- Title: VM-1500B
- Summary: VISION USA: STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE, EVENTS, IN THE UNITED STATES. 1970s LIFESTYLES, UNITED STATES SOCIAL HISTORY. **NO AUDIO from 00:29:14 - 00:52:28** INQUIRE FOR OTHER SOURCES
- Description:00:29:14 - AAU AQUATIC CHAMPIONS: LONG LINE OF TEEN-AGE SWIMMERS DIVING INTO OLYMPIC-SIZE POOL FOLLOWED BY HUNDREDS OF OTHERS WAITING IN LINE TO DIVE IN, SWIM ACROSS POOL. HUNDREDS IN POOL SWIMMING. CU HEADS OF SWIMMERS COMING TOWARDS CAMERA, GOING AWAY, KEEPING BETWEEN ROPE DIVIDERS. (HF-YTV) 00:29:34 - DIVERS ON TWO DIFFERENT LEVEL PLATFORMS AND ONE DIVING BOARD, DIVE OFF, DOING VARIETY OF DIVES IN SLOW MOTION. UNDER WATER SHOT OF ALL THREE ENTERING THE WATER. 00:29:54 - GIRL DIVER DOING BACKWARD SWAN DIVE IN SLOW MOTION OFF HIGH PLATFORM. ABOVE SHOT OF MALE DIVER AS HE LEAVES HIGH PLATFORM AND ON HIS WAY DOWN. AERIAL GIRL ENTERING POOL AS SEEN FROM TOP OF DIVING BOARD 00:30:10 - MONTAGE SIGN: "INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING HALL OF FAME MUSEUM". SWIMMER MAKING TURN IN POOL, MICHIGAN LICENSE PLATE ON CAR, SWIMMERS DOING BREAST STROKE ZOOM IN VERMONT LICENSE PLATE, NEW YORK PLATE, SWIMMERS DOING BACK STROKE. 00:30:29 - AERIAL FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH, PAN TO SURROUNDING AREA, OLYMPIC POOL. SIGN: "CITY OF FORT LAUDERDALE HALL OF FAME POOL", PAN TO POOL. CU SHOT OF PENDANTS FLYING AROUND POOL. 00:30:59 - MONTAGE COLLEGE NAMES ON T-SHIRTS AND GYM SHIRTS OF STUDENTS, COACHES. SWIMMERS GETTING OUT OF POOL. FACES OF YOUNG MALE FEMALE ATHLETES CHATTING. COACHES GIVING INSTRUCTION. SWIMMERS PREPPING UP. LAYING NEAR POOL TANNING. 00:31:40 - CU STARTER PISTOL BEING RAISED, FIRING. MALE SWIMMERS DIVING INTO POOL IN SLOW MOTION, CLOCK HANDLE TURNING. ANOTHER ANGLE VIEW OF SWIMMERS DIVING INTO POOL IN SLOW-MO. DIVING AGAIN BACKWARD FOR BACK STROKE RACE. CLOCK HANDLE TURNING. 00:31:59 - GIRLS IN STANDS, IN SWIM TRUNKS, APPLAUD. LS OF SWIMMERS DIVING INTO POOL DOING BREAST STROKE. 00:32:16 - GREAT CU SHOT OF MALE DIVER DIVING BACKWARDS OFF HIGH PLATFORM AND SLOWLY FLOATING IN AIR FOR A PERFECT BACK SWAN DIVE IN SLOW MOTION. 00:32:29 - BLACK MALE DIVER DOING BACK SOMERSAULT FROM DIVING BOARD. CU SHOT OF FEMALE DOING BACK FLIP OFF HIGH PLATFORM IN SLOW MOTION. AERIAL- CAMERA FOLLOWS HER DOWN. MONTAGE OF FEMALES DOING FORWARD SOMERSAULTS. 00:32:59 - VANISHING BIRDS: VARIOUS SPECIES OF LARGE TROPICAL BIRDS, WINGS SPREAD, LANDING. CU SHOT OF WOMAN WEARING LARGE HAT WITH BIRD FEATHERS. LARGE WHITE EGRET IN FLIGHT, FOLLOWED BY WOMAN WEARING WHITE FEATHERS IN HAIR. 00:33:27 - BEAUTIFUL LARGE BIRD, WINGS SPREAD, GLIDING IN AIR CURRENTS. BIRD LANDING ON NEST, FLAPPING LARGE WINGS IN SLOW MOTION. VULTURES GLIDING, SEARCHING FOR PREY. MONTAGE DEER WALKING CAUTIOUSLY ABOUT, VULTURES FEEDING ON CARCASS. VULTURE WITH HUGE WINGS SPREAD LANDS ON GROUND. 