Business As Usual (1925)

Item title reads - Santa Barbara courageously begins to rebuild - scores of workers start huge task of reconstruction by clearing the streets of earthquake debris. USA (.). M/S as men shovel and throw rubble into a truck, M/S as one man carries a piece of rock while others help clear up. M/S as a man on a crane lifts stone from a collapsed building and moves it into a truck. Intertitle - ’Uncle Sam meets the emergency with an “open-air post office.“’ M/S as postal workers sort mail into slots in a rack outdoors. Intertitle - ’Street restaurants - but they’re popular just the same!’ M/S of people cooking and selling food. M/S of people sat at outdoor tables eating and drinking, the camera pans across them. Intertitle - ’Business as usual! Even an earthquake fails to shock a dentist.’ M/S of a dentist looking after his patients in the open air, he checks an elderly lady’s mouth. M/S of ladies looking through racks of clothes for something to buy. Note: there is a shorter