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1940s - Beverly Hilton Hotel - Exterior
Establishing shots of the famous Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Street traffic, automobiles near Beverly Hilton.
25 Years Ago Today - Mob On Trial
Mob On Trial Men walk on urban streets. Men arrive for trial on tax evasion. Two men pause for cameras (VO says one is Arthur Flagenheim (?), a.k.a. Dutch Schultz). Gangster.
Rioters Triumph: Rhee Government Falls; Vice President Dead
Rhee Government Falls; Vice President Dead. The climatic moments in Korea's revolution by riot. Unarmed throngs rage through the streets in the last of the protest against election irregularities before Syngman Rhee bowed to the will of his people and outside pressures by resigning. A mob stormed the house of Vice President elect Lee Kee Fung, Rhee's long time associate who allegedly rigged elections sparked the student riotous fury. Rhee had already resigned when the mob attacked. They blamed Rhee for the police crack-down where a 150 demonstrators where shot and killed. Revenge is the cry and the house is sacked and burned. Only an American flag being spared by the rioters. Lee Kee Fung's house and reputation lay in ruin. The next day in a murder suicide pact, his sons shown with him in better days, pulled the trigger of the gun that killed Lee. Lee's wife, Lee's other son and himself. The after note of Korea's un-armed revolution. Folks rise to put an end to political mellow drama and street clashes, with the appointment of Foreign Minister Fue Chung as acting President. Huge crowds of young people (mostly men, a few women) stand near a barricade, behind which armed soldiers stand. Young people ride atop a tank into the crowd. Night, unruly mob shakes fists in the air, seems to be surrounding a building. Day, smoldering ruins and rubble. Flashback (?): group of photographers take pictures of family (?), posing; this seems to be the vice president and his family, according to the VO. Korean men in business suits (political leaders?) walk around.
Iran Earthquake Aftermath
From a Navy transport flying in medical supplies scenes of the earthquake stricken town of Fares, in southern Iran where a series of violent shimmers leveled a town of 15,000. Hundreds are trapped in fallen structures while menaced by poisonous snakes routed from their lairs from by the up-heavel. So far over 300 bodies have been found the final estimated at over 500 deaths. thousands more are homeless a once thriving town wiped out by a catastrophic tiller of the earths crust. An aerial shot of Fares, a southern Iran town. MCUS - Various shots of destruction, rubble and lots of damage. CUS - A pile of bricks and wood. MOHS - Mother carrying her little girl, the child s head is wrapped up in bandages. MOHS - A body is carried out on a stretcher, the person is still alive. He is loader on to a transport plane. A father giving a baby something to drink from a cup.
British Royalty Rides in Carriage
British Royalty Rides in Carriage Queen Mother is escoted to the carriage by a man in a suit. Two african american men in colonial costume help her aboard. Shot of crowd lining the street. The horses and carriage, with four passengers trot past the camera and down the crowd lined street. Shot of crowd. Carriage comes toward the camera. Shot of building with crowd in front. Queen Mother walks past greeting the crowd. Shot of cheering crowd. She enters the gates of a building with a wave to the crowd. Shot of building's roof. CU of african american man in colonial costume. Queen Mother exits the building talking to a woman in a colonial dress.
Giantess Rides in a VW Bug
Giantess Rides in a VW Bug. Very tall woman and average height bald man stop and look in store window. Other people look on as they enter a hat store. The giantess removes her hat. The sales clerk uses a step ladder to put a new hat on her customer. CU of hat being put on. Man helps clerk descend from ladder. Giantess walks down the sidewalk to the curb where the bald man holds the passenger door of a volkswagen beetle open. She tries to get into the car at an angle. CU of bald man watching. Woman's head sticks out the sun roof; she holds an umbrella above her head while smiling. Two shots of car pulling away from curb.
Goats Loaded Abroad a Plane
Goats Loaded Abroad a Plane. Crowd watches while two airport men herd goats out of a truck. The two men help move the goats up a ramp into a plane. Airport man tries to make two stubborn goats move up the ramp. Goats are pushed into the plane. Shots of plane interior filled with goats in pens. Goat looks out of plane window. Plane takes off from runway.
College Football: Ohio State vs. Purdue
College Football: Ohio State vs. Purdue. Ohio State vs. Purdue. Fade in of a touchdown run by darker colored jersey team. Shot of the crowd. The other team has possession of the ball. The quarterback(#16) throws a short pass to reciever(#45) who is stopped at the 11 yardline. On the next play, the ball is passed off to a running back(#40) who runs it in for a touchdown. Shot of stadium crowd. The other team does a series of plays. The quarterback(#22) hands the ball to running back(#42) who runs up the middle and fumbles the ball when tackled. It must have been a dead ball because the next play shows the quarterback(#22) handing the ball off to running back (#42) who gets tackled at the 17-18 yardline. On the next play, #22 throws a pass into the endzone which is caught.
