1945 17 Days! - Part 1 of 3

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17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making (1945)
Producer: Unknown
Part 1 of 3

June 6, 1945. During the 17 days of the newspaper delivery strike in New York, the public waited in two hour lines on the streets outside of newspaper plants in order to buy the paper. Although the news could be listened to over the radio, and Mayor LaGuardia is shown reading a Dick Tracy comic strip over the radio for the "kiddies", this film primarily shows the extreme lines that people were willing to wait in at this time in history in order to receive the news in print.
Obviously financed by the newspapers themselves, the story focuses on how New Yorkers were determined to get their newspaper, no matter how long the line to get it was. Interesting how Unions were barely mentioned in the film. This fascinating movie is also a brilliant snapshot of mid 1940's New York.

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