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WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Panning view of Old American Woolen mill and parking lot; mill renovated to make computer parts.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Ben Wattenberg is guided through the computer plant by an adult Caucasian female worker. Male and female sitting at table, assembling computer circuit board; Wattenberg and woman approaching.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Ben Wattenberg interviews adult Caucasian woman about the positive effect that the new computer plant has had on the town.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Travelling POV looking out a train window to the rolling hills of western Massachusetts; woman, in voiceover, describing the landscape.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
The Lowell, Massachusetts exterior of the headquarters of Wang Laboratories computer company.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Dr. An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories, describes building the company to Wattenberg. Ben Wattenberg, Did you ever dream, Dr. Wang, when you started this company that it could grow this big, this fast... Dr. An Wang, I m not that dreaming type. I just saw the step-by-step. We are growing on an orderly basis, around 40-50% every year, for the last 30 years. Ben Wattenberg, If you were starting out today, from scratch, and had to establish a big company like yours, and could put it any place in the world, would you still opt to put it in a place like Lowell, Massachusetts? Dr. An Wang, Oh yes. The general educational facility and the high technology general atmosphere is very good here.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Workers along the assembly line in the computer assembly plant. They have computer monitors at their work stations.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt Shot from train of railroad crossing near. Shot from train rolling past the Rhode Island State Capital, Providence, RI.
Nuremberg and Vietnam: Who Is Guilty? - PT7
Adrian Fisher continues to talk about US violation of the "law of war" via incidents occurring w/out the order from high command, are the top officials still liable for isolated actions of the troops as a whole, due to insufficient training or poor example? He believes the US is accountable.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Slow pan around Sampson State Park. Ben Wattenberg stands next to park directional signs, noting that the park used to be a former U.S. Air Force base, but the base was closed and personnel moved to Texas.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Main street in Geneva, New York. Ben Wattenberg walks on sidewalk while explaining how the city's economy was tied to the former Sampson Air Force base.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Close-up of train travelling.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
VS of Carrier factory in New York; Carrier logo. Adult male, wearing mask, working on industrial air conditioner; Ben Wattenberg, in voiceover, points out that air conditioning was instrumental in making it possible for industry to relocate wholesale to hot climates. VS of machine press; water spraying out. Adult Caucasian man, wearing safety glasses, working.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
VS of adult men working; machines operating in industrial plant. Spools of yarn spinning. VS of adult Caucasian women working textile mill. High angle view of train travelling.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
POV from front of train travelling through snow covered area.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Panning overview of river and nearby town. Travelling POV past dormant textile mill. Tilt up at an angle of a dormant smokestack. Closure sign. Building for lease sign. Dormant factory.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
POV travelling on empty South Mall Arterial toward Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
High angle view of Ben Wattenberg standing at Empire State Plaza; zoom out to wider view of the Plaza. VS of the plaza featuring Cultural Education Center, high-rise buildings, "the Egg". Tilt up from Empire State Plaza plaque dedication to surrounding buildings. Panning overview of Empire State Plaza. Wattenberg, in voiceover, says the mall became a symbol of government that had lost touch with reality. He notes the museum on the mall that provides history of government in the state, when they provided essential services.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Ben Wattenberg, sitting on an antique fire engine in the New York State museum in Albany, says that essential services provided by government began to change in the Frost Belt in the 1960s. Wattenberg: "Domestic liberalism was in full flower," and that government decided it should do more.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Pan down high-rise building; Ben Wattenberg, in voiceover, says that between 1960-1975, the number of state government employees grew by fifty percent.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Close-ups of government agencies, departments listed on boards.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
"The Egg"; performing arts venue.
WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Frost Belt
Adult Caucasian male and female ballet dancers practicing at "the Egg".