College Football: Princeton vs. Yale
College Football: Princeton vs. Yale. Princeton vs. Yale. One team starts with running play which turns into about a 70 yard touchdown run. Crowd Shot. One team quaterback throws a pass which is caught and the reciever is brought down at the 3 or 4 yardline. On the next play, they do a quartback sneak which scores a touchdown. Shot of packed stadium crowd. One team throws a pass up the middle. The quarterback throws another pass up the middle which is caught. On the next play, the quarterback falls back to pass, but hands it off to a running back who scores a touchdown. Shot of crowd. On their 41-42 yardline, the quarterback launches a bomb which is caught; the reciever is tackled at the 2 or 3 yardline. On the next play, the ball is handed off to a player who leaps over the mountain of bodies to score a touchdown.
Retrospective 1929-1931
Retrospective of American life, 1929-1931. Prohibition, nightlife, entertainment, recreation, gangsters, crime, speakeasies, industry, factories, architecture, business, the Presidential election & Stock Market Crash of 1929.
Retrospective 1929-1931
MS elderly black man dancing, flanked by several African-American men & women dressed in rural Southern U.S. clothing, clapping. MSs two young white couples dancing to jazz on street. LS Times Square, neon signs advertising for Pepsodent, Chevrolet, others, night; superimposed over Times Square are nice CUs neon, twinkling lights. TLS/MSs chorus girls dancing, kicking on stage at nightclub; MSs young white people sitting at table in nightclub, drinking alcohol, having a ball; CU flapper smoking cigarette; CU waiter rolling bottle of champagne between palms; superimposed shots of alcoholic drinks being poured, room spinning uncontrollably; ah yes, the Jazz Age. MSs exhausted young white people competing in dance marathon, some partners mere limp rag dolls.
Retrospective 1929-1931
TLS Governor of New York AL SMITH (Alfred Smith) standing in parked convertible, waving hat to crowd on street; CU Al Smith smiling; high angle LSs large crowd waching motorcade; panning TLS Gov. Al Smith waving to crowd from open convertible. MSs U.S. President HERBERT HOOVER posing w/ var white people. H/a LS crowded floor during Republican National Convention, crowd waving small American flags; MS Herbert Hoover taking seat in gallery; sideview CU Hoover speaking. TLS/MSs President Herbert Hoover delivering Inaugural Address, Mar 4, 1929; MS crowd.
Retrospective 1929-1931
TLS tall mast schooner sailing in bay; TLS three police boats speeding through bay, small American flags flying from bow; TLS men loading bootleg booze (alcohol, bootlegging, rum running, rum-running). CUs secret knock on door of speakeasy, lookout peephole opening, eye peering through, latches being unlocked; MSs men entering speakeasy during Prohibition, standing, drinking whiskey at bar. MSs storefront of liquor store, woman walking out w/ bottle. LS large crowd gathered in street, police in FG; MS cops & detective w/ white female suspect; MSs cops loading body of (smiling) dead man onto wagon. High angle TLS bank robber walking to bank teller in busy bank, drawing gun; MS bank teller holding hands up; CU foot on emergency pedal; TLS vents of gas or smoke erupting, flooding the bank, foiling the hold-up. TLS police officer leading a train of men (criminal suspects) onto police wagon, although one man struggles, manages to get away.
Retrospective 1929-1931
MS/TLSs mob boss AL CAPONE (Alfonse Capone) exiting revolving door w/ attorney during tax evasion trial in 1931, getting into awaiting car, driving away. TLS/MSs Al Capone & cronies sitting in dugout at racetrack, betting on horses. TLS/MSs funeral procession along city street, young boys dressed in white carrying small white flower-laden casket on their shoulders; MSs large woman weeping uncontrollably at funeral, being held back by family members as crowd throws flowers into grave. Aerials of Lindbergh home in New Jersey; LS police detectives standing outside Lindberh home, shift ladder leaning against wall; MSs ANNE MORROW pushing Charles Lindbergh Jr. in stroller; CUs Lindbergh baby.
Retrospective 1929-1931
FI on LS archetypal grainfield, wheat; TLS combine harvesting wheat; TLSs tractors sowing field. MS man wearing moustache, comb-over, glasses, milking dairy cow. TLS/MSs cows on Rotalactor, designed by inventorThomas Edison, a machine that automatically washes & milks 50 cows at a time in 12 1/2 minutes. MS man shoveling coal into furnace. CU gears turning slowly. MS man sitting at desk, rolling cigarettes; MS machine rolling cigarettes. LS Ford Automobile factory in Dearborn, Michigan, nine smokestacks spewing smoke; TLSs workers on assembly line building cars; TLS inventor HENRY FORD sitting in ceremonial 15,000,000 Ford rolling off assembly line; TLS several Model T Fords rolling from factory, onto street. TLS crane lifting, placing old automobile (Model T) onto large pile of antiquated, junked cars; MS Ford T burning in junkyard, night. TLSs new 1930s model Ford cars rolling from plant.
