Pre Code Hollywood and the Great Depression

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The Dirty 30s
⭐️ Further Reading, Sources and Movies

Street Scene -    • Street Scene (1931) Sylvia Sidney, William...  

Virtue -    • Видео  
also available free to stream on TUBI https://tubitv.com/movies/100005735/v...

Safe In Hell watch here: (decent quality) https://ok.ru/video/1742457146036
buy here on DVD or Blu-Ray https://amzn.to/3VABPKd

Faithless https://ok.ru/video/309172636323

Wild Boys of the Road is available to stream for free on TUBI: https://tubitv.com/movies/100012700/w...

I Am A Fugitive from a Chain Gang is available free to stream on TUBI https://tubitv.com/movies/100012217/i...

Hells Highway    • Hell's Highway (1932) RICHARD DIX  

⭐️ Documentaries
ABC News Doc series This Century :
Boom to Bust 1920-1929    • The Century: America's Time - 1920-1929: B...  
Stormy Weather 1929-1936    • The Century: America's TIme - 1929-1936: S...  

Riding the Rails:    • Riding The Rails (Part 1) - Depression Doc...  

Stories from The Great Depression
   • Stories from the Great Depression  

American Experience - March of the Bonus Army
   • PBS Documentary: The March of the Bonus Army  

Bonus Army Routed
   • Bonus Army "Routed"  (1932)  

⭐️ Selected Sources
Smedley Butler's Full Bonus March Speech July, 1932
   • Smedley Butler addressed the Bonus Army  

Bernice's Story
https://www.loc.gov/resource/wpalh2.2...

Statistics
https://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
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-a...

⭐️Newspaper Clippings
Caspar Prison Riot
https://www.newspapers.com/article/ca...

Auburn Prison Riot
https://www.newspapers.com/article/pr...

Ohio Prison Fire
https://www.newspapers.com/article/te...

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