- Title: VM-1195
- Summary: WALTER FUTTER'S CURIOSITIES:
- Description:00:49:13 - TITLE "A SPRING IN TREE" - TRUCKEE, CALIF. VARIOUS SHOTS WOMAN FILLING BOWL OF WATER THAT POURS FROM BRANCH IN TREE, DRINKS IT. CU SAME VOICE OVER DESCRIBES. oddity 00:49:49 - TITLE: "FARMER CUTS OWN CROP" - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - VARIOUS CU SHOTS MAN GIVING HIMSELF A HAIRCUT, USING SCISSORS AND COMB AND PAIR OF CLIPPERS. CU DOING BACK OF HEAD, USING CLIPPERS ON SIDE BURNS, SHAVING BACK OF HEAD WITH STRAIGHT BLADE AND LATHER. TRIMMING HIS HAIR AT BROW, TRIMMING HIS EYE BROWS WITH SCISSORS AND COMB. oddity 00:50:46 - TITLE: "THE BUFFALO STAMPEDE" - BRIDGER, MONTANA. 00:50:55 - LS HERD OF BUFFALO IN LARGE PASTURE, SLOWLY MOVING L TO R. CU MS VARIOUS SHOTS INDIVIDUAL BUFFALOES WALKING ABOUT. 00:51:22 - BUFFALO HERD IS SUDDENLY SPOOKED AS IT HEARS CLICK OF CAMERA. LS, TOWARDS CAMERA, VEERING OFF TO LEFT AND RIGHT. ABOVE VIEW STAMPEDING HERD BUFFALO. 00:51:53 - TITLE: "THE WORLD'S MOST UNUSUAL VIOLIN" - BALTIMORE, MD. - MAN SHOWS HIS VIOLIN WHICH WAS MADE WITH 5000 MATCH STICKS. "IT TOOK ME 10 MONTHS TO MAKE IT". HE, "MR. KEY", REMOVES IT FROM CASE AND PON IT. LAYS SONG, "MY OLD COUNTRY HOME" ON IT. 00:52:53 - TITLE: "A CURIOUS BUSINESS, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY ONE THERE IS" - NEW YORK CITY. 00:53:05 - MLS FREIGHTER OR DREDGE (?) SAILING L TO R IN EAST RIVER GOOD SHOT 1920S NEW YORK CITY SKYLINE IN B/G. 00:53:12 - WOMAN WORKER SEATED AT WORK TABLE FOLDING DIAPERS IN THE ONLY DIAPER SERVICE IN THE WORLD. PAN TO WOMEN IN WHITE WORK CLOTHES PACKING FOLDED DIAPERS ON RACK, TO MALE WORKER REMOVING PILES OF DIAPERS FROM DRYER (?). CU CUTE LITTLE CHUBBY FACED BABY WITH RATTLER IN HAND IN BABY CARRIAGE, ABOUT TO START CRYING (UNCOMFORTABLE IN SOILED ;ED DIAPER ?). 00:53:34 - MS GREAT SHOT MOM IN "FLAPPER" ERA COONSKIN COAT, BOWLER HAT, CIRCA 1920S, SHAKING RATTLER TO KEEP BABY ( IIN CIRCA 1920S BABY CARRIAGE MADE OF WICKER), QUIET. CU MOM REMOVES PACKAGE OF DIAPERS FROM UNDER CARRIAGE MATTRESS, SHAKES ONE OUT, READY TO ALLEVIATE THE SITUATION (DIAPER CHANGE). CU SOBBING BABY, SMILING AFTER THE RELIEF. MLS DIAPER SERVICE STORE FRONT WITH SIGN, "SANI-DIDE SERVICE", AND BIG RED CROSS. 