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INSTANTANEAS DEL MOMENTO
INSTANTANEAS DEL MOMENTO Queen of light Festival is held in Toronto, by Scandinavian Canadian club. Procession. Girl with lit candled wreath headdress. For nearly 1700 years, it is a Swedish custom that during Christmas time every year a girl is picked to portray the legendary Saint Lucia. It is believed to have started in Sicily. St. Lucia is believed to have died a martyrs death, and has been remembered as the Queen of Light. Children in pageant. 18 year old Inga Stanberg is Lucia.
The Innocent Years (Part One)
TLS Statue of Liberty, POV from sailing boat; great MS immigrants huddled on boat sailing in NY Harbor, Statue of Liberty in BG; MCU immigrants smiling; MS two immigrant women wearing babushkas posing for cam, Statue of Liberty in BG; MCU immigrant father with infant son in lap. MSs newly arrived immigrants walking on Ellis Island with belongings; CUs faces of immigrants (bearded old man, young boy eating bread, another boy wearing visor cap, two boys wearing suits & Gatsby caps. MS immigrants walking w/ baggage by cam. Europeans. Immigration. New World.
Emperor Haile Selassie in NY and Washington
Emperor Haile Selassie in NY and Washington. Shot of ocean liner from shore. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is walking along the deck and stops to pose for press. Shot of the Statute of Liberty. Shot Haile and etourage. Haile and group disembark from ship into giant crowd. Shot of police holding back crowd of black people. Haile arrives at White House and is greeted by President Dwight Eisenhower. Shot of press photographers taking pictures. President Eisenhower and Haile shake hands with Haile's entourage and the press looking on.
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New York City: TLS el train on elevated tracks taking turn over street, Blue Point Oysters carriage passing cam in FG; great subjective POV shot aboard trolley through bustling street, well-dressed folks crossing erratically before cam; TLSs street scenes, a chaotic cluster of pedestrians, el trains, horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, traffic cops, trolleys, street cars vying for space & sanity; MSs well-dressed residents walking along sidewalks; traveling MS man on carriage delivering Doelger's Beer; MS man wearing placard advertising "Steve Sells Big Ones"; MS boys playing stickball in street; MS two voluptuous women pushing baby carriage along sidewalk; TLS/MSs kids dancing in street while man cranks music box; TLS men playing form of basketball on playground while cops keep crowd at bay; TLS kids swimming naked in ornamental water fountain until cops shoo 'em off (summer, heat); CU bell ringing; excellent TLSs horse-drawn hook and ladder and steam pump carriages pulling from fire stations (fire department), zipping through streets, responding to emergency fire call, crowds watching eagerly; nice TLS steam pump at call site, fireman attaching fire hose to fireplug; MS two men shaking hands on street, one bringing up newspaper; TLS street scene, trolley & several horse-drawn carriages passing by el tracks; TLSs tenements, white linen (laundry) hanging from clotheslines.
Woman Rides Horse From Argentina to Canada
Woman Rides Horse From Argentina to Canada. She is trying to break a world record for the trip. Woman riding horse, leading another, down the side of the highway. Traffic passes her. She comes up on two men standing by a car. CU of woman. Shot of horse grazing. CU of sign tied to horse "Eisenhower, Continental, ....aternity." Woman riding horse down road. Last shot came from car trailing behind her.
OSU Blind Awareness
CU of a sign that reads "OSU 1973 Senior Class Committe Aids The Handicapped". Camera pulls back to reveal that the sign is nailed to a balloon stand. The man inside the booth fills balloons from a helium tank. Shot of a man giving a young woman change from his pocket. Shot of a man having a blindfold placed over his eyes. The man wears a checkered suit and a loud tie. Shot of an experiment were the blind are literally leading the blind. The experiment is used to give seeing people first hand experience in mobility methoths used by those without sight. Two sets of people are walking down steps. The first group consists of a young woman using a walking cane (for the blind) and wearing sunglasses. She escorts a man who has been blindfolded down the steps. The second group consists of three people, two women and the man in the bad suit. The first woman is a type of chaperon, making sure there are no major accidents. The second woman is blind and uses a walking cane and carries a tote bag. The blind woman escorts the blindfolded man down the stairs. Camera follows the second group as they go for an excursion around the block. Shot of the three walking down the street, the girl in the middle uses her cane to feel the way. Side view of the three approaching an obstacle. They encounter a man who is trimming hedges. Discarded parts of the hedge are lying on the sidewalk obstructing the path. When the blind woman and the blindfolded man realize that there is something in the way, they start to move. The chaperon guides them to a stable part of the sidewalk. Reporter interviews the blindfolded man about his experience. Man replies "I'm certain that these ladies, after walking with them, do an enormous job of adjusting to their problem. But they still need help, just like all of us at one time or another do need help. But it certainly makes me more aware, there's no question about that." View of the group walking down the street. The camera focuses on their legs and the movement of the cane.
