Sights and Sounds of the Farm Security Administration
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Uploaded by FDRLibrary on Nov 20, 2010
In the depths of the Great Depression of 1929, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Farm Security Administration. Within the FSA was a photography unit headed by economist Roy Stryker, consisting of now world renowned photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke White. Their assignment was to capture on film the deep poverty ravaging the nation, in order to convince the American people to support FDR's New Deal.
This documentary short combines universal images, sound recordings of music of the 30s and interviews with people living in the government migrant camps FDR created in California. The camps formed the basis of the novel and movie classic, The Grapes of Wrath. What started out as a project to convince Americans to accept Roosevelt's New Deal, became a permanent photographic monument to survival. The FSA photographic collection mirrors what FDR is most known for,hope and optimism against all odds.
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