America’s Most Pressing Problem! (1933)

Full title reads: “America’s Most Pressing Problem! Graphic Pictures demonstrate gravity of the Mid-West farmers ’Mortgage Revolt’.“. Le Mars, Iowa, United States of America (USA). VS of National Guardsmen patrol the streets of this small town. Ext. of Court House. CU Guardsmen preparing machine gun. VS of prisoners being held in jail after capturing a judge who had been signing mortgage foreclosures. Guards drive them away in a ’Paddy Wagon’. Soldiers check papers of men in streets. N.B. Item found in Unidentified Gazettes reel. May be missing item from 33/38. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930)
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