00:34:08 - PAINTING OF ELEPHANTS WITH HUGE TUSKS IN WILD. TWO VULTURES FIGHTING OVER FOOD. PAINTINGS OF VULTURE STANDING NEXT TO LIONS. VARIOUS SPECIES OF BIRDS, DUCKS, PELICANS, EAGLES, OTHERS IN FLIGHT OR LANDING, HUGE WING SPANS. 00:34:36 - MS RABBIT RUNNING ACROSS FIELD. VULTURE COMING IN FOR LANDING AMONG OTHERS FEASTING ON CARCASS. 00:35:17 - ILLINOIS TRAUMA: POLICE CAR, WITH HEADLIGHTS ON, ROOF LIGHT FLASHING, SPEEDS TO SCENE OF AUTO ACCIDENT. CU POLICEMAN COMMUNICATING TO DISPATCHER OVER HAND RADIO AS SNOW FALLS. POLICE DISPATCHER MAKING CALL ON RADIO. TWO FIRE RESCUE WORKERS AT FIRE HOUSE PUT ON COATS RUN TO RESCUE VEHICLE (HF-YTV) 00:35:48 - RESCUE VEHICLE PULLS UP TO SITE WITH GIRL VICTIM LAYING IN STRETCHER, POLICEMAN BENDING OVER HER. AS RESCUE WORKERS READY TO MOVE VICTIM, ANOTHER IN VEHICLE CALLS HOSPITAL ON RADIO. AERIAL SHOT OF HOSPITAL. CU DOCTOR ANSWERING CALL. (HF-YTV) 00:36:02 - GIRL IS PLACED ON GURNEY, COVERED WITH BLANKET ROLLED TO RESCUE VEHICLE AS SNOW FALLS. CU FACE SHOTS OF VICTIM, RESCUE WORKERS AS THEY ROLL GURNEY TO EMERGENCY ROOM. BUSY EMERGENCY ROOM STAFF. CU HAND OF NURSE PLACING HYPODERMIC NEEDLE IN BOTTLE OF PAIN KILLER. (HF-YTV) 00:36:45 - MS BLACK VICTIM WITH HEAD BANDAGED LAYS IN BED IN EMERGENCY ROOM. NURSE PREPARES BOTTLE OF IV. GROUP OF DOCTORS FEVERISHLY WORKING OVER VICTIM. CU SCALPELS CUTTING INTO FLESH. CU GAUGES. GROUP OF DOCTORS DISCUSSING NEXT MOVE. (HF-YTV) 00:37:29 - BLACK PATIENT IN BED GETTING OXYGEN. CAMERA PANS FROM TUBES IN ARM TO MACHINE AT BEDSIDE. CU FACE OF MALE VICTIM ON OPERATING TABLE FACE ALL CUT UP. DOCTORS LOOKING AT X-RAYS. STUDENT INTERNS AROUND MALE PATIENT'S BED WITH DOCTOR. (HF-YTV) 00:37:59 - CU FEMALE WORKER AT TYPEWRITER, ANOTHER ON PHONE. 00:38:19 - TWO FIREMEN PULL VICTIM ON STRETCHER OUT OF RESCUE TRUCK, ROLL HER INTO ER. DOCTORS HASTILY WHEELING BLACK WOMAN PATIENT IN GURNEY, DOWN CORRIDOR TO OPERATING ROOM. CU FACES OF NURSES, DOCTORS AS SEEN BY PATIENT. (HF-YTV) 00:38:56 - LIFE ON MARS: MONTAGE SCIENCE-FICTION DRAWINGS OF MARS, WITH JAGGED MOUNTAINS, PLANET WITH RINGS IN SKY ABOVE. PAN OF MARS SURFACE WITH CRATERS, SPACE VEHICLE RIDING ABOUT. NO SOUND 00:39:37 - ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS SPACE VEHICLE APPROACHING "RED" PLANET. VEHICLE FIRES ITS BOOSTER ROCKET, DESCENDS TO SURFACE. 00:40:02 - TWO SCIENTISTS IN LAB, SIT, WATCH LARGE GLOBE REPRESENTING MARS, SLOWLY SPINNING ON AXIS, WITH ENLARGED PHOTOS OF SECTIONS ACTUALLY TAKEN OF ITS SURFACE BY SPACE VEHICLE CIRCLING THE PLANET. 00:40:20 - ANIMATED DRAWING SHOWS SPACE VEHICLE MOVING ACROSS, PHOTOGRAPHING, SURFACE CRATERS BELOW. 