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Focus on the 20s - People

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_1
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:27:18 - 00:35:23

Focus on the 20s - People. Famous heroic personalities of the Roaring Twenties: Henry Ford, Calvin Coolidge, Amelia Earhart, Richard E. Byrd, George Bernard Shaw, Prince Edward and Charles Lindbergh.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_2
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:27:18 - 00:27:27

DO NOT USE Opening Titles & Still of Henry Ford.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_3
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:27:27 - 00:29:44

MSs industrialist HENRY FORD inspecting a Model A automobile engine w/ other Ford executives. Montage of automobile assembly & production: MSs hot liquid (either steel or rubber, that latter more likely) spilling into large metal saucer; TLS steel vats of rubber on railcar; TLS workers using chute to pour coal into passing molds; TLS workers pouring molten steel into molds; TLS/MSs Ford Model A cars rolling off assembly line & onto street. TLSs line of Model A automobiles driving along rural dirt roads. MS inventor extraordinaire THOMAS ALVA EDISON getting out of car in woods. MSs Henry Ford hanging out with Thomas Edison & industrialist HARVEY FIRESTONE in woods; TLS Henry Ford having a dickens of a time mounting horse, finally getting up; LS Henry Ford & friends riding horses through stream; MSs Henry Ford cooking at campsite, cutting food; MS Thomas Alva Edison picking berries from bush; MS Ford flipping flapjacks on grill; MS Edison & friends sitting at spinning table in tent; TLSs outdoor Baptist mass/church service (President Warren G. Harding presiding).

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_4
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:29:44 - 00:30:21

Montage of college-age Army volunteers camping and training in Plattsburg, NY: traveling shot tent camp; MS two soldiers with tent; MS soldiers peeling potatoes; MS soldiers standing in line, receiving grub; MS soldier sitting in grass, eating; good CU soldier munching on chicken breast; TLS train of immaculate Ford Model A cars arriving at camp; MS President CALVIN COOLIDGE walking with U.S. Army officers; panning MS young soldiers marching with shoulderbound rifles; CU Calvin Coolidge reviewing troops.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_5
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:30:21 - 00:30:52

MSs President Coolidge, wife Grace Coolidge and Senator Charles Curtis (R-KS) getting into carriage at White House, posing for cam on Inauguration Day, March 4, 1925. Cut to MSs Calvin Coolidge working on his Vermont farm: chopping wood, spraying crops, digging ditches. MSs Calvin Coolidge meeting with American Indians (Native Americans) dressed in full regalia; they award him a war bonnet (feather headress). MS stoic Calvin Coolidge sitting in bleachers of baseball stadium, wearing the war bonnet, looking rather silly.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_6
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:30:52 - 00:31:33

DO NOT USE Stills of Calvin Coolidge. Stills of famed authors Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and playwright Eugene O' Neill. Still of Zelda Fitzgerald and F. Scott Fitzergerald. Still of Ernest Hemingway. Still of Gertrude Stein.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_7
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:31:33 - 00:32:11

MS/CUs Prince Edward of Wales (later King Edward VII) posing for camera wearing pithe helmet, sailing on British warships, greeting women on deck, visiting Hawaiian Islands, being bestowed with floral leis by British naval officers. LS passenger boat sailing for dock; great MS playwright & author GEORGE BERNARD SHAW walking, then dancing on deck of boat; MS five newsreel cameramen on deck, soundmen kneeling by tripods; CU George Bernard Shaw speaking: "It's no good in this country (America) putting questions of national importance to me. I've been here before, I've told you what to do, and you haven't done it. You're up to your neck in trouble in consequence."

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_8
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:32:11 - 00:32:20

MSs famed aviatrix AMELIA EARHART posing on airplane after intercontinental flight; CU Amelia Earhart smiling, turning to cam in front of plane.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_9
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:32:20 - 00:32:33

DO NOT USE Still of General Billy Mitchell standing at his court martial.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_10
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:32:33 - 00:32:44

CU Admiral RICHARD BYRD wearing naval dress uniform; MS Admiral Richard Byrd wearing leather bomber hat, working on engine of small monoplane; MS Richard E. Byrd and men looking over map, preparing for record-setting flight over North Pole.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_11
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:32:44 - 00:35:16

MS aviator CHARLES LINDBERGH shaking hands with two men in business suits, Spirit of St. Louis in hangar behind them; MS Charles Lindbergh posing with his mother, Evangeline Lindbergh; TLS Spirit of St. Louis being rolled along tarmac, night; TLS men filling plane with gasoline; MSs Colonel Lindbergh getting into plane, smiling; panning TLS Spirit of St. Louis taking off from Roosevelt Field, New York, May 20, 1927; air to air shot of Spirit in flight; panning LS Spirit landing (NOT the actual landing at Le Bourget Field, as this shot occurs during the day, so it must have been purely a ceremonial act); MS Col. Lindbergh posing with French President GASTON DOUMERGUE; CU Chas. Lindbergh; MS Chas. Lindbergh posing in front of Spirit of St. Louis; various shot of Chas. Linbergh at the American Embassy in France; aerial shot of U.S. navy battleship sailing; LS battleship pulling into port; TLS American politicians & military officers waving to ship, doffing hats; TLS Col. Linbergh alighting boat; TLS President Calvin Coolidge awarding Chas. Lindbergh the Flying Cross; LSs numerous boats sailing in New York Harbor upon Lindbergh's arrival in NYC, steam rising from ships; LS fireboat spewing water; LS/TLSs massive ticker tape parade; MS New York police pushing crowd back.

Focus on the 20s - People
Clip: 493233_1_12
Year Shot: 1920 (Estimated Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1154
Original Film:
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 00:35:16 - 00:35:23

DO NOT USE Stills