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Category Archives: 1920-1932
Chinese Exclusion Act
Photocredit: University of California at Berkeley
This political cartoon from the late 1800s depicts the seething animosity towards Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. White immigrants and white Americans alike joined in accusations of the Chinese for stealing jobs and lowering wages. They rallied to drive the Chinese out of their neighborhoods and forced them into concentrated slums all over the country and called it “Chinatown”. This cartoon depicts a Chinese person with sub-human characteristics, as with many cartoons during that era. It was a systematic attempt to dehumanize the Chinese population as to make whites feel more superior. My film will highlights the discrimination and struggles of Chinese immigrants during that period.
Posted in 1865-1877, 1880-1890, 1890-1900, 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Cultural History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged chinese, chinese exclusion act, chinese immigration
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Louis Armstrong
In my movie there would be a lot of portrayals of the dualities of American life, and I think, at least for me, When the Saints Go Marching In is one of those songs that is both happy and sad at the same time. You could say it’s an all-purpose song, but I have specifically happy and specifically sad thoughts about it when I hear it, and the imagery it would be matched up with could bring up both emotions. It’s also classic Louis Armstrong, who is classic jazz, from the Jazz Age, the 1920s, where the arc of my movie would peak.
Congressmen Dickstein – American fascism fighter.
400 rabbis column marching in Washington to draw attention to the plight of Holocaust victims in 1943. The video of the marching rabbis will be mixed with the footage of documentary chronicles of the children in concentrate camps like Auschwitz. The melodies of Jewish lullaby will play on a background. Beautiful and calm melody will only increase and emphasize the horror of the tragedy that was happening all over the Europe. Rabbis approaching the steps of the U.S. Capitol and meeting with Senator William Warren Barbour. The voice of the main hero – Congressmen Dickstein on a background saying: « Senator William Warren Barbour was one of a handful of politicians who proposed legislation that would have allowed as many as 100,000 victims of the Holocaust to emigrate temporarrily to the United States, but unfortunately he died six weeks later after introdusing the bill and it wasn’t passed. I introdused the parallel bill in the House of Representatives, which also failed to pass. During the Holocaust, fewer than 30,000 Jews a year reached the Unted States, and some were turned away due to immigration policies. The US didn’t change its immigration policies until 1948. Because of that so many many people died, that could be saved ……»
Great Depression
This video would be playing on a television set in a shop window as the main character walks by, as though it was a news program. He stops to see what the rest of the world is watching about what he is living through. There is no sound as he is outside the shop. He walks away shaking his head as if to say, “if they only knew the half of it”.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression
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Evolution of Freedom [1865-1945]
The Evolution of Freedom begins in 1787
One of the iconic songs based of the Woodstock concerts was “Freedom” by Richie Havens. This video highlights a freedom revolution that occurs in 1969 but is based off a culmination of events before it. My documentary shows how freedom was subjective to the American populations and had different meaning evolve for it throughout the years. Foner does make a mention of this as the chapters progress, or in our case as we looked back at history. The documentary will begin and end with this song.
Four Gold Pens
The title of my documentary refers to the signing of the Federal Reserve Act by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. He used four gold pens to sign the document as reported by the New York Times. My documentary consists of real footage and recreated scenes accompanied with great music like the song “Money Makes the World go Round” from the movie Cabaret and “Money” by Pink Floyd. It covers relevant economic history beginning with the Panic of 1907 and ending with the establishment of the FDIC Act in 1933.
The image above shows J. P. Morgan (middle) and his daughter arriving in Washington DC. for the Pujo Hearings. The purpose of the hearings was to investigate the “Money Trust” or the connections between Wall Street bankers who had and still have powerful control over the Nation’s finances. Scenes from the hearings play an important part in my documentary since they show a strong opposition against the financial elite at that time. The hearings took place from May 1912 to January 1913.
Posted in 1900-1916, 1916-1920, 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged FDIC, Federal Reserve Act, J. P. Morgan, Money Trust, Panic of 1907, Wall Street
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Empire State Building – American Symbol
Beautiful 102-story Art Deco skyscraper was the tallest building of New York from its complition in 1931 untill the construction of World Trade Center in 1972. After 9/11 events once again it became the tallest building in New York. Empire State Building was one of few projects complited during the times of Great Depression. The constraction was the part of intense competition in New York for the title of “world’s tallest building”. Every night New York City enjoing its beautiful illumination.
Posted in 1920-1932
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Hoovervilles
This is an image of a Hooverville that I would use in a montage of my film as the character recounts his experience living in one of these shanty towns. They are dubbed Hooverville after President Herbert Hoover who let the country slide into depression. I would like to show my audience that Hoovervilles formed across America and were the last resort for homeless families during the Great Depression. Ordinary people were forced to build new homes for themselves out of whatever material they could find. Most of the residents of Hoovervilles were unemployed and begged for food from charities and other families.
Image taken from u-s-history.com
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component
Tagged Great depression, Hooverville
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Good and Hard Times in America 1920’s and 1930’s
This short video tell us the economic prosperity that in the 1920’s the American people enjoyed and also tell us that how in the 1930’s the American faced one one the most dark moments in their life, this was the Great Depression. I just want to mention that life is full of hard and good moments, and all these moments and events make us who we are. This short movie I will play in my movie after the civil war background.
Posted in 1920-1932
Tagged Economic History
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The Great Depression
This is a video that I want to use in my movie. I write about a factory director and his family’s life during the Great Depression and the New Deal. This video portrays the big difference between the roaring twenties and the Great depression. High suicidal rate, starvation and poorness were showed in this video. By adding this video into my movie, I hope people can get a clear sense about what was the real life of a person who lived during the Great Depression.
Posted in 1920-1932, 1932-1940, Economic History, Final Exam Component, Social History
Tagged 1929, stock market crash, the great depression
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