Pre Code Hollywood and the Great Depression
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The Dirty 30s
⭐️ Further Reading, Sources and Movies
Street Scene - • Street Scene (1931) Sy...
Virtue - • Virtue 1932 Carole Lom...
also available free to stream on TUBI tubitv.com/movies/100005735/v...
Safe In Hell watch here: (decent quality) ok.ru/video/1742457146036
buy here on DVD or Blu-Ray amzn.to/3VABPKd
Faithless ok.ru/video/309172636323
Wild Boys of the Road is available to stream for free on TUBI: tubitv.com/movies/100012700/w...
I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang is available free to stream on TUBI tubitv.com/movies/100012217/i...
Hells Highway • Hell's Highway (1932) ...
⭐️ Documentaries
ABC News Doc series This Century :
Boom to Bust 1920-1929 • The Century: America's...
Stormy Weather 1929-1936 • The Century: America's...
Riding the Rails: • Riding The Rails (Part...
Stories from The Great Depression
• Stories from the Great...
American Experience - March of the Bonus Army
• PBS Documentary: The M...
Bonus Army Routed
• Bonus Army "Routed" (...
⭐️ Selected Sources
Smedley Butler's Full Bonus March Speech July, 1932
• Smedley Butler address...
Bernice's Story
www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh2.2...
Statistics
www.fdrlibrary.org/great-depr... the 1920s.-,At the height of the Depression in 1933%2C 24.9%25 of,economic disaster in American history
Richard Brody's New Yorker Review of Street Scene
www.newyorker.com/goings-on-a...
⭐️Newspaper Clippings
Caspar Prison Riot
www.newspapers.com/article/ca...
Auburn Prison Riot
www.newspapers.com/article/pr...
Ohio Prison Fire
www.newspapers.com/article/te...
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@CinemaCities1978 12 күн бұрын
aura.com/cinemacities The Dirty 30s ⭐ Further Reading, Sources and Movies Street Scene - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fc-Wh8SUtZ64oYE.html Virtue - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jcddmb182ODIqpc.html also available free to stream on TUBI tubitv.com/movies/100005735/virtue Safe In Hell watch here: (decent quality) ok.ru/video/1742457146036 buy here on DVD or Blu-Ray amzn.to/3VABPKd Faithless ok.ru/video/309172636323 Wild Boys of the Road is available to stream for free on TUBI: tubitv.com/movies/100012700/wild-boys-of-the-road I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang is available free to stream on TUBI tubitv.com/movies/100012217/i-am-a-fugitive-from-a-chain-gang Hells Highway kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9KejJiJ1LycgJ8.html ⭐ Documentaries ABC News Doc series This Century : Boom to Bust 1920-1929 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLRnmdeqv8_Liac.htmlsi=dERfaudfKjjtiKJE Stormy Weather 1929-1936 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLmWramIupuwko0.htmlsi=AX2QDz2j10RRowyz Riding the Rails: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbF4d7pouMvcnIE.htmlsi=M-LFiPmDjEvTW4dq Stories from The Great Depression kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itaWjJuczZvQhas.htmlsi=dATH_gBK-1ac2wwT American Experience - March of the Bonus Army kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7lzZM-Ty77KgoU.htmlsi=O0Es1_t63SFYxadB Bonus Army Routed kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pbRye7d-nM69c40.htmlsi=AWzDVc1nljyNZLip ⭐ Selected Sources Smedley Butler's Full Bonus March Speech July, 1932 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8Wmfatj09ixnGw.htmlsi=GbiJL2V8SYyUFpBU Bernice's Story www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh2.21011104/?sp=1&st=text Statistics www.fdrlibrary.org/great-depression-facts#:~:text=throughout the 1920s.-,At the height of the Depression in 1933%2C 24.9%25 of,economic disaster in American history Richard Brody's New Yorker Review of Street Scene www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/street-scene ⭐Newspaper Clippings Caspar Prison Riot www.newspapers.com/article/casper-star-tribune-prison-riot-casper/149569907/ Auburn Prison Riot www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-prison-riot/149569702/ Ohio Prison Fire www.newspapers.com/article/telegraph-forum/149749714/ If you love classic films and smart, entertaining deep dive stories about classic Hollywood subscribe to the free cinema cities newsletter 📰screenspectator.substack.com?sd=pf If you're loving these videos consider supporting the channel at: ☕www.buymeacoffee.com/cinemacities ⭐ patreon.com/CinemaCities Members get lots of great extras!
