24 Hours Before Wall Street Collapsed

The 1929 stock market crash did not begin on Black Thursday. It began the afternoon before, in the last hour of trading on Wednesday, 23 October 1929 — and nobody in the room knew it yet. CHAPTERS 0:00 The last hour of Wednesday, 23 October 1929 2:08 The ticker four hours behind — and the margin loan 4:34 The night: margin calls, telegrams and "without notice" 7:42 Black Thursday, 10 a.m. — and the rescue that worked 12:11 Monday, Tuesday, and the same sentence today SOURCES Every figure, quotation and headline in this video, with the archive references and the places where the historical record is thin: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a... Archive newspapers and photographs are public domain or carry no known restrictions (Library of Congress · Chronicling America · Wikimedia Commons). --- About The Hidden Exchange: Cinematic documentaries on financial and economic history — from the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression to the crises of today, built from the primary sources up. Subscribe:    / @thehiddenexchange   #1929StockMarketCrash #BlackThursday #FinancialHistory