Summary

MISC. HAWAII NEWS FOOTAGE

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Title: MISC. HAWAII NEWS FOOTAGE
File Number: GEO-21 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1970's- 1980's
Subjects: Aerials
Description: 01:33:44:21 - 02:34:07:15 Color Sound 1970's- 1980's Hawaiian news footage misc.- crime, social issues, natural disasters- late 1970s to early 1980s. Homelessness, racial strife, prison riot, volcanoes, accidents, forest fires, etc. Includes countdown between each segment. 01:33:44:21 - 01:41:08:21 Color Sound 1970's Homeless in Hawaii- elderly street person carrying & wearing all his belongings. Asian reporter asks questions about food, lifestyle- sleeps on beach, says he's happy- doesn't want favors. VS man digs in trash cans, his bags. Talking head: Head of state assistance program. She calls homelessness "community problem." (no one responsible party) Other homeless interviews: Elderly alcoholic man w savings account, government assistance. Confused white mainland hippie who lost belongings when drunk. Interview w Episcopal priest at Institute for Human Services. Dead body of homeless man found inside truck. Talking head reporter-not all homeless want or accept help- angry homeless woman shouts at reporter. Priest- each case unique, unpredictable. 01:41:08:22 - 01:44:10:00 Color Sound 1970's Teen violence - Hawaii. VO Female reporter talks about violent fights at high school. VS Crowd of students. SHAKY CAM police breaking up fight. Students leave in flatbed of pickup truck. Boys running from police. Teen fighting w police during arrest. Police helicopter. Samoan & Hawaiian tension in community. Principal talks about prosecuting trespassers. Security man talks about drug problems on campus - Quaaludes, downers. Female student says it hurts to see friends fighting school is like family. PAN high school campus. 01:44:10:01 - 01:46:37:08 Color Sound 1970's Prison riot - Hawaii. VO: Male reporter talks about prison riot started when inmate attacked & injured guard, became large brawl. VS line of police cars, ambulance, police in riot gear w sticks enter prison, fire engines to put out inmates' trash fires, police restrain & arrest shouting inmates. Fire engine arrives. Police arresting struggling men - resisting arrest. VO: No tear gas or shots fired in reclaiming the prison. 01:46:37:09 - 01:48:47:02 Color Sound 1970's Benefit record - Hawaii. VO: male reporter. Promotional segment for "Homegrown" benefit album for local park, featuring Hawaiian artists. VS radio station. Bearded radio DJ talks about diversity of music on record, works in DJ booth. CU VU meters in control room, needle plays record, record label spins. SOUND: Male & female pop song excerpts w cheesy video matching lyrics. VS street scenes of pedestrians, man w luggage, beach scenes, woman watches shirtless man getting on bus, woman in swimsuit sunbathing on beach. ZO record album sitting in sand. 01:48:47:03 - 01:51:58:10 Color Sound 1980's Benefit dinner - Hawaii. VO: comical male reporter at "Orient Express" themed dinner party. Chefs prepare food in kitchen. Hors d'oeuvres table w train centerpiece carved from ice. SOUND: string quartet plays "Get Me to the Church on Time." Couple in period costume, guests in formalwear. Reporter eats goose liver pastry. 11 trays of hors d'oeuvres (1 for each stop on Orient Express). ECU oysters on half shell. Guests in line serve themselves food on their trays. VS waiters serve dinner entrees. Blonde woman eats soup. Hawaiian woman eats sherbet: "It's delicious!" Older man eats veal. CU heavyset man eats chicory salad. Turkish dessert is served as Caucasian belly dancers perform. Old men putting dollar bills in dancers' skirt. 01:51:58:11 - 01:53:21:23 Color Sound 1980's ABA convention - Hawaii. VO: female reporter. Leonard Janovsky addresses the opening assembly of the American Bar Association, Honolulu. Speaks about the need to reform the primary system for selecting presidential election candidates. Compares current system to croquet game from "Alice in Wonderland" & reads passage from book at podium (no sound!). VS faces of audience members - all Caucasian males. 01:53:21:24 - 01:55:52:06 Color Sound 1980's Small town life - Hawaii. VO: Asian male reporter. Life in Kohala- Hawaiian small town. VS baseball game, villagers in bleachers drink beer. People shop in general store. CU rat poison, watches. Interview w manager of only movie theater in town. (No sound for interview). Family butcher- easier to talk, do business w people in country. Reporter talks to locals on porch of theater about Honolulu- they mention smell of burning tires, traffic, crowds. VS elderly Hawaiian men. Reporter signs off. 01:56:06:25 - 01:57:35:23 Color Sound 1970's Boat wreck - Hawaii. VO: Male reporter: Large sailboat, the Windjammer 2, grounded on coral reef off coast, shirtless crew members step out of fire rescue boats at night. Dog also rescued. Tugboat holding line on sailboat for stability. VO male reporter: no serious hull damage, crewmen were unfamiliar with channel entrance. 