00:54:10 - TITLE: - "INDIA'S MISERABLE "UNTOUCHABLES". -CALCUTTA, INDIA. MORE THAN 60 MILLION IN INDIA ARE CONSIDERED "UNTOUCHABLES", TAINTED BY THEIR BIRTH IN CASTE SYSTEM THAT DEEMS THEM UNPURE, LESS THAN HUMAN. ATROCITIES AGAINST THESE PEOPLE ARE LEGEND. BECAUSE OF THE ANCIENT CASTE SYSTEM, WHAT EVER LEVEL OF SOCIETY YOU ARE BORN IN, THERE YOU STAY. 00:54:19 - LS LARGE MOSQUE-LIKE BUILDINGS, TILT DOWN TO SEA WALL AND RIVER IN F/G. MCU PAN CROWD UNTOUCHABLE MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN DRESSED IN RAGS, SHEET-LIKE MATERIALS, POSING FOR CAMERA . MS SHIRTLESS TEEN BOY WEARING FULL SHEET-LIKE WRAP AROUND WAIST, SMILING BASHFULLY, HAPPILY. CU ELDERLY MAN WITH BUSHY, UNRULY HAIR, WHITE BEARD, LOOKS LIKE WILD MAN, POSES FOR CAMERA. PAN CROWD MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN IN GROUPS SEATED ON BLANKET ON CITY STREET GROUND. SHIRTLESS TEEN BOY POSES BY WALL. LITTLE GIRLS POSE WITH CHILDREN IN ARMS. "THERE ARE OVER 12,000 OF THESE TINY GIRLS, SOME AS YOUNG AS 8 YEARS OLD, WHO ARE ALREADY WIDOWED". MORE OF "UNTOUCHABLES", POSING FOR CAMERA/ SOME WITH FACE OF HOPELESSNESS, OTHERS DANCING IN THE STREETS, POUNDING ON DRUMS, ALL PART OF CROWD. 00:55:38 - LS HUGE MOSQUE-LIKE ORNATE, ELABORATE BUILDING. 00:55:40 - SMALL ALL WOODEN FERRIS WHEEL SPINNING RAPIDLY AT CARNIVAL. MAN WITH DRUM HANGING FROM NECK, POUNDS ON DRUM, DANCES WILDLY. oddity, religion, native dance, costumes, tradition. 00:55:53 - TITLE: "A MODERN NOAH" - OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON. MAN WHO THINKS THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END BUILDS AN ARK, WAITS FOR DELUGE. SAYS JUDGEMENT DAY WILL COME IN THE YEAR 1933. 00:56:02 - VARIOUS SHOTS LARGE ARK PAINSTAKENLY BUILT BY MAN, WITH DRIFTWOOD AND LUMBER SCRAPS FOUND ALONG WATERFRONT. "NOAH" PAINTS A STAR ON SIDE OF BOAT, (ADDING IT TO THE MANY ALREADY THERE), WHICH HE DOES FOR EACH DAY THAT PASSES BEFORE THE DAY OF RECKONING IN 1933. HIS DOG WATCHES IN B/G. PAINTINGS OF "FOUR HORSES OF THE APOCALYPSE" WITH NAMES, "REVELATION", "CONSTELLATION", "TRIBULATION" AND "BENEVOLATION". VOICE OVER, "LOOKS LIKE HE WENT SCREWY TRYING TO PAINT THE HORSES". " "NOAH" SHOWS VARIOUS OTHER SYMBOLIC WEIRD PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. 00:57:19 - NOAH, WEARING ONE OF HIS MANY COSTUMES SITS ON EDGE OF BOAT RAILING, PLUNKS ON BANJO. ("HOW DRY I AM", SONG). NOAH STANDS ON BOW OF BOAT IN COSTUME AND DRAWN SWORD. NOAH WITH BUFFALO BILL-LIKE COSTUME AND LONG RIFLE, COMPLETE WITH BEARD AND LONG HAIR, POSES. VOICE OVER "STRANGE PEOPLE MAKE UP A STRANGE WORLD".
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1930
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-1195