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Those Redheads From Seattle
DO NOT SELL. From Paramount Pictures, in Technicolor. Starring Rhonda Fleming, Gene Barry and Agnes Moorehead. Directed by Lewis Foster. Good guys try to run a lawless and controlling bunch out of a small Western town circa late 1800's. Opens with a town storehouse burning to the ground at night as the locals try to extinguish it, then it's revealed that the bad guys set it intentionally to further their stranglehold on the townspeople. Basically a gangster flick set during late 1800's.
CBS Pilot: "Funny Face"
DO NOT SELL. CBS Pilot for "Funny Face", based upon the feature film of the same name. Starring Sandy Duncan, Nita Talbot and Frank Aletter. Directed by Jerry Paris.
Sneezing Beezers/ The Junior Lunch Club
This is a Chicago-produced children's afternoon television show from the mid to late 1960's. It stars Uncle Johnny Coons, a portly, balding, middle aged man whose fashion sense dips into the perpetually hopeless: thick and dark rimmed glasses, a bowler hat, a bowtie, and a checker-patterned sport jacket. Wackiness and a general who-cares attitude pervails as Uncle Coons sings, talks, amuses, and eats with the kids on the opposite side of the television screen. This particular episode opens with a brief scene from a silent Pathecomedy/ Mack Sennett comedy he shows later in the program: MS's of the immortal Joe Henke riding recklessly (talentlessly) down a ski slope, eventually crashing into and through the side of a secluded winter woods cabin, the owner of which, wearing a nightcap and gown, leaps from the damaged facade and into the adjacent woods (silly, eh?). FO/FI to title ard bearing the name and likeness of the show and host, cut to JOHNNY COONS (JC) standing a kitchen and talking to the camera. He sings a little ditty about hygiene (brush your teeth, wash your hands and face), proper distance from the TV (6 feet), and drinking milk "with delight". Then he moves offscreen to another room where he welcomes his old pal George, a paper-mache doll standing over 6' tall and dressed as a farmer beneath a regal crown, scepter and robe...? Yes, bizarre, but Uncle Coons tries to make the save by explaining it all away-- this is a kids show, after all. JC promises to keep the prized items safe from the evil hands of the "Revolutionists". George exits, JC tries on the items for good measure. Lo and behold, through the window enters a Revolutionist, some guy dressed in black, looking a cross between a thief and a Spanish priest (the hat); the Revolutionist produces a large U-shaped magnet and steals the items (funny MS of the monarchy items flying through the air, exchanging possessive hands several times). In the end the Revolutionist seals the theft and retreats through the window-- but he left the magnet! JC uses it only to be pelted by a lianty of small items (okay, it's stagehands throwing small bits of trash at JC and onto the set-- very silly). JC goes back to the kitchen. It's lunchtime! Today's menu is the "Cowboy Lunch". He takes a sip of milk, says, "Mmm, mmm, that's good. And good for you, too. You should have a glass with every meal of the day." He places a bowl of soup, a ham and cheese sandwich and a bowl of ice cream with fruit topping before him. 200' JC introduces the day's featured film, a Pathecomedy/ Mack Sennett silent comedy. There is a decent score (produced more than likely by the Chicago producers) as well as unobtrusive commentary by JC. The following are some of the shots within. MS's of a young woman throwing plates at the customers of a tamale truck (funny MS's of the customers, all men, getting smashed by the plates). MS of the King of Anchovia standing on a balcony, proclaiming to his people; some bad guys throw a bomb at him-- an explosion and the king is reduced to a crown and dusty robes, following which a servant picks them up as a whole and dusts them off, bringing them inside. CU of Joe Henke standing by the tamale truck and literally sucking in the smells (reverse motion shot of Joe blowign smoke through his nose). He then steals a bowl of soup, putting in in his pants and walking away. MS of an involved bookworm taking bites from an empty plate. MS of the soup thief getting collared by the law. MS's of old man, his daughter and Joe taking a rough cabride through the countryside (the old man flops helplessly around the cab as Joe and daughter get sweet). CU of Joe's hat getting shot off while sitting in the cab. CU of a bad guy's foot getting