| Industrial & Automotive Pollution, Contemporary | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7 |
| Catalog #: | 312946 | |
| Clip Number: | 312946-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ||
| Timecode: | 07:09:24 - 07:14:23 | |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois | |
| Year Shot: | 1980 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ENVIRONMENT: Pollution, Air ENVIRONMENT: Pollution, Misc ENVIRONMENT: Pollution, Water INDUSTRY: Factories, Misc INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Oil LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago TRANSPORTATION: Traffic Scenes | |
| Description: | Video-original footage of traffic & smokestacks/factories, 1980s, Chicago, Illinois. Overhead MS of traffic on highway. Probably shot from a bridge or overpass. Lots of cars steadily moving between the white lines. Same shot but from a side angle. Zoomed in MCU and CU of oil refinery flame atop smokestack. WS large round tanks on ground next to railroad tracks. MS of upper part of tall industrial structure - smokestacks, silo type structure and lots of metal. WS refinery with smokestacks and tanks in view. CU smokestack amid metal structure. WS refinery structures. WS same, zoom in to billowing white smoke. MS smokestack with the words "Work Safely" on it. Super wide shot of industrial wasteland. Refinery with smoke billowing from it, metal drawbridge structure in fg. Blue sky - but all hazy from pollution. Nice abstractions. But the whole thing is a mess and not useable because the cam. is shaking uncontrollably. Closer shot, a little less shaky but still not good. Tons of billowing smoke from various sources, lots of industrial structures jutting up here and there - hazy sky. There might be a second or two of useable stuff here so it's worth a look if you need it. MS dead fish floating in river, algae or something floats on water surface. Cam. Is kind of shaky here too. WS factory buildings and smokestacks. Zoom in to smokestack with small black plume of smoke. WS refinery across river, with drawbridge elevated. Train crossing rail bridge over river. Nice for the first few seconds and then the cam. Starts to shake a lot. Closer shot of refinery with smoke billowing from several sources, industrial structures jutting everywhere. Cam pans a little, and shakes a little. Zoom out to previous wider shot. Ws shots of southbound traffic in Chicago on the Kennedy Expressway (I90/94) John Hancock and Standard Oil (which later was the Prudential, and then the Aon) buildings in hazy b/g. Steady flow of trucks and cars - not an empty space on the road. | |
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