Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Part 4 of 4. Footage from 1928-1988.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
1988 Democratic National Convention: MSs Marine band, dressed in red uniforms, rehearsing song on delegate floor (bells & vocal); MSs news reporters, including TOM BROKAW, checking their hair and make-up before going live.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
DO NOT USE opening segment of CBS News coverage of the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Interview about how television effects the national conventions.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Var. B/W shots of delegate floor from various conventions: BARRY GOLDWATER speaking at the 1956 RNC; men raising beer steins.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Interview about how television effects the national conventions. Another man interviewed about the importance of the conventions.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
MSs two men getting their picture taken w/ full-size cut-outs of Jesse Jackson and Mike Dukakis outside convention hall, 1988; CU Polaroid developing.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Another man interviewed about the importance of the conventions, saying that conventions are not that important.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
MSs SAM DONALDSON & ED BRADLEY waiting to go live from floor of 1988 DNC.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
Cut to interview w/ PETER JENNINGS.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
DO NOT USE CUs TV screen relaying NBC Nightly News from 1988 DNC, zoom out to nice shot inside bar crowded with after-work drinkers.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
MS 2 middle-aged white collar men drinking bottled beer in bar. Man talking about why stations want to cover the conventions.
Campaign! Forty Years of TV in American Elections
MOS. Host BILL MOYERS in studio.