Description
A Better Missouri. 1937
Scenes depicting unemployment during the great depression, smoke stacks with no smoke, locked gate with “closed” sign. Scenes of unemployed men on park bench, man with sign that reads “unemployed Will Take Any Job”. Stranger gives a young man a coin which he acknowledge with a tip of his cap. Shows a man looking through a trash can, homeless man sleeping on park bench, man sleeping in doorway, man sleeping in alley. Shows men in soup line.
Sounding of a factory steam whistle signals better times ahead as men work on WPA projects in Missouri. Shows men at a pay windrow drawing a paycheck. The WPA program has removed a vast army from relief rolls bringing smiles to working families.
Shows a steam shovel working in a rock quarry, men using air drills in rock quarry. Shows men at work paving a city street with concrete in St. Louis. County roads are surfaced with stone. Shows a road grader pulled by a team of 4-mules. The Joplin airport is graded and surfaced. Shows schools under construction. A square dance is held in the Winona community hall. CU of couple square dancing.
Clay is dug, sampled, and made into pottery. Women learn hand weaving. Shows women using a spinning wheel to make thread. Shows Ferris Wheel at and other rides at the Sedalia State Fair. Shows people watching horse racing on a new half mile track. Shows nursery school operated by the WPA at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. Various scenes of Black children in the nursery school.
WPA geological units survey for water, wells are dug, and water is tested for mineral content in a laboratory. Shows sewer construction in St. Louis in new sub-division of homes.
Runtime: 00:09:35
Sound: yes
File: high definition 1920×1080/24p ProRes422.
Also available in PAL. Please designate PAL at checkout. There is a PAL handling fee per order of $25.
