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220158 10:04:51 - 10:07:51 B/W SIL 1922
Prohibition
Scenes - Liquor Cut
Men wearing masks cutting alcohol. CU brand names on bottles.
10:07:34 Federal agents smashing bottles into barrels.
221030 03:00:14 - 03:01:34 B/W 1925
Rouse's
Point New York. Tourists Search on
Canadian Border.
Tourists
cars searched by customs men. Lenard B. Jones, customs chief mute piece to
camera. Piles of confiscated liquor. Customs men smashing bottles
Milwaukee
Brewery
Preparations to brew beer - bottles on conveyor and into crates - glass with beer being poured - brewers
sampling beer
015586 07:54:33 - 07:55:06 B/W 1936
Still
in countryside - various shots vats etc. Still demolished with explosives -
Still burning.
(prohibition)
015598 04:05:35 - 04:09:31 B/W 1930
Prohibition
Round Up
US Coast Guards ships in dock - film fault - restart 04:06:45 - man patrolling
- panning shot USCG vessels showing guns - harbour. Cleaning guns on vessels - harbour shots repeated. Customs search cars and men coming over
Canadian border - removes bottle from mans jacket. Piles of confiscated liquor. Agents smashing bottles.
04:08:49 Old Kentucky - under government license distilleries manufacture
whisky for medicine. Man testing alcohol content. Bottles filled and capped on
conveyor belt.
221030 03:17:14 - 03:19:48 B/W Sd 1934
New
York Bars
Traffic on E 48 St. Road sign E.48
Park Avenue. Interior bar -
customers are men and women - flowers everywhere, looks very select. Well dressed women drinking
cocktails. Close ups various
customers. Different bar, waiters
shaking cocktails, men and women seated at bar - sound is conversation between
two men saying how good it is to have a legitimate drink after all these
years. CU feet standing at bar -
bottles - cocktail prepared. (Prohibition)
221030 03:01:39 - 03:03:03 B/W
Dry
Navy declares war on rum runners. US Coast Guards ships lined up in dock. Various shots including guns being cleaned (some poor
quality). Prohibition
220454 00:55:47 - 00:57:49 B/W Sd 1920s
Roaring
20's
Busy city streets with horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, automobiles.
CU woman at beautician made up with lipstick. Woman with cloche hat, man lights her cigarette. Women show off legs. Miss beauty contest, women in
swimsuits. Worker hanging to pillar at top of skyscraper, street underneath.
Prohibition, bashing bottles of alcohol, emptying barrels. Murder scene with corpse shot and
police, car with back window smashed. Mass arrest, criminals come out with hands up, crowd watches. Dance
competition Charleston. Bartender
with cocktail shaker. Exotic
dancers, men and women dance in night club. Sign Broadway, Wall Street, crowd.
220461 07:12:53 - 07:15:18 B/W Sd 1933
Washington 25 years ago today -
Herbert Hoover leaves White house for last time as president. Drives in car
with president elect FDR. Inauguration ceremony - Roosevelt speech.
Mounted police in city street with crowd. Man makes rubber check out of tyre.
CU rubber check. Stretching rubber strip. Man with violin case into grocery
store. Shop sign You dont need money - What have you got? We will take
anything. Swaps violin for food.
Cu beer bottled. Barrel rolling, serving beer in bar after end of prohibition.
Barrels rolled into bank building. Cash till with sign 'The
bank gave 3% - We give 3.2%'.
Women through women entrance. Depression. inflation. PARTIAL
220461 07:15:58 - 07:16:50 B/W Sd 1933
Birmingham,
Alabama 25
years ago today - new deals WPA
destitute workers on building site (?). Cu very damaged shoes. Children out of
school.
Drugstore exterior with signs for beer at 60 cents per hour. Man in bar drinks
three glasses of beer in a row, other drink from one glass with straw, women
and men at table drink as fast as possible, group with girl in trousers sitting
on top of piano cheering with beer.
End of prohibition. PARTIAL
220598 05:10:59 - 05:11:50 B/W SIL 1920s
Crime -
Prohibition
Illegal liquor being seized and put into truck. Agents on rubbish tip smashing
barrels and breaking bottles.