@MothGirl007 12 күн бұрын
Thank you so much! My absolute favorite film era!
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
@@MothGirl007 you're welcome! I knew you'd enjoy this one!
@numbersix8919 11 күн бұрын
Thanks very much indeed! I only knew of _Chain Gang_ until now. It seems likely that these critical social realist films would be discreetly suppressed by our so-called elites.
@diego-search 10 күн бұрын
@@numbersix8919 Many regard it as one of the most powerful protest movies ever...even 90 years later. Also notice the M.O. of the escape attempts that, "Cool Hand Luke" copied.
@numbersix8919 10 күн бұрын
@@diego-search Yeah, that's something I hadn't considered. Good ol' Luke...
@miapdx503 11 күн бұрын
Pre-code movies taught us that today's troubles, abortion, drugs, alcohol and homelessness were always with us. There really is nothing new under the sun.
@funshine817 8 күн бұрын
Yup, just repackaged to match whatever time frame it is in.
@Sean-oy8xm 23 сағат бұрын
You nailed it.
@zetectic7968 12 күн бұрын
So many today don't realise how bad it was in the 1930's. My Father left school at 14 & took over his older brother's paper route where he had to cycle 20 miles a day. At 16 he left home to work in a hotel kitchen 60 miles away: he cried himself to sleep for 2 months as he missed home & his mother so much. Another older brother of his had emigrated to Western Australia to work on a farm. His right arm was injured in an accident & when the depression hit he was let go. He got a job in a pub as he could serve beer with his left ( good) hand. Meanwhile he had to beg the family for money to pay for his return to England and medical treatment he needed. My Father said that before WW2 you never left a job however bad it was unless you had another to go to: destitution was always waiting for the unemployed. Thanks for the video & the insights 👍
@juniorjames7076 12 күн бұрын
I was 13 in 1983. I got a newspaper route (Newsday and Daily News) straddling Queens & Long Island. Many of my customers were survivors of the Great Depression and WW2 vets. I always loved listening to elders, and boy those customers told me stories that made my hair stand on end. Those stories affected and shaped my life.
@gmg9010 12 күн бұрын
My grandpa was a child of the depression born 1929 his favorite thing to do was listen to the Lone Ranger on the radio after doing the farm chores.
@itravisoni 6 күн бұрын
My dad was born during the depression years. His parents were born in the 19th century. Had to be strong and work hard to make it in those times. Nowadays it's just insane because people don't have the real faith like back in the day
@elligilberg1564 12 күн бұрын
This period, post silent and pre-code films, is my favorite. So many great films, with wonderful actors and actresses, directors and writers and producers, were made during these years. Thank you for focusing on this very special era for film production.
@Appleblade 11 күн бұрын
Both my parents were born in 1920. My mom lived in a garage with her mom & brother, after her dad left. My dad left the farm and lived in a boxcar, traveling from bridge to bridge painting them for the railroad and sending money home. Oddly, they never called me privileged or lorded it over me, what they went through. They were so grateful for everything, it rubbed off on me. I consider it a great gift.
@BrokebackBob 12 күн бұрын
I always look forward to a new post on your channel. I have a master's degree in film studies and I can tell you with assurance that the quality of your content is on a level that could be used as college-level teaching material. Personally I think your channel is the best of its kind on KZfaq.
