G. E. M. DEPARTMENT STORE WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY SALE (1962)
NEWS, INDUSTRIAL, HOLLYWOOD; 1950S
03:40:44:00,Actors recreate shooting of silent film (hammy):, Cameraman turns handle on camera, Director shouts through large cone, Actors ham it up, Architects working on drawings, Scale models of Edison's revolving studio. Demonstration, Junior high school students arrive at reconstructed studio, Man demonstrates opening roof, Single man turns building, Students enter the building, sit in seats to watch film, Roof is closed, Projector starts up, Students in crowd, watch "GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY.", Man in wheelchair applies for job, Man operates blowtorch, Ohio, Giant glass mill, Man at furnace, Blobs of glass drop into molds, Flame heats molds, Molds open, machines remove glass pitchers, Women inspect pitchers as they come off the line, Man at machines puts painted patterns on pitchers, Women pack pitchers in boxes, Glasses, bowls and plates on assembly line, Wisconsin, TV repairman, opens TV, pokes around inside, Machines mix powders for ceramic parts, Machine stamps out parts for tubes, Women at stamping machines, Woman melts pieces in place, Woman inspects transistor cards, Woman stamps finished electronic circuits, Family sitting around TV (television, campy), Men on forklifts move boxes, Truck hauls new cars, Women buying shoes in store, Missouri, Children playing ball in street, Midwestern Bank (sign), Sign: Drive In Banking, Cars park in lot, Man at teller's window, Cars leave lot. Policeman chains off lot, Men set up volleyball net, Kids run into lot, Mothers watch kids playing in lot, Girls play hopscotch, Boys play basketball
TV CROWDS/CZE DAY
00:00:00:00 FIELD TAPE: Czech crowd sidewalk to watch news on storefront tv & read info on storefront. (0:00)/
News Clip: Sanger Foley
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5 pm.
AFP-5-O 16mm; VTM-5-O Beta SP; NET-59 DigiBeta (at 01:52:55:00); Beta SP
TELEVISION
TV Entrances Vietnamese - HD
On a airborne jet, crew members wear headphones, monitor video equipment. On the ground, in an Asian city, men watch a singer perform on a TV displayed in a store window. They seem entranced. Somewhere in Vietnam, a TV attracts a crowd. It's clearly something many have never seen before.
SOVIET TOWER
ORIG. COLOR 1000 SOF. MAG. (THE " TOWER " STORY IS G# 27807) VS CROWDS WATCHING COLOR TV DISPLAYED IN STORE WINDOW. CU'S COLOR TV SCREEN. CU'S FACE OF PEOPLE WATCHING TV. CU COLOR TV SHOW WITH SOUNDTRACK. CI: COMMUNICATIONS - TELEVISION- COLOR TV. GEOGRAPHIC - U. S. S. R. , MOSCOW. CROWDS - MISC.
Deserted streets, closed stores and Merchandize Mart in Chicago after the assassination of President Kennedy.
A national television report on public reaction to U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination in the United States. Chicago: The deserted Main Street during and after the funeral of John F Kennedy. Cars and pedestrians on the street. Closed stores. The Chicago Shopping and Commercial District. A notice in a store window reads 'Day of mourning for President John F Kennedy'. A woman with her baby stops by a store window to look at a picture of President Kennedy with an 'In Memoriam' message. A crowd around a television set watches the news about Kennedy's funeral. The Kennedy family-owned Merchandise Mart (222 Merchandise Mart Plaza Chicago, Illinois) in The Loop. Soldiers lower the United States flag to half-mast. A large crowd outside St. Peter's Catholic Church (110 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) in the Loop wait in long lines for the Mass while others inside pray. A school classroom inside a closed school. African American students put on their own close circuit television to pay tribute to Kennedy. A teacher and students speak about the late President and his life. An advertisement billboard sign reads the date of President Kennedy's assassination as a sign of respect and tribute. Location: Chicago Illinois USA. Date: November 1963.
