Pearl Harbor

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Yimei

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/HAnOtWm5OrM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]This video is about Pearl Harbor which happened on Dec 7 1941. It is at the begining of my screenplay. Pearl Harbor is a very  important turning point in American history because it made United States directly involve in World War II and created Japanese Internment camp which impaired Japanese-American physically and emotionally. Also, Pearl Harbor is an important turning point which pushed discrimination wave into a high point under United States governmental power.

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Famous Blacks During the Harlem Renaissance

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Fernando

Although some African Americans were goign through rough times and hardships, some couldnt be shown on their outward appearance. This is a picture of a few of the contributors to the social changes of blacks during this time. This clip would be inserted during the middle of the movie as it shows the many changes of blacks during that time of enlightenment.

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Screenplay: The Great American Journey of Marcus Washington

Posted on July 6, 2010 by rbanik

This is a story about a young boy named Marcus who grows up in northern Mississippi during the late 1800s. Marcus represents the voice of Southern working-class blacks, who despite the promises made by government and civil activists, realizes that everyday is a struggle for survival for him and his family. In living a life of near poverty, he is unable to develop into a functioning member of society and instead lives a very simple working life.

The latter part of the movie is centered around the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois where Marcus witnesses first-hand the hardships of life in the meatpacking district.

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Black Wall Street

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Ndiaga

This portion of the movie explains that it was not considered a crime to lynch a black in the United States during the Jim Crow era. The message that I’m conveying the audience is that blacks Americans  experiences were unique in the United States ; they had endured all kind of atrocities  in this land of freedom .African Americans were victims of a system that condemned blackness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYPVZw1S2Zs

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Riding the Rails during the Great Depression

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Yana

This is the photo of the teenagers who left their homes during the Great Depression escaping harsh reality and trying to find jobs. By the 1930’s railroad was becoming very popular and many teenagers found some sort of romance in riding the trains. This photo will be included in my movie script showing the episode from that time called “Riding the Rails”.

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John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Yan

The Standard Oil Company

My proposal will included several turning points in American history. One of my turning points is the emergence of monopoly. The envision will appear in the movie that I have imagined in the screenplay proposal will be the creation of the Standard Oil Company. The emergence of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company inspired many others industries to seek total control of the American market, which eventually led to many following historical turning points. In this specific scene, I will be using the 1920’s popular music called Dardanella written in 1919. Listening to the 1920s’ music allowed me to sense the atmosphere during the Gilded Age, especially Rockefeller’s situation being a rich and a happy person at that time.  Also, this music combined with Jazz which is relevant to the historical culture as well.

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“Flappers”

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Angie

This image is of the “Flappers” which emerged in the 1920s. It is part of my screenplay in the middle of my film. I choose to include this female liberation movement because it is a turning point for women in which they break out of the norm and express themselves through their clothes and sexual behavior. I want my audience to get the feeling of freedom and the rebellious undertone this movement brings. Women have been fighting the war of freedom since the end of slavery and this movement is the result of all of their frustration and the celebration of being a women.

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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 and Jesse Livermore

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Yukari

My screenplay will focus on the Wall Street crash of 1929 and Jesse Lauriston Livermore (July 26, 1877 – November 28,1940), a stock trader. The image will be used to show the audience the comparison of panic on the Wall Street and a person who made more than 100 million dollars at the Wall Street crash.

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Henry Ford Introduced the Model T, 1909 – My Screenplay

Posted on July 5, 2010 by paverin

Henry and Model T

The introduction of Model T by Henry Ford was a turning point that put American to start using  popular motor vehicles. Henry’s innovations, including assembly line production and paying his workers a wage proportionate to the cost of the car provided a ready made market for his car to be sold into.

The company was a world’s largest industrial complex along the banks of the Rouge River in Dearborn, Michigan, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The massive Rouge Plant included all the elements needed for automobile production: a steel mill, glass factory, and automobile assembly line.

The economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called Fordism.

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Refugee Act of 1980

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Sofiya

United States is a country that been built by immigrants, where some of them were refugees from all over the world. In 1980 was passed the Refugee Act, which is a United States federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on sytematic basis for humanitarian reasons. For example, in 1985 ceiling of 70,000 refugees, with 270,000 immigrants total and 20,000 from any one country, was established. Annually, the proposed refugee Admissions Report to the Congress is written detailing new circumstances invoving refugees worldwide, and determining the new annual ceiling of refugees resettling in the United States. The Refugee Act is another proof that the main United States principle is a freedom.

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