@OuterGalaxyLounge 12 күн бұрын
The greatest era in movies, as densely packed as a neutron star with classics and lesser-known gems. I watched these titles going by as you discussed them and sighed with happy recognition like I was seeing a bunch of old friends. "Safe in Hell" was once virtually unknown but in recent years has seen a great rise in its reputation. I'm glad you included Wild Boys of the Road, a really seminal Depression film about a part of American history not so much talked about. That lad in the newsreel traveling the rails was from my hometown where I still live and I've read old local newspaper accounts of teens hitting the road to find some hope and meaning and to relieve their parents of the burden of feeding another mouth. Heartbreaking. I might have included Three-Cornered Moon (1933) an early screwball comedy but with darker elements of a family's hardships during the era. You crammed a lot into this. Great work.
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
ahhh Three Cornered Moon. . . I could actually do a part two bc there were so many films on my initial list that I didn't use.
@jonsrecordcollection7172 12 күн бұрын
Wild Boys on the Road hits surprisingly hard for its time. It's about kids in the Depression who are so poor that they have to ride the rails like hobos and live by their wits. It's closer to foreign movies like Los Olvidados or Pixote in depicting youth in poverty with no adult supervision than Hollywood movies.
@miapdx503 11 күн бұрын
I was on my own at 15, not by choice! There were no services for homeless kids in the 70s, only foster care. The kids I met that ran from foster care had the worst horror stories. We all had them, but the foster kids...what a nightmare. I didn't want to be a prostitute so I became a thief. Those were the only options...thank God I found my footing at 17, with a job and a room all my own. Currently writing a book...
@jeffking4176 10 күн бұрын
@@miapdx503 Congratulations. Though I always had a home, I met many during those times that suffered both in “Foster Care”, or at home where they were regularly beaten, etc. Glad you survived.
@jeffking4176 10 күн бұрын
Frankie Darro was an incredible Actor, and so underrated [ when remembered at all.]. I have a number of his movies.
@judithortiz-velazquez4992 10 күн бұрын
I had to reach out to someone who knows of the Pixote. Not too many of us who know of this film.
@dorothyjohnson6743 5 күн бұрын
@@miapdx503I'm happy for you going through so much and landing on your feet. I hope you do finish writing your book, I would love to read it, but maybe it won't happen. ❤
@jonsrecordcollection7172 12 күн бұрын
"I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang" is actually a forerunner of more modern movies. According to one article I read, it's one of the first Hollywood sound movies to have a "hyper-present protagonist," a main character/audience surrogate who is in basically every scene of the movie. Now that's so common it's barely even a trope, but that movie was one of the first with lots of amazing POV shots. There's a scene where Paul Muni is in a diner & he's staring hungrily at a hamburger on the grill, but the guy he's with starts robbing the diner & we all see it from his own POV. It was very modern for 1933.
@nanasewdear 12 күн бұрын
It's one of my favorite movies. The story and the message never get old.
@MothGirl007 12 күн бұрын
The ending is so iconic, too.
@marymitchell6257 11 күн бұрын
@@MothGirl007”I Steal!”
@rexmyers991 10 күн бұрын
My mother was born in 1922. As a child of the depression, the poverty forever altered her mind. She suffered from hallucinations and psychosis her entire life. She told me her only escape (from the depression) was the movie theater. She fantasized being the one rescued by the wealthy, handsome man an on the screen. She spent her life in and out of mental hospitals.
@bobtaylor170 12 күн бұрын
When Roosevelt heard about what Hoover had had done to The Bonus Marchers, he said to someone, "We just won the election."
@JPSE57 11 күн бұрын
The force that ruthlessly routed the bonus army was commanded by Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur and included five tanks commanded by Major George S. Patton. Hoover twice ordered MacArthur to stop the attack but those orders were ignored.
@sonnysantana5454 11 күн бұрын
all upper crust blue blood professional soldiers from the west point mafia who only a few years earlier faught and lead many of these same men
@briangriffin4937 10 күн бұрын
And Dwight D. Eisenhower, although later he regretted the mishandling of the Bonus Army marchers.
