The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression

[spaciousconfidence]

Thank you. I will be linking this to my classroom blog to provide context for Of Mice and Men this week.

[Klaaaan1]

My Mom & Dad went through the depression. I was born at the end of it. I remember my Dad not letting any of us kid's leave the table till we ate all of what was on out plate. We didn't get new shoe's, my Dad took them to a cobbler and had new sole's sowen on the at 50 cents a pair which wasn't cheap since his hourly wage was 1.00 an hour. Looks like we're getting ready to repete those times.

[aidaluka]

You did a fantastic job on your video. If you don't mind, I'll be using it as background information for my 4th grade students this coming school year.

[RuneHQVideos]

@aidaluka Not at all! Glad you enjoyed it.

[PhiloAmericana]

I never knew I would fall into the same plight as my grandfather. But it seems like we can't avoid another depression.

[yangbob1]

Engineered depressions are a great way to get cheap labour to fix the infastructure of the country.

[outbackeddie]

I think the 30's was a fascinating period of time. I especially like the men's hats and the fact there are almost no fat people. That's what we need today - hats and no fat people. Oh, and horse drawn carriages. I love horse drawn carriages.

[tommyg524]

Reasons for the Depression of 2008-2020

go to you tube type in: the corporation, also: "Greed in America" see 4 min video by Craig Harrington, excellent explanation in 4 min's, also: indymac sweetheart deal....also: inside job film and you will see the truth about the "great" country. To think these elitist cant take anything with them when THEY die. lol.

[rkc010]

Isn't it suspicious that it only supposedly happen for 6-8 yrs while the government/corporations were forcing people from their homes.before it nothing happened like this for thousands of years and now the land is controlled by a hand of individuals this supposedly hasn't happend.yes there were storms in the midwest since Earth's birth,but every day for 6-8 yrs.they blame something else to cover up their evilness.

[Breezyb2015]

i like this video and instead of trying to judge how its not real you should try to hepl make sure this doesnt hapen in north carolina this a real peice of history

[keenaoctober1]

This is a great video. It helped me with my paper for class "American Civilization 2.

[phastermonkey]

AWEsome job, RhuneHQ. I hope you got an A+ on this.

[FlawsicHD]

OMG I HAVE TO WATCH THIS STUPID VIDEO FOR SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS BORING OMFG

[superjetism]

@FlawsicHD STFU KID YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE IN THOSE TIMES NO MONEY . RARELY FOOD AT LEAST GIVE RESPECT TO THOSE WHO LIVED TRHOUGH IT

[FlawsicHD]

@superjetism Calm Down..? Just a lil? For those who died during this time?

[prairiehistory]

be careful that you don't confuse the dust bowl with the depression- they are not essentially synonymous. the dust bowl affected the great plains more than the depression, and the dust bowl rarely affected the east or west coast.

[MissCnova]

Great job on these videos!

[one2true4love]

nice video! and what song did you use? it goes great with the footage.

[TheMedic224]

Gold Rush anyone?

[xxxvaNiLLaJuNxxx]

stiiiiiiiiickies on the floor

[teachingtexas1]

Excellent work. I'm showing this to all my 11th grade history students today!

[zanuha]

What does this have to do with TF2 >:(

[ShadowCrashed81]

Reminds me of TODAY

[MrCraig1930]

@richardcwood1 Yes I remember it too, we would put wet towels around doors and windows. Do you remember Black Sunday in 1935? I was living South of Wichita at the time it hit.

[TheSusiequeen]

i learned about this during school today. we saw a video that lasted the whole class period. about 40 minutes long. it was devistating. i wanted to know more about the dust bowl right when i learned about it

[ppatriot2003]

Great Video

[MrHippymoose]

Oh damn, I thought this was a team fortress 2 video... :(

[ItalianoConfuso]

What is "the dust bowl"?

[RuneHQVideos]

@ItalianoConfuso The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). See Wikipedia for more information.

[misstwilightqueen1]

@RuneHQVideos thank you some one that knows

[chiledoug]

@ItalianoConfuso pretty much drought+bad farming practices+on top of economic depression(instigated by the big bankers and wall street,).so it was not just a whether thing. The economy had a lot to do with people having to leave there farms...