Crisis Ebbs: Korea Restores Order; Vice-Pres. Lee Buried
Korea Restores Order; Vice-President Lee Buried. In Seoul the funeral of Vice President elect, Lee Kee Pung, his wife and two sons, who died in a suicide pact following his ouster and the resignation of President Syngman Rhee. The student rebellion that brought down Lee's downfall and his faith saving death is over. Order is restored and Korea is no longer rocked by the street clashes of student, liberals and the police where 1000 were shot or injured in the last two weeks. Throngs gather to watch the bodies of Vice President elect and his family in caskets being loaded into trucks draped in black material. MOHS - The crowd. MS - The four caskets are laid out side. there's a ton of flowers in the back of the caskets The caskets are closed with a picture of the person who now lays in the casket. MS - People openly mourning both men and women. MOHS- President Rhee escorted by his wife and another woman openly mourning apparently shaken by the murder suicide of the Vice President elect, and family.
Retrospective 1929-1931
Prints ads for luxury items like silk coats, strollers, tires, roofing. Panning LS suburban rowhouses. LS Empire State Building. LS/TLSs new buildings & skyscrapers, some art deco. TLS/MSs stock brokers & pit bosses working feverishly on floor of stock exchange. Newspaper headlines re Stock Market Crash of 1929-- inc Variety tag: "Wall Street Lays an Egg." Panning TLS industrialist HENRY FORD standing w/ fellow men of industry.
Retrospective 1929-1931
TLS/MSs white people playing miniature golf. MS/CUs unidentified older white men talking to or posing for cam (no audio, but the inference is that these are politicians and/or business men talking about a national topic of the time such as the Depression or Prohibition). MS hellfire & brimstone evangelist BILLY SUNDAY sermonizing to the cam, waving his arms about.
1940s- Archival Las Vegas - Day
Pan of automobile traffic, buildings (including Oasis Cafe) in rather spare, desolate downtown Las Vegas. Panning LS taxi cab driving along desert highway, pulling into Flamingo Hotel & Casino.
1940s - Archival Las Vegas - Night
Automobile traffic & neon signs along Las Vegas Strip, Glitter Gulch, night; Golden Nugget, Hotel Apache, Pioneer Club, Boulder Club.
King Mahendra From Nepal Visits
At National Air Port, King Mahendra and Queen Ratna of Nepal are greeted by President Eisenhower as they arrive for a three day State Visit to Washington, DC, and a 5-week tour of our country. This is the first time a reining power of Nepal ever came to the United States. Meanwhile Red China's Premier, Zhou En-lai is visiting Mahendra's little kingdom of Nepal (located between India and China in the Himalayas) to discuss claim to Mt. Everest. While the King is enjoying Americas hospitality. King Mahendra and Queen Ratna disembarking from a American Air Force plane. MCS - President Eisenhower is at the bottom of the steps to greet King Mahendra and his Queen. MCUS - Different branches of the service stand at attendtion. MSOH - The King, Queen and President riding in a Cadilac converteable. MOHS - Motorcade with people lining the sides of street's greetin the Royal Couple.
Submarine launch
At Groton, Connecticut launching ceremonies for the Nuclear Submarine, Tullibee. Named for a fresh water fish found in the Great Lakes. The Tullibee is the smallest Nuclear Sub and the first of a new class of hunter killer craft designed to seek out and destroy enemy u-boats. Providing a vigorous swig by Mrs. John Davidson. The Tullibee goes down the ramp smoothly. Fitter out with ultra sensitive ears and a quiet turbine drive she will pack a deadly walkup from unorthodox torpedo tubs amid ship. Radical new, anti new submarine, submarine Naval Officers standing at attention on deck of the USS Tullibee, a small nuclear submarine. MOHS - A good size amount of people show up for the Christening and Launching of the new Nuclear Sub. MS - Mrs. Davidson is handed a bottle of champaign to Christen the sub. MOHS - The crowd. Sub says SSN 597. It slides into the water.
British Royalty Visits Canada
British Royalty Visits Canada. Canadian officials greet the Queen Mother. A line of military officers and officals are introduced to the Queen Mother. Shot of Queen Mother reviewing some troops. CU of Queen Mother conversing with a man (Only the back of his head is seen). Her Majesty places some flowers at a memorial. CU of card on floral arrangement. Shot of memorial from high up(a rooftop or balcony?). Shot of an insignia. Queen Mother enters a room for a formal dinner. She stands and makes a speech: "Since my last visit 15 years ago, Canada has known a miraculous growth, not only in material strength and power, but in influence in the councils of freedom. I, and my family, have followed her progress among the free nations of the world with happiness and pride. Like the Commonwealth itself, this great land has been a magnifigant adventure in human brotherhood. Here, men and women of many races live in equal citizenship and perfect freedom. Freedom to speak, freedom to whorship and freedom for themselves and their children to seek and obtain equal opportunities for a full and happy life. Ladies and Gentlemen, may I thank you once again for your wonderful welcome and for all the kindness which you showed the king and me long ago and to the Queen and her husband when they came among you. I shall carry back with me, to my home, more happy memories and great joy and the knowledge that in your new found strength, you'll stand at the side of Britain and all the free nations in the world so bravely, so genorously and so steadlessly." The audience stands and applauds as she sits down.
1940s - Archival Las Vegas - Flamingo Hotel
Flamingo Hotel & Casino sign & facade.