@bobtaylor170 10 күн бұрын
@@JPSE57 I think I have read that elsewhere. I'm pretty sure you're correct.
@JPSE57 10 күн бұрын
@@briangriffin4937 Ike was only an aide at the time and didn't have the influence MacArthur or Patton could wield.
@frankmenchaca9993 11 күн бұрын
My parents came to the US in 1933, unable to speak English. Together with their family and friends somehow managed to scrape along thru these hard years and then send their children to fight in WW2. Will we ever be as tough as they when the chips are down? Thank you for this wonderful video.
@boristheamerican2938 11 күн бұрын
We were during 2009-2012 during the republican banking crisis.
@MidMo4020 11 күн бұрын
@@boristheamerican2938you’re comparing THAT to the Great Depression? My family’s story is a lot like this one. If you don’t have relatives who can tell you about those times it’s understandable. They’re dying out fast. But perhaps you should read up on it for a more insightful comparison. 🇺🇸
@boristheamerican2938 10 күн бұрын
@@MidMo4020 Yes the republican caused financial crisis of 2008 is the closest we have come since the dark days of Hoover.
@jeffking4176 10 күн бұрын
@@boristheamerican2938 Hard to compare the 2 Financial crises. But a better comparison might be what happens when there is a major disaster. Though the Depression lasted years, one can take what happens during a hurricane, or earthquake, where people really come together to help others, even though they may have been in need , themselves.
@auapplemac2441 10 күн бұрын
@@jeffking4176 One thing that mitigated the 2008 financial crisis were the laws that were passed during the depression to help prevent a recurrence. Dems did that! Protect the people and businesses will survive.
@samking4179 12 күн бұрын
23:50 ... Smedley Butler marine corps general, author of, "War is a Racket." a must read. your videos are SOOOOOOO great!
@danthsmith 12 күн бұрын
Greatest era of US movies. The brilliant upbeat depression movies were the 1st 3 Warners Busby musicals. Footlight Parade would be my all time fave. To think the pre-code era will be 100 years old before long
@TheJohnnyCalifornia 11 күн бұрын
It is interesting how the "American Myth" really informed the media of the Depression. Before then, everyone was on their own, but as soon as there was enough civil unrest and misery, the message became "we're all Americans. We'll get through this together." That's generally the approach. When times are bad, we're all in this together. When times are good, everyone is out for themselves. That line about the Mayflower is a good example in the later film. The Mayflower came over with a bunch of religious fanatics who were not suited or ready for life in the wilderness. Accordingly, they started to die in droves until they happened to come across Squanto, a native American that could speak English (likely because he was abducted and forced to work in the English merchant marine) and had no family left (likely due to diseases brought by Europeans). He was able to show them what they needed and negotiate with other tribes for food and goods. But even back as far as the 1930's, we had this mythic idea of the Pilgrims as resourceful, capable and pioneering people that begin the whole American myth. Now, even the Depression is part of that myth seen as a moment when the country pulled together, but the reality was far different. The country almost fell apart.
@byronbreese3454 11 күн бұрын
Major General Smedley Butler, USMC, 2x MoH recipient, a veteran who infiltrated and exposed corporate-capitalist discussions and planning for a coup d'état against FDR in 1934-5. When he was posted to a debarkation camp in France during WW1, he made the place livable and decent for the deploying troops where before no one cared. Recklessly brave and committed to principle.
@chanceotter8121 11 күн бұрын
Wonderful essay on one of the most exciting periods of the art form. And thank you for highlighting the work of Vidor and Wellman, masters of the craft and important American artists who still don’t get their deserved recognition. Thanks again.
@bobdobs23 12 күн бұрын
Everyone needs to be educated by this brilliant channel
@quirkykaleidoscope 12 күн бұрын
Most definitely!!! 💜🌟💜
@MB-vu3ow 11 күн бұрын
Bulls***.