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Post-assassination newsreel of President WILLIAM MCKINLEY in Buffalo, NY: panning TLS street scene, horse-drawn carriages, people walking bicycles, soldiers all about; MSs casket being carried from building, loaded onto carriage, THEODORE ROOSEVELT saluting with top hat to heart; TLSs funeral procession, cortege, sailors with rifles, police officers; MS TR with hat over heart.
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Est shots of Sagamore Hill, Long Island home of Teddy Roosevelt; int shot den, heads of big game adorning walls, zoom in to oil painting portrait of TR. MS President THEODORE ROOSEVELT walking from porch toward cam, stopping; MSs TR playing w/ dogs on grounds of home, walking into field, taking off jacket & hat, chopping down tree w/ ax; TLS Teddy rowing on lake. TLSs Theodore Roosevelt riding horse, giving horse treats. MS Teddy & son ARCHIE ROOSEVELT looking over documents outside.
Soldier Gets Unusual Letter
Soldier Gets Unusual Letter. Letter a mile long. Three Soldiers open letters. One soldier's letter is on a roll of paper. He starts to read it while unrolling it. The soldier asks one of the other privates to help him unroll the rest of the letter. The private backs up and starts to pull the paper toward him. The soldier reads the letter while the paper unravels from the roll. The private keeps pulling the paper towards him. The soldier shakes his head while reading the letter. Pan down to the unraveled paper at soldiers feet on the ground.
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Panning LS industrial factory town (company town), small steamstacks spewing waste. TLS/MSs women pumping water from well outside row of homes. TLS/MSs men leaving homes, walking to factory with lunchpails; MS men, women & children entering factory, punching time cards, working in textile mill. MSs women packaging glass lamp globes. MSs girls (children) working on industrial looms, including an amazing shot of curl-haired girl barely 8 yrs old threading loom like an old pro-- ah yes, child labor. MS teenage boys in factory.
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MSs man oiling early internal combustible engine automobile in laboratory (recreation); CU internal combustion engine. Early automobiles montage: MS wealthy young man wearing goggles & duster coat helping woman in driving veil into Baker electric car, then taking off brake & cranking engine; MS man cranking Packard automobile; panning MS several people in Packard; CUs shimmying gears, parts, steering wheel; TLS/MSs early electric & gas powered automobiles in rural scenics, spooking horses & cows; panning TLS couple in 3 wheel (Mercedes?) car; panning TLS Ford Model T passing cam; TLS Model T pulling up to country house, girl & woman w/ umbrella getting in; MS/CUs man wearing duster & goggles furiously cranking engine of Model T, woman in white lace-up boots & driving veil watching; good MCU feet on pedals; MS man & woman in driving gear (including open umbrella) in Model T; TLS/MSs prim couple in Model T driving toward cam; panning MS horse pulling several men sitting in early car; MSs man stopping car on suburban street, getting out to pump air into tire; MSs man working under chassis of Baker electric in field, woman watching; MSs man working under chassis & hood of Stanley Steamer in field, woman watching; MCUs men wearing derby hats furiously cranking engines; TLS Model T driving through very muddy field; CU spoked tire stuck in mud; MSs horses pulling plow attached to Model T stuck in muddy field. Inventions.
Carrier Blast: Scores Die As Fire Sweeps Bennington
Carrier Blast: Scores Die As Fire Sweeps Bennington. Damaged aircraft carrier slowly enters port. Shot of damaged ship. Panning from sailers preparing stretchers to recieve the wounded to the damaged carrier with its crew standing on deck. Shots of sailors looking at the dead covered bodies. Three officers discuss tragedy with sailor on deck. Shot of sailor. Shot of sailor with his head in arms sitting against a wall. CU of smoke covered face. Shots of the injured being removed from the ship and placed in ambulances. The crew walks away from the ship. An officer and a man in a suit have a discussion. A man closes an ambulance door and it begins to pull away. Two ambulances race by camera.
