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The Crash of 1929
- Title
- The Crash of 1929 [videorecording] / presented by WGBH Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles ; producers, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer.
- Publication
- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1990.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | VTH 2544 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. & b&w; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- In the 1920's Americans thought that the stock market was in a permanent climb, when even the poorest barber and shoe-shine boy owned stocks and when everyone would soon be rich, until the fateful month of October, 1929, when the market made an crash heard around the world. Detailed here are the horrors of how personal and corporate fortunes were totally wiped out, and how even the financial titans of the day could not stem the tide.
- Series Statement
- (The American experience)
- Subjects
- Note
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details (note)
- VHS.
- Title
- The Crash of 1929 [videorecording] / presented by WGBH Boston, WNET/New York and KCET/Los Angeles ; producers, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer.
- Imprint
- Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1990.
- Series
- (The American experience)
- Performer
- Philip Bosco.
- System Details
- VHS.
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- Added Author
- Hovde, Ellen.Meyer, Muffie.Bosco, Philip.WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)KCET (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Publisher No.
- AMEX-308 PBS Video
- Branch Call Number
- VC 338.542 C