Reel

Focus on 60s - Lifestyles. Sixties youth culture, countercultural movement, Haight-Ashbury, illicit drug intake, massacre at University of Texas, women's fashion and the rise of the political women's liberation movement. Ah yes, the late 60s.

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B&W MS/TLSs numerous college students having a big snowball fight on campus quad.

B&W newsreel of CHARLES WHITMAN sniping at students from observation tower of University of Texas-Austin, 1965.

COLOR montage of college students recreating on an unspecified college campus: MS white college in snazzy outfits walking along campus; TLS/MSs students relaxing. MSs white college students smoking marijuana in a dorm room, hippies. Cut to fast motion subjective POV tracking shot through streets of San Francisco (shots are masked so as to mimic a bad acid trip-- far out, dude). CU police siren flashing, spinning. MS of a male countercultural drop-out walking along Haight-Ashbury, his belongings in an American flag slung over his shoulder. MSs hippies & dropouts congregating, walking along Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, California. MSs of the MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI receiving accolades from followers.

DO NOT USE 1969 newsreel of Woodstock.

TLS cluster of roadside gas station signs advertising gas prices along urbanized strip. MSs weekend traffic jams. TLS/MSs people playing, recreating, sunbathing on beach, people swimming in water; panning MS blond beach beauty in white bikini waving to cam.

MS JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS getting into a car in foreign country.

MS montage of young white women wearing mini-skirts (miniskirts), walking along city streets, sitting on buses; some wear knee-high boots, others heels.

DO NOT USE Amazing TV commercial for Neet spray-on hair remover for women, pitchwoman using product, washing unwanted hair in shower.

DO NOT USE Odd TV commercial for Pamprin in which a "modern" American blond woman skulks through an unspecified Central Asia country, taking pictures of Muslim culture.

The active birth of the Women's Liberation movement: MS women protesting outside 1968 Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, carrying signs that read, "I Am A Woman, Not A Pet, Toy or Mascot" (one protester has a lamb on a leash); MSs women tossing bras into barrel, shouting, laughing. (bra burning)

Cut to shaky home movie of people gathered in Washington Mall for 1963 March on Washington (civil rights). Cut to MS Mexican-Americans & some young white men protesting, carrying placards: "Build Factories in Southwest Texas"; "Viva La Causa"; "Don't Want No More Gringos"; "Leave Our Land, Texas Rangers." Cut to montage of peaceful anti-war protests.

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