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Ford assembly line montage: MS/CUs men assembling gears, engines; MSs Model T cars in production; TLSs cars rolling off line. MSs Dad rolling Model T soft-top convertible to farm house, lil' girls in white dresses helping; MSs 2 girls getting into backseat, bouncing hilariously while rolly mother gets in; Dad cranks engine while son shifts gears & away they go. More shots white folks driving early cars (mostly Model Ts) through countryside. TLS/LSs numerous Ford Model T automobiles congesting urban streets. TLS traffic cop turning corner sign from Stop to Go while man reading newspaper walks into traffic, gets bumped by Model T, the cop sending the idiot to the curb. TLS/LSs early automobiles congesting streets, some horse-drawn carriages still being used. Great TLS crowded sidewalk, well-dressed pedestrians walking along, auto traffic in BG. Very chaotic.
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Excellent segment on New York Stock Market: TLS pedestrians on sidewalk in canyons of NYC, old bald African-American man in FG looking at cam; TLSs crowds of men on Broad Street, NYC (Wall Street area), curb exchange; panning MS stock brokers, some using wireless headsets, taking orders & making hand signals to crowd from window ledges of building (the real reason why capitalism is so dangerous); great MS crowd of men in ties & suits & newsboy caps signaling back (seems so strange, so funny, all the odd hand gesturing); sideview MSs young stock brokers taking orders from window sill. Stills of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan. Economy, economics.
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MSs President THEODORE ROOSEVELT speechifying from gazebo to crowd of well-dressed whites; MSs Teddy shaking hands w/ line of white people. TLS/MSs Teddy Roosevelt posing with Boy Scouts troop, St. Patrick's Church affiliation on bass drum. MS/CUs First Lady EDITH KERMIT ROOSEVELT at Sagamore Hill. 1905 newsreel of Teddy leaving to mediate the Russo-Japanese War: TR boards the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, then shakes hands & doffs hat to naval officers dressed in peculiar hats & epaulets; TLS/LSs USS Columbia & other American naval steam ships of the Great White Fleet sailing, American flags flying proudly from bows & sterns. MS/CUs TR library at Sagamore Hill.
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MS author MARK TWAIN (SAMUEL CLEMENS) dressed in white suit, standing in doorway, walking toward cam, looking ornery; MS Mark Twain having tea with two of his daughters on sunny patio. LS/TLSs steamboat (paddlewheel) sailing on Mississippi River; MS steam whistle & steamstacks; MS pilot in wheelhouse turning wheel; MS boiler room; MS paddle wheel churning, wake water. More shots steamboat sailing.
Public Service Announcement for Aid to Korea
Public Service Announcement for Aid to Korea. Well dressed man, John Daly, sitting at desk speaking. Shell being shot out of a cannon. Clouds from explosions. Soldiers firing cannons. Boy loads rocket into motar and it fires. Soldiers fire motar from a fox hole. Shots of devestation and destruction. People using hoses from across to spray water at a burning building. Soldiers look at burning building. A woman, young girl and bandaged baby sit among rubble. A man, carrying possesions and a small boy, walk down a street with two boys. One has a backpack of possessions on his back. A child carefully walks among rubble. People look a bombed out building. Two people dig through rubble. Two shots of people digging through rubble. Dead Bodies. A womans crys over a covered body. A family lives in a ramshackle shelter. Young child laying on ground. Closer shot. A kid walks by holding a something square over his head. He man feeds a woman in makeshift shelter. A little girl or boy hangs on to an older boy. Both look at the camera. Card says "Send Your Dolars Today to American-Korean Foundation Inc. Your Local Post Office. All Contributions Tax Deductible." Next card "Produced with the Cooperation of the Motion Picture Industry and Shown by This Theater as a Public Service"
Tot Kidnapped: Abductor Captured, 4-Year-Old Rescued
Tot Kidnapped: Abductor Captured, 4-Year-Old Rescued. San Francisco Newspaper Headline: "Kidnapper Seizes Girl, 4 From Burlingame Home" and picture of girl on front page. Shot of older couple standing outside house looking a newspaper. CU of couple. Pan from two young boys standing by tree down to tricycle by curb. Man with hat walks up driveway with car parked in it. Shot of house with woman standing inside by screen door. In a garage, two men stand in front of car. One man is behind it A little girl gets out of the car. Shot of the girl between the two men. A man walks into a building carrying the little girl past the camera. The little girl is in an older woman's lap and hugs her. A younger woman is also next to the two. The little girl is being held by the older woman surrounded by the younger woman, who is also holding a child, and two men. A man is being booked at the police station (perhaps fingerprinted). A press photographer is taking a picture while this occurs. A police officer is copying information down in a ledger from a piece of paper. Jail cell door opens and man enters. Officer closes door. Shot of man behind bars.
