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Coins Falling
Master 1 - Tape 1 ECU stack of coins shake back and forth and then fall. It is supposed to symbolize economic collapse, probably the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Low angle shots of coins shaking, falling. High angle shots of coins falling into pile. Could be American coins, maybe French.. Shot of falling coins superimposed over shot of machines minting coins - very graphic and rhythmic.
1950s bathing beauties walk toward the camera,...
Master 1 - Tape 1 1950s bathing beauties walk toward the camera, which is at a hip level view, looking up. There are numbers pasted on the women's bare arms. Around six of them walk toward the camera. Some of them acknowledge the camera, and smile. Bathing beauties stand in a line, posing, one leg in front of the other, mugging toward the camera. Ocean in the background. Eleven women framed in shot with wind is blowing. They all wear identical one-piece suits and banners, but hard to make out what they say (Coos Bay is one, Flower's Grove another). Lots of leg. On cue, they all raise their hands over their head and wave toward the camera.
1920s Love Scene Excerpt
Master 1 - Tape 1 1920s Love Scene Excerpt.
U.S. Mail in 1910s- 1920s
Master 1 - Tape 1 Delivery of the United States Mail. Mail truck from the 10s or 20s drives up to an apartment building. Postman gets out of the back of the truck with mail. Walks up to door and puts two letters in a black exterior mail box. He then rings the doorbell, turns and walks away. The camera stays at the threshold. A woman opens the door and comes out, pulling her letters out of the bottom of the mail box. A man (in hat and goatee) walks in and puts his envelope in a slot that says: Deposit Mail Here and walks away. Behind the scenes of a post office in the 1910s or 20s. Men in vests sort through the mail by hand, efficiently. Then a very brief shot of an automatic sorting machine, as a man feeds envelopes in one-by-one.
Celebrate Armistice
Master 1 - Tape 1 Male soldiers dance together in what is probably a victory celebration. Crowd of other men look on, all in uniform, all happy., a parade of military types walk through the street. Red Cross flags wave, as do American flags. Spectators line the streets. Excited crowd of people at train depot as soldiers arrive, hands stretched out of the windows of the train. Train rides toward the camera, off the left side of the screen. Close up shot of mob on platform. Great shot of excited, patriotic crowd as they wave little American flags. The camera pans from right to left past what looks like thousands and thousands of cheering, flag-waving people. Soldiers leave ship, walking down ramp. Backpacks on. Satchels. They walk in a group, somewhat casually, from right to left (aware of the camera). Parade of horses with American Flags, MS jeep with flag wavers also drives towards camera, spectators line the streets. 1910s cars, possibly Model A's. LS large boat packed to the seams with happy, frantic, waving soldiers. All hands are on deck and the deck is packed. Two shots: first, a medium long shot that gets most of the boat in the frame. Second, a close up with a slow pan by the soldiers, in which you can make out the happy expressions on their faces. Mob scene. Home front crowd. Mob scene. Very happy Americans wave their hats, flags, and anything they can get their hands on at the camera. Buildings and trees in background. Camera pans left to right. People are aware of the camera. Formal military parade. They walk in formation (march) with their guns on their shoulders. March from top right to bottom left of screen. Locked down camera. SUPER SHOT in which little boy in sailor suit is framed on right of screen waving a little American flag as, in front of him, the American soldiers pass. Patriotic. Incredibly happy crowd,people piled in automobiles, waving American flags, cheering, jubilant, delirious. Mob scene. People blow noise makers. Camera then starts to pan quickly the spectators as if in a car, POV past the cheering crowd. Camera stops on a man holding a large American flag. Dancing in the streets. Men and Women. Soldiers and loved ones.Post-war celebration. People dance in street. Great shots.
1960s - Native American and Lake Louise
Fade up on Indian Chief, looking very strong and charismatic. Full headdress of feathers. Colorful beads and clothing. The chief slowly turns from profile to full face, at the camera. Rugged. He's probably 60 years old, leather face. Fade out. Bright blue sky in background. Native Americans. Lake Louise. Beauty nature shot. Water ripples actively in foreground, then camera tilts up to snow covered mountain. Two shots, at different exposures.
Banff Indian Days
Master 1 - Tape 1 Banff Indian Days: North American Indians/Native Americans on Parade (Canada). Led by chief in full headdress on horseback (Horse also decked out in feathers.) Looks proud, cliche. Indian chiefs ride single file toward camera. CUs of some individuals. Women, too: mothers with children/papooses. One papoose yawns a huge yawn as his mother looks at the caemera. Blue sky. Light clouds. Dance for tourists: incredibly colorful, lots of feathers. Spectators look on, could pass for a raindance. A little girl looks real cute as she walks by with a feather in her hair.
Canadian Pacific Train
Master 1 - Tape 1 Several train shots: Canadian Pacific train arrives at depot. Snow covered mountain peaks in background. Passenger train with sky windows on top. Blue sky. Train stopped, eventually moves backward, out of frame. Full pass of train by camera at full speed. Camera in same position as first shot; this time trains starts to run forward.
Humphrey and Mayor Daley, 1968
Master 1 - Tape 1 Democratic candidate for president, Hubert Humphrey, walks onstage prior to Chicago Democratic Convention of 1968. He shakes hands with Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Illinois. A few other city officials get onstage to bask in Humphrey's glow. Camera pans cheering audience, which gives a standing ovation. Humphrey keeps saying "Thank you very much." Camera zooms into CU of Humphrey as he whispers something to Daley. Still photographers take photos FG. Humphrey recognizes someone in the audience and points in recognition. Eventually, he sits down. He starts to give his speech but all we hear is "We've been going, we've been moving, we've been trying some things." These are probably outs from some larger film, documents of the rally Daley held for Illinois delegates before the convention. Drawings of a building on an easel behind HHH.
25th Bud Billiken Parade
Police or some type of soldier group march in formation down the street, photographers from the Chicago Defender newspaper shoot snapshots of the parade. Good journalism/behind the scenes. Floats, cars; several shots: King and queen of parade, health dept. of Robbins, Illinois; the "Eagles" in white uniforms; float from Princeton Park Home; Fried Chicken in a box from Green Acre Farms (with women and signs saying Legs, Thighs, Breasts, and Backs); Young Repbulicans float, another parade Queen sitting on a tin-foil throne; a few crowd shots of people looking on; 1950s cars; an LBT float. Chicago Defender Newspaper photographer on mechanical lift above the crowd, taking snapshots, moving. Crowds of people mull about on the lawn (maybe Washington Park?) a crowd of parade spectators, all African-American,walking the grounds. Like a concert crowd but family oriented.
1950s Gas Stations
Master 1 - Tape 1 Boron gasoline man. Attendant with cap on at Supreme pump, nozzle in hand, ready to pump gas. CU of Boron man without cap, incredibly well-framed (used by Mike Leonard on the Today Show). The man smiles. Bright blue sky in background. At 01:34:00, attendant pumping gas into mid-50s Oldsmobile. He resets pump and inserts gas nozzle into car (shot from back.) Attendant facing camera. Gas Guzzler, 1950s. Los Angeles, California freeway traffic in the late 1950s. A fantastic archival shot, very clean. A "reversible" lane has been set up, so that four lanes of traffic are driving toward us, and two away from us. Cars of many colors. Shot from a low bridge, perhaps, looking down slightly. Closeup of speedometer on 1950s car dashboard. Car is going about 60 miles per hour. Steering wheel moves a bit. 22,000 miles on odometer.
