Summary

NEON SIGNS AT NIGHT, NEWPORT BEACH,

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: NEON SIGNS AT NIGHT, NEWPORT BEACH,
File Number: PET-234 1 inch
Type: Outtakes
Year: 1960s
Description: 12:01:00:00 - 12:02:20:22 Color 1960s Nighttime - neon signs. MS "Glass Hat" sign with "Cocktails" underneath (there was a nightclub of this name in the Belmont Plaza Hotel at Lexington and 49th Street, New York City.) "Town Casino" sign with wave of orange lights above. Longer shot of "Glass Hat" sign and EXT of bar - people walk past in sidewalk. MS "Town Casino" with people passing on sidewalk. MS pink "cocktails" sign. VS same signs. Los Angeles, California. 12:02:22:07 - 12:04:45:27 Color 1960s Great sign on marquee - "DANCING" with flashing "Girls Girls" "ROCKS" red sign flashes on and off. Large "Brass Rail" sign along length of small building. Closer "Brass Rail" sign with other flashing neon close by. MS red sign "chart room." LS tall white building. VS "Cocktails" sign - sign has anchor above it. 12:04:46:09 - 12:06:34:22 Color 1960s Daytime - Newport Beach. Boys ride chopper bicycles around car park - (wheelie bikes). Two cyclists carry surfboards on bicycles. VS traffic, automobile, bicycle, and people walking about, many wearing bathing suits, bikinis. LS boardwalk, palm trees, people hanging out by car park, shots with ocean in BG. Sun worshipers. Los Angeles, California. Surfer dudes. 12:06:37:17 - 12:08:59:12 Color 1960s MS busy sidewalk with lots of people wearing swimsuits walking past stores - cars parked in road. Seaside resort. Topless men drive motorcycles - man wearing shorts jumps on the back of moving motorcycle. MS teenagers wave at CAM. Kids play act in front of CAM - one boy throws himself on road. Boys lie in sun on pavement - surf boards on ground beside them. Motorcycle cop. VS people walking to and from beach. MS kids giving peace sign. Young man and woman on motorcycle - stopped to let pedestrians cross. Los Angeles, California. 12:09:00:24 - 12:13:11:26 Color 1960s Nighttime - Sunset Strip - VS busy street with lots of traffic passing in FG as people hang out on sidewalk outside of stores. Bikers parked (dark). Motorcycles. Store sign "Muther John's" Two police officers walk beat - busy sidewalk full of pedestrians (dark). Side walk cafe or bar - patrons sit at tables outside as pedestrians walk past (dark). VS pedestrians, people hanging out on street, lots of traffic on road (dark). More sidewalk cafe or bar, night life. Street life at night. CU pedestrians (dark). Mod style. California. Los Angeles. 12:13:13:24 - 12:13:54:18 Color 1960s Various INT shots of consumers shopping in department store. Women shopping, walking through aisles, looking at displays. Store attendants work behind counters. Shop assistants. HA CAM shots over floor of department store. 12:13:56:17 - 12:16:12:29 Color 1960s INT night club - rock and roll band playing - very enthusiastic singer and guitar player - funny. Matching costumes. VS go-go dancers - competition? VS people dancing with others sitting at tables drinking and smoking - odd mixture of people. Go-go dancers gyrate. Fringes on dancing costumes (bikinis) shimmer and shake. Man wearing blue pants dances with go-go dancer (speeded up). Very sedate-looking crowd watch dancers. Pan down dancer wearing high heeled boots. Pan young women men dancing - funny. (Sunset Strip?) 12:16:12:30 - 12:16:19:24 Color 1960s Man sitting at table with back to CAM, wearing sweater with "WOPS & ROBBERS" printed on back. Racism. Anti-Italian. Gang jersey - biker gang ? Humor ? (Sunset Strip?) 12:16:19:25 - 12:16:51:25 Color 1960s CU dance floor with women and men gyrating to live band - live music. Guitarist and drummer in BG. CU go-go dancer taking a rest, patting perspiration on face with backs of hands. (Sunset Strip?) 12:16:54:25 - 12:19:29:27 Color 1960s VS walking legs and feet. CU 1960s shoe, dress and pant fashions. Women and men walking - CU legs and feet. Children walking - CU legs and feet. 1960s footwear. Summer shoes and sandals. 