rolled over by a car tire. MS's of Joe inflating a flat tire; CU of a rubber bubble expanding, eventually exploding. MS of Joe getting shot at by Anchovia riflemen. MS's of a passenger balloon being inflated, taking off. LS's of a biplane (monoplane?) taking off from a country airfield. Later still, tight LS of the plane landing in a snowfield. Tight LS of a snowman and the attractive daughter; the cutie takes off her coat to reveal she is wearing an "Eskimo Chorus Girl Outfit" (?). CU of the snowman turning his head to get a better look. MS of the snowman melting. Chase through the snow as the bad guys chase the girl and the good guys chase the bad guys. Funny tight LS;s of the old man riding a horse outfitted with snowshoes. Series of comedic tight LS's of pratfalls in the snow during the chase: by snow ski spills, tobagan crashes, dogsled slips, leaps, jumps, etc. The plane takes off with the bad guy and the captured girl while Joe, still on skis, leaps from a lift and catches up (silly, ridiculous). MS of the plane crashing into a snowbank. End, happily ever after. Back to the TV studio as Uncle Johnny gives the kids info on how to join the Junior Lunch Club and all the goodies they'll receive-- cute material, very dated. Ends with MS's of JC chasing a blackbird (a stuffed animal on strings) as it flies around the studio.
US Navy: River Patrol
From the United States Navy comes this amazing documentary of life on the Mekong Delta River Patrol, circa June 1967. It is a very somber and quiet testament to the loneliness of life as an American soldier on the River Patrol.
Ceylon - misc.
Parakeet Auklets
Master 2110, Tape 1 MS 3 Parakeet auklets (Aethia psittacula) perched on rocky cliff side. The auklets look around. CU one auklet, he moves around trying to maintain his footing.
Impeachment Hearings: House Judiciary Committee, July 26, 1974 (1/2)
[00.37.18--title screen "Impeachment Debate July 26, 1974"] [LEHRER seated in studio] LEHRER announces that the issue of debate is the specificity of the articles and DUE PROCESS [00.37.35--cut Rep. SANDMAN ] The CHAIRMAN. The Chair would like to address a question to counsel and staff which has had the whole matter before- it for a, period of time, citing the precedents and the history of impeachment, as to whether or not there is a requirement that there be specificity in the preparation of articles for impeachment? I address that to our counsel. Mr. DOAR. Mr. Chairman, in my judgment it is not necessary to be. totally specific, and I think this article of impeachment meets the test of specificity. As the Congressman from Maryland said, there will be a report submitted to the Congress with respect to this article, if the committee chooses to vote this article, and behind that report will be the summary of information, as well as all of the material that was presented to this committee. Prior to trial in the, Senate, the counsel for the President is entitled to make demands for specificity through perhaps a motion similar to a to bill of particulars, and so that all of those details may be spelled out. But, from the standpoint of this article, my judgment is firmly and With conviction that this meets the tests that have been established under the procedures. Mr. COHEN. Mr. Chairman? Mr. McCLORY. Would the Chairman yield? Would the Chairman yield so that we might got an opinion from Mr. Garrison? The, CHAIRMAN. I address the Same question to Mr. Garrison. MR. GARRISON. Mr. Chairman. I have not frankly spent a great deal or time researching this question. But, I would say that while it may very, well not be a requirement of the law, it clearly can be said to be the uniform practice of the past to have a considerable degree of specificity in the articles, and I would cite the members of the committee to a publication of this committee of October 1973 entitled Impeachment, Selected Materials, and beginning on page 125 and concluding -on page 202. Every article of impeachment which has been tried in the Senate is set forth, and I -would be less than frank, Mr. Chairman, if I ,did not suggest that a, simple, reading of those articles would suggest an enormous amount of factual detail. As a matter of fact, to an extent that is actually not included in indictments. And they are not only times, dates, and places named, sometimes there are the sums of money that allegedly have been misappropriated. I would refer you, for example, to page 173 to the, fifth article against Judge English, in which the judge was accused of inebriety, and