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The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of a baby. Pull back to show crib. A white baby & African American baby in the same crib. African American woman is dressing a toddler. A white man dressing an African American toddler. Child is sucking its thumb. CU of child w/ glasses. Several kids eating ceral. 4 adults sitting in a living room. Good 1970s fashion. CUs of the adults as they talk about their lives in the communal house, sharing chores, etc. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
Children race through a doorway & around the house. Camera follows them. The kids jump into bed with their parents to wake them up. There are 2 women & 1 man in bed together (bigamy, polygamy). Children play w/ the adults. Thet get out of bed & go to the kitchen for breakfast. Adults prepare breakfast. Eating cereal & toast. Man talking to camera, smoking & drinking coffee. Adults talking to camera about their relationships. Family sitting around the breakfast table.
The Family: Lifestyles of the Future
CU of child putting on a winter coat. Woman is holding a brown paper bag, pobably a lunch. Woman leaves for the day w/ 2 children. Pan to man sitting at kitchen table smoking a cigarette. MS of Dr. Margaret Mead. A band on stage, playing. MS shots of people listening to music. CU of faces.
Ocean Waves
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Subjective POV traveling shots from sailing boat of ocean waves (tide) rolling toward shore. Choppy water, mild breaks. Nausea, nauseous.
Vintage WWI German Fighter in Flight
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning TLSs antique biplane (World War I era fighter airplane) bearing Imperial German Iron Cross flying over ocean, camera -- some shots simply against cloudless blue sky (no ocean).
Vintage WWII Era Japanese Zero in Flight
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning TLS antique WWII era Japanese Mitsubishi Zero fighter in flight over ocean. Panning MS Mitsubishi Zero fighter flying low to camera.
NASA Rocket/Missile Propulsion Field Test
Master 1494 - Tape 1 FI TLS white male NASA technician wearing gray jumpsuit walking to separated capsule or nose cone of rocket in hangar. Low angle TLS rocket gantry. LS three men standing at base of rocket gantry (launchpad, launch pad). Zooming (in) MS white male NASA employees (technicians, scientists) standing at large computer console and watching B&W closed circuit monitor of rocket gantry from control room. LSs steam & water exhaust at gantry; TLS/LSs simulation rocket blast sending mixed exhaust of steam, water, & clouds while burners continue firing for an extended period of time until the boosters die out. NASA rocket/missile propulsion field test.
Search Party
Master 1494 - Tape 1 TLSs three member search party (all wearing hard hats w/ miner's lights affixed) ascending hill in rural area, night. MS search & rescue member filling white cup with hot coffee from blue metal jug held by white man wearing glasses. TLS two white male paramedics opening hatchback of stationwagon LAMB ambulance outside emergency hospital, night; they remove shrouded medical victim strapped to gurney, kick out stand, wheel victim into hospital (no sense of emergency here, so perhaps the injured is already dead). Great MS vertical neon "Emergency" sign outside hospital, night. TLS two search & rescue members standing beside small but powerful light mounted on tripod, night. TLS three white women sitting on car hood, Great Dane dog standing majestically before them, night. Panning high angle TLS police car, civilian cars parked on rural street, night. Panning TLS search & rescue team walking through hilly rural area, night (more hard hats & miner's lights).
Hong Kong Scenes
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Hong Kong scenics circa 1968.
Hong Kong Scenes
"Hong Kong Street Scenes" -- Nice head-on DOF MS Chinese people walking along cramped row of vendors, wares spilling out into walkway. Great subjective POV traveling shot from rickshaw of crowded marketplace, vendors hawking goods such as fruits & vegetables & clothing at stalls & stands; many scowling Chinese folks going about their business in almost desultory fashion; young male police officer wearing khaki uniform marked by pressed shorts walks by; vegetable market brimming with tasty treats. (717-4)
Hong Kong Scenes
"Hong Kong Hospital Ship" -- Excellent traveling shots from ferrying boat of numerous sampans (Chinese houseboats, junk boats) docked at wharf. TLS people fishing with nets in slip between docked sampan boats. Traveling & relatively static TLS/LSs Chinese people rowing small boats in harbor (some of these vessels may serve as crude ferries). Traveling TLS sailing sampan. Traveling TLS/MSs family building, stoking cooking fire aboard docked sampan-- young boy does most of the work while sister eats green coconut colored popsicle. More traveling shots junk boats, small rowboats in harbor-- getting more congested, more crowded the closer they get to commercial area. River life, boat life, harbor life. Poverty, poor, economics. (718-4)
Hong Kong Scenes
"Hong Kong Harbor" -- Traveling shots of sampan (Chinese junk boat, houseboat) sailing along scenic waterway, green mountains in BG. Traveling shots of luxurious houses & apartment buildings dotting sporadically the harbor. Traveling LS/TLSs numerous docked sampans in harbor. Traveling shots ornamental, traditional Chinese architecture of two large buildings on wharf. Poverty, poor, economics. (719-4)
Hong Kong Scenes
MS old woman and daughter working aboard sampan (Chinese houseboat, junk boat). Dirty high angle panning LS boats in harbor, commercial & residential buildings lining Hong Kong Harbor. Head-on TLS people walking along cramped, minor commercial strip. (720-4)
B-29 Superfortress Bombers, WWII (COLOR)
Master 1494 - Tape 1 COLOR World War II footage. Excellent air to air TLS/MSs U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber in flight over mountain range; machine gun top turret nearest cabin swivels, fires in several directions. Great air to air MSs remote control bottom turrets along belly of B-29 in flight; nice shot of belly turret firing machine gun, spent shells falling. Great air to air shot tail turret machine guns firing (tailgunner). Excellent air to air shots several United States B-29 Superfortress bombers in flight, dropping numerous bombs. Air to air shots of several B-29 bombers in flight (some shots they fly in tight formation). Nice low angle LS seven B-29 bombers flying over camera. More air to air shots of B-29s in flight. Great high angle air to air shot of several B-29 bombers flying over U.S. navy ship fleet out to sea.
