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Stock Car Racing
Bit of film of Stock car racing, 1969. Footage, probably from the AMC promotional short "Javelin Breed", CU AMC AMX/Javelin on racetrack. Shot CU of driver through window and from low angle car interior. MS car rounding bend on track. Red white and blue car with nubmer 3 on it. Driver POV during race - other cars on track. CU speeding wheel on track. CU front of red car towards camera. Driver POV. These are short, shaky hand-held shots.
Traffic Jams - Freeway Driving
Traffic Jams - Freeway Driving - Great representation of motorists in their colorful 1950's vehicles.
Hollywood Pedestrians
Hollywood Pedestrians Nice MS of intersection at Hollywood & Highland, a group of four African American boys are seen crossing the street with cardboard produce boxes, one boy balances his on his head. GV intersection as pedestrians cross, the Hollywood "Wax Museum" is seen in BG. MCU from waist down of pedestrians walking across street, we seen men's leather & canvas shoes, women's heels, Mary Jane s and a great pair of white go-go- boots on the move.
Construction
Construction MS inside newly constructed building. WS exterior of shopping mall under construction, majority of complex is buit, entrance awning frammed by scaffold, two construction workers seen on site.
1950s - Crop Duster Planes - Central Valley
LS pan agricultural biplane flying very low to the ground, passing over mountain valley farm field, spraying rows of crops.
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1
Winged Warfare On The Boll Weevil - PT1: Scripted government USDA film with contribution from the Bureau of Entomology, extolling the virtues of crop dusting. This section feature two African American men meeting for dinner, the classic city cousin visiting country cousin scenario played out, the city dweller become frightened by the low flying crop dusting plane. Racial stereotypes & slang dialect of black rural south portrayed.
Early Aviation
Early Aviation
Biker Gang
Biker Gang - Outtakes form late 1950s / early1960s film featuring motorcycle gangs & end-of-summer themes (Hollywood cliche). Actors are young adults, late-teens, twenty somethings.
1950's Montage
1950's Montage - Slice of 1950s baby boomer Americana
1950's Car Montage
1950's Car Montage
1950s Fords
Master 2 - Tape 1 MS two-tone (red & white) car facing camera - stopped at intersection. Car proceeds - cam follows and then stops - other cars pass in CU profile. Similar sequence - wider shot yellow car at intersection - proceeds - cam tracks and stops, "Yale Studios" sign by the bottom of a neon motel sign in b/g. Cars pass. CU cars at intersection - facing camera. Residential streets.
Sidewalk Pedestrians
Master 2 - Tape 1 Video shots of pedestrian-filled downtown sidewalks in Chicago - MS-CUs of people walking, late 1980s. Water Tower Bank sign prominent in background. Shot at shoulder level. Busy. Some business people. Some nice closeups as they come toward the camera. Some black, most white. Most young to middle aged. A woman takes a piece of paper from her mother, reads it. Windy day. dressed for cold, as if it is 30-50 degrees.
In Tune With The Times - Suburban Family Life
Master 2 - Tape 1 WS family outside having a barbeque (BBQ) near a lake. Dad in chef's hat flips burgers on the grill; people sit around on lawn chairs drinking high balls. VO: "These are your neighbors, people like you. People with time for leisure - for modern living." Hamburgers are passed out. Cut to couple with garden tools walking by a split-level ranch house. Cut to people on outside patio on lawn chairs, sunbathing, father, in shorts and knee socks, brings out portable tv. Son runs excited with baseball hat in hand to see it. VO talks about the suburbs as the best of both worlds. Pan urban skyline (New York?), pov shots from car: on highway, tracking shots past suburban shopping center and resedential streets. WS Red and white 1958 Rambler drives into the driveway of the house, and the family runs out to see it. Fashionably dressed mom walks out and kisses dad. MS dad (in a suit) walks around the car, pointing things out to mom. CU large format camera with black drape - photographer under drape adjusts focus. Nice shot of camera, professional photography.
Small European Towns
Master 2 - Tape 1 Various scenic shots of town in rural Europe.
House Fires
Master 2 - Tape 1 Sequence starts with house completely on fire. low angle MS of wood frame house engulfed by flames. Thick smoke - black, gray and white, billows out of every opening, flames through the roof. MS firemen and fire fighters standing around, smoke fills the air, some firemen appear to be in some kind of pit partially underground, with water in it. Looks like they are trying to figure out what to do. Hard to tell exactly what's going on here but nice shot of firemen at work though. MCU (low angle) of wooden structure in flames. Can see through burning boards to interior totally engulfed in orange flames. Water spray towards the structure from a hose is briefly visible far to one side. Fire and smoke through roof. MS burning wooden structure. Wooden house engulfed in bright orange flames - piece of roof fall down onto front porch. Flames through roof. WS wooden house on fire. Orange flames engulf the interior and cover the roof. Bits of the roof are falling in. Horizontal spray from a fire hose falls into frame periodically but it doesn't seem to hit anything - it's a little weird. Part of roof structure falls off. Low angle MS of wodd house on fire. Thick heavy smoke rapidly billows out of windows, doors, and burned parts of sturcture. Really big smoke. Some flames visible at roof. MCU side of burning wood house. Bright orange flames engulf interior (seen through window) and surround exterior. Front porch has mostly fallen in, roof is gone. Some sprays of water fall into frame but they're not doing much at this point. This thing is nearly charcoal. WS wood house in flames. Flames and thick black smoke coming through roof. Most of the rest of the structure are still stnading and mostly intact.
