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Soul! EP 68 (426)
Soul! EP 68 (426) Guests Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee celebrate the work of Beat poet Bob Kaufman (Robert Garnell Kaufman), with musical accompaniment of Soul! Orchestra conducted by Lucky Thompson.
Soul! EP 50 (408)
Soul! EP 50 (408) Irene Reid and her band (Jiggs Chase on organ, Billy Phipps on saxophone, Kenny Pollard on drums, Joe Thomas on flute & saxophone), poet Jackie Earley, and Boobie Knight (Milton Edwards) and the Soulciety. Ellis Haizlip hosts, Joe Dennis announces.
Freeway Traffic
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Great LS automobiles traveling along bend of rather quiet 101 freeway (Hollywood Freeway), Los Angeles, California.
Atom Bomb Test (Operation Buster?)
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Fantastic LS atomic bomb blast test (Buster event of Operation Buster-Jangle, 1951?) in barren semi-arid deserts of Nevada Proving Grounds, Joshua tree in FG, hills in BG. Blinding flash, fireball, billowing mushroom cloud, et al.
Foot on Accelerator & Brake / Speedometer
Master 1480 - Tape 1 MCU/CUs man wearing worn, black patent leather shoe depressing & pressing accelerator and brake pedals of automatic transmission automobile. Step on it, pal! Step on the brakes, mack! CU speedometer with red gauge rising to 80 mph from 30 mph and back down again; odometer below reads 41,119 miles & counting.
City Street, Night
Master 1480 - Tape 1 High angle LS automobile traffic & some pedestrians on busy urban streets of intersection in unidentified American city. Hustle & bustle, headlights, night.
Hollywood Freeway On-Ramp, Franklin Park
Master 1480 - Tape 1 LS three lanes of auto traffic crawling along street in Los Angeles, sign for La Brea Ave south in BG. TLS cars & trucks (BMW, Jeep, Buick, Datsun, Toyota, Volkswagen Beetle, Volkswagen Rabbit, etc) passing dumpster on opposite side of street, woman walking with two children along sidewalk to bus stop, passing man looking at newspaper vending machines outside store; pan stops at on-ramp to Hollywood Freeway north at Argyle Ave, traffic passing or stopped at intersection in FG, others taking ramp to highway in BG; commuter bus (public transportation) passes in FG. LS six-lane traffic on smoggy road in Los Angeles, passing beneath La Brea south sign. TLS Hollywood Franklin Park sign at Sycamore Avenue, pan left to car traffic on street. Excellent quality film; could pass for up to early 1990s.
Military Rocket, Plane
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Tilting LS military rocket taking off from launch pad (blast-off), lifting into sky. Dissolve to panning TLS USAF four propeller transport airplane taking off from runway. Brief LS twin-jet military bomber taking off from runway, twin exhaust trails spewing from rear. Scratchy, dirty.
Recreational Skiing
See catalog #500495 for color version. Master 1480 - Tape 1 LS skiers near end run of beginner-intermediate ski slope. TLS white people taking chairlift at bottom of slope, man wearing sunglasses & straw cowboy hat assisting skiers onto lift. Nice MSs skiers in queue for chairlift, passing cam from left to right, lifts passing & ascending in BG. LS people standing in line for chairlift, lifts rising in BG.
Kids Playing in Schoolyard
Master 1480 - Tape 1 TLSs African-American and Hispanic boys playing basketball, shooting hoops, horsing around on blacktop court in schoolyard during recess, gaggle of children playing in shadow of school in BG. LS black and white girls playing volleyball on blacktop court during recess. Integrated school, desegregation. Scratchy film but great footage.
Toes
Master 1480 - Tape 1 MCU big toe & two second-largest toes of white man. Strange. Foot fetish.
Roses, Carnations & Photography Tricks
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Time-lapse MCU rose blooming, budding against black backdrop; dissolve to white woman wearing crowd begins but an edit interrupts the affair. Stop-motion photography trick of roses and carnations appearing, filling screen.
L.A. City Hall
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Nice low angle TLS Los Angeles City Hall against cloudless blue sky, palm tree in FG. Good establishing shot that ends with a quick zoom-in to window array along tower. Slight dye fading.
Los Angeles International Airport
See catalog #506476 for color version. Master 1480 - Tape 1 TLS Theme Building & Encounter Restaurant (UFO shaped space age eatery) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), palm trees in FG. LSs Theme Building & Encounter Restaurant, empty parking lot in mid-ground, palm trees in FG. LS Theme Building & Encounter Restaurant at LAX, numerous cars parked in parking lot in mid-ground, traffic in FG. LS air traffic control tower at LAX, parking lot at base. TLS airport departure terminal with buses parked out front, automobile traffic (including Volkswagen Beetle) passing in FG. TLS Flame of Freedom display. LS air traffic control tower at LAX, automobile traffic passing in FG. LS Theme Building and Encounter Restaurant as viewed from drop-off terminal, white man wearing fedora hat & thigh-length coat pacing & waiting in FG while pedestrians & traffic pass by on either side of him. MS sign under cluster of power lines: "Los Angeles International Airport."
