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Bullfighting Newsreels, 1940s & 1950s
Spanish newsreel about bullfighting class: MS confused young bulls (essentially calves) entering small outdoor corridor; TLS young bull entering practice ring; MS veronicas by teacher LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN; MSs veronicas between calf bull and visibly inexperienced yet determined young woman; MSs AVA GARDNER happily watching from inside plaza de toros; MSs Luis assisting Ava in learning to veronica with calf bull.
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
Senator Wendell Ford introduces President Bill Clinton. Clinton begins Inaugural Address: “My fellow citizens. Today we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. A spring reborn in the world's oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America. When our founders boldly declared America's independence to the world and our purposes to the Almighty, they knew that America, to endure, would have to change. Not change for change's sake, but change to preserve America's ideals life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless. Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American. On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor, President Bush, for his half-century of service to America.” Mr. Clinton turns and applauds George Bush, who stands and receives a standing ovation.
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “And I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over Depression, fascism and Communism. Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues. Raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the world's strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, increasing inequality, and deep divisions among our people. When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land by horseback and across the ocean by boat. Now, the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world. Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across this earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy. This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small; when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom; and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead we have not made change our friend.”
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps. But we have not done so. Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence. Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. And Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people. We must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us. From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history. Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.” Wide shot, zoom in, of the Jefferson Memorial; audience.
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift a new season of American renewal has begun. To renew America, we must be bold. We must do what no generation has had to do before. We must invest more in our own people, in their jobs, in their future, and at the same time cut our massive debt. And we must do so in a world in which we must compete for every opportunity. It will not be easy; it will require sacrifice. But it can be done, and done fairly, not choosing sacrifice for its own sake, but for our own sake. We must provide for our nation the way a family provides for its children.” Cute Caucasian baby in pink winter coat; Cute Latino boy in audience. “Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.”
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing, from our government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country. To renew America, we must revitalize our democracy. This beautiful capital, like every capital since the dawn of civilization, is often a place of intrigue and calculation. Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way. Americans deserve better, and in this city today, there are people who want to do better. And so I say to all of us here, let us resolve to reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of America. Let us resolve to make our government a place for what Franklin Roosevelt called "bold, persistent experimentation," a government for our tomorrows, not our yesterdays. Let us give this capital back to the people to whom it belongs.”
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “To renew America, we must meet challenges abroad as well at home. There is no longer division between what is foreign and what is domestic the world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race they affect us all. Today, as an old order passes, the new world is more free but less stable. Communism's collapse has called forth old animosities and new dangers. Clearly America must continue to lead the world we did so much to make. While America rebuilds at home, we will not shrink from the challenges, nor fail to seize the opportunities, of this new world. Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international community is defied, we will act with peaceful diplomacy when ever possible, with force when necessary.” General Colin Powell in uniform. “The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve. But our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world, we see them embraced and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands, are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause. The American people have summoned the change we celebrate today. You have raised your voices in an unmistakable chorus. You have cast your votes in historic numbers. And you have changed the face of Congress, the presidency and the political process itself. You, my fellow Americans have forced the spring.”
Clinton Inauguration - Inaugural Address
President Bill Clinton continues Inaugural Address: “Now, we must do the work the season demands. To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office. I ask the Congress to join with me. But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. My fellow Americans, you, too, must play your part in our renewal. I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities. There is so much to be done enough indeed for millions of others who are still young in spirit to give of themselves in service, too. In serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth we need each other. And we must care for one another. Today, we do more than celebrate America; we rededicate ourselves to the very idea of America. An idea born in revolution and renewed through 2 centuries of challenge. An idea tempered by the knowledge that, but for fate, we the fortunate and the unfortunate might have been each other. An idea ennobled by the faith that our nation can summon from its myriad diversity the deepest measure of unity. An idea infused with the conviction that America's long heroic journey must go forever upward.
Bullfighting Newsreels, 1940s & 1950s
"Toros" (newsreel about bullfighting in Spain, with Spanish VO): high angle TLS matadors in traje de luces (suit of lights) walking into arena (plaza de toros); MSs of veronica, bull passing through cape while matador poses; C/As of audience and fellow matadors watching on; MSs matadors sinking barbed swords into neck muscles of bulls; MSs bloodied and battered bulls falling to ground, expiring; TLS matadors walking about plaza de toros.
Bullfighting Newsreels, 1940s & 1950s
Spanish newsreel about bullfighting: MSs veronica, bull vigorously passing through cape while matador in traje de luces holds it and poses; MS white bearded ERNEST HEMINGWAY in stands, watching; MS matador collecting swords and black astrakhan at side of plaza de toros; more shots of veronica, the matador quite pleased with himself; low angle wide MS Spanish crowd giving standing ovation; TLS banderillero (running torero who inserts barbed wooden sticks into neck muscles of bull); MSs veronica, matador getting particularly fancy and bold; TLS matador sinking sword into bull, the crowd in BG standing and applauding; TLS kill, matador brutally sinking killing sword into bull's brain, the bull falling quickly to the ground.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
EST shots of Geneva, Switzerland: people walking on streets; traffic scenes; many advertisements (including a United Colors of Benetton billboard displaying USSR & USA flags) announcing the historic summit.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
TLSs of a peace march / rally in France, folks carrying banners demanding peace and nuclear disarmament.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
LS of President RONALD REAGAN, accompanied by NANCY REAGAN, exiting Air Force One upon arrival for Geneva Summit; MS of press (reporters & photographers); LS of Reagan speaking to the crowd on the airport tarmac.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
TLS/MSs inside press conference with American delegates, preceding the Geneve Summit, (including former National Security Advisor and Iran-Contra player ROBERT MCFARLANE).