Treasures of Thailand
Treasures of Thailand. A tour of Thailand in the 1960s. 1960s, Bangkok, Thailand, men sword fighting, exhibition fighters, martial arts, Krabi-krabong, boys practicing swording fighting in fighting school, fighters dressed in business attire leaving school and walking down street, street scenes, traffic, posters, policeman directing traffic, Buddha statues, ancient ruins, Sukhothai Historical Park, Phimai Historical Park, stone carvings, Buddhism, Buddhist temple, Royal Chapel of Emerald Buddha, Wat Phra Kaew, gold statues, gold leaf, Wat Pho, Temple of the Reclining Buddha, people walking through temple complex, gold statue of reclining Buddha, people leaving gold leaf offerings and praying at altar, Grand Palace, elephant sculptures, Royal Guards marching, Royal Barge Procession down Chao Phraya River to Wat Arun, procession with King walking to temple, ordinary Thai house, Thai family eating meal at table, girl walking out of house and bowing to monk, family giving food to monk, bank workers working at desks and using typewriters, bank worker making telephone call to man in factory, factory workers operating equipment, tire factory, workers making tires on equipment, Bhumibol Dam, workers in dam control room, turbines, transmission towers, agricultural workers, paddy field, workers inspecting crops in corn and sorghum fields, farmer operating tractor, crops being sprayed in field, monkey climbing coconut tree and throwing down coconuts to handler, Northern Thailand, teak forest, tree being felled, elephant hauling log through forest, highway, tank truck driving on highway, car pov driving on highway, worker using calculator, bank workers putting away belongings and waving goodbye, man in business suit walking near Victory Monument, traffic near Parliament Building, street scenes, pedestrians walking on sidewalk, man in business suit looking at television in store window, skiing being broadcast on television, television studio, television control room, musicians playing traditional Thai instruments being filmed in television studio, television antennas on rooftops, people watching television, television cameraman, people eating at restaurant and watching television, man painting flowers on parasol, different colors of parasols on ground, potters decorating plates and bowls, Thai silk, person placing leaves into basket of silkworms, women winding raw silk, woman looking at silk fabric in store, women modeling silk gowns and stole in shop for female onlookers, women wearing beautiful Thai jewelry, beach, water lapping against rocks along shore, girl running up to woman on beach and giving her piece of coral, girl listening to shell, mountain stream, people looking at mountain stream, woman getting into hotel swimming pool, server pouring drinks for people at outdoor table, festival, elephants carrying people in parade, crowds on field, people performing traditional Thai dances, elephant racing, tug of war game between people and elephant, Thai Boxing match, stadium packed with onlookers, father sitting with son in stadium, boxers watching, onlookers watching fight, man ringing bell, people leaving stadium, man carrying son on his shoulder and walking with him holding hands, signs lit up at night, pedestrians and traffic at night, street scene at night, Loi Krathong festival, procession of women, lighted floats being set down on water, man smoking cigarette and reading newspaper, woman tucking son into bed and turning off light in room
1959 Television in Store Window
Business street - second story high down to store - camera moves down & in closer - nice convertible car - ground level to small crowd watching television set through a store window - view - watch - news event on TV - men - women - space launch
Salaries: those bosses who earn less than the SMIC
24h. Hypermarkets - a day of madness!
Rioting and looting in America, in response to the assassination death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A large American crowd at an outdoor stadium. Brief view of Presidential candidate Richard Nixon speaking to reporters. Narrator describes how his presidential campaign went on hold after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Next scene shows rioting and looting by African American citizens in the United States in a major city (narrator references Los Angeles, Newark, Baltimore, Detroit). People stealing items from stores and smashing store windows after the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Image changes to a 4-way split screen, with two portions showing families watching television, one portion showing continued rioting (including Washington DC fire fighters involved in putting out an arson fire); and one portion showing interviews with notable African Americans deploring the rioting. Speakers including Roy Wilkins, Sammy Davis Jr., and James Brown. Location: United States USA. Date: April 1968.
News Clip: Mall security
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Poo-Chi; 4/20/00
Dogs with yellow capes race down sidewalk pulling a sliegh, crowd cheers on sidelines. CU of electronic dog/robot dog toy called "Poo-Chi". Black man stocks toy on shelf. CU of Poo-Chi sitting on man's hand and barking at camera. Three different colored Poo-Chi's barking at each other. Pan of the Poo-Chi area of the store (looks like FAO Schwartz) with HUGE plastic Poo-Chi statue in the middle. CU of tv screen with a commercial for Poo-Chi playing. CU of toy on shelf. Reader board says that Tiger Toys presents Poo-Chi.
