FDR, EPISODE 8: THE BLUE EAGLE (TV)
Summary
Episode 8 of this 26 episode documentary series on the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Highlights of this program include the following: FDR announces the National Recovery Act; Gen. Hugh Johnson, Administrator of NRA; Lewis W. Hine photos of children at work, and NRA Child Labor Clause; the Blue Eagle, the NRA's symbol, and entertainers for NRA, including Robert Montgomery, Nancy Carroll, Roy Atwell, Kate Smith, Will Rogers, and Al Jolson; NRA parade; 2 trains - one labeled old man depression, the other NRA - crash into one another; opposition to NRA, including Hearst, and Joseph W. Martin, Jr.; Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on FDR's belief in private interprise; workers on getting jobs through NRA; Schechter Slaughter House Suit against the NRA, and on May 6, 1935, Supreme Court decides NRA codes are unconstitutional; December 5, 1933, FDR signs 21st amendment repealing prohibition; the co-founder of "21" club remembers that night, and Mrs. Roosevelt on the repeal; manufacture of alcohol; controversy over the awarding of airmail contracts; June 6, 1934, FDR signs the Security and Exchange Act; late 1934, the Bi-Partisan Liberty League is formed, includes comments by Prof. Lindsay Rogers, and an Anti-FDR speech by Al Smith; and FDR speech on the "Timid People Who Are Afraid of Progress." Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: November 30, 1964 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:53
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T84:0068
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: U S - Presidency; Biography; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Depressions (economic) - 1933; Depressions (economic) - 1934; Depressions (economic) - 1935; Labor and Laboring Classes; National Recovery Act; Prohibition; Bi-Partisan Liberty League; U S Securities and Exchange Commission
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1965
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert D. Graff … Executive Producer
- Ben Feiner … Producer
- Robert Emmett Ginna … Associate Producer
- Victor Wolfson … Writer
- Andrea Russo … Writer
- Alex North … Music by
- David Tamkin … Music (Misc. Credits), Orchestrations
- Samuel Matlowsky … Music (Misc. Credits), Orchestrations
- Eleanor Roosevelt … Consultant
- Arthur Kennedy … Narrator
- Charlton Heston … Reads the words of FDR, Voice
- Roy Atwell
- Nancy Carroll
- William Randolph Hearst
- Lewis W. Hine
- Hugh Johnson
- Al Jolson
- Joseph W. Martin, Jr.
- Robert Montgomery
- Lindsay Rogers
- Will Rogers
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Al Smith
- Kate Smith