@sonnysantana5454 11 күн бұрын
speak for yourself not everyone is as clueless as you
@tomstaniech9233 11 күн бұрын
Too many commercials
@Hogtownboy1 12 күн бұрын
Watched on Patreon but felt this was so good watched again here
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
wow! thank you! 🙏
@SpielbergMichael 12 күн бұрын
Nice job. You’ve created a good piece here. It’s important to remember. And to think that generation were about to have to fight WWII.
@barbarak2836 11 күн бұрын
Yes, they went through WWI, the "Spanish" Flu Pandemic, the Depression, and WWII in rapid succession.
@user-qt7nq5xl1m 12 күн бұрын
Find me some new movies to watch... You have a bundle of suggestions that have filled up my playlist. Great channel
@marymitchell6257 11 күн бұрын
I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang is soo underseen. This & Scarface are Muni’s best roles
@Lukecash2 11 күн бұрын
My Grandfather was one of those “Hobos” From Cleveland Ohio, he west, looking for work. One year later he met his younger brother at Hollywood and Vine. They tried for at least a year to break into Hollywood movie business as carpenters, electricians or whatever (Both had high school degrees.) Unfortunately he didn’t know anyone in Los Angeles, and the never made it in. They ended back into Cleveland.
@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh 10 күн бұрын
😢Sad
@professorsogol5824 11 күн бұрын
General Douglas MacArthur accompanied the troops that cleared the Bonus Army camp with fixed bayonets and sabers.
@MaureenDeVries-wd9mh 10 күн бұрын
TRUTH!😢
@lorettanericcio-bohlman567 11 күн бұрын
Carole Lombard never forgot and was kind and generous to the end. 💕💜💕💜
@Corgis175 12 күн бұрын
My grandparents owned farms in the 19teens through the 20s and 30's so my parents were luckly.
@marstondavis 12 күн бұрын
There are 8 million stories in this city and here I am naked.
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
😂
@deemariedubois4916 9 күн бұрын
You never know when an emergency might arise during which you might have to abandon your home, jic, you know to be safe and save yourself from embarrassment, PUT YOUR BREECHES ON.
@charlynegezze8536 12 күн бұрын
You are divine. Thank you so much for your hard work.
@angelawacky2716 12 күн бұрын
Fascinating, excellent video. History lesson based on truth is rare. Love the old classics, but precode 1930s are gems. Hubby and I will enjoy watching these treasures. Thanks!
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
you're welcome ☺
@mike89128 11 күн бұрын
Most economists agree today that Roosevelt's "New Deal" heavy borrowing from banks, tied up capital that industry needed to bring back workers or to expand. Industry couldn't compete with the interest rates the FDR admin was willing to pay for capital to fund its numerous three letter government projects.
@ghayes220 11 күн бұрын
Another excellent video. I'm 79 and you continue to expose me to great films that I was not aware of . Thanks.
@BritInvLvr 11 күн бұрын
This is my grandmother’s time. She and her sisters used to tell me how things were back then. The pre-code films are my favorite to watch.
@thomasp.3357 11 күн бұрын
I was lucky enough to catch "Safe in Hell" on Criterion Collection. It is gritty and mostly unsentimental. Dorthy Mackaill is amazing in it. She plays tough and vulnerable so well. I don't think I've seen her in anything else, but I really loved her in this movie.
@Susieq26754 10 күн бұрын
I just love your documentaries. You have a perfect narrative voice for it too.❤
@DansTravels5823 11 күн бұрын
Another excellent video and several new movies to add to the list.
@clazy8 11 күн бұрын
This was a great video, not only interesting but also surprisingly moving.
@yvonnebooker8864 12 күн бұрын
Very well done, thank you
@georgesunday9855 11 күн бұрын
I love this channel! Along with film noir, the precode era is another favorite of mine. The snappy dialogue keeps them always fresh and the characters realistic. Despite the sometimes stilted camera, they “move”. I’ve seen a few of these films, so it looks like it’s time to put a few hours aside to watch the ones I haven’t seen.
