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Domestic Tortoise Outdoors
CU tortoise walking and eating grass. CU tortoise walking on grass. CUs tortoise walking across sand. MS pan as a large tortoise crawls along sandy/rocky earth. CU tortoise walking.
Time-lapse Beans
Dirty time lapse of beans sprouting from seed, footage has that grade-school educational film look.
State Fair
Color footage of farm animals in state-fair type setting. Starts with MS of a large white cow being led by young adult male in t-shirt and jeans. MS pig and piglets in pen. MS as an enormous black pig is led by farmer through the fair grounds. MS pan of canned-goods display (blue ribbons, etc).
Niagara Falls
GVs of Niagara Falls. GV pan down the falls to the rocks below.
Old Faithful
GV Old Faithful Geyser in action at Yellowstone National Park, visitors/tourist are seated around. Several GVs of Geyser blowing steam.
Soviet Flag
Soviet Flag Soviet flag being lowered may be Russian embassy in Germany.
1920s - Berlin - Street Scenes
People eating outside at a street cafe. Double-decker buses and electric trolley cars pack busy streets.
1950s - Family In Convertible - Driving
MS traveling shot following an all-American family (mother, father-at the wheel, son and daughter) down the road in a yellow 1953 or '54 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible. Dad points things out, mom smiles, sister waves balloon, son shoots toy pistols at bystanders. An evocation of 1950s Americana so perfect that it's either funny or scary.
1950s - Couple at Soda Fountain - Teens
Teenage boy and girl drinking from same soda (milkshake) with two straws. Look at each other and smile. Very cute stereotypical 1950s image.
1950s - Drive-in Dinner and Supermarket
"McKay's Market" and "Dewey's Sip 'n Snack" (in the same building), colorful and classic 1940's cars are parked out front. "Simon's" Drive-in with 1940s cars parked out front, a few people are seen outside. "Orton's Grill" with Coca-Cola signs, a beverage delivery man walks his product to the front door.
1957 Chryslers
Great color footage of 1957 Chryslers. GVs as a Dark Green New Yorker hardtop rounds curve in suburban California neighborhood, camera follows car as it approaches and recedes from view. CU of engine, with illegible slate. Tracking MS of a '57 Windsor station wagon (also dark green) traveling along a rural highway. Shot of red stoplight in foreground and street in background with 1957 and '55 Buicks stopped at the intersection.
Crocodile Thrills
B/W short subject titled "Crocodile Thrills", c.1930s/40s. Several shots of men in the Florida Everglades, South American Amazon and Burma hunting alligators and crocodiles.
Apples
CU of the biggest, reddest apple you ever saw hanging on a tree. Low angle MS of apple tree branch loaded with ripe red apples - branch is shaking as if someone s trying to get apples to fall towards the camera but nothing falls. Another CU of bright, big red apple. CU red and green apples on display in store, hand picks a few; WS woman and daughters in early-50s supermarket produce section picking apples ("Please serve yourself!" the sign reads). CU man picking red apples from tree. Great color. MS low angle shot of a man picking green apples from tree. Similar shot of another man picking red apples - impossibly blue sky background. MCU man in overalls and hat picking red apples off tree. MS man in apples tree picking red apples, golden yellow tree in background and blue sky - amazing color! CU red apples on tree. Hand picks it and rubs it. Back to MS of previous shot with man picking red apples.
Lawns, Grass, Tennis Courts
WS Ext. day, very nice-looking country club, typical English-tudor style, beautiful manicured lawn in front. Tennis courts/playing fields at what looks like a California High School. Four short shots of people playing golf on nice golf courses. A huge sprinkler system, spraying water in every direction.
1950s Football
Nice color footage of football game c. 1950s. Not sure if this is professional or collegiate. One team's uniforms looks like LA Rams. The stadium is packed - if this is college football it could be a rose bowl game (?) MS action on the field. Large packed stadium.. Quarterback throws the ball, receiver catches it and is promptly tackeld. Referees around the pile-up. WS of packed stadium - people look like impressionistic dots - bright blue sky background, really nice color. Team breaks out of huddle, sets up for the play.
Tulips
Two short but beautiful shots of vivid red tulips. First an MCU with about 20 blooms in views (super saturated red). Then CU of 3 tulips.