00:40:43 - CU OSCILLOSCOPE SHOWS ELECTRICAL WAVES EMITTING FROM MARS. CRAFT CIRCLING PLANES, EARTH IN BG. MONTAGE MORE DRAWINGS OF MARS SNOW COVERED? SURFACE. NO SOUND? 00:41:44 - RECYCLING: SANITATION MAN JUMPS OFF BACK OF TRUCK GRABS BUNDLE OF PAPER OFF TOP OF GARBAGE PAIL, PLACES IT IN SPECIAL BIN, RETURNS FOR GARBAGE. (HF-YTV) 00:41:53 - SEA OF BOTTLES BEING DUMPED FROM DUMP TRUCK. GARBAGE CAN FULL OF ALUMINUM CANS BEING DUMPED INTO DUMPSTER. GARBAGE DUMP SITE, GARBAGE BEING PUSHED INTO PILE BY BULL DOZER, SEAGULLS CIRCLING. 00:42:06 - WORKERS SORTING ALUMINUM CANS PLACING THEM IN PAIL, WEIGHING THEM. FORKLIFT CARRYING LARGE BUNDLE OF ALUMINUM CANS, PLACING THEM IN FURNACE. 00:42:33 - BLOCK LONG NARROW SHEET OF ALUMINUM ROLLING ALONG ON CONVEYOR, BEING ROLLED UP ON HUGE SPOOL. MS SANITATION WORKER THROWS BUNDLES OF NEWSPAPER FROM TRUCK TO ANOTHER WORKER WHO THROWS THEM IN HOPPER. MONTAGE PARER BEING LIQUEFIED INTO PULP. 00:43:00 - GLASS BOTTLES BEING DUMPED IN HOPPER. PAN HUNDREDS OF SHOPPING CARTS, PAILS, FULL OF BOTTLES. LIQUID GLASS BEING AUTOMATICALLY FED INTO MOLDS, NEW BOTTLES REMOVED. 00:43:38 - WORKER INSPECTS HUGE PROCESSING MACHINE. CU THOUSANDS OF ORANGES ON CONVEYOR BELT, FOR REPROCESSING TO COW FEED. CU TWO HANDS HOLD FEED WHICH WAS MADE FROM REPROCESSED ORANGES? NO SOUND. 00:43:52 - COWS EATING FEED FROM TROUGH. COW MANURE BEING SPREAD IN FIELD. WORKER WATCHES VAT CHURN MANURE INTO FERTILIZER? 00:44:29 - STEUBEN GLASS: CU BEAUTIFUL STEUBEN GLASS URN, WITH DELICATE DESIGNS, CIRCLES ON TURNTABLE. FACE OF PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN SUPERIMPOSED ON URN. FOLLOWED BY YOUNG QUEEN ELIZABETH, PRINCE CHARLES. ALL RECIPIENTS OF STEUBEN GLASS GIFTS. (HF-YTV) 00:45:01 - PRESIDENT EISENHOWER BEING MET BY CHARLES DE GAULLE AT TRAIN STATION. STEUBEN GLASS PIECE GIVEN TO EISENHOWER BY DE GAULLE? FACE SHOT OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY MAKING SPEECH IN GERMANY. SUPERIMPOSED BY GLASS CUP, PRESIDENTIAL SEAL ENGRAVED ON IT. GIFT BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT? 00:45:43 - INTRICATE GLASS PIECE WITH BRITISH CROWN ENGRAVED. PRESIDENT JOHNSON BEING GIVEN STEUBEN GLASS MULTI-FACETED PIECE, ENGRAVED WITH PRESIDENTIAL SEAL. SHOT OF PRESIDENT NIXON ON PODIUM WITH FOREIGN LEADER? NO SOUND. 00:46:12 - ARTISAN PULLING OUT BALL OF MOLTEN GLASS ON LONG POLE, FROM FURNACE. CRAFTSMAN USES CALIPERS TO TRANSFER MEASUREMENTS FROM DRAWING TO ORNATE PIECE HE IS MAKING. 00:46:39 - CU FACE SHOT OF ARTISAN AS HE WORKS PIECE ON GRINDER. CU TRAY OF ALL SIZE ENGRAVING TOOLS ON ROTATING RACK, ON ARTISAN'S WORK BENCH. ARTISAN PLACES ENGRAVING TOOL IN MACHINE, STARTS ENGRAVING DESIGN IN GLASS. 00:47:12 - MONTAGE SOME OF THE INTRICATE PIECES OF WORK BY STEUBEN GLASS ARTISANS. 