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The Great Depression
The Arts
Literature:
Title: Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Year: 1939
Synopsis: The book follows the family of the Joads, a family of tenant farmers, as they are swept up in the Great Depression- with a decrease in agricultural industry, bank foreclosures, and becoming trapped in the Dust Bowl- and their attempt to migrate to California for work.
Photography:
Title: Childhood Interrupted
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Caption: A picture of a sick migrant child
Year: ca. 1936
Radio:
Title: Fireside Chats
Performers: FDR
Year: 1933-1944
Title: The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air
Performers: Walt Disney (Mickey Mouse), Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Clara Cluck
Year: 1937, as a way to promote Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Film:
Title: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Performers: Adrianna Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Eddie Collins
Year: 1937
Synopsis: A beautiful young girl escapes the evil queen by running into the woods, where she comes across a family of dwarfs willing to take her in.