Icebergs and Ice
Color footage of ice, ice floes, and icebergs, starting with CU ice amd slushy ice flowing down a river. Large, solid icebergs on water. MS and then WS. Scratchy MS of ice wall tearing off cliff and falling into ocean. Big splash. Unsteady MS water splashing against icy walls
Beaches, Waves and Water
WS empty tropical beach. White sand, palm tree branches in frame, blue sky with light clouds and seriously blue water. Waves calmly roll to shore. Fade to black. MS dark sandy beach with foamy waves rolling and crashing onto shore. WS static overhead shot of tropical beach. Curved tan, sandy beach, palm trees, mountains in b/g, blue sky and "travel-brochure" blue water (it's REALLY turquoise). Looks like this could be Hawaii but not sure. CU water close to shore, foamy water and waves lap shore. MS tracking shot of large rolling wave approaching rocky shore. Looks like California coast, could also be Hawaii but not sure of location. Shaky ECU of water, waves building and then crashing, folding over itself.
1950s Surfers
Color footage of surfers, c. 1950s: very big blue waves, very big baggy shorts, very big surfboards. Some slow motion where indicated. 3 surfers riding big blue waves. MS surfer rides the wave towards camera, passing other surfers still paddling out. Nice big sprays behind him, has a good long ride before he crashes into water. MS surfer riding down big blue waves towards camera. Big wave with spray kind of dies out and he slows down, sinks. Another surfer rides the big blue wave, a little wobbly - flapping arms and shaky legs - kind of funny. But he rides it out and as he comes down to shore a nice big white water spray follows. Slow-motion side view overexposed of surfer riding huge wave. Huge spray creeps up to him as he surfs out of frame - great. Slow-motion MS surfer getting up on big blue wave. Crazy ty-d-bowl -blue water and white foamy water sprays. Nice. Slow-motion MS three surfers - two paddling out, one about to ride wave. Cam follow the one as he gets up on the board and rides big blue wave. Very nice action as wave builds. White water spray. Overexposed. Slow-motion MCU of surfer getting up on his board. Cam follows as he weaves up and down the wave. Another surfer - same - wave dies out and he stands on calm water and then sinks - cam follows over to another surfer mounting the wave. Pans over to another guy who just wiped out. Cuts to MS of two surfers riding the same wave - they appear in sync but then cam pans over to surfers bobbing around in the water. Cuts to MS surfer riding wave. Rides towards and then away from camera. Slow motion MS surfer on crest of wave heads down into another wave - water fills the frame and the surfer disappears. Cam continues to pan with the motion of the wave. Water splashes, sprays everywhere - churning water, wind blows spray. Good, dramatic, churning water, power of nature stuff. MS surfer boy on red surfboard gets up on big blue wave, loses his balance and jumps off. Cam follows the surfboard as the wave carries it forward and it flips it up into the air.
North American Bears in the Wild
LS lone elk in the woods, it walks slowly, grazing/eating. CU brown bear snout in the grass, eating. MS same. Short green grass, some flowers, a fallen log in the background. Cam zooms in (shaky) to bear's face and follows as it eats. WS mountain slope with evergreen trees, bear makes its way up slope, camera follows. MS bear running towards camera in lush green grass dotted with yellow wildflowers.
Native Americans
Indian/Native Americans in full regalia. By the design of their clothes, they are probably a Plains tribe. They appear to be part of a performace for tourists, probably on at a national park. Some men on horses. Men communicating in sterotypical sign language. Tourists are also barely visible in the background of some shots. Starts with men wearing headdresses and elaborate beaded costumes, on horses. Cuts to shot of 4 men in a circle speaking sign langague to each other, one breaks into a dance. MCU one native american man, wearing full headdress and face paint speaking sign language.
Native American Village
This appears to be part of a performace for tourists, probably at a national park. Color footage of tepees: starts with 2 CUs of teepee designs: bison, elk; MS teepees in a row with mountains in the background. VS same shots with different teepees. Cam pans. MLS 2 teepees, mother and daughter walk towards and into teepee. MS native american in headdress silhouetted in late sunset, with teepee.
American West
Wide shots of Native Americans (Navajo) herding sheep across the desert at Monument Valley, Arizona.
Wagon Trains, Western Street
Color footage of "Wild West" scenes: starts with what looks like the Oklahoma Land Rush; anyway, what looks like a touring company of "Oklahoma!" is moving across the grass (a football field: look and you can see the lines) in wagons, horses, and on foot, waving to the camera. Also some good high-angle LSs of main street in the old west with horse drawn carts and pedestrian traffic.