Featured playlist:  Dramatizations in The March of Time by Margaret Loebe

The March of Time producers frequently dramatized current events as news.
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Mohawk Disaster, in March of Time, Volume 1 2 (Home Box Office, 1935), 5:23 mins Three commercial ocean-liners steam to disaster within 130 days. Senator Pittman urges the senate to adopt the International Safety Code. Dramatization of what may have occurred with SS Mohawk.
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Leadbelly, in March of Time, Volume 1 2 (Home Box Office, 1935), 3:29 mins “Good night, Irene…I’ll see you in my dreams…” is one of the folk songs written by convict Huddie Leadbelly while serving a long-term prison sentence, but enough to insure him a pardon and preservation in the archives of the Library of Congress’ Music Division. Includes dramatization by Huddie Leadbelly and John Lomax.
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Crime School, in March of Time, Volume 2 6 (Home Box Office, 1936), 8:45 mins Director of Prisons and others coming up with program to unite social agencies. Dramatization of poor boy growing up involved in crime eventually commits murder.
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Arson Squads in Action, in March of Time, Volume 2 4 (Home Box Office, 1936), 6:12 mins Arson Squad investigating, dramatization of Fire Marshal Thomas P. Brophy solving case in Brooklyn, Investigation techniques.
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U.S. Milky Way, in March of Time, Volume 3 1 (Home Box Office, 1936), 6:51 mins Dramatization of 1893 Typhoid epidemic traced to milk, past and current dairy farming practices, pasteurization and delivery
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Main Street - U.S.A, in March of Time, Volume 8 4 (Home Box Office, 1941), 17:33 mins Home Front activities, one family's war support efforts, Dramatization of what life would be like if NEW ORDER came to USA, alternate history.
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Watchdogs of the Mail, in March of Time, Volume 14 18 (Home Box Office, 1948), 18:02 mins An in depth look at how the Postal system runs in America. Dramatizations of mail investigations.
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18 Jul 2013
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Narcotics, in March of Time, Volume 1 9 (Home Box Office, 1935), 7:38 mins. Re-enactment showing how the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics stopped drug runners attempting to smuggle a large quantities of cocaine into New Orleans from Central America. Assistant to the Secretary Harold Graves and Bureau of Narcotics “Drug Czar” Harry J. Anslinger organize the bust using undercover agents and wiretaps. In the process of investigation, agents uncover a Honduras revolution plot.
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Relief, in March of Time, Volume 2 5 (Home Box Office, 1936), 5:56 mins U.S. Election year prompts presidential propaganda. Dramatizations depict US' most pressing issue - the decreasing relief fund.
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18 Jul 2013
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