Unemployed with Fanny Brice [DVD]
13.Union Textile Workers Strike [DVD]
14.The Plow That Broke the Plains [DVD][Excerpt]
15.The River [DVD][Excerpt]
16.Mr. Zero Evicted [DVD]
17.Work Pays America [DVD][Excerpt]
18.We Work Again [DVD][Excerpt]
19.Our Daily Bread [DVD][Excerpt]
20.The Power and the Land [DVD][Excerpt]

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.(Everything's Gonna Be) O. K. America
2.The Panic Is On
3.If I Ever Get a Job Again
4.Nra Blues
5.The Clouds Will Soon Roll By
6.Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)
7.We're in the Money (The Gold Digger's Song)
8.The Great Dust Storm
9.Headin' for Better Times
10.Bad Times Blues
11.Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
12.Bread Line Blues
13.Welfare Store Blues
14.Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again
15.I Can't Go to the Poor House
16.Old Age Pension Check
17.When My Stocks Come Tumbling Down
18.Down on Penny's Farm
19.A Tale of the Ticker
20.In the Fall of '29
21.Starvation Blues
22.Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!
23.Good Old Times (Are Coming Back Again)
24.Starvation Blues
25.Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!
26.Good Old Times (Are Coming Back Again)

Product Description:

A fascinating overview of America's first Great Depression as captured in vintage newsreel film, documentaries, popular music, eyewitness accounts and period photographs. A DVD with two hours of captivating and entertaining period footage is accompanied by a CD with Depression themed period songs from the city and the countryside, plus a 32 page booklet filled with eloquent photographs and vivid first-hand accounts from the common man.

Keywords:

Documentary