USA 1936

About

On theater projects of the Works Progress Administration. WPA theater units present vaudeville shows (comedy teams, dancers, singers), minstrel and marionette shows, Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, Macbeth with an all-Negro cast, and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here at Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps, in parks, and in small-town theaters. Hollywood producer Adolph Zukor advises WPA theater officials. Shows brief scenes of costume designing, stage setting, and rehearsals.

National Archives Identifier: 12325

Local Identifier: 69.9

* Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent)

* From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937

* Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944

* Level of Description: Item

* Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

* This item's copyright was established: 1936

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937

* Production Series: Title: March of time, special, 1936

* Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Archive

Internet Archive, in Ephemeral films

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration

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