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Combat: The Constant Reality - Operation Desert Storm
VS slow motion grainy black and white greenish nightscope videography. CU soldiers running. Normal color images - LS sunrise artillery fire. Nighttime missile launch (orange streaks and smoke in sky. VS Cu and LS of missile launches. MS bombs hitting desert. MS abandoned tank in desert sun. Abandoned artillery. Helicopters (apache?) in flight towards camera, rangefinder pov (with sight marks) centered on burning target. Still image of tanks in desert with burning debris, Slow motion CU tank fire, two soldiers help a third to his feet, soldier walking in desert, LS helicopters landing in desert, Soldiers on sand firing guns, tank pov - firing across desert, CU burning target. Burning overturned jeep. Series of stills - war damage, abandoned supplies, equipment, CU charred hand of dead soldier. LS tank silhouetted in desert sunset, smoke filled sky in b/g.
Combat: The Constant Reality
DO NOT USE Still photos of dead bodies.
News in Brief: Shirley Temple Black Runs For Congress
DO NOT USE MS Shirley Temple in a scene from one of her movies.
News in Brief: Shirley Temple Black Runs For Congress
CU Shirley Temple Black.
Washington Week Show - # 4311
Washington Week Show # 4311 - Looking Back (9/11 Terrorist Attacks), Troop Tempo, The Price Tag. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Doyle McManus, Martha Raddatz, David Sanger, Gebe Martinez. 20.00.13 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : Second Anniversary of 9/11, Fireman in dress blues, young girl with yellow rose at ground zero, pedestrians walking along street (large american flag draped across building), two women pushing baby strollers, Donald Rumsfield walking with military official, american troops in Iraq, pedestrians walking along crowded street, pharmacist counting pills, U.S. Coast guard, airport security check. 20.01.02 DO NOT USE Commercials 20.01.52 President George W. Bush speaking "Two years ago I told the Congress and the country that the war on terror would be a lengthy war, a different kind of war fought on many fronts and many places, Iraq is now the central front." 20.07.34 Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz "The oil revenues of that country could bring between fifty hundred billion dollars over the course of the next two to three years. Now, there's a lot of claims on that money, but we're not dealing with Afghanistan that's a permanent warden of the International community. We're dealing with a country that can barely finance it's own re-construction and relatively soon." 20.07.55 Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz says "The costs are large, but it is a battle that we can win, and it is a battle we must win. Because victory in this battle will be a major victory in the war on terrorism, and a major defeat for the global terrorist networks." 20.18.58 (D. West Virginia) Senator Robert Byrd says "The Administration wants Congress to once again to hand over billions of dollars with little over sight or discussion. Congress is not an ATM." 20.19.19 MAY HAVE RESTRICTIONS - Donald Rumsfield on "The NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer.
Washington Week Show - # 4312
Washington Week Show # 4312 - Then There Were 10 (Democratic Candidates), Punch Card Controversy (California Re-call Race), Is there a Link? (Between Saddam Hussein and September 11th), Exchange Executive Out. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Dan Balz, Karen Breslau, Alexis Simendinger, Alan Murray.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE PBS "Election 88" title/WETA credit/funding credits/"Campaign" title.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Opening sequence shows past presidents EISENHOWER, NIXON, KENNEDY, walking the campaign trail with cartoon television sets superimposed so their faces appear through the "screens" and a shot of a suburban family watching Howdy Doody. The montage continues, humorously, including a shot of MICHAEL DUKAKIS throwing a baseball which here has a small TV set superimposed over it, the TV flies out of frame, and in the next shot flies into frame to bean Sen. Paul Simon during a press conference. Reagan is shown with his face on the "screen" in black and white.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Title "The Prime Time President".
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Host BILL MOYERS, introduces program, the impact of TELEVISION on CAMPAIGNING and politics and it's impact on Democracy. Guest Harold Evans, British Journalist, says that the British are fascinated by the Television-obsession of Americans. He made a documentary film to raise questions about Television Democracy.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Shots in Campaign headquarters of "Jack Tanner", fictitious candidate in a TV show produced by "Doonesbury" creator GARY TRUDEAU. Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88", depicting a frantic campaign office. Shot of project director ROBERT ALTMAN behind camera and directing actors.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" In the scene, a sniveling campaign director gets apoplectically mad and chucks a bottle at a caricature of DUKAKIS on the wall of "Jack Tanner" headquarters, then opens up a bottle of Diet Coke, which, through his spastic activity, foams all over the place and ruins his shirt. Shot from production as "Jack Tanner" enters the party convention floor.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88". Shot of actor Michael Murphy ("Jack Tanner"), who says that the line between show business and politics are not much different, as he's seen in researching the part.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" Shot of "Jack Tanner" and Bruce Babbitt walking by Reflecting Pool in production. Babbitt is playing himself as a Tanner advisor in the production.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
Behind the scenees shots on set of "Tanner 88". C/S of BABBITT, who says that he decided being in the production wouldn't hurt his own political legitimacy as long as he "played himself" in the show.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT
DO NOT USE Scene from "Tanner 88" Shot of BABBITT advising "Tanner" on camera. It is interesting how BABBITT in the course of "playing himself" appears transparently as a hack actor.