@d.bcooper7819 12 күн бұрын
Excellent. Thank you so much.
@lbbotpn5429 12 күн бұрын
Thank you for such an insightful essay. I've watched most of the films referenced but still can't even imagine what it was like trying to get by during those times. A bit off topic, but what I find fascinating is the post-code high society pictures that seemed to reign in the late 30's (often starring Roberts Young and Montgomery). I'm not quite sure I grasp the appeal of those films to general audiences given what I would assume would be a general feeling of resentment towards the moneyed/idle class. A mystery to be sure. I appreciate the links provided... they should keep me busy for a while.
@auapplemac2441 11 күн бұрын
This should be shown in high school. It's a much neglected part of our history. I've seen young adults comments on line and in interviews. It's amazing how much they don't know about our more recent history including WWII. How sad and dangerous. I was born after the Great Depression, but it always interested me and leaned much from my family who survived it.
@vlfriscia 11 күн бұрын
Actually, we were shown I Was a Fugitive From a Chain Gang in high school in the 1960s, a rare occurrence in my small Southern town. And we discussed it afterward in class. It was a valuable teaching tool at a time when so many around us had lived through the Great Depression.
@ericv7720 3 күн бұрын
I'm Gen X, raised during the 80s. My grandparents grew up during the Depression & WWII. They were also Mexican, and were discriminated against nastily (this being rural Texas). They had some stories!
@sageone5344 10 күн бұрын
Another excellent documentary from you, thanks!
@jamesallard7223 12 күн бұрын
Sorry to hear about your troubles; one of many, I'm afraid. As always, however, exceptional and intriguing material. Well done!
@judithortiz-velazquez4992 10 күн бұрын
Thanks so much. This new video was worth wait.
@EddyTeetree 11 күн бұрын
Really fantastic presentation. Thank you.
@PerryCJamesUK 12 күн бұрын
Excellent, I am nice and early for this one!
@iainmelville9411 11 күн бұрын
Great video,Bravo. Kudos to you - great work.
@laverdadescatolica5 6 күн бұрын
Your voice was a pleasure to hear reading to us 😊
@michaelknapp8961 11 күн бұрын
My grandfather went into business buying and selling gold during the depression. He went door to door asking people if they had gold earrings or anything with gold in it. He did quite well back then. I think he also sold bibles for extra money. It sure was a terrible time for the country and the world.
@KevinSvetlich 8 күн бұрын
Thank you. Amazing Doc
@Dench999or911 10 күн бұрын
Can always trust Cinema Cities for more film recommendations! Great video
@manojgusain6832 11 күн бұрын
Thanks for this information.
@Hogtownboy1 12 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
thank you!!!!!!
@RBlackwelder82 6 күн бұрын
Really interesting! I’ll check some of them out!
@larskaaber9869 12 күн бұрын
A great little documentary!
@robmclaughjr 11 күн бұрын
Your production values are excellent as is the writing and narration. Well done! (IMHO)
@CinemaCities1978 11 күн бұрын
thank you so much! 😊
@betamaxblocker 9 күн бұрын
I'm glad you gave King Vidor a nice shoutout. He is sorely neglected today, and he had some great visual artistry in his movies.
@jeffking4176 10 күн бұрын
Extremely well done. Impressive‼️ [ and it takes a LOT to impress me. 📻🙂
@Karen_esque 11 күн бұрын
The movies of this era feel very relevant to me right now.
@quester09 12 күн бұрын
Dorothy McHale: what a queen 🎉
@user-gd8fn7qn7r 12 күн бұрын
great video.
@kennethanderson8827 11 күн бұрын
Excellent video. Eerily prescient. I llive in San Diego, and the feeling in the air for many of us is can be summed up in one word- precarium. We’re all one accident, illness, or job layoff away from utter economic despair. It’s sad, but true. California has become a medieval state of the extremely affluent, the threadbare working poor, and the drug addled destitute. It’s a fucking disgrace.
