| Fiorello La Guardia Reads Dick Tracy Over the Radio | ||
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| Tape Master: | 1781 | |
| Catalog #: | 500638 | |
| Clip Number: | 500638-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | HFR-SFL-35-092 | |
| Timecode: | 01:18:28 - 01:20:14 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: People Listening ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: Production LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: LaGuardia, Fiorello | |
| Description: | MS New York City Mayor FIORELLO LA GUARDIA delivering animated speech to camera. Great MS Mayor Fiorello La Guardia sitting at cluttered desk, speaking into WNYC microphone; CU Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia speaking: "Well, the strike isn't over, so I suppose the children have been waiting to hear something about their funnies." C/A CU white boy with slick haircut sitting, listening to off-screen radio. CU Mayor LaGuardia wearing thick-rimmed glasses, reading Dick Tracy comic strip aloud. C/A TLS well-to-do white family sitting in family room, gathered around radio. MS another white family seated before radio, listening. CUs Mayor La Guardia reading funnies. C/A MS suave white male bachelor wearing smoking jacket, drinking from hourglass-shaped glass while listening to radio. CU cute white girl listening, breaking faint smile. MS white girl sitting on family room floor at feet of her parents (father smokes cigarette). Sideview MS white woman powdering her nose while listening to radio. CU well-groomed white boy listening to off-screen radio. MS Mayor LaGuardia reading Dick Tracy comic strip-- "Crash!" Over the shoulder MS white man adjusting tuner of radio. MS portly middle-aged white man & woman listening to radio with lean teenage son. MS Mayor La Guardia removes glasses, revealing moral: "Children, what does it all mean? It means that dirty money never brings any luck." | |
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