Washington Week Show - # 4313
Washington Week Show # 4313 - Crowded Stage (Democratic Debate), Recall Rivals (California Recall), International Debate. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Gloria Borger, David Broder, Michael Duffy, Barbara Slavin.
Washington Week Show - # 4314
Washington Week Show # 4314 - Looking for the Leak (CIA Spy), Still Searching (WMD), Day for the Defense, Arnold Allegations. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Dana Priest, David Sanger, Pete Williams, John Harwood.
Washington Week Show - # 4315
Washington Week Show # 4315 - Actor at the Helm, Running Reconstruction. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Dan Balz, Karen Tumulty, Doyle McManus, Martha Raddatz. 20.00.12 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : Jay Leno announcing "Lady's and Gentleman, the Governor of the great State of California Arnold Schwarzenegger." Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver waving to crowd. Protestors with banner 'Recall Gray Davis', Arnold Schwarzenegger walking to podium, Gray Davis waving, voters at polling booths, Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno shaking audience members hands. White House, President George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, american soldier standing guarding gate, arresting man (frisking), soldier pointing gun. 20.01.12 DO NOT USE Commercials 20.02.04 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "The people of California want me to be their Governor, and I will do that if nothing else. I will work as the Governor, I will work as much as I can even if it is around the clock, there will be no time for movies or anything else." 20.11.10 Al Sharpton at Democratic debate "We're 48 hours away from watching an actor, that couldn't win an oscar win to be the Governor of California. We need to deal with how we beat George Bush in 2004." 20.11.38 Joe Lieberman says "I must say that I've been very disappointed since Wes Clark came into this race about the various positions he has taken on the war against Saddam Hussein." 20.11.50 Wesley Clark stating "The answer's very clear, the answer is I would have voted for a resolution that took the problem to the United Nations, I would not have voted for a resolution that would have taken us to war, it's that simple." 20.14.52 Vice President Dick Cheney stating "President Bush declined the course of in-action, the results are there for all to see, the torture chambers are empty, the prisons for children are closed, the murderers of innocence have been exposed, and their mass graves have been uncovered. The regime is gone, never to return, and despite difficulties we knew would occur, the Iraqi people prefer liberty and hope to tyranny and fear."
Washington Week Show - # 4316
Washington Week Show # 4316 - UN On Board, Congress Balks, Campaign Ca$h, High Court Convenes. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Barbara Slavin, Alan Murray, Jeanne Cummings, Linda Greenhouse. 20.00.12 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : United Nations building, UN security council voting, US capitol dome, Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy saying "The Presidents war has been revealed as mindless, needless, senseless, reckless." President George W. Bush, american soldiers seen with Iraqi children, electric worker. John Edwards, Howard Dean, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, George W. Bush waving, Supreme court members seated for photo, grammar school children saying the pledge of allegiance (no audio), man smoking marijuana, Supreme court building. 20.01.28 DO NOT USE Commercials 20.02.30 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says "The process has been difficult, but the outcome is a clear demonstration of the will of all the members of the security council to place the interest of the Iraqi people above all other considerations." 20.07.42 (R.) North Carolina "I come from a district where there is a lot of hardship lately, a lot of job loss and my people frankly don't understand why this can't be a loan instead of a grant, and a lot of them say to me this just doesn't make any sense, Iraq has all that oil." 20.13.28 Howard Dean at campaign fundraiser, Wesley Clark, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush waving to crowd.
Washington Week Show - # 4317
Washington Week Show # 4317- Battling Questions and Critics, Talking Terror, Ground Strategy, Late-Term Challenge. Host Gwen Ifill, guests include Martha Raddatz, David Sanger, Terence Samuel, Janet Hook. 20.00.12 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : American troops in Iraq, Donald Rumsfield. 20.00.22 DO NOT USE photo 20.00.25 US soldiers in Iraq, President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush exiting Air Force One waving, President George W. Bush on South East Asia trip, John Kerry seated with people at restaurant, Joe Lieberman, Wesley Clark shaking hands with supporters, Capitol dome, older man holding sign 'Stop All Abortion', demonstrators with signs 'Keep Abortion Legal'. (Pro-life, pro-choice protestors) 20.01.21 DO NOT USE Commercials 20.05.53 (R) Virginia - Senator John Warner says "..recognize the right of every american to free speech, however as it is well established, I add part in law, there are limits on the right of expression for service members." 20.08.51 President George W. Bush stating "Nations that choose to support terror are complicit in a war against civilization. Nations that try to ignore terror and hope it will only strike others are diluting themselves."
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1988 Democratic Convention.
Master 11515 Tape 1 CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - Documentary on the history of Presidental Campaingns and the part that the media plays in American politics. 1988 Democratic Convention.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1988 Democratic Convention.
Shots of the preparation of an arena for the DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION of 1988, wide view of arena floor and podium under construction, close shots of the podium being assembled and lighting rigs and cameras being set up, like a huge TV show set.
CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT - 1988 Democratic Convention.
C/S JIMMY CARTER, says that politics is too driven by TV, that events don't count unless they get staged as media events.