00:47:49 - NEW PUBLIC ART: BLANK WALL OF TENEMENT APARTMENT BUILDING IN NEW YORK CITY, AFTER ADJOURNING BUILDING WAS TORN DOWN. HOW IT LOOKS AFTER WALL WAS PAINTED WITH HUGE ABSTRACT DESIGNS IN BRIGHT COLORS. MONTAGE BRIGHTLY COLORED TENEMENT APARTMENT HOUSES, IN ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS, AS WELL TALL OFFICE BUILDING FACADES. AUTO TRAFFIC. (HF-YTV) 00:48:29 - CU BOY DRIBBLING BASKETBALL IN CITY PLAYGROUND, BALL HITTING RIM BOUNCING OFF. BRIGHTLY COLORED WALL IN BG. 00:48:42 - ABOVE SHOT OF PEOPLE PERUSING MODERN PAINTINGS, SIMILAR TO THAT ON BUILDINGS, IN ART GALLERY 00:48:58 - TELESCOPIC SHOT OF TOP HALF, EMPIRE STATE BUILDING IN DISTANCE, ZOOM AWAY, DOWN TO SIDE WALL OF TENEMENT HOUSE PAINTED WITH BRIGHT COLORED CUBES, TRIANGLES. PAN TO ANOTHER BUILDING SIMILARLY PAINTED. 00:49:17 - MUSIC, DON MCLEAN: DON MCLEAN SINGS AT CARNEGIE HALL. CU FACE SHOT, SWEATING DON MCLEAN SINGING WITH MOUTH TO MICROPHONE. ABOVE SHOT ZOOMS IN ON MCLEAN ON STAGE WITH GUITAR, SINGING. NO SOUND. (HF-YTV) 00:49:39 - DON MCLEAN WALKS ON SNOWY GROUND IN WOODED AREA NEAR HOME. WEARS YELLOW HEAVY SWEATER, JACKET UNDER ARM. MCLEAN WALKS TO WAITING STATION WAGON. CU GETS IN. 00:50:03 - ONE OF MANY YOUNG GIRLS IN AUDIENCE MOVES HER HEAD TO THE MUSIC, MOUTHS THE WORDS. NO SOUND. CU MCLEAN IN PASSENGER SEAT IN STATION WAGON SPEAKS TO INTERVIEWER (NOT SEEN)IN BACK SEAT, AS CAR RIDES ALONG. RETURN TO GIRLS IN AUDIENCE 00:50:22 - CU MCLEAN SINGING, SWEATING, CLOSE TO MIC. CU SHOT OF RECORD "AMERICAN PIE," ROTATING ON PLAYER. PILES OF FAN MAIL DUMPED ON TABLE BY WOMAN IN FAN CLUB OFFICE? NO SOUND. 00:50:47 - CU DISC JOCKEYS, SPEAKING CLOSE TO MICROPHONE. CU MAN IN RADIO CONTROL BOOTH ADJUSTS DIALS. RECORD SPINNING, CU FACE SHOT OF MCLEAN SINGING, BACK TO RECORD ON TURNTABLE. 00:51:08 - CU MONTAGE SHOTS OF SEVERAL DISC JOCKEYS SPEAKING CLOSE TO MICROPHONES. CU ELDERLY BLACK ANNOUNCER SPEAKING. COPY OF "AMERICAN PIE" ALBUM ON DESK. CU FACE SHOT OF MCLEAN SINGING. CU SPEAKING IN STATION WAGON. 00:51:37 - MCLEAN WITH HANDS IN POCKET, MOVES BACK IN FORTH IN THE CHILL AS HE SPEAKS OUTDOORS, TO INTERVIEWER WHO IS EQUALLY BUNDLED UP FOR THE COLD. CU MCLEAN STRUMS GUITAR HELD UP TO FACE. AS HE BELTS OUT TUNE BEFORE MIC. FACE SHOT OF HIM TALKING. 00:52:13 - MCLEAN GETS OUT OF STATION WAGON, PUTS ON COAT, WALKS ACROSS STREET TO BOAT STORE, "HUDSON RIVER SLOOP RESTORATION, INC." CU MORE CLOSE UP SHOTS OF HIM SINGING WITH INTENSITY. 00:53:27 - MACLEAN WALKING UP SNOWY PATH IN WOODED AREA. YOUNG STUDENTS IN AUDIENCE ENJOYING HIS MUSIC ON STAGE. FACE SHOT. MCLEAN TAKES BOW.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1972
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: VM-1500B