Movies: Prohibition era

People give their opinion to the report on the unpopular Dry Law....

Newsreel on the end of Prohibition....

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This newsreel depicts the inner-workings of a bootleggers' facility for making and distributing illegal bootleg liquor.....

The scene opens in the bedroom of Mr. Nation, husband of the famous Carrie Nation, the “Kansas Saloon Smasher”. Mr. Nation suddenly arises from the bed and picks up a crying infant from the cradle, and walks it up and down the floor. He suddenly step...

A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms ...

G.W. Wickersham, head of Commission, sums up it's findings for Metrotone....

Made during Prohibition and consists of a group of Federal agents destroying a cache of liquor....