Famed newspaper correspondent Floyd Gibbons appeared in and narrated a series of short subjects for Warner Brothers in the 30s. This particular one has Gibbons at a camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the most successful of the New Deal programs.
The CCC for our younger readers took a lot of our Depression Era youth and put them in military style camps, but set them to work on our roads and our national parks, repairing and beautifying such. This was a godsend to a lot of young men for whom there was no work in that decade. Not a bad idea for today either. The CCC only went out of business with the start of World War II.
Gibbons tells a story of a young man played by western actor Dennis Moore who was falsely accused of robbery. You'll recognize clips from Warner Brothers classics like Wild Boys Of The Road and I'm A Fugitive From A Chain Gang. Some of you might recognize others.
It's a good short dramatic film.