220620 20:27:37 -
20:28:00 B/W SIL 1933
IL,
Chicago; 200,000
Beer Cases In Skyscraper Pile Ready For April 7th - Chicago
1933. Huge pile of beer cases
being stacked & moved on conveyors. Prohibition
220620 20:46:04 - 20:46:46 B/W SIL 1933
NY,
Buffalo - Peace Bridge; [Liquor
Smuggling a Magician's Art]
Police searching car at border. Pulling on spare tyre. Pulling bottle out of inner tube. Disassembling battery & taking out 5 bottles of Seagrams. Prohibition
220620 20:50:24 -
20:51:17 B/W SIL 1933
NY,
Albany; Al Smith
Receives A Rousing Welcome As Repeal Delegate
Smith walking with Gov. Lehman & others & waving hat. People applaud from along side street
filled with crowd. Man Shakes hands with three women in Central Park who feed
beer to newly arrived goats. Prohibition
220622 22:21:09 -
22:21:50 B/W SIL 1934
PA,
Philadelphia. Bootleggers Doomed
As Thousands Rush To Buy State's $1 Whiskey
Lines outside liquor store with police ushering them in. Wrapping bottles and taking off
shelf. CU of money &
bottles. Woman leaves.
Prohibition
LN
501-237 17:00:12 -
17:14:10 B/W SD 1952
Longines
Chronoscope with Senator Elect Barry M Goldwater
TELEVISION INTERVIEW: William Bradford Huie, Editor of the American Mercury,
and Hardy Burt, author and correspondent, talk with Sen.-elect Barry Morris
Goldwater (Republican, Arizona) on growth of Federal government and its
tendency to pre-empt state functions, lower standard of living of American
Indians and legal discrimination against them, including prohibition against
buying liquor. 17:12:01 Sponsors
advertisement for Longines watches.
220641 01:20:15 - 01:21:30 B/W SD 1932
Do You
Want Beer ? Prohibition Vox Pops
Men and women in the street interviewed re beer and repeal of prohibition
220641 01:22:38 - 01:23:07 B/W SD 1932
New
York. Dry Agents Smash Holiday
Cheer Valued At $250,000 in New York
Liquor smashed against wall. Sync sound. Prohibition
220641 01:25:12 - 01:25:47 B/W SD 1932
Milwaukee. Beer Coming Back? Milwaukee brewers
prepare for repeal change in Volstead Act
Interior breweries - bottles on conveyor belt filled with beer. Prohibition
220641 01:25:50 - 01:26:59 B/W SD 1933
New
York. Beer Here - So Near Beer
Plants get Hopped Up
Brewers dray being loaded with barrels, cheers as leaves brewery - trots off
down street. Interior bar - beer poured and served - men drinking and singing
at bar - shots repeated in quick time / time lapse. Prohibition.
220641 01:27:03 - 01:28:32 B/W SD 1930
Chicago,
Illinois. Prohibition Agents Wreck
Huge Still in Chicago
Agents with sledgehammers breaking up still. Man with acetylene torch cutting up still - vats broken up.
220641 01:34:58 - 01:36:24 B/W SD 1932
Chicago. Billy Sunday Declares War on Dry Appeal
Animated speech against black background re prohibition and evil of drink.
220641 01:52:05 - B/W SIL 1920
Prohibition
Begins. Thousands of cases of
alcohol stacked - very soft focus.
Ships on the Hudson River.
220641 01:52:05 - 01:54:27 B/W SIL 1920
Rum
Runner in the Bahamas
Barrels stacked under palm
trees. Black workers stack cases.
Aerial island. Biplane lands on
sea - men on rowboat. Black
workers on beach carry cases on head. White men drink straight from bottle. White man in bar drinking. Prohibition
220804 06:01:31 - 06:02:30 B/W SD 1935
Chicago
- US Confiscates Big Capone Brewery
Raid on Capone Brewery. Federal prohibition agents raid brewery and destroy
20,000 gallons. Agents smashing barrels. Beer running into gutters. No shots
Capone. (Crime - Prohibition)
220804 06:21:41 - 06:22:14 B/W SD 1935
Gangster
Montage
White House - President Roosevelt (FDR). Flashback end of prohibition - brewers dray with barrels - Al Capone at
races (poor quality shot). Criminal behind bars - FBI agent firing guns - Dillinger on slab -
Hauptmann. All very short montage
shots.
220804 06:26:08 - 06:27:34 B/W SIL 1931
Montreal,
Canadian Ale in the Making
Montreal distillery prepares for the holidays
Brewers horse drawn dray with Black Horse painted on side - interior
distillery - vats of beer - beer
bottles on conveyor belt and packed into crates. Gentlemens club, waiter serving bottled beer at
tables. Lorries loaded with beer
leave distillery in the snow. Prohibition
220804 06:27:36 - 06:29:56 B/W SIL 1930
Asheville,
New York City Drys
Ruin Famed Dixie Moonshine
Federal raid in New York City
Prohibition agents smashing bottles and barrels, close shot liquor running in
gutter. Stills destroyed with
axes.
Seizing a mountain still. Government agents chase and arrest moonshiner. Still destroyed by rifle fire and axes
Government agents use machine gun to shoot up moonshiners car, eventually it
bursts into flames
220804 06:49:17 - 06:50:12 B/W SIL 1931
Federal raid on boat
Boat Raritan Sun moored - Federal agents searching boat and finding bags of
Walkers Club Whisky (Whiskey). Contraband loaded onto customs lorries and away. Prohibition.
LN
501-317 01:13:26 -
01:20:12 B/W SD 1931 - 1932
Events
- FDR campaigning & nomination
Governor Roosevelt (FDR) inaugurates Washington Bridge.
Prohibition - Federal agents raiding liquor selling places. Smashing barrels.
Beer parade in New York City - re taxation for beer. Illuminated Statue of Liberty at night. Police arrest and manhandle beer
protester. Crowds disperse.
Bonus Army evacuated - violence.
1932 Chicago Democratic Convention. Senator ?? speech
Old blind woman says shes George Nye the Quaker evangelist and talks against
alcohol - crackpot.
Democratic Convention - William Gibbs Mcadoo speech. Announcing FDR as Democratic candidate.
FDRs plane lands after nomination. FDR speech after nomination I pledge myself to a New Deal for the American people...
Roosevelt sailing with family after nomination.
LN
501-318 02:42:40 -
02:43:59 B/W SD 1936
Industry
Booms As States Vote Repeal of Prohibition Law
dozens of donkeys or mules pulling cart in field. Women sealing
bottle in factory. Men into
factory. Barrels rolling off
production line and into depot. Beer tap flowing.
Night club shots - couples dancing; drinking at table; women dance wildly on
stage.
Smashing barrels. Liquor
industry. NRA logo
220870 03:24:18 -
03.25.21 B/W SD 1930
Barrels
of Alcohol Smashed - Prohibition
Men with axes smash open barrels of liquor. Cans of alcohol opened and poured away, bottles smashed by
agents.
220870 03:25:45 - 03:27:05 B/W SD 1930
New
York
Rum-Runner
Ada M. Captured - Prohibition
Rum runner taken into New York Harbour by Coast guard. Officers taking cans of Double Eagle
whiskey for analysis. Officers
looking at confiscated alcohol. Stevedores offloading confiscated liquor.
220870 03:33:10 - 03:35:20 B/W SIL 1925
Liquor
for Cuba - Prohibition
Men roll barrels of alcohol out of warehouse at docks. Ship unloaded at dock. Barrels and cases of booze
stacked. Rum runners - sailing
ships.
220870 03:39:12 - 03:40:00 B/W SIL 1927
Liquor
Raid - Prohibition
Agents climb in through trap door. Beer emptied from barrels. Smashing barrels.
220870 03:40:02 - 03:40:48 B/W SIL 1917
Billy
Sunday Rally
Crowds in stadium. Billy Sunday removes collar and tie - starts speaking to
audience (mos) Animated, waving hands around. Prohibition / Evangelists
220870 03:41:40 B/W SIL 1922
Rum
Runners in the Bahamas
Smaller boat approaches sailing ship and man throws rope. Crates of illicit alcohol loaded onto small boat. Empty crates on coastline. CU crates - tradenames Gordon's Gin,
Haig Whiskey. Local boy sitting on
tree stump with binoculars looking out to sea. Boy up palm tree keeping watch.
220870 03:45:08 - 03:48:46 B/W SIL 1927
Kansas, Oklahoma. Dry and Kansas
Wet - Saloon Raids
Oklahoma City Police, not in uniform, out of station and into car carrying axes
and crowbars. Raiding an illicit
saloon. Small bar carried outside
and bottles removed.
