Summary

Magic in the Air (1955)

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: Magic in the Air (1955)
File Number: PA-1022 1 inch; PA-0541 Digibeta
Color: B W
Type: Industrial
Year: 01/01/1955
Subjects: PEOPLE WATCHING TELEVISION SETS COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA BROADCASTING CAMERAS STUDIOS TUBES TECHNICIANS AUTOMOBILES CHEVROLET ADVERTISING TRANSPORTATION ANTENNAS ANIMATION FANTASY HOUSES HOMES STREETS STADIUMS SPORTS SPECTATORS WOMEN MODELS SCREENS SCANNING LINES
Description: Magic in the Air (1955) 00:01:20:06-00:01:22:25 LS crowds in large stadium (Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York City) 00:01:22:26-00:01:24:19 MS crowd of people, some in shadow (foreground) some in sunlight (background) 00:01:24:20-00:01:27:18 Overhead LS crowds 00:01:27:19-00:01:42:23 MS men in hats and coats stand near ticket booth with sold-out sign Man holding up a ticket walks to the booth As he walks off, the others rush up to the window and one man holding a blanket and an umbrella is lifted up in the crush Humor 00:01:42:24-00:01:52:14 Dissolve to CU of man in coat and hat carrying umbrella and Navajo Indian blanket picks himself off the grass and dusts himself off 00:01:52:15-00:01:59:24 Dissolve to LS man in living room bending down to turn on or adjust the television set He stands up and beckons to off-screen person Woman runs in and they both crouch down in front of the television set with arms around each other watching the screen Boy runs in behind them and tries to get a look at the screen 00:01:59:25-00:02:01:26 CU back of man's head as he sits in chair looking at football game on television screen Shot is backlit by the light from the television 00:02:01:27-00:02:11:28 MS man bending over television set to tune it in He backs away and sits down on couch looking at set and smiling 00:02:11:28-00:02:13:26 LS huge crowds in stands of stadium 00:02:13:27-00:02:17:10 CU looking down on cameraman operating television camera 00:02:17:11-00:02:18:03 LS football game on field 00:02:24:08-00:02:28:10 LS men behind mobile unit Television truck unwinding cables 00:02:28:11-00:02:36:01 MS RCA television mobile unit parked on street outside Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York City Second van down street in background with people unloading 00:02:36:01-00:02:51:07 Dissolve to inside of a television studio with camera and microphones in the foreground In the background, a young woman in a bathing suit is being directed to stand on a diving board 00:02:51:08-00:03:03:08 Dissolve to MS young blonde woman in bathing suit holds another suit up against her body while 2 men in suits on either side of her evaluate it CU same LS same She leaves 00:03:03:14-00:03:07:12 Dissolve to MS of man loading film into television camera 00:03:07:13-00:03:17:12 Dissolve to same man as above adjusting controls on camera 00:03:17:13-00:03:30:09 Diagonal wipe to shot of television set through control booth with backs of heads of two technicians and controls People in background can be seen through window of booth set up lights Second row of technicians (foreground) seat themselves at the second row of controls 00:03:30:10-00:03:31:19 LS television set with man and women in beach robes sit next to diving board by pool There is a television camera in the foreground 00:03:31:20-00:03:41:19 Same shot through control booth with two rows of technicians at controls Woman in bathing suit bounces on diving board in background 00:03:41:19-00:04:34:01 CU television monitor showing woman on diving board of pool as man in robe looks on She bounces on diving board ZIto CU of the television monitor screen to show the grain of the image Return to the original shot of the monitor Picture changes from shot of woman o board to CU of man in robe 00:04:34:02-00:04:40:10 CU from behind man with pipe watching television as before On the screen is the woman in the bathing suit Fade out 00:04:40:18-00:04:57:25 Fade in as man opens up RCA NBC camera to reveal mechanism inside He removes the Iconoscope 00:04:57:26-00:05:06:00 CU Iconoscope showing mosaic ZIto rectangular mosaic to show granular surface 00:05:06:00-00:05:13:25 Dissolve to animation woman standing next to camera lens which throws upside-down image on screen 00:05:13:26-00:05:43:06 Animation: Image of woman's head upside-down ZI to CU eye then dissolves to ECU of the eye showing grain in photo This repeats upside-down with scanning lines 00:05:55:11-00:06:07:03 Dissolve to animation of the top of the Empire State Building with animated radio waves emitting from tower in form of lightning bolts (good shot) 00:06:07:03-00:06:10:10 MS rooftop of house with television antenna A radio signal in the form of a lightning bolt is seen coming to the antenna 00:06:10:11-00:06:21:08 Dissolve to CU plate being removed from kinescope Dissolve to several views of kinescope 00:06:21:09-00:07:08:18 Dissolve to animation: circle with rectangle inscribed in it Horizontal lines cross screen top to bottom showing picture of man and woman in beach robes Picture becomes more distinct as man removes his robe Fade out 00:07:08:19-00:07:14:27 Dissolve to fuzzy (approx 45-60 lines) television image of Felix the Cat statue This is a reproduction of the first early mechanical TV images made ca 1928 - 1931 00:07:14:28-00:07:20:15 Dissolve to CU Ginger Rogers look-a-like 00:07:20:16-00:07:22:21 Dissolve to LS NBC mobile television van parked in front of building with arches 00:07:22:22:-00:07:27:13 Dissolve to kitchen with family (woman in apron, man in suit, and boy) holding rehearsal scripts and walking about 00:07:27:14-00:07:31:02 Dissolve to LS man in modern suit and tie sitting at table in 18th Century tavern with people in period costume 00:07:31:03-00:07:33:21 Dissolve to CU man and woman riding past scenery behind tall oddly-shaped windshield 00:07:33:22-00:07:40:21 Dissolve to MS from behind man watching television On the screen is a picture of a woman getting into a 1955 Chevrolet two-tone sedan on screen 00:07:40:22-00:07:54:28 CU television screen Woman in coat gets into 1955 Chevy twotone and leaves parking lot 00:07:55:29-00:08:05:04 On the television screen-dissolve to running shot of the front of the 1955 Chevy driving on town street toward camera 00:08:05:05-00:08:50:23 On television screen-dissolve to sequence in which 1955 2-tone Chevy drives through affluent suburban neighborhood and pulls into driveway Power windows close automatically and woman in plaid coat gets out and walks toward camera until ECU of plaid on her coat fills the screen 00:08:50:24-00:08:56:27 ECU plaid on woman's coat Camera pulls back to reveal man helping woman off with her coat in front of two very 1950s wall hangings She is ecstatic Fade out THE END
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