FDR: The Man Who Changed America

Duration: 1044 ft.

Year Published: 1940

Creator: McGraw-Hill Films

Complete Record: Depression; WWII; FDR (President Franklin D Roosevelt). static pictures of past presidents FDR walking with other men opening credits Animated USA flag Narrator Henry Fonda static pictures from FDR childhood and early adulthood FDR with other polio victims sitting in car talking to crowd ms smiling at camera in sail boat smoking cigar and wearing fedora "History proves that dictatorship..." "I've seen war and that I hate war...I hate war" reemployment speech 1932 unemployment line woman walking around in dust storm dust covered farm land city coast with hoovervilles men sitting in alley Chicago unemployment apples sold on street Whitehorse Herbert Hoover and first lady walking down front stairs people/veterans marching in front of white house Hoover in office June 28th federal tanks and cavalry posted in street McArthur general burning shacks from federal army FDR fishing in country cu FDR CU Hoover "call to arms..win in this crusade...resotre America to its own people" from campaign speech group shots of Roosevelt family daughter talks to FDR parade with FDR Hoover speaking on back of caboose with Mrs. Hoover rolling away from crowd on caboose FDR "new deal that i believe in, you will have done your part...representative government throughout the land." Hoover" we are told that we need a new deal..." FDR "My friends, the time has come, the hour has struck" FDR Inaugural speech "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, nameless..." this bank closed sign people crowding banks police on horse pushing through crowd woman asking if other woman will take duck in exchange for address FDR signing bill for printing paper money money printing and boxed trucks driving out of garage First Fireside Chat "I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days, why it has been done..." "I can assure you that it is safer for you to keep your money in a real bank than under your mattress" "Together we cannot fail." Bars serving beer men drinking large glasses of beer men in lines square filled with thousands of people NRA sign factories workers walking to factories for work men in factories working picking up paycheck rushing to trolleys NRA stickers in storefronts SF thousands of children form NRA blue eagle Sen Arthur Robinson complaining about NRA Sen. Vandenberg complaining about NRA FDR "no expectations of making hit every time come to bat. " streets of Washington police directing traffic driving down street crowds of bread lines CCC buses men walking to camp for CCC doing exercises pealing potatoes auctioning cow pigs rushing out of pen bales of cotton AAA people plowing crops FDR overlooking norris dam Eleanor Roosevelt traveling FDR climbing down from train car men building roads brick roads fixing roofs wheelbarrows horses pulling plows FDR "It can be done" congress women in office buildings SS cards printed FDR and officials at desk at fireside chat talking about Social Security measure women typing cu SS card nine men of high court dismissed NRA empty congress room FDR driving down street in parade Landis "If I'm elected the gov will be balanced" FDR "of course we spent money...we are around the corner" Reelection FDR chat ":new member should be appointed by the president" static shot of court justices and ages Court Packing fiasco letters rushing in women roller skating around post office Sen "this is the most dangerous phase of the new deal" Vandenberg "I am opposed to packing the court...if the constitution needs changing let it be changed by the people" FDR "the constitution says nothing about any power of the court .." Hitler saluting soldiers FDR speech about not going to war "practitioner of peace both domestic and foreign..." German planes overhead shot of German army marching FDR CU "I hope the US will keep out of this war...as long as it is within my power..." Roosevelt in car driving away democratic convention 1940 "I will with gods help continue to serve with the best of my ability and the fullness of my strength" photos of FDR