Sample AI education video
The Great Depression in 30 Seconds
A short AI history lesson: the October 1929 crash, bank failures and factory closures, nearly one in four American workers out of a job by 1933, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal and Social Security. Period scenes are AI-generated reenactments, the map and graphics were drawn for the video, the narration uses an AI voice, and captions are built in.
Music:
"Heartbreaking" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (incompetech.com)
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (incompetech.com)
Works cited
- Federal Reserve History, "Stock Market Crash of 1929." federalreservehistory.org
- FDR Library, "Great Depression Facts." fdrlibrary.org
- FDR Library, "Action, and Action Now" guide. fdrlibrary.org (PDF)
- FDR Library, Social Security guide. fdrlibrary.org (PDF)
- BLS series LFU21000100 (1929-1939). data.bls.gov; BLS note bls.gov
- U.S. DOL history, chapter 5. dol.gov
- Library of Congress, New Deal primary source set. loc.gov
- Library of Congress, "The Dust Bowl." loc.gov
- NOAA/NWS Norman, "Black Sunday." weather.gov
- National Archives, Social Security Act. archives.gov
Image credits
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inauguration" (Mar 4 1933), Architect of the Capitol via Wikimedia Commons - Public domain.
- "Signing of the Social Security Act" (Aug 14 1935), Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons - Public domain.
- Map geometry: US states GeoJSON (PublicaMundi MappingAPI, derived from US Census Bureau cartographic data) - public domain.
- Statistic: 24.9% unemployment in 1933 - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Period scenes are AI-generated reenactments.