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