Summary

PETRIFIED MATERIAL

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: PETRIFIED MATERIAL
File Number: PET-204 1 inch
Color: B W Color
Type: Outtakes
Year: 1940s; 1950s
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 01:00:00:00 Color 1950s TELEVISION - Children watching TV (EXCELLENT SHOTS - add to Watching Television CPL). 01:01:01:00 Color 1950s SERVICE STATION - Mechanic attendant working on car and servicing car. Car is early 1950s Buick 4 door sedan. Woman and girl walk to restroom. ("Lion" gas station service station.) 01:04:49:00 Color 1950s FOOTBALL CROWDS - Various football footage. Also includes aerials of stadium, band and cheerleaders. Happy crowd in bleachers cheering, smiling and clapping 01:13:36:00 Color 1940s NEWSPAPER - War headlines newsboy w crowd (overhead shot) and Kansas City Star newspaper presses. ("Archduke Ferdinand Murdered" "Germany Declares War" "Belgium Invaded by Germany" "British And French Join Forces"). Herald-American headline "US Declares War On Tokyo" (post-Pearl Harbor, 1941) Chicago Sun: "US - Jap War!" (again, 1941 Pearl Harbor aftermath) Herald American "Hitler, Duce War On US". Great large VE-Day headline: "GERMANY QUITS". Kansas City Star "Germany Surrenders War In Europe Ends", and other VE-Day headlines from the Daily Herald, Kansas City Star, Daily Sketch. VJ-Day headlines: Kansas City Times' "PEACE IN PACIFIC! MacARTHUR RULES" (same headline in The Missouri State Journal). 01:19:41:00 Color 1950s Puerto Rico (or Costa Rica?) - various slum views. Ship in Panama Canal. 01:23:35:00 Color 1950s NEW YORK CITY - PEOPLE - 1950's street scenes includes traffic at base of Empire State Building, EXT entrance Empire State Building, fire engine run by , buses and movie EXTs (1955 films on marquees include 1955's "Night Holds Terror" and "Foxfire"). 01:26:30:00 Color 1950s SOUTH AMERICA - MARDI GRAS - late 40's footage of carnival celebrations. Crowds, streetcards, floats, dancing, gay men. Straight men in drag. Drag queen. 01:40:14:00 - 01:47:27:00 b w SOUND 1940s Auto safety film "That They May Live", with shots of accident victims. Driver's POV shots horse and buggy POV shot CU black jockey lawn ornament man in motoring coat driving circa 1900 antique automobile AV late 1940s cars driving on freeway LS 1940s car driving on lonely Western desert highway, the only automobile on the road new automobiles, direct-from- factory, on tractor trailer truck automobile pulling trailer 1930s hot rod on highway urban traffic jams and hordes of pedestrians crossing city streets wrecked car pulled on tow truck ambulance truck another tractor trailer transporting new automobiles freight trucks reversing into loading docks good shots of city buses CU businessman pointing to chart graph MCU (hands only) of man giving award to another man, then a hearty handshake highway billboards advertising automobile and pedestrian safety good shot of Los Angeles City Hall Los Angeles Freeway construction and cars on Los Angeles freeways newspaper headlines of automobile accident casualties AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT VICTIM LYING IN STREET, INJURED WOMAN PUT IN STRETCHER BY POLICEMAN, MAN PUT IN STRETCHER wrecked automobile lying on it's side multiple shots of wrecked automobiles and injured motorists on stretchers REAL - NOT FAKED - AUTO ACCIDENT VICTIMS, BLOODIED AND IN SHOCK, SITTING IN AUTOMOBILES OR LYING NEAR DEATH IN STRETCHERS. VERY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. 1940s car in gasoline service station. Logo: GREEN CROSS FOR SAFETY. "A General Petroleum Safety Film - The End".
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