1950s Television in Store Window
1950s city business street - man in watches television in store window - small crowd in background watches in another window in bg - couple walks by - night - people watching tv in electronics store window
New York City 1959
New York City 1959 - tour of New York City - 16mm COLOR MOS - New York city skyline, Staten Island ferry terminals, cars in traffic on highway, Staten Island ferry, downtown skyline, boat in water, sea gulls flying, tugboat, Statue of liberty, Woolworth Building, parade, policemen on horseback, marching band, American flags waving, Wallach's department store, important man waving from back of convertible, City Hall, Mulberry St sign, San Gennaro Festival, Empire State Building in distance, vendors, Italian street fair, red peppers, children in 2nd floor window, pastries frying, bombolas, Provolone sign, large cheese columns, sausage frying, Chinese restaurant, Chinatown, Chinese signs, neon flashing sign Rice Bowl, parade with dragons and banners, Chinese lantern, girl smiling with mother, firecracker exploding, crowd watching dragon, balloons, Chinese families, Chevrolet neon sign Times Square at night, Canadian Club, Admiral Televisions, Scripto, Cinerama South Seas Adventure, Budweiser, Sunkist, Johnny Walker, Sea and Ski, Kleenex, Life Magazine, Fly TWA, Planters Peanuts, Newsreel theatre, ""Uncover Girls"" and ""White Huntress, Pepsi-Cola
HONG KONG TELEVISION
OC 800 SOF MAG A ROLL FTG OF HONG KONG TELEVISION (TV). CS. VS EXT OF REDIFFUSION TV BUILDING. PAN OVER TO HONG KONG TV BUILDING. CU CHINESE TECHNICIANS AT WORK IN TV STATION. CU ANNOUNCER. VS TECHNICIANS AT MONITORING PANEL. NIGHT. VS OUTDOOR CROWD WATCHING MANY PUBLIC TV SETS. CU TV SCREEN. VS CHINESE FEMALE DANCERS PERFORM FOR CAMERAS IN TV STUDIO. MS STUDIO AUDIENCE. VS SLAPSTICK PIE THROWING ROUTINE PERFORMED BY CHINESE COMICS. MS FAMILY WATCHING PORTABLE TV IN A SAMPAN. FAFFE SU. MS FEMALE WEATHERMAN IN TV STUDIO. CU NEWSCASTER. VS INT TV STATION, TECHNICIANS AT WORK. VS NEWSROOM STATION ACTIVITIES. CU PERFORMERS BEING MADE UP. VS EXT REDIFFUSION AND HONG KONG TV BUILDINGS. VS OF A STORE WINDOW SHOWING A FAMILY IN A MODERN APARTMENT WATCHING TV. VS MALE DANCER PERFORMS IN TV STUDIO. MS CAMERAMAN. VS WRESTLERS REHEARSING. CU SIGN READING: ON AIR. MS NEWSCASTER. CU TV SCREEN.