Kansas saloon, men going in.
03:46:15 Police stationed at Leavenworth inspect delivery of liquor crossing
the bridge into Kansas - still wet. Kansas city which has thirty saloons in one block, supported by visitors
across the state line. Men in
demonstration carrying banner Wet or Dry - we will have work or know the
reason why - men forced into unemployment by Prohibition. Small children with banner 'Our Papa
hasn't worked since Jan 1st' . Crying child with placard 'Won't Somebody please
give my Daddy a job' Brewery
worker with wife and seven children.
03:47:48 Beginning of item repeated - Oklahoma City Police, not in uniform, out
of station and into car carrying axes and crowbars. Raiding an illicit saloon. Small bar carried outside and bottles removed. Kansas saloon, men going in.
220872 02:39:14 - 02:47:56 B/W SIL 1934
New
York [Prohibition - Speak Easy
Street, New York City]
Night & taxis along crowded street w/ pedestrians & cars parked. Awning: ...Casino club. Sign 'Guinness is Good for you'. People at door being hustled. Interior of bar & women drinking. Men shovelling bottles into trash bin. Man
in suit w/ carnation talking, another drinking. CU hand on buzzer. Man at window in door. People drinking up. Hand on buzzer. Toasting. Bottles
into trash. Ext. 21 on
awning. Interior man at window
& buzzing someone in. Men
raiding basement dumping bottles. Ext. people in & out. Trumpet player & guitarist under awning
#35 Casino de Luxe. Awning Leon
& Eddie #33. Sign:
Tony's. CU Casino de Luxe awning;
Leon & Eddie; Night & people out of car into & out of iron gates in
top hats, etc.
Chicago
Scenes 1920s
220158 10:00:00 - 10:04:46 B/W SIL 1920
Chicago
Scenes. Aerial views
Elevated railway - train towards camera.
Police and demonstrators on street. Placards re We want Homes not Jails. (might not be Chicago?)
10:01:39 Various street scenes with traffic, trams and pedestrians. Open top
buses.
10:02:36 Elevated train towards camera. Train into station. Large
building. Wide avenue with cars.
10:04:05 Locked off shot at busy intersection - pedestrians, traffic, trams.
200512
d/p B/W SIL 1929
IL,
Chicago. Pan over Chicago's
skyline. Grant Park &
Buckingham Fountain with people nearby. Navy Pier & harbour; Michigan Ave from top of bus;
past art museum. Fountain of Great
Lakes by Laredo Taft. People
feeding pigeons. Chevrolet &
Frigidaire billboards. Blvd. Link
Bridge. Through more streets. Very ornate Water Tower. Lake front with bathers on
beaches. Palmer Mansion. Into Lincoln Park & past Yacht
Harbour. People at zoo.
220870 03:00:04 -
03:03:25 B/W SIL 1926 - 1930s
Boston,
Chicago, New York Mayor
Jimmy Walker
Celebrations at Tammany Hall after Jimmy Walker's victory. Walker at desk in
office with others. City Hall,
Mayor Walker exits with King of Siam, both wearing top hats. Walker with Governor of New
Jersey. Walker with Channel
swimmer Getrude Ederle. 03:01:22
Depression - auction of men for labour. Man handing over cash to another who cries. Demonstrations against unemployment, many women in parade. 03:02:11 Boston Mayor James Curley -
leads symbolic funeral parade to bury the depression, 'body' dumped in Boston
Harbor. 03:02:31 ? hands out food
baskets for the needy in Chicago. 03:02:46 New York - Beer
parade, mass bands, Jimmy Walker
in parade - speaking (mos)
220870 03:35:24 - 03:39:05 B/W SIL 1929
Chicago
Opera Ball
Couples in evening dress dancing. Crowded dance floor. Parties dining at tables. Smoking. Good shots dancing.
220870 03:54:19 - 03:54:50 B/W SIL 1920
Chicago. National
Crime Commission Meets
Start of drive to strip the gunmen of guns. National Crime commission meets
to organise restriction on sale of firearms.
Meeting in conference room, men listening. Police officer shows tommy-gun to commissioners. Weapons laid out on table. 03:54:44 Former Secretary of War Newton
D. Baker at conference.
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