| 1966 NRECA | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1883 |
| Catalog #: | 315726 | |
| Clip Number: | 315726-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | BHC 69 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/MOTION PICTURES: Corporate / Industrial Films | |
| Description: | The Las Vegas Convention journal of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association for the year 1966. Good footage of Las Vegas (traveling shot of "Welcome to Las Vegas, Nevada" sign; traveling shots of Tropicana, Dunes, Sands hotel casinos, day; Thunderbird, Riviera, Sahara hotel casinos, day; neon Thunderbird hotel sign, night; neon Stardust Auditorium, Las Vegas Convention Center signs, night; est shots Las Vegas Convention Center, day, conventioneers arriving & registering) of convention meetings, seminars, sessions, and speeches; "women are creatures of logic" and a curious beauty pageant contest; white men in business suits inspecting tractors, cherry pickers, bulldozers, chainsaws, tractor shovels, various construction equipment. At 01.09.38 Las Vegas at night montage: neon signs for Dunes, Silver Slipper, Vegas Vic (Pioneer Club), Golden Nugget, Fremont, Lucky Casino, The Mint, Stardust hotel casinos, and requisite traveling shot of Glitter Gulch (Old Vegas). At 01.14.44 convention floor, demonstrations of new household goods & appliances including washer & dryers, stoves, hairdryers, dishwashers; also IBM information processing computers; Kitchen Aid; 4H, free samples being doled out; Sunbeam; Miss Wisconsin gives out boxes of cheese to her beauty pageant peers outside mobile home on convention floor; tractor giveaway, leaflets & pamphlets being handed out. At 01.21.41 prim, stiff, grim-faced white women gather for women's brunch luncheon, sit & eat silently at round tables, followed by more footage of convention meetings, speeches by Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithin, TUA Chairman Aubrey Wagner, Senator Hugh Scott Jr. (R-PA), Rep. Robert Poage (D-TX), Senator Howard W. Cannon (D-NV). Followed by aerials of Hoover Dam (Boulder Dam) and Lake Mead. EST shot of Hoover Dam. Followed by NRECA awards ceremony at convention center. At 01.26.22 speech to convention from U.S. Secretary of State DEAN RUSK. Dean Rusk on U.S. conflict and intervention in Vietnam: "... against the Republic of Vietnam is aggression organized and directed, and in a large part, supplied by communist North Vietnam. Since 1959 North Vietnam has sent tens of thousands of trained military personnel into South Vietnam. At first most of them were South Vietnamese by birth: men who had fought against the French & gone to communist North Vietnam after the ceasefire of 1954. The communists also ordered some of their members to remain in the south & do what they could to undermine the South Vietnamese government. At that time the communists almost certainly expected to take over South Vietnam from within & without great difficulty. The countryside was in utter chaos, much of it controlled either by communist bands or other armed groups. But a new government of Vietnamese nationalists emerged, men who opposed rule by either the French or the Communists. Late in 1954 President Eisenhower with bipartisan support decided to extend to this new regime both economic & military assistance. And during the next few years, South Vietnam achieved what some outside observers called a miracle. Security was restored to much of the countryside..." "... and the strength of this great nation is not just in its arms, it's in those decent purposes that you talk about in your homes every day and every week. That's where the strength lies..." Sec. Dean Rusk tours convention floor, talks with white men in business suits. At 01.35.54 Miss Rural Electrification beauty pageant contest -- evening gown and swimsuit competition, crowning | |
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