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MS girls posing with father, laughing, chatting, hugging as they visit forest preserve of park, trees in BG.
Chicago World's Fair
LS/TLSs historical reenactment pageant, white men & women wearing 18th century aristocratic clothing-- powdered wigs, knickers, hoop skirts, etc-- dancing a minuet outside a colonial mansion. TLS display of two suspended automobiles in exhibit hall. TLSs people walking through peaceful garden. TLS people outside main entrance of Bendix Lama Temple (Golden Pavilion). Nice LS From Wagons to Wings (Century of Progress in Transportation) Travel & Transport pavilion. H/a LSs fairgrounds, pavilions inc States Building, Basic Sciences, Adler Planetarium. TLSs suspended cable cars traveling along Towering Skyride. H/a traveling LSs lakefront fairgrounds, lagoons -- good views of elaborate pavilions, structures including Great Havoline Thermometer, Midway, Soldier Field, Ford Motor Company exhibit, etc. TLS art deco Ford rotunda exhibition hall. MS crowd viewing rotating car metals exhibit. H/a TLSs crowds walking about Ford pavilion.
Chicago World's Fair
LS General Motors pavilion building. Excellent high angle TLSs workers building automobiles on assembly line inside General Motors pavilion. TLSs glass tower exhibition hall. MSs glass products on turntable display. TLS crowd walking outside Horticulture Building. TLS people walking along exhibition hall interior. TLS home canning (pickling) exhibit; MS jars of pickled foods on wall. TLS/MSs woman working on assembly line at Wilson & Co. Bacon Slicing exhibit. Great TLSs Goodyear Tires exhibition hall, Goodyear blimp passing overhead.
Chicago World's Fair
TLSs very art deco Italian Pavilion. MS ornate corner of Bendix Lama Temple (Chinese pagoda); MS Chinese lion statue. TLSs railroad exhibition (old locomotives and railroad cars) outside From Wagons to Wings Century of Progress in Transportation exhibit. LS 17th century reenactors dancing minuet.
Chicago World's Fair
TLSs highwire walkers and trapeze artists performing along Midway. LS two massive ferris wheels. TLS/MSs white male barker standing on platform with three midgets (one of whom wears naval officer's uniform), crowd of men wearing fedoras & suits gathered round; man picks up two midgets, naval dwarf saluting. LSs Midget Village on Midway; TLS/MSs parade of midgets. TLS/MSs dwarves performing Gay 90s dance routine on stage; midgets exit stage gracefully, full-sized barker applauding, crowd in FG.
Chicago World's Fair
LS bustling traffic on Lake Shore Drive, night. LS Nash Motors glass tower, night. LS Travel and Transport exhibit, night. MS Sweden Pavilion, night. Nice LS crowd walking along Avenue of Flags, day. Tilting up TLS suspension cable car tower. LS suspension car traveling along wires high over fairgrounds. LS suspension car traveling over Bendix Lama Temple. TLS crowd walking along lagoon in FG, twin pylons of The Servant that has Transformed the World energy pavilion in BG. LS United States Government (Federal Building) & States pavilion. LSs large crowds walking along midway. TLS The World a Million Years Ago exhibit, animatronic dinosaurs & ape lording over main entrance, crowd milling about. TLS roller coaster traveling up scaffold. LS people driving mini-cars along track. LS Travel & Transport building. LS three mast ship docked in lagoon, crowd passing by. Panning LS exhibitions, crowds, lagoon.
No Empty Stockings
High contrast, rolling, blurry images "No Empty Stockings" is their Christmas slogan. Cleveland News will make 100,000 children happy. George F. Morgan, chairman of the Board of Cleveland News and aides, Ed F. Bang and T.A Robertson. Finishing touches workers are cleaning and shining up toys. Packing 'em up - every effort is made to give children what they ask for. Workers gift wrapping the toys and stacking them. Which one? Chairman Morgan solves the problem, giving a little girl a sled and doll. Santa arrives.
A New Kind of Plane
High contrast, rolling, blurry images Inventions - A new kind of plane that flaps its wings. The plane with the flapping wings is priceless. Next - 7 - winged plane powered by a bicycle pedals. Finally the wings cave in.
