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1961 Water Ski Champion
1961 Water Ski Champion Water ski Competition. Woman doing twists and turns on water while being pulled by boat. Jumping competition in progress, and slalom on the water. News cameraman in swim trunks knee deep in water filming. Tracking shot from back of boat, watching skier.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter introduces fine Louisiana boy Jimmy C. Newman, who wears a black Nudie suit with orange alligators, and who plays guitar and sings "Walk Through this World With Me" backed by The Wagonmasters. MS Buck on Mosrite guitar. Afterwards Porter returns and asks Newman to say the title of the song in Cajun French, and Newman says "Brace yourselves friends, cause you won't understood one word when I gonna said it." Newman recites the title in French and Porter replies "sure do, don't it?"
Ronald Reagan / George Bush Debate
Howard K. Smith: Let me ask you a question that is almost philosophical? Ladies and gentlemen please suppress your enthusiasm until we re finished because people will think someone is taking sides and we don t want to think you are. Mr. Reagan and Ambassador Bush, you blame the government for many of our ills, but in many ways who s not government absolutely essential and has many achievements to its credit. The most productive industry we have is agriculture and its productivity is here mainly to government activity and research stations. WWII the government created an aluminum industry when private industry wouldn t touch it, then sold it to private industry. And our most spectacular achievement lately, the putting a man on the moon was a government project, a government plan which private enterprise carried out. Aren t you underrating the effectiveness of government? George Bush: No, I don t think government compares to production. You can find an example of the aluminum industry, now much better done in the private sector. And when you have a wartime economy, of course you re going to have government intervention in certain things, stimulation of ship building for example. To tell you what s happening, government has moved in on the private sector with so much regulation. I built a business right here, in Texas, started it from scratch. And when we started out in the Gulf to drill a well, we needed, I think it was 2 permits. Today, I m told its 12 permits. Every time you turn around there s too much regulation. Yes, government does some things, and it can help people, and they do help people. And I m not an anti government person. They provide for the defense, and there s certain functions the government has, that are compassionate and I think good. And I have a difference with the governor, whether you turn everything back to the states or not, welfare for example, I think there is room for a partnership there. But what government does is not productive and we ought to be cutting it back because it isn t adding to this productivity that I think it is essential, if we re going to beat inflation and give the by-pass citizen. The person in the 5th ward in Huston, that s been by-passed, give them an opportunity to have a running start as they get into the work force. Howard K. Smith: Mr. Reagan. Ronald Reagan: Yes, Howard, I brought some figures along here because I felt they might come in handy someplace and here it is. If Americans since 1950, in the last 30 years, had been able to save and invest, if our economy had grown only 1 and a half % more a year, our incomes would be 50% higher, jobs would be plentiful, we d have a balance budget, lower payroll taxes instead of higher, stable prices, a solvent Social Security Program and our industrial economy would be three times as great of that of the Soviet Union, and we would have unquestioned military superiority. Now you mentioned, I agree too. There are legitimate functions that government must perform. And the basic three that are outlined in the very basis of our government and our constitution is that the federal government exists to protect us from outside aggression, our national security, to protect us from disorder within, and to guarantee the stability of our money. And in all three of those at the moment, we could say, that this administration has failed. They have not protected our national security, they have let it decline where we re in the most dangerous point we been in, that I can recall. We know about disorder in the streets, crime and so fourth. The third one also, the stability of our money, the dollar is worth less in relation to other currency than it s ever been in our history.
Daring Drivers Risk Necks In Cycle Hill Climb
Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry Daring motorcycle drivers risk their necks mountain /steep hill climbing
Personalities In the News
Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry Asian Family stands with the Golden Gate Bridge behind them. There is no audio.
Kenosha, WIS - Boxer Jumping Rope, Boxing
Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry The professional boxing athlete goes off to training camp. Boxers training consists of jumping rope, boxing a speed bag; sparing in an outside boxing ring.
German Sheppard Dog And Blind Man
Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry The Southeast Printers - Blind man works with printing press for the seeing impaired and the same man with his Seeing Eye dog. (guide dog, assistance dog) Man uses braille.
Miss America, 1890 Struts her Stuff in ancient garb
Little Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry Miss America, 1890 Struts her Stuff in ancient garb that the bathing beauties wore back in 1890
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Buck plays us out of a commercial with a flashy instrumental rendition of "Bugle Call Rag," backed by The Wagonmasters. Nice shots of Buck's banjo pickin'.
