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Focus on the 60s - People
MS LADY BIRD JOHNSON at groundbreaking ceremony. MS/CUs Lady Bird w/ President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ) outside the White House. Pope Paul VI visits United States, 1965: MS President Johnson meeting with POPE PAUL VI (Giovanni Battista Montini); MS Pope waving to crowd; LS United Nations Building; MS Pope Paul VI meeting w/ Secretary General U THANT at UN; TLS/LSs mass at Yankee Stadium. TLS Pope Paul VI meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1966. MS/CUs wedding & ceremonial cutting of the cake for LUCI BAINES JOHNSON & Patrick John Nugent, 1966. MSs President Johnson giving a "hip" welcome to a group of Caucasian high school scholars at the White House, 1967: "I just lived through several years with teenage girls in this house & it didn't affect me on bit. I've kept my cool, I haven't bugged out, and I'm still in Fat City."
Focus on the 60s - People
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Focus on the 60s - People
MS/CUs President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON speaking to Joint Session of Congress, 1965: "There is no negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem." (applause) "It is the effort of American negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be out cause, too, b/c it is not just negroes but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry & injustice. And we shall overcome." Montage of Civil Rights marches: TLS African-American marching w/ banner "We March With Selma!"; TLS blacks & whites marching w/ placards; MS white & black women marching w/ large sign-- "We Shall Overcome!"; MS rural blacks & white marching, many folks in straw hats & overalls. MS Dr. Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. walking on second march through Selma; TLS civil rights marchers crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge on second march to Montgomery, Alabama; panning TLS state & local police officers forming police line during 1st march through Selma.
Focus on the 60s - People
(Color) MS black revolutionary STOKELY CARMICHAEL speaking to an exclusively African-American audience: "We will define Black Power. He will listen & recognize it... If you don t want any trouble, keep your filthy white hands off our beautiful black bodies." MS several young black women cheering, standing, applauding enthusiastically. Cut to MS Rev. Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. speaking: "It seems I can hear the God of history saying, That was not enough, but I was hungry & you fed me not; I was naked & ye clothed me not; I was devoid of a decent sanitary hosue to live in & ye provided no shelter for me; consequently you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness."
Focus on the 60s - Entertainment
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World-Famous Chimps Arrive For Exposition
Shaky, dull in contrast and imagery World-Famous chimpanzees arrive in Montreal. Montreal, Quebec One chimpanzee is sitting on deck of a boat beneath a life boat smoking a cigarette. After his smoke he goes over to the chimpanzee sitting next to him and gives her a hiss.
Junior Birdmen Pit Midget Planes In Flying Contest
Flickering - dull in contrast and imagery Junior Birdmen pit midget planes in flying contest. Boys build model airplanes & compete with them in a flying contest.
Corinto Captures Stars And Stripes H'cap At Arlington
Jumpy - Shaky, dull in contrast and imagery Corinto catures Stars And Stripes H'cap at Arlington Park race track
Boxing Bear Slings A Wicked Paw In Lively Ring Battle
Rolling - Shaky, dull in contrast and imagery Boxing bear swings a wicket paw in lively ring battle. A man boxes a bear. The bear wears boxing gloves & stands up on his hind legs. The bear wins.
Focus on the 60s - Entertainment
TLS Moulin Rouge theater with neon windmill, night; MS actors WARREN BEATTY and FAYE DUNAWAY arriving at premiere of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde"; MS still photographers taking pix.
Focus on the 60s - Entertainment
B&W newsreel of premiere of Charlie Chaplin's "A Countess from Hong Kong": MS Sutton theater marquee advertising film; MCU actor HENRY FONDA talking with man; MS comedian RED BUTTONS: CU actress ANGIE DICKINSON; BOBBY DARIN; others unidentified.
Focus on the 60s - Entertainment
(B&W) Great CU/MSs screaming teenage Beatles fans, mostly white girls; Beatlemania zealousness at its finest. CU Beatle JOHN LENNON explaining to the press the reasoning behind his infamous "more popular than Jesus" quote, saying that the quote was taken wrong, that he would have gotten away with it if he had said television was more popular than Jesus.