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
MS Soviet and Swiss flags flying, pan to commercial jet airplane landing at airport in Geneva; MSs of MIKHAIL GORBACHEV and RAISA GORBACHEV exiting plane.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
MS of Mikhail Gorbachev giving a speech from tarmac, talking about his hopes for the Geneva Summit meeting.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
MSs of Mr. Gorbachev meeting with Swiss President KURT FURBLER.
Geneva: Start Of A Dialogue
EST shot of the Swiss International Conference Hall, followed by INT shots, emissaries arriving and meeting; good panning MS of press (video and photography) inside the hall; panning MS of the Soviet counsel stating their positions for the press.
At the Heart of the System
Aerial shots of scenic ponds & lakes and marshes; mountains (misty or snow-capped); wooded valleys & canyons. Aerials of hydro-electric dams. CU electric control panel on wall, zoom in to Woodward name plate. More aerials of hydroelectric dams. Promotional stills of dams in Brazil, Khyber Pass in western Pakistan, the Caspian Sea, and West Africa. Cut to airplane montage: air to air shot of four US fighter jets in flight (appear to be McDonnell F-4 E Phantom II); low angle air to air shot of unidentified US jet fighter in flight (looks like cross between F-5 Freedom Fighter & F-94C Starfire); air to air shot of commuter plane in flight; TLS very strange looking experimental plane taking off (almost certainly appears to be the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, only without pointed nosecone); TLS American Airlines commercial jet taking off; shots of airplane mechanics fixing planes; shot of prop cropduster taking off; air to air shot of Cessna in flight. Aerials of off-shore oil drilling rigs in the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico and African coast; TLS/MSs men working on oil rig off Malaysian coast; TLS helicopter landing on pad of oil rig platform. TLSs men constructing gas pipeline in remote Alaska. Aerials of enormous shipping freighters sailing & docked at port; TLS freighter Eden Bridge docked (London registry). TLS submarine sail protruding from blue water. TLS Sea Hawk hovercraft sailing. TLS early bullet train in motion. Opening credits.
At the Heart of the System
EST shots Woodward Govenor production facilities in Rockford, Illinois; Ft. Collins, Colorado; England; Netherlands; Tokyo, Japan; and Sydney, Australia. Great sideview aerial of the Statue of Liberty, zoom out to wider shot. Diss to quick EST shot Golden Gate Bridge during sunset. Diss to great EST shot of Big Ben and Parliament, a double-decker bus passing in FG; cut to MS London guards marching; EST shots Tower of London (with Union Jack flying in FG) and London Bridge (Tower Bridge). Diss to landmarks of the Netherlands: large fanciful windmills, ports, botanical gardens. Diss to Japan landmarks: people passing beneath Shinto gate shrine, children in traditional robes, Great Buddha of Kamakura (Daibustu statue). Diss to TLS boat passing by Sydney Opera House, zoom out. Cut to MS montage of scientists, engineers, technicians, skilled specialists and office grunts working at various Woodward facilities.
At the Heart of the System
Montage of a Woodward design team in operation: MS application engineer talking on phone; MS white man in ugly suit talking with another white man in an even uglier suit; MS/CUs group of white men wearing ugly business suits talking in meeting room; MS men working on old unwieldy analog computer; MS/CUs man drawing design plans; MSs men in shop cutting designs; more design and production shots; MS/CUs engineers and lab technicians building prototype; MS/CUs prototype tests and redesign. Methods and productions department montage: shots of white men in ugly suits discussing plans, technicians producing product in house (metal working).
At the Heart of the System
TLS construction team working on gas pipeline in Alaska; TLS refinery as small snowy camp, exhaust flames shooting from stack; aerial of gas pipeline construction in Alaska. LS/MSs of production facilities and workers: metal workers and assemblers in Japan and America. MCU/CU montage of happy Woodward employees beaming into the camera (men & women of various races and ethnicities). More shots of production, both in labs and in offices. Cut to excellent animation of Woodward's business philosophy, the corporate partnership: an ultra-basic lesson in American-styled capitalism with profits generated by the product line being evenly distributed to both the investors and the employees, at least according to the animation here until the VO says that everyone benefits according to the value of their investment. Uh, okay.
At the Heart of the System
MS white woman working on payroll. MSs paychecks being distributed to employees in offices. VO says employees receive a share of the profits in addition to their salary. Stills of year-end corporate banquets, when employees receive their share of the profit in relation to the weight they pulled. Description of profit sharing program, policies and benefits. MS/CUs employees filling out worksheets on which they evaluate the performance of other employees; supervisors fill out sheets, too; employee evaluate their supervisors. An in-house committee reviews the results.
At the Heart of the System
MSs employees at work in office and in production labs. VO describes the 2 year probation period every employee must complete before becoming a member of the corporate partnership. MS prospective employee (white male) taking written exam; MS prospect getting a health physical; MSs prospect in training, eating lunch in lunchroom, then looking over progress reports with supervisor. An evaluation committee judges the prospect's potential partnership; they make a motion and then vote on it. Rick is in! MS/CUs of corporate induction ceremony; the end of the probation period and the employees are literally sworn and pinned into the partnership while their peers watch silently on (one of us, one of us).