01:57:35:24 - 01:59:57:13 Color Sound 1980's Crime - Hawaii. VO: Female reporter. Pretrial hearing for alleged Hawaiian criminal on extortion, murder ties. He tells media to "Give me a break," as he enters courthouse. Reporter interviews defender, prosecutor about Grand Jury, witness intimidation (no sound). VS local bar (rumored Mafia hangout). ZI red Volkswagen bug on street. Female reporter says case is just beginning- signs off. 01:59:57:14 - 02:02:16:28 Color Sound 1970''s Volcano music - Hawaii. VO: Orange lava bursts up from from volcano VO: "I love her-I used to be afraid of her but she gives life." (poor sound) Male Hawaiian folk singer performs song on stage w bassist, female backup singer. VO: female reporter talks about singer's album in honor of fire goddess Pele. Singer recorded song for victims of Mt. Saint Helens eruption. CU hand playing guitar. Hippies, musicians. More shots lava spurting w VO extolling virtues of Pele: "she's giving more land every day." 02:02:16:29 - 02:03:37:28 Color Sound 1980s Hawaii. CU man with press tag asleep on carpeted floor of TV studio, snoring. He wears plaid pants & white belt w his stomach exposed. MS two television cameras in studio. ZI to plaid pants of sleeping man. Humor. 02:03:37:28 - 02:04:51:27 Color Sound 1980s Hawaii. News broadcast w newscaster wearing lei. VO: Talks over footage about International Worker's Day Parade for May Day, celebrating the birth of modern Communism. VO: late start, poor parade turnout. VS young men & women marching w red flags, banners reading "Hands Off Iran," Honolulu- old man shoves marchers. Young man handing bullets from rifle to police, claimed he was taking gun to pawnshop. Waikiki- female spectator throws egg at marchers. CU T-shirt of horse w Ayatollah Khomeini on its rear end. Man in crowd gives thumbs-down to parade. Band performing on float. 02:04:54:08 - 02:06:10:07 Color Silent 1980s Hawaii. AV helicopter POV over Pacific Ocean. Pilots talking in cockpit. Ship w black smoke pouring from hull. Men in helicopter throwing line of buoys into ocean. AV POV island enveloped in huge funnel of black smoke. Boat carries people away. (Oil spill disasters?) Pollution, destruction. 02:06:10:08 - 02:09:36:29 Color Sound 1980's Hawaii. VS fires- 1) Large block fire: Structure of buildings crumbling. Firemen work w water hoses, spray fire. 2) Tall apartment building on fire. Flames & black smoke shooting from bottom floor. Firemen use water hose. Weary policeman escorted from scene- talks of pulling bodies out. Burnt hotel. 3) Burning wreckage from airplane crash on coast. Reporter points to utility pole, antenna where plane hit. Broken wing, nose, debris from plane. Firemen working at scene, dragging bodybags up hill. Death, accidents, danger, destruction. 02:09:36:16 - 02:14:25:25 Color Sound 1980's Hawaii. Police outside of building, moving with rifles, pistols. Man fleeing from scene. Policewoman w gun in underground garage. Asian policeman holding pistol. Captured man (sniper?) w bloody nose put in back of police car. CU camera POV policeman moving cameraman away. Police push resistant photographer back from scene. EMTS loads wounded on stretchers into ambulance parking garage. Motorcycle cops escort ambulance. PAN roof parking lot, camera POV looking over corner of building looking over city. Most footage repeated. 02:14:25:26 - 02:15:49:00 Color Sound 1980's Flood - Hawaii. Newscaster Melanie Granfors introduces story- flash flood on North Shore of Oahu. Trucks, Volkswagen Bus partially submerged in water, photographer moving in water up to waist. Damaged home filled w water. Woman sleeps on couch in emergency shelter. Workers shovel mud after mudslide from road. Boulder blocks both lanes of highway. 02:15:49:01 - 02:16:54:07 Color Sound 1980's Hawaii. Anchorman introducing story- 17 year-old boy killed from 75 foot fall off rock cliff at Cocohead. VO anchorman- Police talk to girl who was hiking with boy. Two firemen pull his body from water w rope. They drag body onto rock. Helicopter airlifts body on stretcher. 02:16:54:18 - 02:34:07:15 Color Sound 1980's Hawaii. Forest fire at night. VS firemen, rescue workers connect water hose on truck, prepare equipment. Emergency workers. VS fire spreading in forest, sparks & flames fly. Highway in daytime. VS unmarked police car speeding down country road. Police officers direct police vehicles to scene, redirect other traffic has to turn around - fire burning out of control. Policeman refuses to allow woman past checkpoint to get her children & dogs from her house. He handcuffs her to inside of her truck. Brush fire burns through roadside, house & property. Reporter talks to camera about need of trained firefighters to combat brush fire. Natural disasters, danger, destruction.
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