a friend asked me if anyone I knew could identify this

....and perhaps succeed where the librarians and I have failed?

Saw it in Grades 6 and 7 and never again saw its like. Have looked up
the teachers I knew from this period. They don't remember it.

Probable title: :"Echoes of an Era, the 1930s"

-As the title credits fade out, we hear a hurdy-gurdy playing, while
someone, probably supposed to be Herbert Hoover, declaims how:
"... the poor-house is vanishing from America"
As we watch a period roller-coaster pulling its load of people upwards,
audio cuts to a loud voice that asks "Is that so?"
- While we watch from the viewpoint of the people on the roller-coaster,
audio track plays what turns out to be:
"Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" - Irving Aronson & his Commanders 02:50
inc. vcl. by Aronson, Bob Leitner, Phil Sachs
recorded in Camden NJ: by Victor, 7 Jan, 1927
(I've done some *looking* for this!)

Strikes me as falling into the 'early talkie' part of this group.

Bob

Two possibilities come to mind:

"Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" (1975) A feature length documentary cobbled
together from newsreel items.

"The Jazz Age" - A made-for-TV documentary from 1956 narrated by Fred Allen

Jeff


"Bob Lipton" <boblipton.RemoveThis@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:4717ad26$0$19635$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> ...and perhaps succeed where the librarians and I have failed?
>
> Saw it in Grades 6 and 7 and never again saw its like. Have looked up the
> teachers I knew from this period. They don't remember it.
>
> Probable title: :"Echoes of an Era, the 1930s"
>
> -As the title credits fade out, we hear a hurdy-gurdy playing, while
> someone, probably supposed to be Herbert Hoover, declaims how:
> "... the poor-house is vanishing from America"
> As we watch a period roller-coaster pulling its load of people upwards,
> audio cuts to a loud voice that asks "Is that so?"
> - While we watch from the viewpoint of the people on the roller-coaster,
> audio track plays what turns out to be:
> "Crazy Words, Crazy Tune" - Irving Aronson & his Commanders 02:50
> inc. vcl. by Aronson, Bob Leitner, Phil Sachs
> recorded in Camden NJ: by Victor, 7 Jan, 1927
> (I've done some *looking* for this!)
>
> Strikes me as falling into the 'early talkie' part of this group.
>
> Bob