Ronald Reagan / George Bush Debate
Howard K. Smith: Gentlemen lets turn to Foreign Affairs, both of you have been unsatisfied with how the President has been handling the Iranian crisis lately, and now he apparently is having some thoughts of using force which I think you have indicated in a general way you approve of. Let me run some forcible options past you and see whether you approve or disapprove. The most often quoted one is mining the oil ports of Persia, blockading the oil ports of Persia, is there not a danger if that were adopted that the Russians would send mine sweepers in to sweep the mines or run the blockade and we would either have to shoot or shut up, do you find that Governor Reagan, a danger. Ronald Reagan: Well, it s difficult to talk about what is a viable option now, as we re late in their sixth month of their captivity. Because first of all, there s a fear that something might endanger them father but second there is also, if you do have a good idea, something that should be done, I don t think we should say it out loud and let the Iranians hear about it. My criticism and I don t mind criticizing what has been done. Frankly, I don t think the President has done anything that he couldn t have done five months ago or longer. And then was the time to, when all the means of diplomacy failed, then was the time to look at the options which only the President knows that he has, as to what he thought might, with the least chance of any violence, that might exert the greatest pressure on them and then give them a date certain, saying either the hostages are released on that date, or this goes into effect. He s used the term military force now as a possibility but that could include what you said, mining, it could include blockade. If we mined, and I m sure those would be the kind of mines that are activated by radio and can be deactivated, but we would have to also prevent Russian mine sweepers from going in there and trying to take them out, if they wanted to try that. I wonder, whether they re prepared for a possible escalation of conflict with us at this time. They re aggressive against an Afghanistan and an Africa, and so fourth, and even though they have a lead on us in virtually everything, I don t think that maybe they re prepared at this time to dare the possible, well they don t want at this time the confrontation directly with the United States. Howard K. Smith: Wouldn t it be quite a risk to find out if they re willing or not? Ambassador Bush, when they are operating just on the other side of the border from their supply depots and we ll be operating 8,000 miles away from ours? George Bush: No, it would not be that big of risk in my judgment. I ve been to that part of the gulf, I do business in that part of the world. In my judgment the situation in Iraq, where you see Iraq pulling away from the Soviet Union has a bearing on this. In my judgment the situation in Pakistan where you have both China concerned and us concerned about Afghanistan for very different reasons, the Chinese with their special relationship with Pakistan, where you have Islam concerned, almost united in their concern about the Soviets. Where you have the Soviet Union as over committed in Afghanistan as it is, I don t believe your hypothesis is correct Mr. Smith. I don t believe the Soviets will escalate. And I believe that is an option that the President should give very serious consideration to, and your not talking, when you get into a situation of mining, of having to seed it the way, once you mine, no matter of how many mines you put in, the insurance rates sky rocket for all intents and purposes commerce screeches to a halt. I think it should be considered. I think it s for the President to make the determination, one thing I learned from my experience in foreign affairs is that there s a high reclassified body of information that only a handful of people, properly in my judgment, have access to, and that s the President and a handful of top people. And so if that decision is made by them, it would have my support. I don t believe that the risk that you site is a risk to be concerned about. I think the risk would rather be internally in Iran when you re dealing with outrageous, reckless people who have no respect for international law. They ve already made a hostel act under any interpretation of international law, seizing our embassy. And so I wouldn t worry about the Soviet s in this context for the reasons I ve given you.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Brandishing a copy of Norma Jean's new album "Jackson Ain't A Very Big Town," Porter plugs the record and introduces the pretty little lady. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Norma Jean plays guitar and sings the LP's title track.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter dedicates the next number to Don Howser, introducing it as "Dear Don, When You Get Home You'll Find Your Saddle, My Boy." Then backed by The Wagonmasters, Porter plays guitar and sings "Dear John (I Sent Your Saddle Home)." Shots of The Wagonmasters during the call-and-response chorus.
Ronald Reagan / George Bush Debate
Howard K. Smith: What about the option, what about the option of doing nothing at all? Clearly the most important fact about Iran today, is that s it s a country that hasn t completed it s revolution. There are probably more pro US people in Iran than we realize from watching television and seeing only anti-US militants. If a show down inside Iran which may have begun already, with the students fighting one another, might see our side, the side that wants to get along with us, win. But if we use force, we may force Iran into Russian arms and endanger the hostages. Would it be worthwhile being patient a while longer since the hostages are apparently physically in good condition? Ronald Reagan: I don t think they re seeing it as patience. I think they see it as weakness. They have no respect for us. They ve humiliated us. One of their officials that we sent back just the other day, one of the diplomats, his speech when he arrived was boasting on how they rubbed our face in the dirt all this time. But what if the United States had in those first hours, had used all the diplomatic things that we done, not that commission from the UN because that isn t even in the UN charter, and I think it was a terrible precedent for us to set, that the UN can do such a thing outside the charter. But all the diplomatic efforts we could make peacefully, to get them back. And then used one of these, let s say hypothetically the mining of the harbor and the blockade. First of all, at that time they were greatly dependent on outside commerce, and dependent for about 30% of their food. Now they have adjusted and for us to put sanctions on, our trade has shrunk down to a place where it s hardly going to affect them at all. But then, if we had done that forcefully, in the first few days and gotten our hostages back, then we could have said to them Now look, we don t want any trouble with you. We d like to be friends with you. We would like to work with you and we can be helpful to you. You ve got a neighbor up north that I m sure you don t want in here. I think they would have listened to us. But now, why would they listen to us when they look to themselves as stronger then we are? Because of the way we ve drawn on month after month letting this humiliation occur.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter seems caught unawares as the commercial break ends, addressing the camera with apparently genuine surprise. Porter brings George McCormick in to introduce his "great pal on the road," saying "I've heard all his jokes." George introduces gap-toothed comedian Speck Rhodes, saying "let's see if he's got a tall tale for you." Speck enters wearing his trademark checkered suit with bow tie and bowler hat and says he has a riddle. Proving Porter's point, Speck says: "Do you know what the donut said to the birthday cake? If I had your dough, I wouldn't be a-hangin' around this hole." George laughs like crazy and then tells Speck one of his own. It's a pretty good one but Speck just stands there unamused, apparently unhappy to be upstaged. Speck sends George back over to rejoin The Wagonmasters to back him as he sings the corny old-fashioned novelty song "Stop That Ticklin'' Me." Speck dances along with Buck's banjo picking.