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TLSs circus parade traveling through countryside, kicking up dust, then arriving in New York City to much anticipation & pageantry, crowds lining streets; TLS train of elephants with riders; MSs marching band; TLS pack of camels pulling carriage; MS two Native American chiefs wearing war bonnets while on horses; MSs elephant pushing carriage with head; CU elephant eye. TLS circus tent being raised; TLSs fairway, crowds milling about tents & bands; MS woman playing snare drum next to sign for "High Class, Moral & Refined Mighty Hippodrome Show"; TLS barkers & crowd outside freak show tent; MSs kids trying to sneak into show by going under tent but get caught; TLS crowd outside freakshow tent watching woman w/ rifle-- quite possibly Annie Oakley-- doing gun trick; MS man playing ring toss, winning; panning MS kids in pie-eating contest; MS kids on scaled-down steam locomotive ride, train stopping for next riders-- but the last batch o' kids won t get off; MS two cute kids, apparently on a date, getting lemonade at refreshment stand; TLS Bee's All Star Minstrels performing, some in blackface, though most are African-Americans.
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TLS/MSs canal crowded by wealthy white folks having lunch or tea in rowboats. MSs two children trying to feed pigeons in park, but they're more content in scaring them away. MS/LSs wealthy folks sitting in city gardens on sunny afternoon, listening to military bands perform in gazebos. TLSs adults & teenagers playing separately on Mayfair pole. Silly MSs hyperactive woman dancing in park for several children who eventually join in. MSs folks dancing to white jazz band playing ragtime in park.
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Panning LS very crowded beach on a sunny afternoon (Coney Island? Atlantic City?). MSs men, women, children & dogs frolicking in shallow waters, playing leapfrog on shore, having a gau old time in an odd array of swimming attire (swimsuits). MS fat old man wearing striped skivvies stepping into water. MS blond boy wading in water, walking away from toy sailboat in tide, a real sailboat in BG. TLSs people walking, dining on Boardwalk. Excellent TLS/MSs folks on amusement rides: merry go round, Viking sling, swings, Golden Stairs, roller coaster, camel ride, pulleys, slides, water boats, pulleys, slides, etc. Good subjective POV & objective shots of roller coaster ride. TLS entrance to Luna amusement park. Recreation, amusement, entertainment, leisure.
Vietnamese Religious Sect Arrives In France
Vietnamese Religious Sect Arrives In France Plane taxiing in airport. Oriental women in kimonos and men in suits wait at gate. Man, in white clothing, coolie hat and cane, descends from plane and is greeted by people waiting at the bottom of the stairs. Shot of man with coolie hat and oriental woman next to him. The heads of five men are seen behind them.
A People Mover - Conveyer Belt Ride
A People Mover - Conveyer Belt Ride Ribbon cutting ceremony. Older man in suit cuts ribbon while a group looks on. Group gets on conveyer belt and moves along in a tunnel. At the end of the conveyer belt, the group meets the press. Camera looks down at man's feet as he gets on the conveyer belt and as he moves along, the camera pans up the man. POV from cameraman on conveyer. People riding the conveyer belt.
Egg Laying Contest
Egg Laying Contest. People line up and buy hens. CU of dark haired woman handing over a hen. Another woman recieves hen and walks past the camera. Shot of hens in cages eating feed and laying eggs in a barn. Two men gather eggs and write something on a clipboard. Eggs roll into collection tray. Shot of audience. A hen sits on a nest in a box and jumps out after laying an egg. CU of egg laid in box. Shot of audience appluading. Dark haired woman places a necklace of eggs around a hen. A man stands next to her.