The Great Depression in America

/ montage - New York skyline from East River / crowd milling on street, traders in stock exchange jumping about in agitated state, people destroying produce they cannot sell, burning vegetables, wheat, spilling milk, throwing crates into water, pan along group of victims of the Great Depression / rundown shack, mother holding child in doorway / interior woman sitting in rocking chair, woman housekeeping, weak-looking girl lying on rough pallet / very thin cow in field / men opening gate, two military trucks entering / building burning, of fuming remains of burnt forest, of motionless English pit-head gear, of man stealing coal in abandoned mine / woman being showered with champagne / wrestling match, four men wrestling in ring, winner being crowned by woman. Shots of man salvaging lathe turnings for scrap / CU hands sorting metal pieces on table.