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The Panic Is On: The Great American Depression as Seen by the Common Man
Artist:
Art Kassel and His Kassels In The Air
Format: DVD
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1. Introduction - Art Kassel & His "Kassles-In-The-Air"
2. Give a Man a Job - Jimmy Durante/Hezekiah Jenkins
3. Life In the Thirties - Dick Robertson & His Orchestra
4. Mr. Zero Gives To the Needy - Bill Cox
5. Boswell Sisters Perform For Legislators, The - Eddy Duchin & His
6. Unemployed March For Relief, The - Bessie Smith
7. Zuni Indian Offers Perspective On the Depression, A - Charlie Pa
8. Millions of Us - Woody Guthrie
9. Dance Marathons - Ted Lewis & His Band
10. Jazz Age, The - Barbecue Bob
11. Debutante Sells Her Chinchilla Coat, A - Charlie Palloy & His Or
12. Knitting Sweaters For the Unemployed With Fanny Brice - Bernard
13. Union Textile Workers Strike - Sonny Boy Williamson
14. Plow That Broke the Plains, The - Bill Cox
15. River, The - Dick Robertson
16. Mr. Zero Evicted - Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans
17. Work Pays America - Shep Fields & His Orchestra
18. We Work Again - Bentley Boys
19. Our Daily Bread - Frank Crumit
20. Power and the Land, The - W. Lee O'Daniel & His Light Crust Doug
21. Starvation Blues - Charlie Jordan
22. Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! - Eddie Cantor
23. Good Old Times (Are Coming Back Again) - Dick Robertson
1. (Everything's Gonna Be) O.K. America - Art Kassel & His "Kassles
2. Panic is On, The - Hezekiah Jenkins/Jimmy Durante/Hezekiah Jenki
3. If I Ever Get a Job Again - Dick Robertson & His Orchestra
4. NRA Blues - Bill Cox
5. Clouds Will Soon Roll By, The - Eddy Duchin & His Orchestra
6. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) - Bessie Smith
7. We're In the Money (the Gold Digger's Song) - Charlie Palloy
8. Great Dust Storm, The - Woody Guthrie
9. Headin' For Better Times - Ted Lewis & His Band
10. Bad Times Blues - Barbecue Bob
11. Brother Can You Spare a Dime? - Charlie Palloy & His Orchestra
12. Bread Line Blues - Bernard "Slim" Smith
13. Welfare Store Blues - Sonny Boy Williamson
14. Franklin Roosevelt's Back Again - Bill Cox
15. I Can't Go To the Poor House - Dick Robertson
16. Old Age Pension Check - Roy Acuff & His Crazy Tennesseans
17. When My Stocks Come Tumbling Down - Fields and Hall
18. Down On Penny's Farm - Bentley Boys
19. Tale of the Ticker, A - Frank Crumit
20. In the Fall of '29 - W. Lee O'Daniel & His Light Crust Doughboys
21. Starvation Blues - Charlie Jordan
22. Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz! - Eddie Cantor
23. Good Old Times (Are Coming Back Again) - Dick Robertson
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Intimate newsreel footage paints a fascinating panorama of American life in the wake of the stock market crash on October 29, 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. Includes excerpts from government-made films and classic documentaries that capture the poverty and extreme distress of the time. Also includes a 32-page booklet of letters, observations, photographs and more. 2009/color/120 min/NR/fullscreen.
