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PETRIFIED - COLUMBIA STOCK REEL #796

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Title: PETRIFIED - COLUMBIA STOCK REEL #796
File Number: PET-796 35mm Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Outtakes
Year: 1950s
Description: B W 1950s Miscellaneous 1950s feature film outtakes, process and effects shots, and some documentary footage, MOS. Much of this footage occurs elsewhere in the PET collection. Clapboards often introduce scenes, especially the outtakes. 00:48:03:00 B W 1950s ws ha Alley between apartment buildings, spanned by canopy of clotheslines running woman in alley below [outtake from Robert Aldrich's "The Garment Jungle"]. 00:48:32:00 B W 1950s ws Gritty New York City street scene, night: people and children gathered on stoops of apartment buildings, man and woman run down sidewalk into building the street is on an incline [outtake from "The Garment Jungle]. 00:51:37:00 B W 1950s ms Car drives down palm tree-lined boulevard, POV rear of moving car also POV Front of moving car looks like southern California city. 00:53:33:00 B W 1950s ms Special effect: smoke from small explosion against black BG. 00:53:45:00 B W 1950s An Indian teepee village, VS: Indian washer-women at work beside pond, MS Indians running, white man falls off horse, WS white man shoots gun, Indians running Indian woman scoops a bucket of water from public barrel well, MS Poor shots. 00:56:23:00 B W 1950s ms Cowboy tries vainly to mount stubborn horse. 00:57:58:00 B W 1950s ms Indian teepee village on fire, VS: two Indians and two white men wrapped in blankets edge past small ground fires burning pole frames of teepees people run through village of burning teepees, WS man with torch attacks Indian woman and burns teepee, other white men intervene. 00:59:50:00 B W 1950s ws Stagecoach moves through western desert landscape, VS. 01:01:17:00 B W 1950s ms cu Bridge of an Asian (Japanese?) submarine: man speaks into microphone radio crewmen operate steering wheel and navigation equipment. 01:02:55:00 B W 1950s ws New York City Municipal Building, PAN reveals downtown New York City, Brooklyn across the East River, and a residential street below, POV Brooklyn Bridge similar at 1:03:41. 01:04:19:00 B W 1950s ms la New York City gothic design skyscraper. 01:05:00:00 B W 1950s ms ws Cowgirl (Jean Simmons) holds rifle she and two men round up a flock of sheep into holding pen, VS. Good shots, frontier family life. 01:06:31:00 B W 1950s ms cu Dog obediently lies down dog snarls. 01:07:22:00 B W 1950s ws A spectacular sunset sky, silver clouds and shafts of light, two excellent shots, could have religious connotation, etc. 01:08:00:00 B W 1950s Western storm montage: beautiful sunset, could also be moon clouds gather over mountains patter of raindrops hits the sandy ground a pair of legs steps out from opening door, leaves blow across the frame a hand is stuck out, reaching to feel the raindrops feet run across rain-soaked ground clothes on clothesline wave in the wind sheep in pen as rain falls hands gather firewood logs quickly dog and chickens watch the falling rain from under a shelter smoke rises from chimney atop house top half of barn split-door waves in breeze excellent sequence, frontier farm ranch life, man against he elements or perhaps first rain after long drought. 01:09:15:00 B W 1950s ws Times Square night scene, looking downtown toward "Admiral Appliances" sign, "Hotel Astor" on the left, "Bond" Clothing on the right. Shot is anamorphically squeezed, has weird compressed effect. 01:12:25:00 B W 1950s ms Grape picking: Latino Mexican men pick grapes in field men dump crates full of grapes onto raked conveyor belt leading to a truck. Good shots, farm workers. 01:16:00:00 B W 1950s ws Sign next to door reads "Bureau of Indian Affairs." 01:16:50:00 B W 1950s ms Two cowboys have fist fight in empty saloon, one man falls over a table and is punched out of a window onto street. 01:17:40:00 B W 1950s ms Cowboy suddenly crashes through a window onto porch, as if he had just been fighting. 01:18:35:00 B W 1950s ms Crewmen climb observation tower on deck of submarine, then fall due to explosions and water plumes around them. Ronald Reagan raising his head from the deck is just barely discernible. Highly ironic outtakes from Nathan Juran's "Hellcats of the Navy." 01:19:50:00 B W 1950s Cavalry versus Indians montage: wagon chased by Indians, VS cowboy shoots Indian, talks to Indian, lets him go cavalry troop, VS stage coach chased by large group of Indians at high speed Indians attack and encircle cavalry men (Lloyd Bridges is one) and others taking shelter in pueblo ruins, gunfight VS. Some footage is fast-motion, some is composed of process shots gone amok. Good shots. 01:24:48:00 B W 1950s ws New York City skyline, POV rooftop. 01:27:00:00 B W 1950s ms Bamboo cages with animals inside leopard in cage, CU hyena or jackal in cage jaguar in cage, CU. 01:28:25:00 B W 1950s ms Car on road, night, POV rear of moving car. 01:28:46:00 B W 1950s ms Three policemen shoot guns at off-screen target. 01:29:07:00 B W 1950s ws A crowded casino gambling hall, roulette table in FG, TD to two men in bow ties who survey the activities and converse in serious manner. 01:30:50:00 B W 1950s ms Car pulls into traffic circle different car pulls into traffic semi-circle of "The Empress" hotel looks like Florida or southern California, palm trees. 01:32:00:00 B W 1950s ms Woman drives car through gate to posh house past two gate attendants. 01:32:35:00 B W 1950s ms Man drives quickly around a city corner, parks car, gets out, gets into another car and drives off. Car switcheroo... 01:33:15:00 B W 1950s ms Cowboys drive a herd of cattle down street of small western town. 01:34:32:00 B W 1950s ms Train slowly comes to stop at small town station, sign reads "Contention City," cowboys in FG run as if about to storm the train, tracking shot at 1:37:22 train starts to pull out in cloud of steam, men approach train and are engulfed by steam. 01:36:02:00 B W 1950s ms Train moves along embanked tracks, goes over ravine via short rail-bridge, train recedes into the distance, PAN
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