Summary

1968 ANTI-WAR

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: 1968 ANTI-WAR
File Number: PDA-LB-008 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1968
Subjects: anti-Vietnam War movement
Description: B W 1968 Miscellaneous outtakes, mostly anti-Vietnam War movement scenes from Greenwich Village and Union Square, New York City [protest demonstration bohemians hippies mods hipster college students hanging out 1960s fashions, hairdos, sunglasses]. 02:00:04:00 B W 1968 Mod-ish young man stands on corner (8th Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas)) and hands out anti-war pamphlets to pedestrians passing by, some of whom read it with interest. 02:01:09:00 B W 1968 Two mod-ish young people sit on sidewalk on Sixth Avenue near 8th Street with placard board inscribed "refuse the draft" piles of anti-war and anti-draft pamphlets rest on the table. 02:02:06:00 B W 1968 PAN construction site hoardings lining sidewalk, covered in graffiti and bills posters. 02:02:37:00 B W 1968 Arlington National Cemetery: ZO from military funeral to a freshly dug grave in FG VS the somber funeral ceremony in the distance, Navy sailors in sailor suit dress uniforms carefully fold American flag. 02:05:28:00 B W 1968 Teenage Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts (?) gathered on sidewalk beneath marquee of the Ukranian National Home in New York City. 02:05:50:00 B W 1968 VS diverse group of young people (most are more Mod than Hippie) standing around beneath the arch in Washington Square Park, talking and reading pamphlets ZO from shirt patch inscribed "stop the war now" man carries placard emblazoned with portrait of Che Guevara Workers' World newspaper on ground angry black man yells at group of young people group of black men with one white man sit at edge of the fountain singing and playing harmonica together. [New York City street life, culture]. 02:11:38:00 B W 1968 Union Square political event rally (?), VS. Please identify these men (politicians?) if you can. 02:13:59:00 B W 1968 Washington Square Park: the arch young people sit around the edge of the fountain talking, playing bongo drums boy wearing baseball glove playing catch street sign inscribed "curb your dog - keep New York clean" Workers' World newspaper in garbage can artist drawing in sketch book, people sitting around the fountain bemused woman blowing bubbles. [New York City street life, culture]. 02:17:25:00 B W 1968 VS flower-power counter-culture graffiti on wall hoardings: "Peace," "Resist," "hell no we won't go," "love," "make love not war," etc
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