[Renagadepatriot]

@ItalianoConfuso it was spread over the central United states okla, texas, kasas , it was due to over production of farm land and drought and wind . and the great depresion . my grandmother lived through it . go watch the movie The grapes of wrath .

[genenco1]

@Renagadepatriot Yes what you have said it true, in addition, the main part of the "Dust Bowl" (My Mother was born in 1923) was that with farming, ANY spot of land was to be growing crops and not anything else. So they cut trees down and thus, slit their throats.

[misstwilightqueen1]

@ItalianoConfuso f**k you for not know who the dust bowl is

[Sootytailpipes]

Thank for your your effort in the making of this superb video

Ian North Wales

[GuEsEmAM123]

all i have 2 say is that im speachless on how good this video is.....good job man u derseve a award

[brotherjupiter]

"Help me find a job I do not want charity"

Kinda makes you wish todays infamous high paid filthy corrupt wall st money managers with their multi multi million dollar bonuses care of tax payer bailouts had the dignity to off themselves and save us the embarrassment.

[FunnyLooking77]

0:55 a great depression child molester, and whats he drinking? chewing tobacco spit to show his toughness

[lastrada52]

A stunning record of the past we hope not to relive. Every student should SEE this. Understand it. Realize it CAN happen again.....and to THEM. In order to not repeat history we must know about it. Not deny it. No one is promised tomorrow. I often wonder as I look at the faces of those people, especially the pictures of the children -- did they make it? Where are they today? Did they find any happiness after this era? We may never know. And someone reading this is probably saying "who cares?"

[Serrokot]

When financiers take away all money from the people it is called Great Depression ?

[MrBillybeetroot]

i hope america remembers these people and the history of them......i think the 20s and 30s can sometimes be forgotten as it wasnt as flash as some eras that are so well looked upon these days.......these people paved the way for many things we take for granted!!!.......thanks for the great vid!!!.....do some more!!

[MrBillybeetroot]

cheers for putting up a very important bit of history....those that done the worst jobs for survirval!!....it continues !!!...well done.

[Irenchien]

what's the name of this song??

[cuadrature]

Beautiful video, thank you.

[chiledoug]

awsome my friend

[chiledoug]

very nice..my friend

[chiledoug]

who is this beautiful soul

[indiefolker]

good thing we still have these kinds of films around!

[MrChameleon2010]

You know.. people got real religious after the roaring 20s. Gone from the partys and the wealthy times. Kind of like today. The party is over. Maybe we will see global destruction and a depression far greater. Only it's going to suck far greater this round. There may not be a dust storm because of new farming practices but there will be a storm of misery. a storm of diseases. Enjoy your day. Keep thinking there is no God and all of this is random and see what happens.

[singlaprety12]

@MrChameleon2010 we got a dust bowl(oil spill)

[RuneHQVideos]

I'll see if I still have the higher quality version to upload - it has smoother transitions.

[chiledoug]

@RuneHQVideos well this is soooo cool my friend this is so close to what is going on now

[badguysss1]

sad

[albaneliz]

You did a fabulous job at putting this video together, hope you did good on your test!

[free2bekirk]

History has always been repeated, if we study the current conditions of WALL STREET the question is not when however how soon the STOCK MARKET is gonna crash and when it does the results are going to CATASTROPHIC the past is always here for us to learn from those who had to live in the PAST

[jumpercity1]

it was cool dude

[BanchouLupe]

A parte la crisis económica catalizó la crisis ambiental, la peor en siglos. Y puedo darme una idea del problema; cuando el 18 de marzo del 2008 la ciudad de Monterrey (México), fue cubierta por una nube de polvo durante horas, puesto que hubo ráfagas de viento a la semana previa, anuncios panorámicos cayeron y camiones volcaron, la gente se encerró en sus hogares por el aire contaminado. Un fenómeno poco común en el área pero sucedió.

