Give a Man a Job1933
Give a Man a Job is a short film produced in 1933 in conjunction with the National Recovery Administration in which audience members were encouraged to offer jobs to the unemployed in the midst of the Great Depression. The film featured Jimmy Durant… more »
Performer:
You look like a grocer.
Second Man in Audience - The Exterminator:
No sir. My job is extermination.
Performer:
You must give your assistants a nice ten-week vacation.
Second Man in Audience - The Exterminator:
Then I'll need more men to kill the rats.
Performer:
We want you to hire a crowd!
[hands the exterminator a N.R.A. - National Recovery Administration - poster]
Second Man in Audience - The Exterminator:
You'll do good work if you hang this sign. It means No Rats Allowed.
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