AMERICA #10: THE PROMISE FULFILLED AND THE PROMISE BROKEN {BABE RUTH, CHARLES A, LINDBERGH, AND OTHERS} (TV)

Summary

Part ten of this thirteen-part series that traces the history of America from the 15th century onward, documented with pictures, texts, and on-location footage. This part looks at prosperity in post-World War I and in 1920s, the stock market crash, and the Depression. Topics explored include the following: President Woodrow Wilson and postwar dreams; the less ambitious and simpler era of President Warren G. Harding; the prosperity and frivolity of the 1920s, with mass production of Ford cars, heros Babe Ruth and Charles A. Lindbergh, jazz, Sigmund Freud, and Prohibition; Barton's "The Man Nobody Knows" portraying Christ as an advertising genius; the 1929 stock market crash and economic devastation; and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program for economic recovery. Commercials deleted.

Details

NETWORK: NBC
DATE: March 20, 1973 10:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:51:46
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T78:0014
GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
SUBJECT HEADING: Baseball; Sports; U S - History; Depressions (economic); Jazz; U S - Economic conditions
SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1972-1973
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Michael Gill … Producer
Ann Turner … Associate Producer
David Heycock … Director
Denis Brogan … Historical Advisor
Alistair Cooke … Writer, Narrator
Bruce Barton
Charles A. Lindbergh
Jesus Christ
Herbert Hoover
Sigmund Freud
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Ruth, Babe (George Herman Ruth)
Franklin D. Roosevelt