[thetitanicisdead]

were studying this in class

[mrprotector44]

these times make me sad but the lynching

[camelandu2]

I wonder what this would sound like with Camel's track "Dust Bowl" in the background... Camel's album "Dust and Dreams" is based on a book by John Steinbeck, and the picture at 1:43

[bettykitten2233]

I greatly enjoyed the video (as much as one can when viewing misery and poverty) but Brother Can You Spare A Dime? by Bing Crosby would've been perfect. And the suffering of the people wouldn't have been so bad had the American government had a welfare and relief system in place to help those in dire need. And still you have no healthcare, what a magnificent progression from the 1930s.

[wmichswingers]

Should have used "song of the South" by Alabama...

[estelle715]

My dad was born and raised in KS. and he well remembered the dust bowl,where the wind blew for days on end, and the wind just roaring and dust everywhere. Hard to breathe,also.

[alfonsinamdq]

Esto puede llegar a producirse en los países en donde se hacen desmontes para sembrar soja.

[daisy1087655]

if you read the book Esperanza Rising you will see this in it... very good book.. very sad

[malumalumalu]

it won't be long before people are making historical videos about the depression we are currently living through.

[sandydogy]

We seem to be going back to this with jobs people in the UK big ques to get work

[duckpoop220]

AHHH. you are quoting from the movie The Crow.. you know when Brandon Lee is squeezing the morphine from Brendas veins....

[harleyspringer1]

Mother is the name of GOD in the mouths of small children.

[ubuibiok]

*****. A  UBUIBIOK FAVORITE !

[knite2005]

o wow this is an amazing video u did. so emotional ill give thumbs up on it. success!

[612franklin]

Meaning in Motion... I Note That You Don't Append Your Name, Mother..... Health to You and the Hope You Give.....

[7h3Cho53n1]

LLLL we watched this in class. nice m8

[GENshaan]

oh my! where did you find these clips?

[sarahspaulding04]

Hey great video I was wondering if I could use some clips from it for our AP History project...?

[alleybow94]

Allison tougas was here lol wow that cloud of dust was big i feel so bad for those people......

[everafte98]

my grandma was alive when this happend she still alive i get to hear storys its fun to hear them

[ASeasonedWitch]

A view of third world America.

Without modern irrigation and improved farming techniques (though still FAR from perfect) we would be suffering from similar conditions now due to lack of rainfall for the last decade over much of the mid-west.

[darkflame85]

not bad for a runescape person :o

[brdmr1982]

Very well done, RuneHQVideos! I hope got a good grade for this, I very much enjoyed it! It makes me want to research the Dustbowl and Depression era more, and you coulnd't have picked a better song to put these pictures to.

[garfieldcat809]

should this be a thirties or forties sad song

[WilsonTheVolleyball]

Good video.

[ye1l0wcard]

DId you have mister gilogily?

[Quickfix16]

25million homeless people in america and increasing monthly by 200,000 + there is still a few more waves of homeless people to come. it is 2009 now so 1-3 years from now is when the worst is going to start to happen. 6.5 billion people and increasing daily. more life is created then destroyed. That is a problem when everything is hungry.

[dadecountyhustler305]

Where in the fuck did you get your facts"

"25million homeless people in America"

8% of our population is not homeless. However 8% is unemployed if that's what you mean?

"1-3 years"

November is key. that's all I'm saying

[fread098]

W T F is that what the world was like

[cdltpx]

My frugel ways were born during this time while my parents went through their money as soon as they got it I learned from my grandparents when they told me the stories of the great depression. They said our family had no money but money was not the protection for us our savior was the ability to grow crops hunt and fish. We have fun but our entertainment is family we have our fun playing cards and when we work and fish together. Learn to be independant survival skills will save you and yours.

[Celticswynd]

I love Sarah like alot of people, but think you could of got extra credit if you used an era song, such as "Brother could you spare a dime?"(But the Sarah choice does reach the modern audiance more.)

[laura20022004]

i learned about the dust blizzard on history channel last week and that was do depressing how these people lost everything and they had to sell there farms for money and food

[flangelet]

They did it to themselves.