Rambler Commercials
Master 2 - Tape 1 A fab series of pristine commercials for American Motors (Canada). Most of them shot in a stark, sparsely set studio, for 1965 Ramblers, the rest are shot inside factory with lots of good assembly, factory work going on. First 3 feature young female models whose personal features are likened to those of the car - "beautiful, elegant exciting!" There are some classic women-modeling-with-cars shots here. All of the commercials feature fabulous close ups of car interiors, exteriors, engines etc.
Danish Audience
Similar to catalog #311660 Master 2 - Tape 1 Audience attentively listening. Maybe 20 people in first shot, but every seat filled; looks like packed house. Various ages. Most men in suits. All sit very quietly, without moving. MS different angle, audience clapping in unison. MS audience, camera pans, audience claps (applauds) . Series of CUs: an older woman, unsmiling; A blonde teenage girl; An older man looks to right; Middle-aged bald man listening intently. MS audience - quiet and then clapping. More assorted CUs: Young girl; teenage girls wearing eye glasses, tilt down to boy wearing eye glasses. Pan right teenage audience clapping (bad focus); MS 30-something couple. MS audience; CU girl, MS audience; CU girl; MS audience; CU blonde - very Aryan looking boy -smiles, claps; CUs other kids in audience including at the end, shot of a boy who looks like he is nodding off.
Downtown streets during the daytime
Master 2 - Tape 1 Downtown streets during the daytime. Congested. Lots of traffic. Trucks, busses, cars, people. Shots are fairly close, allowing only a few vehicles or people into the frame at a time. Probably shot in the 1970s. Bus with Stewart's Coffee sign on front comes to a stop, camera follows to the curb. Lots of people cross the street. High noon, probably lunch hour.
Hunger March
Master 2 - Tape 1 Lots of people, of different ages, march together to defeat hunger. These are the sponsored public marches, in which people walk a certain amount of miles and are paid by the mile by various sponsors. They then collect the money and give it to charity--in this case, hunger. Shot in the early 1970s, this footage has a good 70's teenagers, teen fashion, and a rather sedate, non threeatening feel. Nice shot in silhouette over a bridge, shot from underneath, framed by trees. CUs of the feet and legs as they walk step after stop on the sidewalk. Rear view of marchers walking down main street; which must be closed to traffic - one marcher is wearing a stars and stripes hat. Close Shot of woman's rear end in tight striped pants, CU (camera shaking). Sign visible: "KEEP GO'IN HUNGER HURTS" in fluorescent colors. People pass, wave at camera. Lots of kids in groups, looking hippy-like, walk up to camera, flash peace sign.
Military Parade
Master 2 - Tape 1 A military Parade in Vietnam, mid-60s: Opens with a black (African-American) MP holding his rifle in the air inf ront of a building. Quickly moves to Marine marching band, with tuba, trumpets, and lots of brass. Two flags wave: one American, one signifying a specific battalion of Marines. A group of Marines in uniform march after this, some saluting: al with bayonet-equipped rifles over their shoulders. Some Jeeps.
A.M.C. Hornet
Master 2 - Tape 1 AMC Hornet commercial, 1973 (alas, no sound): MS tracking shot from side and slightyl overhead - great angle - of nice-looking yellow Hornet driving down the road, sun shining off its hood. CUs of the bumper and headlights as it drives (license plate says 1973). Rear shot of Hornet as it continues to cruise down the road, alone, by the ocean. Eventually stops, driver in white and black-striped pants (GROOVY!) comes out and unlocks and opens the hatchback. He takes out a bag and the camera pans/tilts up to a purple-ish Hornet station wagon, driven by a pretty woman in white shirt and pants. She gets in door, camera zooms in to seats. WS both cars side-by-side in beach parking lot. Great 1970s scene. Slow motion footage of a Hornet test car hitting a wall (classic crash test image). A 1-2-3-4-5 gauge is on the hood, a sticker on the fender. CU Bumper hits the wall, absorbs the shock. Probably for introduction of 5-mph bumpers.
Synchronized Waterskiers
Master 2 - Tape 1 Five women ride side by side on waterskis, acrobatically performing some ballet moves with their hands as they come toward the camera. The single-piece bathing suits are identical--black and white with some kind of tail (or cusion). They all wear crown-like white things in their hair. All stand with their hands up in the air. They all put their hands on each other's shoulders as the come close to the camera. shot in Mexico. They wave at the camera together, in unison. At the end, they let go of the ropes and sink into the water.
B/W earthquake (re-creation) footage
Master 2 - Tape 1 B/W earthquake (re-creation) footage: model buildings collapsing in slow motion. Nothing is shaking, eveything is just falling apart: first, a five-story building and then the building next to it. Quick CUs at the end of rela buildings really falling apart. Looks like 1910s or 1920s. CU old seismograph - lines are very straight and then it changes suddenly - pen goes off the chart. More buildings collapsing. This really does not look very real but it is - you can see people running in the street and at the end of the shot you can see two guys running out of the building next to the one that is collapsing. Fast CUs of debris crashing to the ground as buildings collapse. People running from debris. Weird, quick CU of a wide-eyed woman facing camera acting panicked/in fear (this is performed for the camera). Then some very real shots of aftermath - cars (1920s) caught in crevaces, rubble and debris. Debris in street. Shot of aftermath of train derailment -camera pans train cars in ditch.
Monkeys
Master 2 - Tape 1 Monkeys in trees, monkeying around. White-faced monkeys. Field full of monkeys (regular motion again) maybe ten or twelve. Super closeup on monkey's face, eating something. Monkey going from branch to branch in the bare trees, shot from below. Nice blue sky. Monkey swinging back and forth, looking at camera as if he's mad (which he probably is). MCU profile of monkey eating something. Nice swinging motion from branch.