African Marsh Wildlife Refuge
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning sideview TLS crocodile easing into river, pushing itself underwater and from sight. LS baboon running along riverbank, out of frame. TLS large crocodile crawling along riverbank & into river. TLS white crane standing in marsh.
Democratic Convention
Delegates tempers mount over seating of contested southern delegates. High point is reached as mrs. Roosevelt addresses convention, receives 15 minute ovation. Then, the big political show moves into the climactic phase-the selection of the candidate-the man who'll battle it out with ike in november. Duplicate record
Jackie Cochran, 5/2/63
Master 1494 - Tape 1 TLS U.S. F-104 Starfighter jet fighter taxiing on runway. Panning MS famed aviatrix and WASP founder JACKIE COCHRAN (Jacqueline Cochran) wearing Starfighters flight suit, walking along tarmac w/ unidentified white man wearing business suit; CU Jackie Cochran talking with someone off-screen. MSs Jackie Cochran getting into cockpit of F-104 Starfighter jet fighter. Panning TLS F-104 Starfighter taxiing. MS Jackie Cochran reviewing signing flight log. Backwards non-SMPTE countdown leader (no 2 pop). Nice 3/4 view cockpit of F-104 Starfighter parked on tarmac. Panning MS two ground technicians wearing blue jumpsuits cleaning, wiping down "Free World Defender" & "F-104 Starfighter" decals on jet fighter. MSs middle-aged white male engineer wearing white dress shirt & skinny black tie entering control room with uncovered electronics gadgetry. MS/MCUs another engineer screwing housing cover to electronic gadget. MS/MCUs house electronics being delivered, installed aboard F-104. MS Jacqueline Cochran shaking hands, talking with two white men in business suits on tarmac. MSs Jackie Cochran getting into cockpit of Starfighter.
Picket Line
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning TLS two African-American men carrying paper bag lunches walking through plaza, passing demonstration (picket line). TLS/MSs striking demonstrators carrying placards bearing slogans such as "End Poverty Wages Now" & "$ not %" & "AFL/CIO Local 21" & "Local 434" & "We Pay Taxes Too" & "Action, Not Talk" & "No More Beggin'" etc. Note that a stream of non-striking employees pass by the picket line. Interracial strikers & non-strikers alike. Labor unions, strikes, collective bargaining, economics, employment, living wage. Traveling shot of picketing strikers marching along sidewalk.
Purple Heart Ceremony
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Panning TLS U.S. Army color guard marching along quad of military base during award ceremony. TLS seated audience (predominantly older white folks). MS/MCUs U.S. Army colonel wearing dress uniform presenting two shorn, towheaded white boys with the Purple Heart. MS colonel presenting weeping Asian-American woman with the Purple Heart; stricken with grief, she lowers her head to her chest, and the colonel taps her shoulder in brief consolation before moving down the line. MCU Purple Heart box being held over shaking hands. TLS outdoor ceremony, colonel presenting medals, African-American Star & Stripes photographer taking picture in FG. TLS/MSs military band, followed by marching recruits.
NPACT coverage of Church Committee Hearings - Schwarz and Smothers testify
NPACT coverage of Church Committee Hearings - Schwarz and Smothers testify
Airport Mail Facility
Master 1494 - Tape 1 LS loading dock of airmail facility at airport. MS sign: "Airport Mail Facility / Postal Vehicles Only / Not Open to the Public." MSs middle-aged Caucasian & African-American men tossing large yellow sacks of mail into bins. MSs older white man wearing blue uniform lifting heavy yellow bag onto scale, weighing sack; MCU face of Fairbanks-Morse scale; MS man tossing yellow sack onto pile. TLS older white man pushing dolly loaded with mail sacks from processing plant.
Adults Only Shock Theater Marquee
Master 1494 - Tape 1 Slightly low angle MS glittering neon sign outside movie theater, night: "Theatre." TLS movie theater marquee, night: "Third Smash Week! 'Mondo Bizarro' plus 'The Wierd World.' " Note: "Mondo Bizarro" (1966) was a faux documentary designed to titillate & shock an ethnocentric American audience with strange sex habits & violent acts from around the globe; "The Wierd World" here is actually the laughable anti-drug shock film, "The Weird World of LSD." Great MCU "Adults Only" on theater marquee.
Semi-Pro Golf Tournament & Gallery
Master 1494 - Tape 1 LS golf spectators walking along golf course, proceeding to next hole. Panning TLS white male golfer wearing atrotious plaid short pants putting on green; ball stops a foot from hole. MS another white male golfer putting on green, ball stopping two feet from hole. High angle LS green, crowd migrating to next hole.
Garaged Cars
Master 1494 - Tape 1 MS front grille of light blue Plymouth with California license plate (E162327) parked in garage. MS rear bumper of light yellow Buick w/ California license plate (E142958) parked in garage. Panning MS sleek black four door Cadillac sedan with CA plates (60070) parked in garage, stop at large chrome grille. Traveling MS Cadillac, stop at beefy black Buick sedan parked in adjacent spot (CA E105543). H/a MS hood of candy red Buick sedan; MCU chrome grille; MS rear bumper of red Buick driving away from cam, through parking garage. MS African-American security guard wearing blue uniform & white gloves standing at garage exit, waving oncoming car to pull forward. MS four door red Buick sedan passing cam.