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The Road is Open Again

Created by the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in 1933, this film was directed by Alfred E. Green and stars Dick Powell, Alan Dinehart, Samuel S. Hinds, and Charles Middleton. Dick Powell plays a songwriter working for the NRA struggling to write a song. He falls asleep and receives motivation from the appearance of presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Woodrow Wilson in a dream. The former presidents explain what the NRA is and does, inspiring Powell to create the song, "The Road is Open Again" telling of how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt will lead the nation to financial recovery.

Internet Archive, Living New Deal Project, TheRoadIsOpenAgain7Mins. https://archive.org/details/TheRoadIsOpenAgain7Mins.

1933

Open Domain

TheRoadIsOpenAgain7Mins.