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This film, “The Doughboys Come Home,” is a chapter from the “The Golden Twenties” series and focuses on the America that the “Doughboys” returned to after World War I and the many societal changes that were occuring at the time. The name “Doughboys'' became the nickname for the troops of General John Pershing’s American Expeditionary Forces who fought on the Western Front in WWI. This film was presented by Blackhawk Films and produced by Richard DeRehemont. It was adapted from the March of Time Feature Production. The film opens with a celebration of Armistice in New York’s Time Square (1:16). Men playing instruments and throwing confetti from a car in celebration (1:32). Smoke billowing out of an industrial chimney (2:05). Crowds of people celebrating the return of a Naval ship (2:08). Two officers look out onto the crowd (2:17). Busy New York street (2:46). Man climbs the side of a building (2:50). Man does a handstand on the side of the building (2:58). Women wearing Parisian hats (3:06). Traffic jam (3:28). Car speeds down a road and a cop writes the driver a ticket (3:34). Extreme congestion and traffic in a resort area (3:47). Women and men walking in long winter jackets (3:58). Wing-walker / man stands on small airplane and does death defying stunts (4:05). Navy’s NC-4, which was a Curtiss NC flying boat, glides on water and flies in the air (4:37). British R-34 dirigible flies (4:57). British R-34 dirigible lands (5:11). Post Office’s planes flying (5:24). On the text slide the names Eddie Rickenbacker and Bert Acosta are mentioned (5:36). Plane wobbles across field (5:43). People run across a field (5:49). Pilot gets out of plane and shakes the hand of another man (5:52). A group of people run up and greet the pilot (5:55). Eddie Rickenbacker stands with another man who is possibly Bert Acosta (5:58). Title reads of newspaper reads “Ocean’s of Liquor Drown City’s Woe for ” from after the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment on July 16, 1920 which enshrined Prohibition into law (6:10). Sign announcing the closure of John Barleycorn (6:25). Picture of the grave of Carry A. Nation who staged a crusade against what she called “Demon Rum” by raiding saloons with a hatchet (6:47). Picture of Carry A. Nation with her hatchet (6:52). Woman swings hatchet at the camera (6:58). Beer bottles smashed against a wall (7:03). Barrels of alcohol emptied (7:22). Ship with soldiers returns to New York (7:43). Sergeant Alvin York, the War’s most decorated hero (8:02). General “Black Jack” Pershing and Admiral William Sims were given honorary degrees (8:13). Newspaper talking about the ongoing race riots (8:31). Race riot with police beating back protestors (8:49). Soldier with machine gun aimed at rioters (9:04). Ku Klux Klan burns a cross (9:22). Klan walking in their white hoods (9:29). Mr. Zero holds an auction sale of human labor before crowds of Bostonians (9:49). Labor strike (10:18). Old Mother Jones, who was nationally known for her labor agitation (10:54). William Green and Phil Murrary of the United Mine Workers and their chief, John L. Lewis, lead practical negotiations for the cause of labor (11:07). Newspaper title “Boston Mobs Loot When Police Quit; Is Much Rowdyism (11:34). Militia patrols Boston’s streets (11:49). Massachusetts Governor and later 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge (12:41). Labor boss, Samuel Gompers, and Industrialist, Charles Shwab (13:01). Police patrol the square (13:20). New York Times headline talks about a TNT bomb that exploded in Wall Street across from J.P Morgan’s office on September 16, 1920 killing thirty (13:29). Photo of the explosion (13:32). Bomb fragments (13:49). Raid on Communist headquarters (14:11). Communists put on trial (14:38). Two Italians Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti walk to their trial (15:06). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: “01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference.“ This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit
