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1950s - Hurricanes - Trees and Shrubs Blowing in the Wind
Panning view of trees bending and swaying against hurricane force winds; fenced off buildings in BG. Hurricane force winds blowing through roadside shrubs; wind driven rain on road.
1950s - Hurricanes
Ocean waves crashing against rocky shore and town's seawall. Second floor window shade blowing in the wind where windows are missing; trees branches against hurricane winds.
1950s - Footage of Violent Hurricane in Jamaica - Hurricane and Aftermath
Palm trees bending, waving against hurricane force winds and driving rains. Residential street; trees and tree branches waving against the winds. Down tree branches on house roof and in front a house waving in the wind; driving rain. VS of driving rains, ocean spray, and wind swaying trees, tree branches. Aftermath of hurricane showing bare tree trunks, downed trees; Caucasian male child standing outside in the debris. Anchored ship listing to the side. Ship aground. Destroyed buildings; adult men and women walk on road. Panning view of damaged building. Adult Jamaican women drying clothes. Two Jamaican men riding on cart being pulled by horse past a destroyed house. VS of damaged, destroyed buildings. Interior of church with part of the roof missing. Wires hang from utility pole. Downed utility pole; Jamaican males sitting at its base. Man sawing wood with saw. Shirtless man walking carefully on debris. Male children walking on debris.
1940s - Therapy Nurse - Device for Hand Amputee
Door with sign reading: "Orthopedic Occupational Therapy Shop". Adult Caucasian female nurse places a pencil in the cuff attachment for Harold Russell, a hand amputee. Russell writing a letter.
1950s - Hospital - Cars and Ambulances Entering and Leaving Hospital
Exterior of large city hospital; cars and ambulances coming and going from the second level parking lot. Exterior view of top portion of hospital.
1950s - Doctor's Office - Patient Exam
Middle-aged adult male doctor, aided by an adult Caucasian nurse, examining a middle-aged female patient lying down on exam table, taking blood pressure; nurse using tongs to extract wooden depressor.
1950s - Laboratory Research - Woman Taking Notes
Clapboard. Adult Caucasian woman looks at posted sheet of paper between two panels emitting blue light, takes notes, sliding out sheet on metal pipe; man appears, looks at the paper, then walks away.
1950s - Secretaries - Clerical Work
Pan of Caucasian women and men at work within office, seated at desks, answering phones, typing, doing paperwork.
The Jack Benny Program Part 1
Title card "Jack Benny Show" then "Presented by Lucky Strike". Football coach Lou Little in commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes. Jack Benny walks out on to stage to deliver monologue. He talks about the vanities of comedians. Says guest Humphrey Bogart came at a reasonable price, that HB is a tough guy on stage, but knows nothing about business. Haggles with bandleader Bob Crosby about a song on the show. Haggles with co-star Don Wilson over his part in a commercial. Jokes about his frugality. Skit with Humphrey Bogart in police station. Excerpts: "You could tell he was an honest cop by the clothes he wore". "I tried busting the stripteaser but I couldn't get anything on her." Humphrey makes entrance as criminal. Benny interrogates Bogart. "I'm entitled to a phone call, give me a dime and I'll run down to the drug store". (cont.)
The Jack Benny Program Part 2
(cont.) Bogart and Benny exchange blows during questioning. During the interrogation, Bogart mentions the suspect Benny is looking for was smoking a cigarette. This is followed by a long comical plug for the show's sponsor, Lucky Strike cigarettes. Bogart pulls a gun out in the police station while Benny says: "I put my hand in your pocket and when I found a dollar bill, I got so excited I didn't look any further." Benny then asks Bogart to put the gun away and he'll show him a coward. Bogart puts gun away and Benny runs out of police station. After Dorothy Collins commercial for Lucky Strike, Bogart and Benny come back out for final monologue. Credits. CBS station identifier.
The Jack Benny Program
Jack Benny title card followed by "Presented by Lucky Strike". Commercial for Lucky Strike. Jack Benny monologue about the bad Christmas gifts he received. Benny holds a purse and asks if someone in the audience owns it. Appearance by Jayne Mansfield who claims someone stole her purse so Benny could get her up on stage. The Sportsmen quartet singing "New Year In Trinidad". "Rochester" singing and dancing on calypso set. Quartet plugs Lucky Strike during the song. Benny introduces amateur acts. Performer who does comic impersonations of dogs and horses is actually Mel Blanc. Trio of stern and ungainly women singers sing horrible song. Benny looks mortified. Lucky Strike commercial. Benny introduces and touts martial arts expert, then introduces six big guys to fight him. Six guys have no problem beating up martial arts expert. Credits. Still promoting the show "Private Secretary", with woman smiling and taking dictation.
