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America's Presidents - 1950's

Submitted by Roland Faust on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 13:06
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In this educational film from the 1950's, a laundry list of America's Presidents shows where the nation came from and where it was going at the brink of the Eisenhower era.

After hearing the short, and often sanitized, description of each US leader, one wonders how this film might have continued to Nixon, Clinton, W and Barack Obama.

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To Hear Your Banjo Play - 1947

Submitted by Roland Faust on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 19:55
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Folk master Pete Seeger narrates Alan Lomax's documentary on the evolution and appreciation of American folk music. Special cameo performances include Woody Guthrie and Brownie McGhee, amongst many others.

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New Deal: We Work Again - 1930's

Submitted by Roland Faust on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 20:45
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We Work Again is a US government civic-minded film aimed specifically at the unemployed African American population in the wake of the Great Depression.

Produced by the Work Projects Administration, the largest New Deal agency, We Work Again works to illustrate how black citizens would not be left out of the FDR's relief plan. We Work Again includes rare documentary footage of the Depression era, depictions of the New Deal in effect, and a rousing choir of singers, ending the film on a hopeful note.

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Olvera Street: Street of Memory -1937

Submitted by Roland Faust on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 20:44
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An observational tourist documentary about Olvera Street, across from Union Station, in Downtown Los Angeles during the late 1930's.

Authentic moments can still be experienced here just before Olvera Street turned into a straight up tourist trap. This film is an important, though imperfect, document of Mexican influence on Los Angeleno culture.

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Olvera Street is in the oldest part of Downtown Los Angeles, California, and is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument. Many Latinos refer to it as "La Placita Olvera." Circa 1911 it was described as Sonora Town.

Having started as a short lane, Wine Street, it was extended and renamed in honor of Agustín Olvera, a prominent local judge, in 1877.

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