Focus on the 60s - Entertainment
MSs wedding reception of PRESCILLA BEAULIEU and ELVIS PRESLEY.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
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Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
B&W newsreel of a New York transit strike, 1966: MSs New Yorkers walking across the Brooklyn Bridge, some carrying bicycles, CUs feet on steps, walkway; LS crowded highway during late rush hour, car headlights on. Color panning WLS New York City (Manhattan) skyline during the 1966 Blackout. Air pollution montage: panning LS skyline of unidentified city imbued by smog; panning TLSs Eastern, American & TWA commercial jet airplanes taking off from airport, expelling thick exhaust trails; MS/LSs industrial incinerators & smokestacks spewing smoke, pollution; panning LS smoggy city; TLS cars traveling on a highway, cam on overpass.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Subjective POV & objective shots of automobile safety crash tests conducted by the Texas Transportation Institute (Nader-induced); collision test, some in slow motion.
Focus on the 60s - Science & Technology
Montage of Hurricane Camille ravaging Mississippi in 1969: high winds, lightning, waves. MS scientists working on the weather satellite Tyros; CU radar-like relay screen; satellite weather photos. MS/CUs television satellites; illustrations of how they operate
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
MS/TLSs numerous college students having a big snowball fight on campus quad.
Focus on the 60s - Lifestyles
Newsreel of Charles Whitman sniping at students from observation tower of University of Texas-Austin.
Vanik Model Cities
MCU an African-American male reporter in a bold black & white striped sports coat listening to a Caucasian man dressed in a white short sleeve dress shirt with black bow tie talk about the breakdown of Cleveland's Model Cities Program. They seem to be at the county fair or similar environment with a slow moving line of people standing behind a picket fence in the background.
Aviation Day
TLS people gathered for a day of aviation, a tent is set up in the background, a small plane is in the foreground. MS four Caucasian men standing under the wing of a gliding machine, their heads tilted down, looking at something specific. MS young boy wearing a yellow & green baseball cap looking into the cockpit of a small aircraft. CU view of cockpit controls. CU of a scale that compares your weight on earth to your weight on other planets, the needle moving to the right. MS toddler girl with pigtails wearing a red & white plaid dress, the girl's mother is crouched down next to her, holding on to the bottom of the girl's dress. MS African-American man dressed in a black & white striped sports coat walking with a Caucasian man dressed in casual attire, they walk past the nose of an airplane. MCU of Caucasian man as he stands in front of an airplane, talking about the growth of the local airport, camera pulls back to reveal the African-American man standing next to him (reporter), Caucasian man goes on to talk about the jobs the airport has created. CU nose of a small private airplane with propeller revolving. Panning MS of the entire plane as it moves slowly on the tarmac, a second aircraft follows.
Aviation Day Aerials
Over-the-shoulder MCU pilot in cockpit of a small aircraft during flight, pilot's "Top Gun" sunglasses can be seen as he tilts his head slightly to talk to the camera man seated behind him, pilot's head turns forward again, he places his hand on controls. Aerial view of perfectly symmetrical suburban neighborhood . Aerial view of road with traffic moving. POV subjective shot looking at the tail of the plane from inside the craft, tail is directly in the center of the shot, the landscape can be seen below. Aerial view of local airport, the tarmac is lined with several small private airplanes. Nice look at small airport, buildings and planes.
T. Cullen Davis Trial
Priscilla Davis was wounded in a 1976 multiple shooting in Fort Worth, Texas. Davis survived a gunshot wound to the chest, but her daughter, Andrea Wilborn, and Davis's lover, Stan Farr, were murdered by an intruder described as "the man in black." Davis's former husband, oil magnate T. Cullen Davis, stood trial for the murders and was found not guilty. Blank Screen
T. Cullen Davis Trial
MS Texas socialite PRISCILLA DAVIS entering room for press conference. Wide MS several still photographers & motion cameramen shooting. Sideview MS Priscilla Davis and her attorneys sitting at table. MS Roy Cooper focusing bulky film camera situated on shoulder. CU Priscilla Davis talking, saying there s not doubt in her mind who shot both her and Stan Davis. MS Priscilla exiting room. Blank Screen