| Midwest Snow | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1757 |
| Catalog #: | 425665 | |
| Clip Number: | 425665-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-012-03 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois and Indiana | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEHAVIOR, HUMAN: Tolerance LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Indiana SCENICS: Snow TRANSPORTATION/AUTOMOBILE: Views From, POV WEATHER: Snow | |
| Description: | Midwesterners are belted with the second major snowstorm within a week, bringing the total snowfall close to three feet. In Chicago, warned hours in advance, motorists and pedestrians accept it with good humor. Indiana, meanwhile, reports six deaths due to the storm. Establishing shot - Michigan Avenue in the winter, traffic and people. MS - People walking on Michigan Avenue in the snow. CU - Either these people are waiting for a light to change so they can cross the street or their waiting for a CTA bus to come at a bus stop. Two girls looking up in the sky. High Angle Shot - Traffic grid-lock. CU - The ladies are bundled up, waiting for a CTA bus or a traffic light to change. High Angle Shot - More traffic grid-lock. CU - A pretty young blond all bundled up. MS - People walking beneath the el tracks. MS - Its evening time and people are getting off of work and they are on their way home. MS - A truck making its way down the outer drive early in the foggy, foggy morning, snow keeps falling down blanketing Chicago. Indiana - Traffic at a crawl on the Frank Borman Expressway in an east west highway in Indiana that takes you into Illinois (I-80) CU - An overturned truck, CU - Two men digging out the trailer of the overturned truck. MS - A snow covered street in Indiana, and cars are just buried by the snow. POV - Looking out the windshield of a car driving down a snow covered street. | |
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