Jazz Age, The*

• 1965 ----- b&w ----- 55 min ----- vhs
• (From the NBC television series, America, A Look Back) Chronicles the era beginning with the Versailles Conference of 1919 and ending with the stock market crash of 1929, a period characterized as one of excessive pleasure-seeking in the United States. Under the exuberance of the Roaring 20s, there is a dark side: Prohibition, the Charleston, Al Capone, jazz, gang warfare, Harding, the stock market, the "It" girl, the Klu Klux Klan, royalty, Coolidge, the stock market, trips abroad, Paris, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, the stock market, sports, Hoover, the stock market, Broadway, Hollywood, the stock market. Narrated by Fred Allen. (Provided through the generosity of the NBC News Archives) (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
• Topics: (Economics, History: American)