The Cisco Kid (part 1)
Cisco and Pancho ride across desert scenery while credits roll. Band of men gathered around posted newspaper story saying town must end a crime wave perpetrated by a gambler named Judd. Judd walks up and pulls down newspaper and then, with two thugs, trashes newspaper office. Cisco and Pancho out along road. Stage pulls up, woman in back. Stagecoach driver thinks C & P are going to hold him up. C & P meet woman after pulling stagecoach over. Judd is humiliating editor in public when woman from stagecoach arrives. She comes after Judd and says the man is her brother. Thugs remove her. C & P arrive and get in a fight with Judd while trying to save editor from being ridden out of town. Mayor arrives and stops the fight but says he is unable to rid the town of Judd. Cisco goes into newspaper office but editor's sister hits him, thinking he is a bad guy. (cont.)
The Cisco Kid (part 2)
(cont.) Pancho drops something on his foot and jumps up and down and yells invectives in Spanish. 01:09:30 Cisco throws a one peso piece into the air and shoots a hole in it.Judd and thugs outside building with sign reading "Sundance/Hall of Chance". Woman apologizing to Cisco. Editor talks to Cisco about Judd. Judd and thugs build barricade outside editor's office and tells editor to come out with his hands up. Gunfight starts. Cisco plugs a thug in the back. Pancho shoots one and smiles. Cisco gets up on roof and shoots a man's hat off while the thugs flee. Cisco talks to mayor and tells him a marshall is on the way to the town. After Cisco leaves, Judd walks in on mayor--they're in cahoots and plan to ambush the marshall. They surprise the marshall and pin his star on one of Judd's thugs. Imposter marshall meets with editor and Cisco. Mayor tells Judd he's going to kill the editor and Cisco with dynamite. Thugs outside editor's cabin in the boulders with dynamite. Cisco, editor arrive, find Pancho stuck upside down in the boulders. (cont).
The Cisco Kid (part 3)
(cont.) Pancho demonstrates how he got stuck and gets stuck again. The good guys all walk into the cabin. Man places dynamite next to cabin and lights it. Cisco smells the fuze. Gunfight. Cisco throws dynamite back up toward villians. C & P chase villians on horseback. Cisco lassoes villian off of horse. C & P with mayor and imposter marshall. C & P are aware of their treachery. Cisco shoots mayor in arm when the mayor pulls on him. Editor' sister tacks up newspaper article reading "Sundance Free of Carson Gang". Pancho rips it down and rides away with Cisco because he misreads article and thinks they're in trouble. "Oh Cisco,"/"Oh Pancho," at 01:25:38:00. C & P wave goodbye and ride off. Credits. Cast credits: Ellen Hall, Dennis Moore, William Henry, Steve Clark, Ted Adams, Ferris Taylor.
The Roy Rogers Show Part 1
Introduction: Roy Rogers shooting gun at someone he's chasing on Trigger, Dale Evans, Pat Brady, Bullet the dog. Sign outside building reading "Eureka/Hotel and Cafe/Dale Evans--Prop." Dale serving customers behind lunch counter. Scotty, an old Scottish man with Highlander's cap, gives Dale a gold nugget to pay for lunch. Man at counter inquires about the goldpiece. Dale thinks it is a fake and was just patronizing him. But the man at the counter, along with two other men, amboush Scotty and his mule outside of town. Gunfight. Roy Rogers drives bandits off with help from Bullet. Scotty tells Roy he's struck it rich. Roy brings three villians down to sheriff's office. Roy and Dale discover Scotty's gold was real. Villians surprise Roy when he goes back to sheriff's office. Fist fight. Roy gets knocked out and is locked in jail cell. Villians go back out to find Scotty. Roy gets Trigger and Bullet to help him out of jail cell. (cont.)
