[Conner NARA footage]
[Conner NARA footage] is a short film released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Various elements, mostly finegrain masters, ordered from National Archives.
[to be logged]
07:00:59:26 CU basic map of Europe with national boundaries and country labels.
07:01:03:25 CU Map of Africa pre-1945. Pointer points at Cairo then points out the Nile River.
07:01:30:03 Aerial pan of Cairo, Egypt.
07:03:14:21 Food vendor selling food to man on busy dirt street in Cairo.
07:03:33:06 Street vendor ours pours and sells drink to man on the street.
07:03:42:20 Great shot slowly moving down busy Cairo dirt road. Sign in Arabic hang overhead.
07:04:11:11 Miniature wooden Ferris-wheel manually turned.
07:04:34:09 Tombs of the Caliphs.
07:05:00:06 VS camel market midway between Cairo and the Pyramids.
07:05:34:20 Two Egyptian men in turbans becoming violent with each other over the sale of a camel at the camel market. One man twists the other man s arm and throws him to the ground as others watch them quarrel.
07:06:03:07 Camel train heading out into the desert.
07:06:53:26 Traditional Egyptian wedding procession marches past the camera.
07:07:11:23 Palanquin or carriage carried by two camel delivering the bride across the desert terrain to her wedding.
07:07:44:07 Procession around Lucky Tree. Large number of people crowded around a tree in the desert; corner of a pyramid is visible on right side of frame.
Henry Browne Farmer U.S. Department of Agriculture Agriculture Adjustment Agency
07:13:14:09 [New Film] Universal Newsreel French Ace Wins Thompson Trophy at 264 Mi. An Hour. Frenchman receives trophy.
VS planes racing in the air as large audience looks on.
07:14:50:14 Universal Newsreel: Ox Teams Show What a Little Pull Will Do
VS Oxen pulling large stones. Excited audience looks on. Proud man with arms around his two victorious oxen.
07:15:54:26 Universal Newsreel: Famous Actress Auction Off Her Worldly Goods
VS Estate auction. CU various objects, plates, silver slipper.
07:16:47:26 Universal Newsreel: Daredevil Drivers Scale Pike s Peak in Dizzy Road Rage
Old-fashioned race car speeding around wind dirt road course.
07:17:50:03 Universal Newsreel: Machine Gun for Tear Gas Shells is Demonstrated
07:18:02:16 Man outside smoking a cigar, squatting and loading huge barrel of tear gas gun pulling shells from two boxes sitting on top of a stool beside him.
07:18:09:12 MS man with cigar in mouth, shirt with sleeves rolled up and tie, firing off an enormous tear gas gun.
07:18:23:08 VS 1930s police officers behind car shooting tear gas at a group of men.
07:18:44:10 Universal Newsreel: N.Y. Giants Trim All-Stars, 12-2. In Night Grid Game
Several plays 1930s football game under the lights.
07:19:42:22 Universal Newsreel: Bargain-Counter Horse Wins H Cap in Stretch Battle
VS horse race and audience.
07:21:21:17 Universal Newsreel: Home State Gives Olympian Morris Rousing Welcome
VS welcome home parade for an Olympian. Police on motorcycles lead the parade of cars. Audience lined street with confetti in the air. Man waving to crowd from back of car.
07:23:36:05 Man in USA sweatshirt shakes the hand of a man in suit.
07:23:40:00 track and field Olympian jumps hurdles and demonstrates discus for large audience.
07:23:53:01 MS man in USA sweatshirt posing from cameraman with pretty young woman.
[New Film] 07:24:40:12
The River A U.S. Documentary Film copyright MCMXXXVIL Pare Lorentz,- Farm Security Administration, U.S.A recorded at General Service Studios. Written and Directed by Pare Lorentz Narrated by Thomas Chalmers BW Silent
07:25:55:29 Horse in pairs of two, chained together pulling shovels filled with dirt up a dirt slope.
07:26:38:00 Riverboat or steamboat on the Mississippi producing long black smokestack.
07:26:48:11 Men in pairs of two rolling bales of cotton on the steamboat the Tennessee Belle
07:26:54:24 VS Great overhead and low angle of Black men working in pairs of two rolling large cotton bale over bridge onto the steamboat.
07:28:00:10 CU document labeled from Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia April 10, 1865 declaring the confederate army s surrender signed by General Robert E. Lee.
07:29:07:23 VS logs quickly flowing down water filled aqueducts leading to the Mississippi.
07:30:49:29 [New Film] Toward the Horizon Produced and Written by Alan Shilin Photographed by Kenneth F. Space for Harmon Foundation Narrator John Seymour BW Silent
Booker T. Washington High School.
07:31:50:23 Little children swinging on a swing set.
07:32:00:04 Four little Black babies with bibs on eating at table. CU cute little Black boy in bib eats messily with spoon.
07:33:11:13 VS MS cute little Black girl with ribbon in her hair, about six years old, sitting at her desk in school writing. MS Black boy writes at his desk in school
07:36:07:07 VS Black professor or teacher in 1930s writing on chalkboard.
07:36:38:03 VS Black scientists work in a laboratory in the 1930s; professor instructs Black male and female students in laboratory.
07:38:35:10 MS White doctor in a lab coat shows Black female students the anatomy of a tooth with a model. Human skull on the doctors demonstration table; CU model of tooth split open and man s hand with pencil pointing out its different regions.
07:39:10:14 VS Black dentistry students practicing drilling teeth on a model skull s mouth.
07:40:56:16 Shot from behind woman in front of easily painting from a still life with curtains and a mask set up. Her painting is visible to the camera.
07:43:23:03 Two young black men have friendly refereed boxing match on a tennis court.
07:45:22:14 Female Black high school students in cap and gown walk out in file from doorway of brick building.
07:48:59:16 Young Black woman interviewing poor rural family, two woman and two little children, on porch of raggedy house.| [Conner NARA footage] | |
|---|---|
| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
| Distributed by | 0 |
Release date | 0 |
| Language | English |
- Thumbnail
