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The Return Of Draw Egan (AKA The Fugitive)
intertitle. MS saloon with a horse tie-up in front. Man walks out and throws his cigarette on the ground. A couple of men ride up and tie up their horses. MS interior saloon. 3 men walk in together and are immediately roughed up. MS bearded man in a hat smoking cigar, looking suspiciously off to the side. MS guys roughing it up at the bar - one guy even shoves the bartender - all in good fun. Ext. another guy rides up to the saloon, ties up his horse. Enters the bar where the bearded guy notices him. The group of roughnecks notice him too and he starts to look nervous. MWS he stands alone and calmly at the bar smoking while the others question and insult him. One guy tries to pull a gun on him but he's too quick and draws first. The others recoil but the bearded man look satisfied. The others attend to the shot man - who appears only to have a mild wound in the arm or hand.
The Return Of Draw Egan (AKA The Fugitive)
Bearded, cigar smoking man approaches cowboy at the now empty bar and introduces himself. The sit down at a table. Crowd of men drinking at bar. The women at the table talk and smoke. Bearded guy offers cowboy job as a Marshall. He flicks his ash and thinks about it and agrees to try. WS main street in town.
1920s footage, Palmer Raids, Deportation
Various scenes from the 1920s, most notably footage of evictions and deportations that appear to be part of or in connection with the infamous palmer raids. Men on a sunny golf course, onlookers in b/g. Soldier, with gun slung over shoulder, patrolling rail yards. Overhead pan of empty railyard with telephone poles/lines. Guard patrolling on bridge over railyard. Soldier sitting behind machine gun. Crowd of people on street as men load furniture and belongings out of a storefront (part of Palmer raid or...?) Cuts to officers arresting a woman, more shots of arrests, people being dragged from their homes. Police trying to force a man into a paddy wagon. MS of people loaded into truck, disembarking from truck. CU piled up baggage. Woman with paper held up over her face, others follow behind her (immigrants and lawyers). Deck of boat with Ellis island" on the cabin on the boat. Crowd of people, immigrants, marching on dock.
Al Capone, gangsters, prohibition
1920s era gangsters, prohibition B/W 1930s newsreel footage of gangsters, including Al Capone, going to and from courthouses, Chicago, Illinois. Crowds milling about; old car with cops on the runningboards; photographers with flash guns; Capone himself appears going into and out of courthouse (looks like city hall).. Good crowd scene, photographers. B/W newsreel footage of Chicago, pre-20s. Crowd milling around, man speaking in front of billboards ("Camel", "Prince Albert", "Charlie Chaplin in Sunnyside..."; 1910s (?)Crowds in streets, soldiers; People being loaded into paddy wagon; horrifying shots of scene of tenement fire; man digging through garbage can; police wagon moves through crowd (late 20s); overturned streetcars; street scene with soldiers on guard ; soldiers on march through street; 1920s cars on street (could be Mich. Ave.); crowds (racially mixed); train tracks, POV front of train. 1910s (?) footage of Chicago, Brief shot from streets to top of tenement buildings. Aftermath of huge building fire,; distribution of blocks of ice to crowds, huge crowds of kids being hosed down by fire hoses in the streets--heat wave-.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Archival still of several older Caucasian men sitting on a jury in a courtroom, 1910s. Archival still of public execution by hanging of Rainey Bethea, 22 yr old African-American man, on charges of rape and murder in Owensboro, KY, August 14, 1936; 20,000 spectators gaze upon the gallows, watching one of the last public executions in America. Archival stills of CLARENCE DARROW.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Opening credits and comments.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Stills of CLARENCE DARROW in his later years. Glycerine dissolve to archival still of Kinsman, Ohio. Archival stills of Darrow's mother and father. Stills of the family home (notable for it was shaped like a rectangle). Archival stills white children playing with dogs, walking w/ fishing rods along country road, swimming in creek. Archival still baseball team. Archival stills Kinsman, OH, Town Hall, debates under way; great still dog sleeping under filled hat rack. Archival stills of Allegheny College. Archival still of Darrow, approx. 1875. Still of well-dressed white men courting local lady. Archival still courthouse in Youngstown, OH. Portrait of young Darrow. Ad for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewal tonic (snakeoil; remedy; charlatan). Archival still Darrow wearing bowler hat, walking streets of Chicago. Great still (late 1800s) urban street scene; horse-drawn carriages, trolleys, pedestrians. Archival stills European immigrants arriving in New York via boat, landing at Ellis Island. The tale of the Gray Wolves "buying of immigrant votes": still of wild-eyed white male immigrants in line; stills & illustrations of white bourgoisie; still of immigrants under arrest, being hauled into paddy wagon; stills of young Darrow; stills of JOHN PETER ALTGELD; stills of the "Gray Wolves". Archival still of Chicago & North Western Railway office in Chicago.