Estonia
1990 - Program about Estonia, smallest republic in former USSR which was at the forefront of independent movement. Film profiles this nation's struggle for freedom and breakup of the USSR. Visuals include footage showing 5,000 pro-Moscow supporters storming Estonian Parliament building,, 10,000 pro-independence demonstrators arriving to protect Parliament. includes Interviews of Prime Minister, politicians of all persuasions, economists, journalists, veterans and historic archival footage. |00:00:42:20 - 00:04:12:26>>> WS of mass of people assembled in the Tallinn square in February 1979, some with flags. The red flag of the Estonian-Soviet Republic is lowered on flagpole for last time. MS of people clapping hands and CU of the folded flag being carried off to museum. MS of raising of the new Estonian flag, white, black and blue as people sing anthem. MS and CU and WS of the people watching. WS over countryside. MS of the signing of agreement of cooperation by Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Various shots of people of 3 nations joining hands and making a human chain of 2 million people 600 meters long. Street scenes. Good CU of children watching television - Children watching the Bill Cosby Show on TV (with subtitles), cartoonish Kellogg’s Rice Krispies advertisement. |00:04:12:29 - 00:06:52:01>>> Harbor scenes, boats. MED couple kissing. CU ferry coming to camera . Ferry signs in terminal to “Stockholm, Visby, Gdansk, Tallinn”. The ferry ship “Tallink”. Flags of various countries flying. Harbor with 3 large ferry ships. Airline schedule board. Good MED shot of PanAm passenger plane landing at airport and touching down on runway. MED shots of people and crowds on streets. CU neon sign of various stores (Benneton, Rolex, Sale signs, Manhattan store sign, McDonalds in mall, ) and supermarket with people shopping. CU sign “welcome” in various languages. MED of tractor on farm, ZI to cows eating grain. MED woman at computer terminal typing. CU Finlandia cheese blocks on conveyor line and boxed. CU hand cutting cheeses on cutting board. CU woman hand buying newspaper off shelves of newsstand. ZO from CU of flags (US, Canada, Finland)Entrance to Arctia Hotel. CU meat on platter being served and ZO to Asian couples in restaurant. People on beach, in park, diving into pool. WS of architecture. Over the shoulder shots of children watching television. |00:06:52:03 – 00:08:14:04>>>CU’s of people discussing benefits of new agreements. BW newsreel - Various shots of visit of Finland’s President visit to Estonia in 1925 in motorcade with crowds cheering lining street and waving flags..The Kalev station with a sign “Tervetuloa!” hanging and many people in front of station. Open automobile with the dignitaries followed by horsemen riding down a street with crowds of people on both sides. Young boys waving flags. Dignitaries meeting and shaking hands. |00:08:39:22 - 00:11:20:28>>>CU and interview with Max Jakobson, author, about social changes. BW historical footage (1939-early 1940s) of Finnish soldiers on maneuvers in the snow in white camouflage dress, a ski patrol, officer handing awards to soldiers. Men in military dress walking down capitol building steps. Sentry post. Soviet soldiers in trucks riding thru a border gate after takeover. |00:11:21:00 - 00:14:19:02>>>Finnair passenger plane taking off. Various at Tallinn airport. Woman leading a female singing group. Horse and wagon with driver and 3 women tourists riding thru picturesque street. Military band entertaining. CU’s of people watching, a young girl, a woman with camera to her eye, Finnish soldiers and one with camera. American female tourist being interviewed. Mihkel Tarm, editor of “Estonian Life” and Mihkel Tiks, editor of “Tallinn This Week” being interviewed. |00:14:19:03 - 00:15:55:04>>> Kaubahal supermarket entry and views inside of many empty shelves due to food shortage at that time. CU beer being dispensed into glasses. Interview with Kevin Vilgats, a journalist about inflation and various of people drinking and toasting with beer glasses. |00:15:55:05 – 00:23:17:17>>>Shots of manufacturing high production machine with wieners being produced - loaded output conveyor. People inside factory along assembly lines and packages along conveyor. Jaan Jalakas of Esva-Valio Joint Company about joint ventures and cooperation. Conveyor with boxed fish product. NOT ON TAPE |0:16:29>>>EXT and INT of The Palace Hotel. CU plaque “AP Arctia Hotel Partners” – registration desk. Esko Allila of the Bank of Finland discussing risks of foreign investors to industry in Estonia but not derogatory. Wall decorated with red background, an insignia with Russian letters, a picture of Lenin and a Soviet-Estonia flag. Wall with a picture of Gorbachev and Ruutel, the Estonian prime minister. Pavel Pulkoff of the strike committee about the labor strikes in Estonia. NOT ON TAPE |0:18:05>>>Various of strikers, one putting