@roseannrook7897 9 күн бұрын
The whole country is like that, Kenneth. And it's not Socialism that puts us here, it's Capitalism.
@carrerlluna66 11 күн бұрын
That was great, thanks. Very similar to now but we don't have the great films to show the time.
@coolaunt516 12 күн бұрын
You have provided me with a weekend binge. Thanks for this!
@nallo69 11 күн бұрын
Despite the dramatic times portrayed in this films, I really enjoyed the selection. Very good work.
@marcietownsend3635 10 күн бұрын
Pre-code films were wild and raunchy and didn't sugarcoat anything. If you see a retrospective anywhere, it's worth your time.
@aliso-pv7ll 11 күн бұрын
“Hoover sent the army, Roosevelt sent his wife” said a WW1 veteran.
@Grisostomo06 8 күн бұрын
Nice work.😇
@stefanol4886 11 күн бұрын
Beautiful and well done! The greatest generation earned that moniker the hard way…
@tackysum 10 күн бұрын
Momma was 8 yrs old when the crash happened. Her daddy died when she was five. Raised by a single mother (a tough old bird as they used to say) with her two sisters. Grandma kept a shotgun and a pistol always handy even after she married for the second time. The family rode freight cars to where the work was and when the work dried up, they would move again. I asked her once what it was really like and she said "You do what you have to do to survive. That's all".
@garylefevers 7 күн бұрын
@18:09 from Wild Boys on the Road, I recognized Grant Mitchell. He had a small but memorable part in Grapes of Wrath.
@garylefevers 7 күн бұрын
Sorry, Wild Boys Of The Road.
@lindamattioli7943 12 күн бұрын
I think you were the one that introduced me to King vedor movies. I saw the one were they start a co-op. Where do you live what state? Thank you for your hard investigative work. My parents grew up during the depression.
@blockmasterscott 6 күн бұрын
My grandparents said that the Great Depression didn’t affect them that much because they were born and raised on a dirt farm where they grew their own food. My grandfather was saying that when he fought against the Japanese in WW2 he could not comprehend getting a paycheck.
@michaelhaslam3496 2 күн бұрын
Excellent !
@sonnysantana5454 11 күн бұрын
that old pre hays code honesty they really don't make them like they used to
@Syren232 11 күн бұрын
Fantastic episode. Even by Cinema Cities standards, which is astronomically high.
@smilanesi98 8 күн бұрын
The irony is thought Happy Days would be here again in 1933. Four years later the unemployment rate was still 25%.
@jamesacoffey9006 10 күн бұрын
I always love your videos, but this might be my favorite. Of the films mentioned, I think I've only seen, The Crowd, Street Scene and Chain Gang, but I'd love to dive further into this era of film. If I were you I'd consider expanding this into something full length. But what do I know, I'm just a two-bit taxi dancer from the wrong side of the tracks. Can't you see, I'm trash! A floozey! Just an endless string of men with their hands all over me. Tangos, waltzes, j-j-jitterbugs! No clean man's gonna want me, I'm just good for dancing. I belong in an ashcan!
@johnmitchelljr 11 күн бұрын
Your well done video and the comments almost say it all. Ironic how the military unconsciously can beat its own at the word from the politicians. Thank you for your work.
@neilcoligan8621 10 күн бұрын
I'm no film historian, but I do know television production and what you deliver with these videos is well researched, cleverly scripted with well chosen video and audio material... and most of all it's non-formulaic content. The standard you've set for yourself is pretty high, but I believe is is very much appreciated. TCM and PBS should come knocking, but then that might restrict what you have achieved with this channel.
@danhurst9048 10 күн бұрын
This is a video.keep them coming... And i love your final comment
@ferociousgumby 11 күн бұрын
We don't know what real hardship is.
