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Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS sailboats docked in harbor. Low angle view of power lines, pan to GV boats docked in harbor. MS two men raising mast of small sailboat, flash. GV farmer walking toward camera carrying a metal ladder, nice rural scene w/ white barn buildings in BG. CU tip of ladder hitting power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
GV orange grove w/ worker moving ladder to harvest the fruit crop. MS top of ladder being rested in tree top, man climbs the ladder. Low angle MS looking up at man picking fruit. CU orange fruit, flash. GV young shirtless man driving tractor toward camera, towing farm equipment behind, red barn seen in BG. CU medal farm equipment touching power lines, sparks fly. (agriculture, farming)
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS utility pole with pole-mount transformer, pan out to GV of blond teenage girl in a bikini using net to skim residential swimming pool. MS skimmer being used to clean leaves from pool. MS end of aluminum pool skimmer getting dangerously close to power lines. MCU teen girl cleaning pool. CU skimmer pool touching power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
MS man (arborist) climbing a tree. GV man in tree, starting his gas powered chain saw, zoom to CU as saw blade cuts into branch & strikes a power line, sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
Chicago, Michigan Ave: MS construction worker in hard hat climbing ladder. MCU profile crane operator. MS construction worker climbing ladder to repair building marquee. MS worker welding building marquee. CU hands of crane operator. CU power line, pan out to GV of crane operator moving marquee frame, view of neighboring business w/ great sign "Benjamin Joe's Old Cathay Cantonese Restaurant". Low angle MS crane arm moving dangerously close to power lines, historic Water Tower & John Hancock Center building seen in BG, crane touches line & sparks fly.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
Low angle MS looking up at utility pole strung with power lines. GV sky with heavy cloud cover, special effect lightning bolt is simulated.
Reaching For The Lightning - PT2
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White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
The American College of Surgeons presents "White Battalions: Serving All Mankind." - PT2 Intended to gain hospital endowments from wealthy patrons, this film shows off medical technologies & advancements of the early 1940s. The film follows a storyline that blends scripted dialog with hospital scenes. Excellent quality & content throughout.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
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White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
Montage of heath care professionals: CUs young female nurses, male doctor, male surgeon, all images superimposed over a stream of uniformed health care professionals marching.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
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White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
Bedroom interior: Several MS/CU exchanges between two woman (housewife & servant) as they sort through & fold child size clothing, the two talk about the woman's daughter & about how much joy she brings to their lives.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
House exterior: GV young girl exiting stately home, skipping over to the chauffer who is holding the car door open for her. MS girl in frilly dress & hair in tight curls showing the chauffer her party souvenir, a music box. MS girl seated in backseat of car, she winds the music box. CU music box. GV as fancy 1940s era luxury car drives away from mansion. (wealth, well-to-do, affluent)
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
House interior: MS female servant hanging up telephone receiver & letting out a deep sigh. Several MS/CU exchanges between two woman (housewife & servant) as they talk in bedroom, they talk about the maid's sickly son, hospitals, insurance & the high cost of specialty doctors.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT 1
Car accident: CUs music box sliding off car seat & breaking, sounds of screeching tires & crash simulate a car wreck. MCU police in squad car, using phone to call for an ambulance. MS two paramedics lifting girl on stretcher, placing her in back of ambulance. MS as ambulance drives away. GV pan ambulance racing along residential street w/ sirens blaring. POV from ambulance windshield, driving through Chicago, great 1940s era cars seen. MCU police sergeant seated at station desk, telephoning child's parents, informing them that their daughter has been taken to hospital.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Hospital Emergency Room: MCU sign on building exterior reading "Ambulance and Emergency Entrance". MCU ambulance pulling into hospital. GV/MS hospital lobby as paramedics wheel young girl on stretcher into the emergency room, CU "Emergency" door as it closes in front of camera. MS male doctors & female nurse in emergency room, examining young girl on table. MCU girl on examining table. MCU doctors talking. MCU leg of injured girl wrapped in splint.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT3
The American College of Surgeons presents "White Battalions: Serving All Mankind." - PT3 Intended to gain hospital endowments from wealthy patrons, this film shows off medical technologies & advancements of the early 1940s. The film follows a storyline that blends scripted dialog with hospital scenes. Excellent quality & content throughout.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT3
Domestic Interior: MCU woman in domestic servant uniform talking into telephone receiver, her voice is strained with stress, fear & relief as she talks about the condition of two children in the hospital.
White Battalions: Serving All Mankind - PT2
Hospital Interior: MS two nurses talking at reception desk, seated one picks up phone calling for "nurse to emergency please". MS two nurses at reception , one is standing looking over chart, the other is seated when a couple enters the scene asking about their daughter. MCU man in suit & slicked back hair seated at desk talking on phone (doctor).
The USAF Story: The Beginning
Titles.
The USAF Story: The Beginning
LS hot air balloon in flight.
The USAF Story: The Beginning
Dark footage of early gliders on field, taking off
The USAF Story: The Beginning
Propellers being spun. Wright Brothers. CU Orville Wright. Cut to 1908 newsreel of the Wright Brothers in France (see also catalog 445092). MS French dignitaries, Henri Petain among them, in spectator stands, shaking hands. MSs Orville and Wilbur Wright and assistants setting up glider in field balancing wings on chock blocks, turning propellers, weighted pulley system projecting. Wilbur & French journalist in plane; MS men on ground watching the plane shoot off; LS plane flying low to ground, over shallow pool of water.
The USAF Story: The Beginning
MS Theodore Roosevelt speaking from behind podium draped in the American flag. MS Signal Corps documents being perused, signed. LS early glider in flight, barely higher than the tree-line.