1940s - World War Two Scenes - Soldiers
Two adult Caucasian male U.S. Army soldiers standing in foxhole, one manning heavy machine gun while the other looks through binoculars; mountains in BG. Soviet T-34 tank driving on brick street past camera; Soviet soldiers riding on turret, gunner manning heavy machine gun. Low angle view of three soldiers cross-country skiing past camera while holding rifles (looks like M-1 Garand). Boat landing on tropical coast; line of soldiers standing on beach as a group of other soldiers run on shore.
Cowboys and Cattle Drive
Cattle drive in the distance, cattle running across grassland at full speed, adult male cowboys on horseback riding with the cattle; barren looking shrubs and dry grass in FG. Traveling POV of longhorn cattle running at full speed through semi-arid grassland; adult male cowboys riding on horseback alongside cattle in BG, directing herd.
Cowboys and Cattle Drive
VS of calves and cows trotting through gulley, passing beneath barren low-lying trees. Two adult male cowboys on horseback in the distance herding several stray cattle through a field. Three adult male cowboys on horseback driving slow-moving longhorn cows through a field. Longhorn cattle walking across a wet field, puddles on the ground; adult Caucasian male cowboys on horseback passing in BG and FG.
Cowboys and Cattle Drive
Adult Latino and African American male cowboys on horseback outside of cattle pen; a few cowboys herd stray calves. Five adult Latino and African-American male cowboys mounted on horseback, posing for camera. VS of cowboys rustling, herding cattle into pens at the ranch; cowboy dismounting horse to retrieve dusty cowboy hat after herding cattle. Cowboy herding a calf aggressively in one direction. Cowboy on horseback riding around the rear of herd of cattle, directing them into the pen before getting back in a line with the other cowboys. Panning view of cowboys on horseback standing in line in front of the pen; one cowboy smoking a cigarette. Longhorn cattle standing in pen. Adult African American and Latino cowboys on horseback, riding side by side past the camera.
Seedy Side of Los Angeles
See catalog #504910 (33-10), #500474 (33-11 & 33-12) for color version. Master 1480 - Tape 1 MS African-American man shining, polishing shoes of white man wearing light-colored business suit, smoking cigarette at shoe shine station outside barber shop; through the open door one can see a man receiving haircut in store in BG; cam pans left to pedestrians walking along sidewalk, passing abandoned storefronts along rundown street in Los Angeles. LS Hispanic man shining shoes of another Latino man at shoe shine station beside parking lot. Panning TLS row of decrepit houses in Los Angeles; pan stops at rundown two-story Victorian flat outside which several African-American children play, sit on stoop. Poverty, slum. TLS 3/4 view rundown home, warped picket fence; cute black boy wanders into frame. Panning TLS black children playing on front stoop outside home; black man wearing courier cap enters frame.
Los Angeles Traffic
Master 1480 - Tape 1 TLS American-made automobiles rife with chrome & steel driving along four lane, palm tree-lined street in Los Angeles, parallel parked cars lining both sides of street.
Rocket Launch
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Tilting TLS experimental rocket launching from pad, lifting upward. Successful launch.
Running of the Bull (not plural)
Master 1480 - Tape 1 TLS/LSs bull running amok through Spanish village, men testing their courage and mettle by running from the bull, others climbing poles to get out of harm's way; one poor fella is gored & knocked to the ground by bench, though one should note that the bull's horns are padded. TLS/LSs amateur matadors goading bull through capes (veronica) on street. TLSs bull surrounded by crowd on street; crowd tries to tackle the bull with little success. LS crowd watching festivities from safety of balconies. LS amateur matador, bull, veronica on street.
Man Driving Spike Into Hand
Master 1480 - Tape 1 Ridiculous, wacky & anachronistic historical reenactment of the driving of a railroad stake during the mid-1800s, connoting the opening of construction of new railroad: Panning MS white man wearing suit & top hat showing spike to crowd, then kneeling to ground where another gleaming beaming man taps the spike into the ground-- cut to MCU railroad spike driven through hand of spike-holder who is suddenly wearing a watch, short sleeve shirt and tennis shoes while kneeling over blacktop. So much for continuity. The injured man struggles with the prop railroad spike driven through his hand. Special effects so fake they're funny.
Radio Announcer
Master 1480 - Tape 1 MS white male radio announcer with short curly hair, wearing business suit, sitting at desk marred by papers & ashtray, reading from script, speaking into microphone; "On The Air" sign hangs in BG.