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Focus on the 20s - People
MSs President Coolidge, wife Grace Coolidge and Senator Charles Curtis (R-KS) getting into carriage at White House, posing for cam on Inauguration Day, March 4, 1925. Cut to MSs Calvin Coolidge working on his Vermont farm: chopping wood, spraying crops, digging ditches. MSs Calvin Coolidge meeting with American Indians (Native Americans) dressed in full regalia; they award him a war bonnet (feather headress). MS stoic Calvin Coolidge sitting in bleachers of baseball stadium, wearing the war bonnet, looking rather silly.
HUD Hearing
GV civic meeting room filled with people for HUD (Department Housing and Urban Development) meeting. MS people at the hearing, many taking notes, mostly African American women & men in their thirties. MCU Caucasian man taking notes. MCU African American woman at audience testimonial microphone. MCU African American man in bow tie seated at head of room, panel member. MCU African American woman speaking from audience podium, giving her testimony. MS two older Caucasian men in seats taking notes. MCU man in bow tie. MCU African American man wearing checkered tie, seated and smoking a pipe. GV/MSs hearing in progress.
Chandler
Caucasian male reporter interviews an African-American man. CU of the man seated at his desk, discussing the police investigation of the Robert Dogget shooting. (Dogget was the director of the failing Model Cities Program in Cleveland. A hit man was hired to take him out, but failed....) Dogget identified a man named Green as his assailant, but later made a statement retracting the accusations. The charges against Mr. Green were dropped and the case remains unsolved.
Council Analysis
Elevated GV of vacant seats where local council members would sit. CU tracking shot of name plaques fixed to the front of the desks. Imaged void of people.
Ballard Soap Box Scandal
MS Reporter Bill McKay standing in the center of a vacant soap box race track, there has been scandal revolving around the winner of this year s derby, cheating is the operative word. CU of mayor John Ballard of Akron speaking, stating that it would be foolish to bring action upon a fourteen year old child. It wouldn't accomplish anything. One could bring charges against the adults responsible for the child, but that would be hazardous. MCU of a sign that reads "Soap Box Derby", camera pulls back to reveal Bill McKay on the race track, making his final commentary.
Kids At Fair Gate
MS two teen boys camping out on a street curb, they have pillows and blankets spread out on the sidewalk. MS both boys sitting on the curb. MS as Governor John Gilligan (Ohio) arrives on the scene with two boxes of Kentucky Fried Chicken. MS Governor shaking hands with both of the boys, a photographer is in the background taking photographs.
Ballard
General behind the scenes footage of a press conference with the John Ballard, Mayor of Akron Ohio. Segment begins with Ballard seated at the head of a long conference table with several microphones and tape recorders placed in front of him. View of the entire table, filled with reporters, a few of the reporters take notes. Closer view of reporter taking notes. View of reporter interviewing an unidentified man with a mono-brow. CU of the man talking about "fraud charges".
Cooper on Whealon
MCU Caucasian male reporter interviewing an African-American man outside of a brick building, talking about trouble the Lukasville prison.
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
DO NOT USE Opening Titles and stills of families gathered by radios in their homes.
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
Wide MS vaudevillian entertainer EDDIE CANTOR performing a high-spirited song & dance number (natural audio, musical accompaniment).
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
TLS/MSs behind the scenes filmmaking, directors shouting directions through megaphone, cameramen handcranking cameras, actors milling about set while lighting crew move lights.
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
DO NOT USE Excerpts from "Don Juan" (1926), starring Mary Astor & swashbuckling John Barrymore; swordfight, passionate kiss.
Lukens Suit
MCU of an unidentified Caucasian man wearing suit & tie speaking to the camera. (no audio) View of man from a different perspective. He goes on speaking, but you now see the action going on behind him, you see reporters listening and taking notes, you see a camera crew fighting with cumbersome cords. MCU hands flipping through papers. MCU papers being handed to talking man.
Focus on the 20s - People
DO NOT USE Stills of Calvin Coolidge. Stills of famed authors Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and playwright Eugene O' Neill. Still of Zelda Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzergerald. Still of Ernest Hemingway. Still of Gertrude Stein.
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
Excellent MS famed African-American musical (ragtime, jazz) act NOBLE SISSLE and EUBIE BLAKE (Sissle and Blake, The Dixie Duo) performing the jazz song "Affectionate Dan."
Focus on the 20s - Entertainment
DO NOT USE Excerpt from unknown slapstick comedy: wide-eyed director wearing glasses & Gatsby hat gets out of chair, running from set upon noticing a lion loose on the set, causing mass hysteria, calamity & hilarity; nice shot of lion leaping toward camera; chaos as lions run up stairs, leap over bar counter or through window; lion claws at closed door; silly shots of man wrestling with "lion" behind counter while trying to phone for help.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
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Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
TLSs urban streets congested by too many Ford Model A, Packard cars and stakebed trucks. Panning LS Ford plant in Detroit, Michigan, long queue of visitors entering for walking tour of facilities; TLS tour group entering building. Great MS/TLSs Ford employees constructing cars on assembly line. MS tour group exiting building. Traveling shots Ford plant. MS tour group on tour bus circling Ford plant. LS/TLSs steamstacks at plant. TLS people getting off tour bus. TLS crowded city street.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 222
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #222 featuring special guest Louie Roberts. Spot opens with white Nudie suit-wearing Porter singing "Kaw-Liga," then camera pulls out to reveal Dolly Parton who invites us to tune in, calling Little Louie Roberts "the singin'-est little fellow you've ever seen."
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
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CEI Pickets
TLSs small group of blue collar men gathered at the main entrance gate to the CEI electrical plant, picketing but without signs, the electrical plant is clearly visible in the background.
Focus on the 20s - Science and Technology
TLS small trucks on rough country road. Fantastic road construction montage: MS/TLSs construction workers paving roads in countryside, using steam shovels, horse-drawn carts, shovels, steamroller, brooms, etc.
Fairview Abortion Meeting
Fairview Abortion Meeting GV civic meeting room with children and adults sitting in rows of folding chairs, a woman at the head of the room is standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone. Zoom to CU small boy in the audience holds up a collage that combines magazine images of babies. MCU woman speaking at podium.
Focus on the 20s - Lifestyles
DO NOT USE Opening Titles Still of three flappers in swimsuits posing on beach.