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Archival stills of locomotive trains spewing huge puffs of black smoke. Archival still railroad tycoon GEORGE PULLMAN. Stills of Pullman Palace Car Co. factory & factory town. Archival stills of and related to 1894 Pullman workers strike. Stills President GROVER CLEVELAND. Still of JOHN PETER ALTGELD. More stills & illustrations of the Pullman Strike. Still American Railway Union President EUGENE DEBS (Eugene V. Debs). Stills of CLARENCE DARROW. Stills of white male business executive sitting in offices. Labor, unions, strikes, leaders, management, relations.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Stills of CLARENCE DARROW. Stills of Ruby Hammerstrom, Darrow's wife. Stills of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN running for Presidency, 1900. The 1902 Miner's Strike: still of JOHN L. MITCHELL; archival still of squalid living conditions at mining company town; stills of child laborers posing for camera, working in coal mine; stills of subsequent improvements in living conditions. Still of Clarence and Ruby Darrow. Stills of Darrow arguing labor cases; company lawyers; working class; industry barons.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: The Los Angeles Times labor fight: archival still LA Times building; still of publisher HARRISON GRAY OTIS; stills of bombed-out Times bldg, fire and rescue crew present after alleged bombing, Oct 1, 1910; still of JOHN & JAMES MCNAMARA behind bars; archival stills of Los Angeles, 1900s; stills of outdoor Socialist rally; still of the McNamara brothers; stills of trial, Darrow arguing; stills labor rally in support of the McNamaras. Labor, unions, organized, strikes, management, relations, socialism.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: America enters World War One (WWI): still of AEF soldiers (doughboys) marching in parade; still of KAISER WILHELM; still of men guilty of violating the Conspiracy and Sedition Act (prisoners in B&W striped suits). Stills of CLARENCE DARROW. Stills of temperance movement, women marching in protest, men smashing bottles & wooden kegs.
Biography: Clarence Darrow
Motion film of Clarence Darrow speaking against prohibition movement: "The last election in this country has demonstrated that the people of this nation do not believe in prohibition. No one can be temperate if he is told what to do. He must govern his own life and his own attititude. People are learning that individual liberty is the first concern of every citizen. Without it, life is not worth living."
Biography: Clarence Darrow
DO NOT USE: Still of group listening
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
FI title. Opening montage: Wide MS high school students (teenagers) singing on school bus; wide MS Italian-American family at table (outdoor dinner/supper); MS African-American teen girl (dig that Afro) crying in bathroom as Asian-American girl consoles her; MS teen Caucasian girl in riding outfit talking to horse in field; drunken teenage white boy totters in field (diffusion effect on screen periphery); MS old white male driving instructor lectures white boy in car; MS white male teacher wearing tinted eyeglasses lecturing high school class-- on chalkboard, "Don't forget science projects due in 3 weeks!". Diss to opening credits over school bus driving through suburban residential area. Diss to interior school bus, high school students singing "Show me the way to go home" drinking song, white teenagers closest to cam passing a bottle of alcohol, each taking a swig before passing it on (hilariously obvious-- is the bus driver blind or stoned or both?). CU young shaggy-haired male student, no bottle. Diss to TLS yellow school bus stopping at a mailbox in suburbs; two boys get off and stop to check the mailbox; MS/CUs boys talking about not drinking, about not "having to do what everyone else does", about what to do when someone does hand the bottle over; CU younger boy thinking.
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
FO/FI on TLS high school classroom, students working at desks; white male teacher enters frame & asks principal actor, dorky bookish white male teen student named John about his science project, John holds up title card: "Alcohol: What's In It For Me?"; teacher approves the project. Diss to John in his bedroom at home, practicing his talk to the audience, showing display of bottles including grain alcohol (C2 H5 OH); he shows a chart of Blood Alcohol Level-- too much causes death; second chart demonstrates the hangover problem (drinking too much in too short of a time); CU John, pan to wine bottle in cask in hand.
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
MCU wine bottle on table, zoom out to MS Italian-American family eating supper outside. VO says there is a low incidence of alcohol abuse among Italian-Americans b/c of the presence of wine among their social & religious traditions. MS "12-year-old" (more like 17) daughter Agnes asking her father for more wine; Pop cautions her, but gives her a small amount; pleasant meal continues, Pop asking for the meatballs to be passed over-- note the priest sitting at the end of the table; Italian stereotypes. Dissolve to girls' washroom (bathroom) in high school; African-American teenager Elaine enters, crying; her Asian-American friend consoles her; Elaine hilariously says, "I'm dumb, I'm dumb, I'm dumb!" before explaining that she was talked into taking a drink before the math test, even though she had studied for it; MS nervous & panicky Elaine talking to Caucasian girl at locker, the latter giving her a drink from a red Thermos; MS Elaine taking desk in classroom, trying to take test but only getting lily-necked & wobbly & visibly confused, even nodding off slightly b/c the booze loosened her up too much; MS Elaine & friend scrambling out of the bathroom as group of other girls enter.