hand over camera lens. Various of pro Moscow supporters, some carrying Soviet-Estonia flags, at a violent demonstration on May 15, 1990, CU’s and MS’s. HS of crowd in front of Parliament building. Mihkail Lysenko of “Interfront”with microphone exhorts crowd to demand that the Prime Minister come out to see them or they storm the gate. Various of strikers pushing thru the entrance. Truck driving thru an arched opening in the wall. HS of pro-Moscow supporters leaving the square in a long line about 6 people across thru the mob of pro-independence supporters. Various Ruutel and others walk out of building and holding hands aloft holding another as a victory symbol. Shot up to top of building showing Estonian flag that replaced the Soviet- Estonian flag. MS square with a few people and autos with front of Parliament building in back. CU of man holding Estonia flag. MS 2 men holding flags at building entrance. Good CU of drum being played. Various marchers with Estonian flags, people along street side watching, lined in groups in square. People singing the anthem, some men dressed in blue type jackets. WS square filled with people. CU’s men with right hand on heart taking an oath. Pro-democratic supporters with hand made signs. Parliament room with people seated and 3 Estonia flags hung on front wall as man describes this place as nerve center of revolution. POV from dais out to seated reps. CU’s of the main reps. Marju Lauristan at microphone on dais for independence. BW historical newsreel of her father on dais for bringing Estonia under the Soviet rule. CU of her being interviewed by a reporter. |00:23:17:18 – 00:26:35:03>>>CU of Lauristan being interviewed by reporter. CU lapel pin for the Estonia-Soviet union as the flag with writing. Nikolai Aksinin, pro-Moscow Interfront Deputy talks against separation. Tiit Made, a deputy, discusses the economy of a separation from Soviet. |00:26:35:16 - 00:28:53:18>>>Picturesque silhouette of smokestack spewing black smoke against sun lit cloudy sky. PANS of large industrial sites and smoking stacks (good shot for pollution) Edgar Savisaar, new prime minister interview talking about support for Estonian independence. PAN from ceiling down to altar in church of a marriage by priest. Good CU of Woman lighting candle in darkened church. Married couple exiting church and remarking about this church wedding not able to be performed under Soviet rule. |00:28:53:19 – 00:32:46:21>>>Stage play of “Fiddler on the Roof” with man singing “If I were a Rich Man” in Estonian. Jewish woman interview of her fear of continued anti-Semitism. CU with Hanukah candelabra on sideboard. Lutheran church service - POV down church aisle to altar, various of priest and congregants. Shots of Choir soloist and choir singing a revival type song, clapping hands (very much like Baptist service) with cutaways to congregation. Ex Estonian Soviet army draftee at Russian monument discusses Russian wrongs. CU of bronze head with helmet. POV of him walking away into a grassy field and wanting a separate monument for Estonian soldiers. |00:32:47:05 - 00:37:07:29>>>POV thru windshield of car with view of Soviet tank caravan riding on other side of road. CU Estonian soldiers in Russian army. Estonian students discussing the Soviet draft. Various at Tartu University. Interview Priit Heinsalu, assistant director of the university with portraits of past professors. Richard Sowers, Anderson University, Indiana, USA leading a large church choir. MS of Soviet fighter jets at airport. |00:37:08:02 – 00:42:07:08>>>Andre Joesaar, disc jockey at his studio with earphones at microphone says will play music not before allowed by Soviet. CU hands at control board. CU record on turntable. CU Andre interview. CU sign on building wall “Pagari Naraph” and plaque under”4”. Various building, signs, framed art that was previously not allowed. Interview Heie Treier, art critic and various modern art works in museum. Interview Mihkel Tiks, editor Estonian Culture Magazine, about the new shown art. Interview Jaan Kaplinski, poet, new writing of books and poetry after separation from Moscow. 00:37:08:02 - CU PAN of young girls in native costume singing traditional song. CU young lady in native dress putting a flower wreath on head. MS of tradition dressed couples dancing in a grassy field in countryside. MS of band playing the music. CU as dancers pass by camera. CU of very young girl with knitted wraparound scarf and babushka. CU of young ladies singing at song festival. |00:42:07:09 - 00:43:39:01>>>LS and MS of bandshell and huge crowd at concert. WS crowd POV from stage. 30,000 singers in field singing at festival. Commentator talking with view up to parliament building tower with Estonia flag on top. Young girls watching Television of the festival. GOod over the shoulder POV of the girls looking at television. Various city sites. Closes with various of choir singing in Helsinki and film credits.