I am sure, much to his embarrassment the article goes on at great length describing exactly when and where he was drunk. The CHAIRMAN. I would like to address the same question to Mr. Jenner. Mr. SANDMAN. Now, what is his capacity, Mr. Chairman? The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is associate counsel of this committee associate to the staff as counsel, and for a while, and for a great while, served, by selection of the minority, as the minority counsel. Mr. Jenner Mr. JENNER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen. An article of impeachment as of the present day is to be viewed in the light of the progress made in the field of criminal Procedure by this Congress and by the progress made under the Enabling Act by the Advisory Committees of the U.S. Supreme Court adopting the Federal rules of criminal procedure./ And second arising out of the electrical cases, the multidistrict panel plan by which all complicated cases are reviewed whether they are multidistrict or otherwise, and as a result of that progress has been made with respect to the Federal rules of criminal procedure and the new Federal rules of criminal procedure, which have now been approved by the House of Representatives, and I believe this committee it is no longer necessary to specify either in civil or criminal complaints a range of specificity that accompanied the needs of a past era. And all that is necessary under the cases is that the bill, the complaint, and I respectfully suggest the articles of impeachment give but what is called notice, or notice pleading, and that is in itself sufficient. Under the Federal rules of criminal procedure, under the, discovery provisions, the President may obtain all of the 38 books, all of the summaries, all of the materials that are before this committee. As is at is the rules now in effect, not even specifically stated in rule 16, that even, Counting the new criminal rules that have been approved that are not articles of impeachment yet in effect. So that in considering present day you must have in mind the progress that has been made in those respects in the last decade. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. Mr. LATTA. Mr. Chairman? Mr. CONYERS. Mr. Chairman? The CHAIRMAN. I recognize Mr. Edwards. [00.44.00]
The Canterville Ghost
Preview Cassette 220386 The Royal Playhouse Theater presents a teleplay "contrived from Oscar Wilde's celebrated story". Wide and tight LS's of an English castle, daytime. MS's of Lord Canterville (the modern incarnation of Lord Canterville) talking to a 300 year old ghost at the foot of a grand staircase (the glorified ghost is Shakespearean, right down to the clothes and mannerisms-- except he's transparent). MS's of the ghost walking up stairs with relics of haunting, a skeleton and heavy chains. MS's and tight LS's of two young young boys firing imaginary guns in a drawing room of the castle; they imitate their favorite radio serials. MS's of the ghost dressed as a king's regal courrier, going so far as to taking off his hat and bowing respectfully in the company of a young lady. CU of Wilde's book, "The Canterville Ghost" being closed, placed on a small table. Tight LS of the two young boys wearing pajamas, cowboy hats and pistol belts while wandering the empty castle halls at night. Tight LS of one of the boys knocking over a suit of armor, then running away. MS of the modern Lord Canterville and the love interest kissing in a den of the castle. Tight LS's of lightning (seems fabricated but good nonetheless). CU of the woman sleeping, her makeup still on and hair just perfect and the light striking her face just right; she wakes up. MS of the castle's maid getting scared and running from the ghost's miserable cry. LS of the sun breaking over and through a thick tuft of clouds. MS of a bell in a stone belfry ringing. MS of the Lord and Lady kissing. Cut to MS of Florence Hall (played the Lady) talking to the camera about the play and players. Also starring Reginald Sheffield and Bruce Lecter. A Bing Crosby Enterprises production.
Ceylon - misc.
Ceylon - misc. - biblical recreation
Ceylon - misc. street scenes
Ceylon - misc. street scenes
Ceylon - misc. people walk along beach area
Ceylon - misc. architecture
Ceylon - misc. street scenes
Ceylon - misc. natives in town
Ceylon - inside homes and farming
Veddah dance ?
Ceylon - people
Old boats and ships
S.E. Asia
Hong Kong panorama
Asia - fencing B & W neg.
Farming irrigation, industry, people, architecture, misc. B & W