The Roy Rogers Show Part 2`
(cont.) Scotty and villians shoot it out at Scotty's cabin. Scotty's mule gets hit. Villians surprise Dale and threaten her if Scotty doesn't give up gold. Roy Rogers rides up. Fight. Roy apprehends two of the villians. Scotty mourns slain mule. Roy back at sheriff's office, unties deputy. Two villians locked up. Main villian surprises deputy again and frees villians in jail. Scotty, Dale, and Pat Brady in jeep. Bullett leads Roy to Sheriff's office. Unties deputy again. Roy and villians chase villians riding in jeep. Exchange gunfire. Roy apprehends villians. Roy at 01:47:38:00: "If there's a scratch on just one of them, I'm going to part your hair with a .45." Sign reading "Scotty's Mule Ranch." Roy, Dale and Scotty at Scotty's new mule ranch. Scotty gives a mule to Dale. "Happy Trails" song at 01:48:48:00 as credits roll.
Your Daily Bread
Master 109 - Tape 1 This delightful film unwittingly embraces all of the sober, na ve and certainly kitschy aesthetics of the educational/industrial oeuvre, wearing them like a musty sweater. If you're a product of the sober American public school system, then you know exactly what to expect. But note the strange civil rights parallels one can easily infer from the incessant promulgation of "white bread." Far healthier & nutritious & satisfying than any dark bread. Whitewashing America's dinner table. Scratchy. Great soundtrack, too-- an exuberant, triumphant newsreel-like background swagger.
Comedy/Humor (Reel 1 of 2)
Master 109 - Tape 1 Silent Film Slapstick comedy. Includes some historical reenactments of French and Indian War, conflict between white settlers and Plains Indians, and the horseless carriage. Pratfalls; timing; physical comedy; dangerous stunts, many of which involving automobiles, some using speeding trains. Mayhem, chaos, pandemonium. Silent wackiness.
General Office Work
Master 109 - Tape 1 General office work, 1950s: Wide MS middle-aged white female secretary wearing dark peach-colored dress & eyeglasses walking to desk, sitting down and then typing; white man wearing pinstripe business suit sits at desk in FG, writing & processing paperwork; three file cabinets separate their desks; stuffy utilitarian office. Nice wide MS two Caucasian men sitting at desk & reviewing paperwork at night, both wearing light colored ties and white dress shirts; skinny young white woman enters frame, walks to filing cabinet, opens drawer, flips through files.
Fran Allison For Wisco 99 Gasoline
Master 109 - Tape 1 Late 1950s TV commercial starring Fran Allison: MS as Fran Allison takes a seat at kitchen table, she pitches "Wisco 99 Wonder Fuel" to the women of the audience, describing why this particular brand of gasoline appeals to them. Fran Allison shows the insurance policy underwritten by American Insurance Company that guarantees the gas is free of cold weather defects. Fran shows the bonus stamps program. By the end, Fran is only looking at the cue cards several times a second.
Falcon Goo-less Pipe
Master 109 - Tape 1 Late 1950s TV commercial for Falcon Goo-less Pipe: MS white male spokesman in dark business suit standing in front of curtain, he touts the first pipe to take the "goo" out of pipe smoking; spokesman uses sign that pledges Falcon pipes have a "no goo-catching bottom." Animation of how the goo-less bottom works. Man demonstrates as much, tapping out the residue from the pipe. It's Goo-less!
Busch Beer TV Ad
Master 109 - Tape 1 Late 1950s TV commercial for Busch beer: Goofy beginning of camera panning along papier mache neighborhood, houses to audio of footsteps; cut to live action man walking into house after hard day's work, throwing newspaper onto functional chair, audio of whistling & nursery toy wind-up music. Spokesman wearing dark suit enters kitchen, places bottle of Busch beer on counter, touts the "frisky flavor"of Busch as the "the friendliest flavor in town"; he pours beer, exits. Diss to spokesman standing beside four foot high Busch beer bottle. Product shot of Busch lager, followed by Busch logo.
Budweiser Beer Ads
Master 109 - Tape 1 Late 1950s TV commercials for cold, refreshing Budweiser beer.
Bendix Super Fast Gas Dryer
Master 109 - Tape 1 Late 1950s TV commercial for Bendix Super-Fast Gas Dryer: MSs white housewife wearing pleated skirt & high heels removing clothes from dryer in laundry room, rubbing her face in the softness. MS white male spokesman touting Bendix Super Fast Gas Dryer. MSs woman happily removing clothes from dryer, admiring their dryness & softness.