- Title: VM-575B
- Summary: THINGS WORTH SAVING: CAVE PAINTINGS. NATURAL DISASTERS. VOLCANO. EARTHQUAKE. FLOODS. FIRES. ART RESTORATION. PERSEPOLIS. THEBES. ANGKOR WAT. ABU SIMBEL. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. ASTROLABE. PRAXINOSCOPE. ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS. LAOCOON. SAMARKAND. RESTORING IMPORTANT ANCIENT MONUMENTS, STATUES, BUILDINGS.
- Description:00:30:30 - CU CAVE PAINTINGS DEPICTING MAN'S INSIGNIFICANCE BEFORE THE MIGHT OF NATURE 00:30:47 - CU PAN FLINTS & POLISHED BONES 00:31:29 - MS TURNING MINIATURE SCULPTURE 00:31:44 - MONTAGE NATURAL DISASTERS, ROCK LANDSLIDE, VOLCANO, MOLTEN LAVA SPEWING UP & OVER FOREST, EARTHQUAKE DESTROYING HOUSES, PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY 00:32:13 - POV FLYING OVER DESTROYED TOWN, SOME HOUSES STILL STANDING 00:32:19 - MONTAGE POWERFUL FLOODS OVERTAKING EVERYTHING IN IT'S PATH 00:32:30 - MS TALL URBAN BUILDING ON FIRE, BUILDING CRUMBLING FALLING, DESTROYED BY FIRE 00:32:40 - MS BOMBS DROPPING FROM PLANE, HITTING LAND, BLOWING UP, WAR. DESTRUCTION. MS BUILDING DROPPING IN SECONDS FROM BOMB IMPACT 00:32:57 - HS PAN & MONTAGE DESTROYED CITY, MEN WALKING AMONG RUBBLE, STATUES STILL STANDING, PIECES OF STATUES ON GROUND. INTERIOR DESTROYED MUSEUM 00:33:29 - MONTAGE REMAINS OF PERSEPOLIS, ANCIENT PERSIAN CITY, STATUES WITH NO HEADS, STATUE HEADS WITH NO BODIES. MS WOMAN WALKING THROUGH ANCIENT CITY PAST STANDING STATUES 00:33:48 - MONTAGE COLOSSAL STATUES OF MEMNON AT ANCIENT CITY OF THEBES 00:34:00 - CU MASSIVE HEAD OF PHARAOH RAMSES IN THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS. PANS REMAINS OF ANCIENT. CU ZOOM IN ON STATUE HEAD COVERED WITH TREES GROWING AROUND IT 00:34:22 - MONTAGE ANGKOR WAT, ANCIENT CAMBODIA, JUNGLE GROWING AROUND ANCIENT CITY 00:34:56 - FURRY SMALL MONKEY DARTING IN & OUT OF BUILDINGS 00:35:08 - CU SNAKE WRAPPED AROUND CHIN OF STATUE 00:35:12 - PIGEONS LANDING ON URBAN STATUES, PIGEON SHIT RUNNING DOWN STATUES 00:35:21 - MONTAGE STATUES, SCULPTURES IN VARIOUS PLACES AROUND THE WORLD, NEGLECTED, CRUMBLING, WORN FROM THE ELEMENTS 00:35:42 - CU TINY CREATURES BORING INTO WOOD ? 00:35:48 - CU HANS TURNING REMAINS OF ANCIENT BOOK, THICK WITH AGE, MOISTURE 00:35:52 - CU PAN TABLE FULL OF RUINED OLD BOOKS, TIME WORN & DESTROYED 00:36:02 - BULLDOZER PLOWING THROUGH PILES OF STONE, COLUMN FROM ANCIENT BUILDING, MAN'S IGNORANCE ONCE AGAIN REARS IT'S UGLY HEAD 00:36:14 - STATUE OF MEXICAN GOD IN NEW YORK CITY, URBAN PUBLIC ART 00:36:35 - NEW YORK CITY SCENES, URBAN BUILDINGS, PEDESTRIANS, VEHICULAR TRAFFIC. 00:36:46 - STREET SIGN:EAST 58TH STREET 00:36:50 - VARIOUS ANGLES FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S ROBY ?SP HOUSE, CHICAGO, SURROUNDED BY HOUSING PROJECT 00:37:17 - CU MAN CHIPPING AWAY ROCK FROM MOUNTAIN 00:37:31 - MS HORSE DRINKING FROM TROUGH, STONE WALLS OF A SHED, FARMER BRINGING PAIL OF WATER TO TROUGH 00:37:35 - TWO WOMEN JUMP INTO ANCIENT OUTDOOR FOUNTAIN, BATH, WOMAN HIKES UP HER SKIRT & COOLS HER LEGS DOWN WITH WATER 00:37:42 - OLD MAN WALKING UP TO OLD SMALL CASTLE LIKE HOUSE LEFT IN RUINS, ENGLAND, IRELAND, FRANCE ? INTERIOR SHOTS OF NEGLECTED HOME, HUGE FIREPLACE 00:37:54 - TRIO EATING OUTDOORS IN THE RAIN UNDER UMBRELLA CU RAIN DRIPPING OFF UMBRELLA 00:38:00 - CU HELICOPTER BLADES SPINNING 00:38:02 - LS TILT UP OLD CHURCH, STEEPLE, ZOOM IN ON WORKMEN ATOP SPIRE, HELICOPTER APPROACHES & TRIES TO HAUL AWAY WEATHER VANE. INTERCUTS VILLAGERS LOOKING UP. CU MAN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS. HELICOPTER