@barbarak2836 11 күн бұрын
Yes, even though grocery prices have gone up, at least we can GET groceries.
@alg11297 12 күн бұрын
Good choices. Also, Dead End. Would also appreciate a look at Hollywood's look at political films most notably Gabriel Over the White House, and Destination Moscow two rarely seen films that were off the wall.
@heinkle1 12 күн бұрын
Great overview - the outro music is very LA Noire
@venom7774 12 күн бұрын
YES YES YES. THANK YOU ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@sharonfranklin9255 11 күн бұрын
Excellent
@frenchcuff9453 10 күн бұрын
My favorite era! You picked some of the best, have you seen HEROES FOR SALE (1933)? A great gritty social commentary film.
@jeffking4176 10 күн бұрын
“Wild Boys Of The Road” : FRANKIE DARRO, a Fantastic [ and very much underrated] Actor. 📻🙂
@Kevin-rg3yc 11 күн бұрын
I love pre-codes films street scene is one of my favorites and reminds me a lot of spike lee’s do the right thing
@numbersix8919 11 күн бұрын
My grandpa grew up in the Great Depression, in the summer he went without shoes to save money and chased ice wagons for the ice chips that would fall into the street. He survived WWII and was able to have a life thanks to the GI Bill of Rights. He told me that "if we ever give them another chance" - by deregulating banking and investing - "those Wall Street fat cats will do it to us again." He didn't live to see the 2008 financial crisis, but I sure remembered his prediction. (BTW we are primed for an even worse crisis any time now.)
@freddyjefferson5164 11 күн бұрын
Great stories
@Sean-oy8xm 23 сағат бұрын
My grandfather’s era……amazing.
@robmclaughjr 11 күн бұрын
I've become so confident in Cinema Cities I Like first. Never wrong!
@gregb6469 5 күн бұрын
The 20s were a wild, drunken party. The 30s were the next-day hangover. In the 40s the men and women who were matured and toughened by the Depression went out and whipped Hitler and Tojo.
@darinsingleton3553 10 күн бұрын
In case there are some who are unfamiliar with Smedley Butler, who appears at 23:35 U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler who was, at the time of his death, at that point, the most decorated marine in history. "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street." A man of integrity, who honestly acknowledged his misguided mistakes, owned up to them; and then spent the rest of his life trying to correct those errors, by challenging the crooked politicians & corporate-interests, who sent him to do their bidding.
@arrow1414 10 күн бұрын
I notice in the prison films the prisioners had targets on thei uniforms. They literally had targets on their backs! I wonder if the expresion "I have a target on my back!" (and variations) comes from those movies or did some government wiseguy decided to make that expression literal for the prisoners and the movies just reflected reality?
@user-sb2og6jd6h 9 күн бұрын
Cinema cities, where have you been all my life?
@classiclife7204 11 күн бұрын
Another lovely job. The real-life context behind the films helps illuminate your points. You know, after the government blithely screwed over its WWI vets, busting their heads in and so on, it's a miracle the USA didn't turn full communist. Wild and crazy time, the early 1930s. Later in the decade, post-Code, movies about cooperatives and the joking-but-not-really communist crank became as rare as full moon entering eclipse. My Man Godfrey, rather than Manifestos!
@jaengen 11 күн бұрын
I was born in 1918 so I remember these times. Life was harder but also simpler then.
@paulvoas3328 11 күн бұрын
Wow. My grandmother was born in 1918. Living in an Italian neighborhood with lots of family and relatives there, she told me yes, life was hard but they always had work; and grew and raised a lot of their own food. My mom shared stories of her and her grandmothers butchering chickens and harvesting fruit trees. My grandmother also had a small restaurant called, ‘the pizza hut’ (not the same or maybe I would have grown up with money instead of on food stamps when my father left. My grandfather was born in 1911, worked for GM I think, and had polio so I was a little more aware, and ‘sensitive’, than others during covid how important vaccines were. I hope you are well.
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