Monticello, Italy - Plane Being Rolled Out Of A Hanger
Jumpy, dull in contrast and imagery - blurry, drop out spots The biplane is rolled out of the airplane hanger. The pilot is sitting in the cock pit of the plane and they put this strange looking helmet on his head. MCU of the bi-plane taxing and finely taking off from a field.
Taking Photographs of New York Skyline
High Up Shots of New York. Shot of New York skyscrapers from from an observing platform. Two enlisted men look through a large telescope. The telescope is a camera. One of the men pulls a paper sheet from the camera. Closer shot of man looking through range finder on scope. Three shots of New York through scope.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter introduces the week's song of faith and inspiration, then accompanied by The Wagonmasters plays guitar and sings "Tell Your Children (The Day Of Wrath)," from his second album with the Blackwood Brothers Quartet, "More Grand Old Gospel."
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter returns from the commercial break with Jimmy C. Newman, and they banter about how Saturday night is special in Louisiana: "They get on with the program," Newman says. Backed by The Wagonmasters, Newman plays guitar and sings "Louisiana Saturday Night." Mack steps in to take a fiddle solo. Afterwards Porter returns and suggests they dedicate the number to Stan Cown (sic) and all the folks at the South Louisiana Hayride.
The Porter Wagoner Show No. 137
Porter calls Mack over and says they always do fast numbers, so apparently by way of contrast he asks Magaha to play one he does a real nice job on, "Love Faded Grey," which Mack plays backed by The Wagonmasters. Afterwards Porter returns and wraps up the show, waving goodbye as The Wagonmasters play the instrumental show outro, Don Howser signs off, the credits roll, then George chases Speck around his bass as Mack fiddles and dances us off the air.
Clean Ships - Clear Skies
Fade in on ship hull. Tilt down to see that ship is in drydock. Super opening titles. Zoom in on worker sandblasting the hull. Workmen wear protective suits, masks, gloves - and they're covered in dust. CU blast stream clearing metal. Cut to worker under hull, working in dusty environment.
Clean Ships - Clear Skies
LS aerial view Wheelabrator plant (crazy aerial! - tilts 90 degrees - kind of bounces around). Dissolve to ship in harbor, plate cleaning in foreground - zoom in to ship. Montage of items to be cleaned: plate, anchor chain, huge ship sub-assemblies. Cut to high LS subassembly being moved from factory. Animation of Wheelabrator abrasive wheel. Cut to plate cleaning, and to long shot entire ship in harbor.
Clean Ships - Clear Skies
LS ext Wheelabrator Research Center. Group studies plans - men sit around table with charts, diagram on easel - one man demonstrates the drawings on the diagram as the VO narrates. CU Diagrams of Norfolk Naval Shipyards environmental hull cleaning equipment with single closed cycle cleaning head to blast clean and pick up used shot and recycle abrasive, and to remove dust. VS of the unit in operation in research center test on mockup of hull. Custom designed transporter for Norfolk, with cramp and crab steering, all-directional manipulation of the head, and the dust collector with removable hoppers. The head manipulated in a variety of positions. Navy approves the unit.
Eight Generals Honor Beloved Fellow Officer
Jumpy, shaky a little blurry in imagery and contrast Eight generals honor beloved fellow officer funeral, riderless horse.
Clean Ships - Clear Skies
Cut to high LS unit at Norfolk, in the bottom of the drydock. Aircraft carrier "America" is cleaned. Unit cleans the carrier in 1/8th time sandblasting takes.MS engineer trains yard personnel in meeting - the group of about 10 engineers sit with arms folded looking a little bored. MS driver handling the unit under the ship. Long view under the ship. Inspector checks the cleaned surface. MS engineers in hrad-hats conferring in ship yard. Zoom in to Brad Duncan, Norfolk engineer, who testifies to the advantages. LS unit being put into operation. Inspector checks the unit's cleaning head. Cleaned hull closeup. Overhead shot of unit turning.