On theater projects of the Works Progress Administration. WPA theater units present vaudeville shows (comedy teams, dancers, singers), minstrel and marionette shows, Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, Macbeth with an all-Negro cast, and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here at Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps, in parks, and in small-town theaters. Hollywood producer Adolph Zukor advises WPA theater officials. Shows brief scenes of costume designing, stage setting, and rehearsals.

National Archives Identifier: 12325

Local Identifier: 69.9

* Creator(s): Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration. (07/01/1939 - 06/30/1943) (Most Recent)

* From: Series : Motion Picture Films, compiled 1931 - 1937

* Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944

* Level of Description: Item

* Type(s) of Archival Materials: Moving Images

* This item's copyright was established: 1936

The creator compiled or maintained the series between: 1931 - 1937

* Production Series: Title: March of time, special, 1936

* Use Restriction(s): Undetermined

Sound Type: Sound

* Accession Number(s): 330

* Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): Time, Inc., Producer