Christmas Rush On: Stores Jammed By Santa's Helpers
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	Catalog #:	426852
	Clip Number:	426852-1
	Orginal Film:	038-098-03
	Timecode:	00:11:22 - 00:13:03
	Location:	United States
	Year Shot:	1965 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	CROWDS: Misc. HOLIDAYS: Christmas LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, California LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York SHOPPING: Department Stores
	Description:	The Annual Christmas shopping spree is bigger and better than ever, according to merchants across the country. Stores are jammed as gift lists are checked. Statisticians figure that 4,000,000 people are going to forget some Aunt Ruth or other. The GI's in Vietnam have not been forgotten. Operation Christmas Star is gathering & dispatching gifts for the men fighting far from home. 35 planes are airlifting the gifts from all sections of the country. New York, New York MS/CUs - Santa Claus ringing bell for Volunteers of America charity on bustling Gotham sidewalk. Nice traveling shots down escalator at department store during Christmas rush, customers crowding aisles & counters. MS - Young white woman wearing leopard print coat shopping in store. MS - Overhead sign: "Toyland." MSs Caucasian boys & girls looking at dolls, toys in toy department. Another traveling shot down escalator in busy dept store. Concord, California MSs - White female college students packaging, wrapping gifts for servicemen stationed overseas (Operation Christmas Star). MSs - White male college students standing in line, passing presents onto truck. MCU - Sign: "Christmas for Vietnam." TLS sign & main entrance at Travis Air Force Base in California. TLS - Dump truck backing up to USAF cargo plane. TLS/MSs - Students loading presents onto cargo plane. Panning MS - Group of white people watching loading, sign in BG reading , "Welcome to Travis AFB, Gateway to the Pacific." LS - Cargo plane taxiing on runway.

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