- Title: VM-1431
- Summary: A POPULAR PERSON-ODDITY: PEOPLE WITH ODD OR UNUSUAL OCCUPATIONS & BUSINESSES. VARIOUS SCENES CLOCK MAKER BUILDING GRANDFATHER CLOCK STEP BY STEP; ROOSTER BEING FITTED WITH MINIATURE BLINDERS.
- Description:00:38:34 - MRS. LOWELL THOMAS, FUR FARMER". VARIOUS SCENES MRS. LOWELL THOMAS ATTENDING TO, SHOWING HER FUR BEARING ANIMALS. STANDING OUTSIDE TALL FOX CAGES THROWING FEED THROUGH CHICKEN WIRE. FOXES RUN AROUND WILDLY, CLIMB UP, DOWN WIRE. MAN INSIDE CAGE PULLS CLUTCHING FOXES OFF CAGES. 00:38:54 - FOX DANGLES AS IT IS HELD BY HIND LEGS, 00:39:00 - CU FACE SHOT OF FOX. CU FOX LIES ON ITS STOMACH, WATCHES CAUTIOUSLY AS GLOVED HAND PETS IT. 00:39:29 - MRS THOMAS HOLDS UP FOX PUPPIES BY NAPE OF NECK. CU FACE SHOT FOX PUPPY. 00:39:57 - LOWELL PULLS SMALL FUR BEARING ANIMAL (MINK OR SABLE) OUT, OF SMALL BOX CAGE, BY NAPE OF NECK. CU FACE SHOT OF SMALL ANIMAL 00:40:23 - MRS. LOWELL HOLDS UP LARGER ANIMAL BY TAIL. (MUSKRAT, SABLE?) 00:40:30 - CHARLES GELLS, ELDERLY ARTISAN BUILDS GRANDFATHER CLOCK ENTIRELY OUT OF BARK OF HARD WOOD. 00:40:31 - ELDERLY CARPENTER SAWING PIECE OF BARK IN HIS WORK SHOP. CU SAME. 00:40:46 - CU MAN TURNING PIECE OF BARK ON WOOD LATHE UNTIL IT IS PERFECT CYLINDER. CU CUTTING THIN DISKS OUT OF WOOD CYLINDER ON BAND SAW, TO MAKE GEARS FOR CLOCK. CU USING SPECIAL GAUGE ATTACHMENT TO PUT TEETH IN WOOD GEAR AT PERFECT INTERVALS. 00:41:33 - CU HANDS OF CARPENTER ASSEMBLING THE GEARS OF ALL SIZES AND ATTACHING THEM IN A GEAR BOX. CU CLOCK FACE IS ATTACHED TO GEAR BOX, HANDLES PUT ON THE CLOCK FACE. 00:42:04 - CU GEAR SPRING TURNING GEARS. ARTISAN PLACES FURNITURE TOP OVER CLOCK, SETS TIME. CU PENDULUM GOING BACK AND FORTH. SMILING CLOCKMAKER POSES NEXT TO HIS CREATION. 00:42:37 - CHICKEN PHARMACY, DRUGSTORE. VARIOUS SCENES PHARMACY-LIKE STORE WITH ALL SORTS OF JARS, CONTAINERS ON SHELVES SEEMINGLY CATERING TO CHICKEN FARMERS. 00:42:41 - VARIOUS SCENES MAN MANUFACTURING SOME SORT OF PELLETS (FEED). 00:42:43 - SIGN IN WINDOW: "PILLS AND GRANULES - WE MAKE "EM" "CHICKEN PHARMACY". 00:42:48 - INSIDE "PHARMACY", WITH WELL STOCKED SHELVES. 00:43:17 - MAN WAS INTO STORE WITH ROOSTER, HANDS IT TO "PHARMACIST" WHO PRESSES FINGERS ON THE BEAK AS HE EXAMINES IT. 00:43:33 - CU AS FARMER HOLDS ROOSTER BY ITS HEAD, "PHARMACIST" PLACES SMALL BLINDERS, RESEMBLING EYE GLASSES ON BEAK OF ROOSTER. IT IS HELD IN PLACE BY RUNNING IN ONE SIDE OF NOSTRILS OUT THE OTHER. 00:43:45 - CU ROOSTER WEARING BLINDERS, FACING CAMERA. SIDE VIEW OF SAME. 00:43:54 - SHEPHERD'S TEACHERS COLLEGE BUILDING. SIGN: "TEACHERS COLLEGE" "ESTABLISHED IN 1872 AS A BRANCH OF STATE NORMAL SCHOOL SYSTEM. IT WAS AN OUT GROWTH OF THE OLD SHEPHERD'S COLLEGE. THIS IS THE SITE OF EARLY SETTLEMENTS" SHERHERDS TOWN, WEST VIRGINIA 00:44:09 - PRESIDENT WHITE AND DEAN BROWN POSE IN FRONT OF MINIATURE COTTAGE. TEACHER AND DOZENS OF CHILDREN FILE OUT OF THE SMALL COTTAGE FRONT DOOR. ADULTS HAVE TO LOWER THEIR HEADS TO PASS THROUGH. 00:44:30 - DOZENS OF CHILDREN SIT ON GROUND AROUND TEACHER ON LAWN WITH FOLDED ARMS, SHE SPEAKS TO THE CHILDREN. 00:44:44 - PAN BOYS AND GIRLS RAKE LAWN, DO OTHER CHORES IN FRONT OF MINIATURE BARN. 00:44:51 - WITH TEACHER IN THE MIDDLE, CHILDREN FORM CIRCLE AROUND HER PLAY "RING AROUND THE ROSY" 00:45:05 - TEACHER SHOWS CHILDREN POND WITH SMALL WATERFALL ON PROPERTY. 00:45:14 - CHILDREN LINE UP AND FILE INTO LITTLE COTTAGE. TWO CHILDREN STICK THEIR HEADS OUT OF TINY UPPER WINDOWS. 00:45:22 - ALBERT A. MARKS, HOUSTON, TEXAS COFFEE IMPORTER DOUBLES AS CLOWN. VARIOUS SCENES AT HIS PLANT AND IN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AS A CIRCUS CLOWN. 00:45:25 - EXAMINING BINS OF COFFEE BEANS WITH REPORTER- INSPECTOR WHO TAKES NOTES, RUNS HIS HANDS THROUGH BEANS. TWO BLACK WORKERS CARRY BAGS OF BEANS WITH HAND TRUCK 00:45:38 - MAN AND WOMAN SIT IN LAWN CHAIRS ON LAWN, EXAMINE DOG WEARING CLOWN'S BIB AROUND NECK. SHE GRABS DOG BY HIND LEGS, HE BY FORE LEGS, THEY STRETCH THE DACHSHUND OUT TO SHOW ITS FULL LENGTH TO CAMERA. 00:45:54 - CU CIRCUS CLOWN AT HIS MAKE-UP MIRROR TURNS TO POSE. HIS NOSE IS BILLIARD EIGHT BALL. 00:46:03 - CLOWN PUTS ON HUGE CLOWN SHOES, BEAT UP TOP HAT 00:46:18 - MONTAGE CLOWN ENTERTAINS BED-RIDDEN CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL. HE SHOWS THEM THE DACHSHUND DOG DECORATED WITH STRING OF SAUSAGES AND BIB. 00:46:41 - CLOWN USES HUGE BOX CAMERA TO TAKE SHOTS OF CHILDREN GATHERED ON LAWN. 00:46:49 - MESSAGE TO MOVIE AUDIENCE: BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS. U.S. FLAG BLOWING IN WIND.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1944
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1431