Here’s To The Memory Part 4 (1930-1939)

Here’s to the Memory - Part 4 Various shots of young people in the 1920s dancing and drinking at a wild party, they throw food at each other. Unemployed outside a Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange. Mines standing idle, mills with windows smashed. Industrial landscapes. “National Government“ formed. Group of politicians including Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin. Men standing around on street corners - the unemployed and disenchanted during the “depression“. 01:29:59 - M/S of Al Jolson singing “Sonny Boy“. Short clip of a Broadway musical. Section about the introduction of the “talkie“. Shots of projector room and an early hand cranked optical toy. John Logie Baird striving to create television. . Broadcasting House. (For search purposes aka BBC and British Broadcasting Company). 01:31:54 - History of radio stars of the 1930s. Two comediennes perform a comedy skit - it is Gert and Daisy. A radio announcer changes a record (Christopher Stone?). Two male comedians
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