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CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1988 Presidential Campaign - Jessie Jackson

CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1988 Presidential Campaign - Jessie Jackson
Clip: 490821_1_2
Year Shot: 1989 (Actual Date)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master: 11515
Original Film: 91-6037
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Country: United States
Timecode: 01:03:27 - 01:03:45

Jesse Jackson appearing in a church on campaign trail, TV cameramen capturing joyful singing and clapping. Jesse Jackson press conference on Church steps afterwards, shots illustrate how cameras and lights tend to dominate the scene and become the center of attention. V.O.-the content of speeches is reduced to soundbites.

CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1988 Presidential Campaign - Jessie Jackson.
Clip: 490821_1_3
Year Shot: 1989 (Actual Date)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master: 11515
Original Film: 91-6037
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Country: Afghanistan
Timecode: 01:03:45 - 01:04:21

Shots inside a TV editing room, a Caucasian female editor works with a Caucasian female reporter to select footage of Jesse Jackson for a news report.

CAMPAIGN 88: PRIME TIME PRESIDENT 1988 Presidential Campaign - Jessie Jackson.
Clip: 490821_1_4
Year Shot: 1989 (Actual Date)
Audio: Yes
Video: Color
Tape Master: 11515
Original Film: 91-6037
HD: N/A
Location: United States
Country: United States
Timecode: 01:04:21 - 01:04:39

Reporter Linda Douglass, KNBC, Los Angeles, seated at her desk in front of computer, saying that it's inevitable that meaning is lost when speeches are sliced up to soundbites.