Summary Of The Film Young Sherlocks: Poverty

With the many short films from the 1920s, the film, Young Sherlocks: Poverty, captures a lot of attention towards what actually happened throughout the roaring 1920s. Although the film focuses on a young boy trying to care for his sister and finding anything to eat or drink, I believe the main focus relates to The Great Depression of the 1920s. Although that is not mentioned in the film, the main focus is poverty and how children got around few things. There was one young girl that was part of the higher class and the young boy notices how she is taken and wants to help. The whole idea behind the upper class young girl was for the other men to get a reward back from the town because of poverty. Although the film was short, it was easy to pull information …show more content…
However, the boy in the film uses his knowledge and ways to access the farm to get supply and food. The young boy does his best to care for his sister and he does just that. Although it is not as sanitary drinking milk straight from a goat, the boy does what he can do. Also the farms are still open I feel in the film because the 1920s was just the start of the Great Depression, until it actually took off in 1930. Each year something would happen it seemed and the economics of the year is unfortunate. The main effect of the Great Depression focused on banking as well and how the decline went down. The book, “New World Coming”, by Nathan Miller, discusses how not many people were actually affected by this “little flurry” because Franklin Roosevelt said so. However, people thought differently, “Few people envisioned that the collapse of the stock market would lead to the Great Depression.” People felt as if they knew what would happen, where as others disagreed and slowly over time the Great Depression came into play. The economy slowly came down, which led to the start of