New Republican Leader
High contrast, rolling images Meier Steinbrink is new Republican leader takes over G.O.P reins in Brooklyn from Jacob. CUs of the two men discussing planes for the future in Mr. Steinbrink's office. A forceful and popular personality at the helm.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #255 featuring special guest Pete Stamper. Sitting alone on a chair dressed in a glittering red Nudie suit, Porter strums a guitar, names guest Pete Stamper and regulars, and invites us to tune in right on this channel. Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Opening of Porter Wagoner show #255. Standard pre-recorded opening begins with CU of Porter s shiny red boots walking down hallway, which cuts to rear view of Wagoner s garish green Nudie suit festooned with rhinestone wagon wheels and cacti. Montage of smiling Porter happily walking through WSM-TV studio as stage hands and technicians prep show. Don Howser s voice over reads: "Direct from Nashville Tennessee, here s The Porter Wagoner Show!" Quick shots of regulars as Howser announces them: "Starring Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton, Speck Rhodes, Don Howser, The Wagonmasters, and today s special guest star." Momentary pause in VO (presumably left for Howser to read the guest star s name on air), then prerecorded segment ends with Howser s "...and now, here s Porter." Cut to live portion as Porter, wearing dazzling, rhinestone-studded red Nudie suit plays guitar and sings "You Can't Make A Heel Toe The Mark" accompanied by Wagonmasters Buck Trent, Don Warden, Mack Magaha, George McCormick, Jack Little and Speck Rhodes, all but Speck in matching white Nudie suits.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Porter welcomes audience and introduces country comedian Pete Stamper. Stamper opens with joke about Porter being cheapskate, then does extended routine about giving poor directions to drive to his hometown. Shots of Wagonmasters laughing uproariously.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Leading The Wagonmasters, Buck plays us out of the commercial break with a red-hot banjo instrumental. Porter's about tickled to death by Buck's playing, recounting how Buck recently said "This banjo's run me crazy, crazy, crazy!"
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Backed by The Wagonmasters, Dolly Parton plays guitar and sings "I'm Not Worth The Tears."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
George McCormick and Don Warden join Porter on vocals as Porter plays guitar and sings "I'm Crying My Heart Out Over You" from 1963's "Y'all Come" LP, backed by the Wagonmasters.
Learn to Care For Livestock
High contrast, some imagery dark Train pulls in, crowds of men getting on & off (exiting train). Nice shot of a train, cows, chickens, pigs and men with straw hats. Livestock exhibitions.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Porter introduces gap-toothed rube comedian Speck Rhodes, who ambles in wearing his usual checkered suit and bowler hat and tells a silly joke. Then backed by The Wagonmasters, Speck sings "Sweet Fern." Speck dances to Buck's banjo solo. Funny non-sequitur shots of Jack Little's comically horrified face.
Capt. Frank W. Hawks established new nonstop transcontintal West-East record
High contrast, a little dark on imagery Captain Frank W. Hawks established new nonstop transcontintal West-East record of 18 hours 22 minutes, in a single-engine Lockheed Air Express, the first practical application of NACA cowling for radial air-cooled engines.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Porter introduces the week's sacred song. Accompanied by The Wagonmasters, Dolly sings "Who At My Door Is Standing." Though unseen, Porter joins Dolly on harmony vocals.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
Porter reintroduces Pete Stamper. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Stamper sings his automotive-themed novelty number "A ChevyKaiserOldsmoLakerStudeWarLincoBaker" (sic). It's kind of a cross between "One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater" and Johnny Cash's yarn about a patched-together car, "One Piece At A Time." Speck joins Stamper on vocals, and indulges Pete in a brief, goofy little dance.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 255
To fill the last minute or so, Mack Magaha fiddles away on "Soldier's Joy" before Porter wraps up the show, waving goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, and Mack fiddles and dances us off the air. End title super reads: "Produced by Show Biz Inc. in cooperation with WSM-TV."
Gov. Ritchie Present at Annual High Jinks of Urma Service Stores
Contrast some drop out spots on imagery Gov. Ritchie present at the annual High Jinks of Urma Service Stores. Shot of Gov. with children Picnic: The Masqueeraders' Proved that the race is not always to the swift. This race was in the bag Baddies Beware! The Rolling Pin throwing.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 257
Promo for The Porter Wagoner Show #257 featuring special guest Grandpa Jones. Porter sits in the midst of an audience who mostly look more like they're gathered for a funeral than a TV show. Porter asks one little girl if her name is Karen and she looks back at him speechless, awestruck by this candy-colored man in his sparkly neon suit. Fade out over art card with colorful illustration of Porter.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900-1965)
MS ADLAI STEVENSON perusing books in library. MS Ambassador Adlai Stevenson speaking to U.N. Security Council (non-sync sound): "Stop the secret subversion of other people's independence. Stop the clandestine & illegal transit of national frontiers. Stop the export of revolution & the doctrine of violence. Stop the violations of political agreements reached at Geneva for the future of Southeast Asia. The people of Laos want to be left alone. The people of Vietnam want to be left alone. The people of Cambodia want to be left alone. When their neighbors decide to leave them alone, as they must, there will be no fighting in SE Asia & no need for American advisors to leave their homes to help these people resist aggression."