Cranking Car & Riding
Master 1 - Tape 1 Re-enactments of some old driving scenes (people from the 1950s pretend they are people from the 1910s). An old guy walks up to an early model car and opens a box from which he pulls out a crank. This is inserted in the side of the car; he starts to crank. He does a kind of jerky jump start and eventually lets the crank fall out of the hole. In a second shot, a man in a black derby stands in front of a car and cranks the starting crank. He appears to hurt his hand. a sunday drive in the country, car driving toward camera down a winding road. Two shots of car, one closeup, in which you basically see the man and woman (all decked out in Sunday best, nice hat); one medium shot, where the whole car is visible.
The Davis Car
Master 1 - Tape 1 The Davis car, a failed compact three-wheeled "commuter car" of the immediate postwar period. A mother grabs her young daughter and pulls her into the front seat of the parked Davis convertible. The mother moves over, closes the driver's door, and starts the car. She appears to have great difficulty maneuvering the stick shift. As she drives away, we notice that it is a three-wheeled oddity. She does a three-point turn in front of the garage and drives away with the girl standing in the passenger seat! They are both aware of the camera, and smile at times. The car looks something like a Citroen, but with only three wheels. A few shots of the mother driving by herself. She is definitely having trouble with the car. This gets to be very, very funny, b/c as the woman continues to do anything but make three-point turns around the driveway, she retains this shell-shocked perma-grin. She smiles at the camera as if to say "AAAAH, help me! I'm in a 3-wheeled car!" There are other reels on the Davis car in the library.
Wright Bros/Early Flight
Master 1 - Tape 1 B/W archival footage of the Wright Brothers possibly at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina (??? - NOT their famous first flight, might be different location) A small crowd of maybe 50 people are assembled to view the flight. Biplane flies in the air from right to left. Biplane on the gournd is pushed from right to left, as if it had landed and a man was moving it into its hanger. Biplane flies overhead and over camera. Good medium close shot. Wheels have dropped. At famous shot of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk; Orville or Wilbur is in the plane, brother at his side. Camera is positioned directly behind plane, at ground level. Plane taxis away from camera and is seen flying away in the distance. A few spectators move toward the camera, running kind of. It's almost shocking to see their faces. Various shots of old bi-planes, on the ground and in the air.
Hula Hoop Girl
Master 1 - Tape 1 A teenage girl (13 or 14) demonstrates her hula hoop abilities for the camera. She's pretty good. A setup shot, on a stage. Long green drapes behind her. She gets into it, keeping the yellow hula hoop going as she spins around. 1950s cliche. The teenager has lots of energy, and smiles continuously.
Ike & Mamie/Rose Parade
Master 1 - Tape 1 Sequence opens with spectators looking on, behind the scenes, trying to get a glimpse of president Eisenhower. Great color. He appears with Mamie on his arm. People stand behind a police tape barrier that reads "Street Closed". The crowd applauds at one time. Neat shots of the inspection, most shot from behind the President (although a few exceptional CUs.) Nerdy-looking guy hands Mamie a bouquet of purple flowers as the President looks on. It is a neat shot, kind of off-beat Americana. through and through.
Twist Party
Adult Caucasian male and female hands clapping, torsos and hips moving as they dance The Twist. Adult Caucasian male and female couple Twisting at ski lodge, obscuring another couple behind them; adult Caucasian and African American males standing, talking around dance floor. Hips and torsos of males and females doing The Twist. Two adult Caucasian males and one female clapping hands, dancing. Adult Caucasian male and female Twisting, others dancing the same around them. Adult Caucasian male doing The Limbo, performing a split, then doing The Twist in solo dance routine; adult Caucasian males and females stand and clap, moving to music.
Chrysler Town And Country
Master 1 - Tape 1 Some of the best classic auto footage in our library. Color footage of a 1947 or 1948 Chrysler Town and Country wood-sided convertible. Starts with this maroon/purple car under a beautifully spreading oak tree in the sun of afternoon. Two young women in spring dresses get into the car and drive away. Car pulls up to one house, and passenger is left off. She waves goodbye to her friend as the car pulls away. Great classic luxury car.