12:19:33:11 - 12:20:31:13 Color 1960s Heavy city traffic in FG, cars, buses, mail trucks pass as pedestrians walk and cross streets in BG. Traffic cop directing traffic on very busy city street - pedestrians cross at lights. Summer. Several Volkswagen Beetles. 12:20:34:22 - 12:23:38:14 Color 1960s Anti-war protest. Anti-Vietnam war rally and protest. Anti-Nixon protest. Peace rally. Sidewalk demonstration. VS demonstrators, some with placards, in crowd, on sunny day. Placards - "Nixon is Guilty of Murder," "PAX," "A.D.A. Works for Peace," "Save Lives not Face, " "We're Still There - Why?" "Yankee Come Home!" Woman wears peace sign button and arm band. Blue flag with peace symbol. "It's Mr. Nixon's War Now" placard. VS demonstrators marching on sidewalk, handing out leaflets. "Old Men Decide, Young Men Die" placard. (Ageism) "Why Have They Died?" placard. MHA rally with protesters applauding. CU demonstrators (mostly white). Placards "End All War," "Moratorium on Madness" "La Raza dice Basta," "Fight Hunger not People" and more. MS protesters linking arms and chanting. 12:23:41:00 - 12:24:08:27 Color 1960s MS red ambulance (or police station wagon) crashes traffic lights and drives past CAM and along empty road, dull weather. Lights flashing. 12:24:12:05 - 12:26:46:01 Color 1960s VS docks with groups of people waiting to greet, and to say farewell to sailors. Vietnam homecoming. Sailors leave for tour of duty. VS farewells - couple with child hugging. Families wait with sailors. Reporters interview sailor, photographer taking shots. Men carry cartons down gangway of ship. MS sailor holding infant. Chairs set up on dock - couple carry large placard with "Eddie Wagoner" written on it. LS sailors disembark and walk down gangplank as people embark walking up separate gangplank. LA shot of radar equipment on ship - blue sky in BG. Crowd waits as men disembark, some hold balloons. USS Hornet. 12:26:48:06 - 12:27:31:05 Color 1960s LS Pasadena church and court house with traffic moving in both directions in FG, brief. LS moving picket demonstrations (outside of church ?) with demonstrators holding placards "Racial" "Justice" Civil Rights demonstration. Voting rights. Pasadena. Police officer stands outside of peaceful demonstration. MS people entering building, traffic passes in FG. 12:27:33:25 - 12:32:09:05 Color 1960s More footage of Vietnam home-coming. People crowd docks waiting for sailors. Gangplank with "Welcome Home" banner attached is steered towards ship in dock. Five sailors struggle with rope on dock, pulling. MS crowd surging forward towards ship. VS sailors slowing making their way down gangway as people wait. Soldiers march in parade through Los Angeles neighborhood - spectators along road applaud - VS. Nike Hercules missile on display on back of truck in parade, good. VS parade including marching band, army infantry units, Bullpup A and Bullpup B missiles or rockets on truck, navy units. 12:32:11:26 - 12:33:57:16 Color 1960s MWA packed beach - people sunbathing, surfing, swimming. Children run into surf, paddling. Families at beach. VS surfers. Venice or Santa Monica, CA. 12:34:00:01 - 12:34:16:13 Color 1960s MWA unidentified tourist attraction, tourist spot. Trolley car parked at sidewalk, people make their way through plaza. Disneyland ? 12:34:18:25 - 12:35:30:04 Color 1960s CU bare hands punching speed bag - boxing. Rhythm, coordination - hand eye coordination. Middle-aged man demonstrates speed bag routine - uses his fist and elbows in exercise, good. CU fists punching speed bag. Bags blurs it's moving so rapidly. Punching ball. 12:35:33:07 - 12:36:04:11 Color 1960s LS siren or loud speaker with dull sky in BG - lovely shot. Closer angle on siren with sky backdrop. 12:36:07:25 - 12:38:07:14 Color 1960s VS four-colored circular filter being rotated in front of light - blue, red, green and yellow sections. Psychedelic. Color filter for disco light. 12:38:10:15 - 12:38:53:12 Color 1960s Cans of film on metal shelves in room. Film archive. Film storage. Film vault. 16mm cans of film. VS cans of film on shelves.
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