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  1. Workless Grub for Gold

    Date released
    22 May 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    233
    NoS ID
    032652
    Story no
    2 / 6

    Where thousands rushed in ‘49’. Patient victims of US depression sift "pay-dirt" for livelihood in worked out goldfield.

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  2. Flashes from Everywhere: Down with Depression

    Date released
    4 Dec 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    289
    NoS ID
    032975
    Story no
    3 / 7

    US optimist show it’s all over by driving car headlong over cliff.

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  3. Buy! Buy! Buy!

    Date released
    21 Dec 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    85
    NoS ID
    031794
    Story no
    6 / 6

    Where’s that depression? Huge holiday crowds swarm West End stores in last minute rush to buy presents.

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  4. Lady Astor

    Date released
    12 Mar 1931
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    031317
    Story no
    2 / 6

    Our peeress MP gives some original views on depression.

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  5. US to Protect Dollar

    Date released
    2 Nov 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    280
    NoS ID
    032921
    Story no
    2 / 6

    President Roosevelt announces gold-policy. Far-reaching move aims to end depression by raising prices in America to economic level.

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  6. Who Said Depression?

    Date released
    24 Oct 1932
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    173
    NoS ID
    032313
    Story no
    6 / 6

    Bargain hunters in action! 10,000 wild-eyed women storm police defence-lines in frenzied shopping "riot".

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  7. Don’t Save, Spend

    Date released
    9 Feb 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    204
    NoS ID
    032484
    Story no
    3 / 6

    Get your house painted. Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir H Bellman discuss domestic side of fight against depression.

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  8. Dartington Hall

    Date released
    1973
    Series name
    This Week In Britain
    Issue no
    760
    NoS ID
    329001
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Fifty years ago, in rural Devon, Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst created a revolutionary enterprise. Their achievement, the Dartington Hall Trust, put an end to agricultural depression in the area...

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  9. Dan Smith

    Date released
    1969
    Series name
    The Pacemakers
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    327141
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Dan Smith is the son of a miner from England’s North-East industrial belt. The chaos of industrial reorganisation, decline and depression which he saw there in the thirties lit a fire in his...

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  10. Development Areas

    Date released
    May 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346976
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: A survey of the depressed areas of the 1930s, concentrating on those in the N.E. of England. Rl.1 Industrial South Wales, N.E. England - the river Tyne, Durham and S.W. Scotland - the Clyde,...

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