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  2. Works Progress Administration - Wikipedia

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    The Works Progress Administration (WPA; from 1935 to 1939, then known as the Work Projects Administration from 1939 to 1943) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, [1] including the construction of public buildings and roads.

  3. List of Federal Art Project artists - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]

  4. Federal Theatre Project - Wikipedia

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    Part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal program established August 27, 1935, [5]: 29 funded under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated to the WPA, [ 6 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists , musicians , writers and actors under the WPA's ...

  5. List of American films of 1930 - Wikipedia

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    Title Director Cast Genre Notes Back Pay: William A. Seiter: Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Vivien Oakland: Dramedy: Warner Bros. [20] The Bad Man: Clarence G. Badger: Walter Huston, James Rennie, Myrna Loy

  6. Federal Art Project - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the largest of the New Deal art projects.

  7. Terminal (film) - Wikipedia

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    Terminal was released in North America on 11 May 2018, by RLJE Films. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the American Dreams Strand. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 July 2018 by Arrow Films. The film received generally negative ...

  8. Pack Horse Library Project - Wikipedia

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    [14] [39] The supervisor of the library in Harlan County was Ann Richards, a WPA employee. [40] In 1936, the WPA began planning to open a pack horse library in Somerset, Kentucky. [41] The Somerset library was supervised by Imogene Dutton. [42] By 1937, there was a pack horse library in Whitley County. [14]

  9. Workers Film and Photo League (USA) - Wikipedia

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    The FPL survived for another year in New York, where its photographers formed the Photo League. Some filmmakers formed an independent private production company, others founded Nykino and some, later, the Frontier Film Group. In other cities, such as Chicago and Los Angeles, Film and Photo League activities continued throughout the 1930s.