Over-industrialized farming methods and unsupportable clod-busting on weak soil. Google HICKMAN PRICE for more details!

Just like liars stating exagerated earning power did for you this time around!

Who says we don't learn from history?

[MistyOwlMusic]

Nice work. For more Depression Era photographs and original song by the Thomas Brothers, watch their movie Pennyland.

[drawdem]

Two man made disasters and are we learning?

[ostalavista1]

Hello, I am a student teacher. I was wondering if there is a way you could send this to me, so I would be able to download it to a CD. If you could thanks

[result321]

Ugliest word in this world: CREDIT !!

Always the same lie like the DRUGDEALERS are using to get people on the hook.

[result321]

Pity that the Americans always fall into the same trap, build ALWAYS by the same gangsters => Rockefeller, Morgan, Paulson .......

Poor land of the free :-(

Why is Dr. Ron Paul so ignored?

[paulinotou]

@result321 asshole, this happened over 60 years ago. it was a mistake that the farmers made, not the american people as a whole. its funny you talk about us being poor back than when europe was worse off after WW1 you greedy war pigs. thats the only way dicks like hitler, mousilini, stalin were able to gain power.

[Nebraskapatriot1]

@result321

Ron Paul was right

Question is , with this Govt Shuddown looming here next week... would we as a nation be able to survive this kind of disaster again, in this new technology age?

[flangelet]

Beautiful video of a very tragic episode of american history.

Honestly, studying the current state of the american union, I cannot see a way out of the looming catastrophe that has the usa in its grip.

[flangelet]

2008Oct08

And the crisis in the usa is not even out of the openning stages!

You have yet to have the Credit Default Swaps unwinding, the US Treasury Bond (T-Bills) crisis and the US Dollar fault. Overseas owners of TBills have yet to respond to the bailout, the inflation generated by the 'solutions' has yet to be addressed, the 2nd and 3rd bailouts have yet to be announced and the 'big name' failures, like creditcard companies and medium/small banks, haven't even gotten going. So sad!

[Goddamntheists]

I am anxiously waiting for the wall street power brokers to start jumping in the depression.

[hollisterhottie356x3]

WOW THATS SAD):

[NukeMyHouse]

Good! I'll be using this, if you don't mind.

[StewedTomato]

What a great job! If I was you teacher this would be a A+++++++

[annier1984]

Im working on this in school too!! im in school right now!!!

[meeredithhx3]

I'm studying this too

hah I'm in school right now

working on a project for this.

[dpstar1]

Awesome! I'm making a dvd on the 1930's. Where did you get the video? Great job.....

[RuneHQVideos]

I pieced it together from archive footage then added music

[dpstar1]

Where did you get the archive footage from?

[GuatemalaDude]

Yes, where did you get the footage from? I'm a history teacher and would like to know.

[RuneHQVideos]

Most of it is from the BBC Motion Gallery.

The higher quality footage requires you to pay royalties though.

[TwilightPrincess841]

@RuneHQVideos

Is that website BBCMotionGallery . c o m? Plz answer I'm doing a school vid....

Thx!

[ger2676]

Nice job. WHere were you able to get the archival footage?

[Maxsmith3]

Woah, my geography teacher showed me this in class. Small world. (I'm a HQ forum member btw)

[buddahbully]

im doing htis in school right now. i know what this is.

[TYX91101]

Compassion is a virtue.

Films like this arouse fear in many people. My point is that no matter what life throws at you, a healthy attitude makes it bearable. Of course, healthy attitudes are a rare commodity.

[TexarkanaBraveheart]

our grandparents where better people than we are, we are spoiled compared to them,they could make do with very little, my grandmother GOD rest her soul could into a kitchen with a couple ingrediants and feed teh family for 3 or 4 days

[coopsHoops]

f.d.r. is king

[TYX91101]

Most newsreel film from the Depression era shows overwhelming desperation. Most people in fact kept their jobs and did pretty well through those years, getting by with less for sure, but hardly living on the streets.

[siszam]

Are you suggesting that we ignore the suffering of the few just because the majority do well? That's what people do now even though we have millions of homeless and sick Americans. You've got yours so it doesn't matter, right? Even if one person suffers it should be important to all of us.

[alex17872]

how can i download it?

[artem1002]

wow i was searching for tf2 team fortress two the game lol

[bubber25]

the one coming up is going to be 100X more worse than 1929. back then it was a good mix of farms and city nowadays its 90% city 10% farms. and with this decadent spoiled public. it will be literal hell on earth. such a great famine will be had dont be surprized to see it like it was in russia......parents eating their own children. I tell you it will be bad beyond anything. unless we get ron paul in he can turn this ship around.

[masterphoenixca]

Sorry dude, Ron Paul won't help. His economic policies would prove disastrous. We desperately need another Franklin Delano Rosevelt. He had the cojones to stand up to the corporate powers of the time. He also was in favour of progressive taxation which helped empower the working class.

[crazybaka4life]

i just began studying the great depression. it was sooo sad..the songs are soo moving, though. this vid is really great.

[FREEW0RLD2012]

Get ready,because another one is coming. And they say it'll be WORSE than the last one.

[masterphoenixca]

The fat cats will get fatter, but for everyone else, you are very right. Its time for the working class to stand together.

[InTheSticks1881]

masterphoenixca,

Ron Paul is the only candidate for and by the people with the passion and intellect to effect real change. None other has the courage to tell the truth and the wisdom to reinstate the Constitution as the guiding law. As for Austrian economics, tying the dollar to precious metals, or real money, is the only device which can protect the middle class. America is currently learning a painful lesson about our fiat currency. We are threatened by a Greater Depression as a result.

[iloveacid07]

who sings this song?

[RuneHQVideos]

Song is "Shelter" by Sarah McLachlan.

Read the description next time lol.

[benjaminkspence]

This is great! I just read "The Worst Hard Time"(Timothy Egan, 2006), and I hit UTube immediatly afterward to try and put some -more- images to his words. Both book and video are heart wrenching, and it shows just how easy life really is for most of us. Those of us sitting in nice cozy chairs perusing UTube, at any rate. This kinda insanity is still happening world-wide. If we're unable to help them, we should at least be grateful for what we have...

[nationalgrapeluvr]

How do u get all of the video clips....i have to dod a school project on the Great Depression.....and i need clipslike this....!!!!!!!!!!! How can u download such old clips????????????

[h3llizwaitin]

i watched the same video like this 2 days ago in my science class

[tamralittle]

Ever been around an elderly person from that era? More often than not, they hoard stuff and watch every penny like it was their last. And they put their last morsel of food to use, because they remember the Great Depression. We ought to take note of that generation. We are in many ways a spoiled society.

[melamia71]

Well said!

[chiledoug]

@tamralittle yup my parents..

[lennhart]

Like the Reagan administration, the GOP regimes --Harding, Coolidge and Hoover --favored the very wealthy tax wise while the Fed maintained a tight money policy. Reagan was lucky. His recession of two years was the worst since the Great Depression, always considered a great GOP embarrassment --but not enough to inspire the GOP to change their stupid policies.

[tjsih]

Awesome! This video with Sarah McLachlan singing "Shelter" captures a part of American History never to be forgotten. The selected photos and video provide a real sense of the times, and match the lyrics well. Super Job!

[silverbonn]

Beautiful, sad, poignant video. Very sensitively done. We can *feel* your Heart. BRAVO! (Reminded me of the Katrina victims. The gov't failed BOTH groups. Their common thread? The POOR!) One criticism, however: Credits? Who's singing? **NOTE TO ALL**: The last photo, the woman leaning on her hand, is a very famous, critically acclaimed photo, one amongst many featured in both "Family of Man" & "Family of Woman." --Wonderful books! Check 'em out.

[RuneHQVideos]

Sorry about leaving out the credits within the movie, it was actually done as part of a lot of other movies for a school project, and the credits were at the end (when I split the movie into pieces, I didn't add the credits to the end of each piece) See the description for the credits.

[theelvenkin]

you go im4eversmart! this was a good sad vid

[LeonhartZ7]

It was bad times those days.