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
FI on Jean, Caucasian girl teenager in riding habit, walking & talking to her horse in field: "George, baby, I wish you could talk to me. I can't talk to my parents. They just don't understand." Diss to TLS suburban family room, mid-afternoon, her father watching TV, her mother standing beside it; Jean enters, her Mom inviting her to have a drink with them; MS Jean asking Mom if she drinks too much as it is, Mom replying, "Don't be silly, act grown up! A little drink won't hurt you. We're just glad you're not on drugs!"; MS Jean trying to talk to her father-- a sure-fire bet for world's worst actor-- pleading that alcohol is a drug, that she gets uptight when she doesn't drink, that maybe she should go to AA; Pop replies, "Alcoholics Anonymous?! That's for the old folks, old drunks! You kids don t need clubs like that." Diss to Jean talking to horse in field; eventually she mounts the horse and rides away at full gallop-- "I wish I could run away! Run! Run!"
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
FI on Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam book, zoom out as dorky John continues his science project demonstration; he then shows and quotes line from A.E. Housman poem, "Look into the pewter pot to see the world as the world is not" from "A Shropshire Lad". Diss to reenactment of unsteady drunken 19th century male teenager beholding & ultimately discarding a pewter mug in a field, losing his necktie & falling asleep in the mud; he wakes and crawls out of the mud.
Alcohol: What's in it for Me?
MS front end of big ugly gas-guzzling powder-blue American automobile knocking over orange pylon cone at driving course; VO-- "As soon as he the boy knocked over the pylon, I knew he had been drinking"; TLS driving instructor & dejected male teenager getting out of car, switching sides; MSs driving instructor driving & lecturing the boy on the dangers of drinking and driving-- "This freedom is a great thing, but you had better accept some responsibility along with it." At the Elkhart auto license bureau, the driver gets out & the boy's friends ask if he passed the test; he sadly shakes his head no. Dorky teenager John winds up his presentation; pan to "Alcohol is a drug" poster. John shows his title card again: "Alcohol: What's In It For Me?" Fade out.
New York: The Wonder City
WLS Statue of Liberty; excellent l/a TLS Lady Liberty's face, crown & torch, American flag flying in BG. Aerial of downtown Manhattan (skyscrapers & such). L/a MS street signs for intersection of Broadway & Bowling Green. TLS tall monolithic buildings & hustle and bustle of business & financial district. L/a MS street sign for Wall Street (Nassau St), tall buildings in BG. Great TLS cavernous street, tall buildings, people on sidewalk-- stunning DOF. EST shot of the "Sub-Treasury", aka Federal Building at 26 Wall Street with bronze statue of George Washington, pedestrians in FG. Nice LS tall buildings (skyscrapers) of Financial District in lower Manhattan. EST shot of City Hall.
New York: The Wonder City
EST shot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan skyline in BG. THE BOWERY: great TLS street traffic traveling under L train tracks, passenger car & delivery trucks & street car trolley driving through latice of shadows, towards cam; MS customers at an open-air market. CHINATOWN: TLS/MSs Chinese New Year's parade, replete w/ Chinese dragons & woman dancing with jeet knives. L/a MS street signs at intersection of 5th Avenue & Washington Square North; TLS Washington Arch at Washington Square Park.
New York: The Wonder City
Aerial of the Empire State Building. Aerial of the Chrysler Building. L/a CU street sign for 42nd Street at 5th Ave. H/a LS/TLSs St. Patrick's Cathedral on Easter Morning, large crowd gathered outside church. L/a MCU street sign for Rockefeller Plaza at W. 49th, followed by EST shots Rockefeller Plaza, building, statue and fountain. TLS people ice skating in Central Park (winter). LS Central Park, tall buildings in BG (spring).
New York: The Wonder City
HARLEM: MS African-American police officer directing traffic; TLS busy intersection, pedestrain crossing street or waiting at curb; MCU several black children; MS black boy dancing, crowd of black youth applauding him on. EST shot George Washington Bridge. L/a MCU street sign for W. 42nd Street at Times Square. EST shots of Times Square at night, all lit up by neon signs and passing motor cars. LSs of the city (Manhattan) at night.
Biography: Gandhi
Gandhi followers peacefully protesting in streets of India after his arrest in May, 1930; British colonial soldiers and Indian state police disperse them violently with switches and sticks; frightening shots of Colonial beating an Indian man on sidewalk with his fists, taking huge swings. TLS/MSs Mahatma Gandhi and followers marching. MSs of Gandhi sitting and speaking in public.