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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1114 |
| Catalog #: | 447898 | |
| Clip Number: | 447898-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | N/A | |
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| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Misc | |
| Description: | Optical track bad - very low volume. Very dry somber film made by the American Friends Service Committee, with "beat" poetry style narration and similar music (bongos, flute, vibes). made justafter the Cuban Missile Crisis. 00:19 - 02:05 various shots of train station, passengers on platform, in train, trains leaving and views from window inside moving train. 02:00 - 02:47school children practice air raid drill 02:50 - "Interested in Survival?" sign, "See this Home shelter" sign. 02:55 -03:50 shots of elderly men, war veterans outside home shelter (home fallout shelter) Shots of one elderly man looking at interior of fallout shelter. Pan from Motorola Radio to Holy bible on shelf. 03:55 - 04:26 shots of american flags, street scenes of apparently wealthy people walking, driving. Cut to sign "Dial -a - Prayer". 05:04 - 05:31 shots of war toys, atomic warship, model battleship, soldiers, tanks, 05:31 - 06:33 cuts to real tank and soldiers marching in parade. Spectators watch from sidewalks as military weapons, vehicles etc. parade down street. 06:34 - 06:57 airplanes (some passenger, some look military) in flight. 0657 -07:09 var shots of kids on street, OTS shot of teenager eating milky way bar 07:10 - sign: "They trained 'em to be killers and then turned 'em loose in hell" 07:13 - Various shots of commercial and religious icons (nun, christ, easter bunny, masks, mannequin) 07:37 - 08:12 var. shots of radar dishes and antenna and "Armned Forces Week" Banner 08:12 - 09:46 people gathered in park for Armed Forces Week, talking 09:48 - 10:08: disturbed man walking down street talking to himself 10:13 - 11:08 Var. shots of dilapidated, run-down buildings in urban area. broken windows, dead pigeon, abandoned movie theater, collapsed apartment building, 11:17 - 11:31 students in classroom studying. 11:31 - 11:32 room of old mainframe computers 11:33 - 11:56 man typing, other people typing 11:57 - 12:15 old copy machine spitting out paper, shelves filled with papers 12:20 - protestors, marching across street. 1000 quakers march to Pentagon. Var. shots of marchers. Sign "Not by might but by spirit, said the lord" 13:39. Long sequence of shots of quakers lined up outside pentagon - intercut with some pentagon workers standing outside to look at the quakers. | |
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