FAILS IT'S MISSION, CU PIPE SMOKING OLD MAN SHAKING HIS HEAD IN DISAPPOINTMENT 00:38:30 - LOW ANGLE MEN THROWING SOMETHING BIG & WRAPPED OVER BALCONY 00:38:32 - MONTAGE POLICE MOVING FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, HUGE LAWN FILLED WITH FURNITURE 00:38:43 - CU SCHOOL CHILDREN RUNNING OUT OF SCHOOL, INDIAN? MIDDLE EASTERN? MONTAGE THIRD WORLD CHILDREN EATING, RUNNING THROUGH TOWN, GOATS FOLLOWING 00:39:42 - CU TILT UP ANCIENT STATUE. MS PAN INDONESIAN STATUES 00:40:12 - MONTAGE WORKS OF ART, SCULPTURE, PAINTINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD 00:42:08 - MONTAGE EXAMPLES OF ARCHITECTURE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, ORIENTAL, TAJ MAHAL MAUSOLEUM, ACROPOLIS, INDIAN WALKING THROUGH MAZE OF COLUMNS, TEMPLES OF INDIA. LOW ANGLE CATHEDRAL BUILT IN MIDDLE AGES, REIMS ?. AERIAL OVER MACHU PICCHU 00:43:06 - MONTAGE SKETCHES, MODELS DRAWN BY LEONARDO DA VINCI 00:43:42 - CU EARLY INSTRUMENTS, FUCOS ?SP PENDULUM, ASTROLABE, ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT 00:44:03 - MONTAGE VARIOUS LENS TELESCOPES 00:44:11 - CU EARLY MICROSCOPE 00:44:24 - MS ELECTRON MICROSCOPE 00:44:26 - CU HAND OPENING SMALL WOODEN BOX, PASCAL'S COMPUTER 00:44:40 - MS PRAXINOSCOPE SPINNING IMAGE OF LITTLE BOYS PLAYING. SERIAL PICTURES. ILLUSION OF MOTION. STOPS TURNING 00:44:57 - MONTAGE GREEK STATUES 00:45:20 - CU MONTAGE PAGES FROM BOOKS WITH NAMES OF MONUMENTS 00:45:36 - INTERIOR, REIMS CATHEDRAL. STAINED GLASS INTRICATE DESIGNS. 00:46:11 - STILLS 00:46:16 - SLOW ZOOM OUT PAINTING OF WARSAW, POLAND. PAN TO ARTIST DRAWING FROM PAINTING IN MUSEUM 00:46:44 - CU FINISHED DRAWING, HELPED POLISH ARCHITECTS RECREATE WARSAW 00:47:03 - MS ARTIST CARVING GARGOYLE TYPE STATUE ATOP BUILDING, REPRODUCING OLD SCULPTURES 00:47:23 - CU ART RESTORER FILLING NEEDLE, STICKING INTO WOODEN STATUE, KILLING PARASITES INSIDE. MONTAGE ART RESTORATION PROCESS. CU INJECTING NEEDLE UNDER WOOD, TINY IRON SEALS WOOD, CU RESTORING OLD PAINTING, REPLACING OLD CANVAS. PROCESS OF RESTORING, SAVING OLD BOOK 00:49:24 - CU CAMERA PROBE LOWERED INTO HOLE, TAKING PICTURES UNDERGROUND. EXCAVATION TEAM GOING INTO ANCIENT BUILDING, DUCKING THEIR HEADS UNDER LOW CEILING 00:49:33 - CU ANCIENT EGYPTIAN WALL PAINTINGS, ATHLETES THROWING DISCUS 00:49:37 - MOTORCADE. POLICE ESCORTING TRUCK CONTAINING MONA LISA PORTRAIT, MONA LISA VISITS NEW YORK CITY, 1964. HEAVY SECURITY. 00:50:16 - MONTAGE EXCAVATION OF ANCIENT FRAGMENTS OF ITALIAN SCULPTURE OF THE LAOCOON GROUP. CU PICTURE OF COMPLETE STATUE OF LAOCOON & SONS STRUGGLING WITH THE SERPENTS 00:50:42 - STUDENTS CLIMBING CLIFFS IN SIBERIA, COPYING ANCIENT ROCK ENGRAVINGS 00:51:02 - YOUTH GROUP RESTORING MEDIEVAL FORT IN GUISE NEAR BELGIAN FRONTIER, CLEARING BURIED CHAMBERS 00:52:04 - INTERIOR OF ANCIENT FORT 00:52:23 - ARTISANS RESTORING BUILDINGS IN SAMARKAND, ANCIENT MARACANDA 00:53:20 - POV DRIVING PAST & AERIAL OVER ANGKOR WAT. MONTAGE ANGKAR WAT, RESTORERS WORKING 00:53:54 - MONTAGE IMPORTANT BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AROUND ROME, TOURISTS WALKING THROUGH ANCIENT RUINS 00:54:37 - INTERIOR RESTORATION CENTER, ROME RESTORERS AT WORK. EXPERTS LOOKING OVER DRAWINGS 00:55:45 - MONTAGE ASWAN, SUBMERGED NUBIAN MONUMENTS, MEN IN SMALL BOAT ROWING PAST. 00:56:06 - INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS, RESTORERS ELEVATING ABU SIMBEL ABOVE RISING WATERS. 00:57:02 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1960
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-575B