Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-1527C

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00:57:25 9.2	ROGER TOREY PETERSON: PAN WOODED AREA TO STUDIO OF WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST, NATURALIST, ROGER TOREY PETERSON, AMID HEAVY FOLIAGED AREA IN CONNECTICUT. SEVENTY YEAR OLD PETERSON SITS AT WORK TABLE BY WINDOW, PAINTS OWLS, USING STUFFED OWL FOR MODEL.
00:58:02 46.2	CU PETERSON SPEAKS BEFORE CAMERA, TELLS HIS OBSESSION FOR BIRDS SINCE HE WAS ELEVEN YEARS-OLD. MONTAGE SEVERAL SHOTS OF GREAT WHITE HERONS IN FLIGHT AND IN HABITAT.
00:58:51 95.2	CU ROGER PAINTS SEVERAL VIEWS OF OWL WITH SMALL BRUSH, AS SEEN LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER. HE CLUTCHES STUFFED OWL WITH OTHER HAND.
00:59:09 113.2	CU ZOOM AWAY BOOK COVER, "A FIELD GUIDE TO BIRDS," WITH SEVERAL SPECIES PICTURED ON COVER, AND OVER A DOZEN DIFFERENT VOLUMES STANDING NEXT TO IT. PAN OF PETERSON'S BOOKS TRANSLATED INTO MANY FOREIGN LANGUAGES
00:59:37 141.2	PETERSON SPEAKS OVER HAND-HELD RECORDER AS HE WORKS REVISING HIS FIRST TWO FIELD GUIDES. HE NARRATES. SAYS HE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH OLD DRAWINGS, IS DOING THEM OVER AGAIN.
01:00:03 167.2	MONTAGE PHOTOS OF KING PENGUINS TAKEN BY PETERSON IN ANTARCTICA, WHERE HE STUDIED THE BIRD. CU FACE DRAWINGS OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF OWL.
01:00:28 192.2	MONTAGE VARIETY OF SPECIES OF BEAUTIFUL BIRDS, INCLUDING TURKEYS, PAINTED BY PETERSON.
01:01:28 252.2	PETERSON WATCHES BIRDS THROUGH BINOCULARS AS WIFE WATCHES. PETERSON, WIFE JOG DOWN COUNTRY ROAD. PAINTINGS OF BEAUTIFUL BIRDS, INCLUDING A WILD TURKEY.
01:02:13 297.2	VERMONT LEGISLATURE: CU HAND OF LEGISLATOR POUNDING GAVEL, PAN TO HIM SAYING, "HOUSE WILL COME TO ORDER." PAN TO LEGISLATORS AT THEIR SEATS. PEOPLE OF VERMONT HAVE CHOSEN TO BE REPRESENTED BY LEGISLATURE OF PRIVATE CITIZENS WHO WORK THREE MONTHS A YEAR IN THE WINTER MONTHS.
01:03:13 357.2	DOMED STATE BUILDING SURROUNDED BY TREES IN PREDOMINANT RURAL AREAS OF VERMONT. FEWER THAN 400,000 LIVE IN VERMONT. MEDIUM SIZED TOWN, QUAINT OLD BUILDINGS. VERMONT HAS SEVERAL MEDIUM, SMALL TOWNS, PLENTY OPEN SPACE.
01:03:57 401.2	HOUSEWIFE, REPRESENTATIVE MADELINE CUNIN SITS AT DESK AMID OTHER LEGISLATORS. SHE MANAGES ENTIRE VERMONT BUDGET. SHE NARRATES AS SHE MEETS WITH VARIOUS CITIZENS.
01:04:34 438.2	REPRESENTATIVE JUDE MAHONEY SITS AT HIS SEAT. CU MAHONEY PLAYS GUITAR WITH BLUEGRASS BAND, ENTERTAINS CROWD IN CENTER OF VILLAGE. CITIZENS, CHILDREN, SIT ON GROUND, WATCH, AS HE SINGS COUNTRY. CHILDREN PLAY AROUND FOUNTAIN.
01:05:25 489.2	YOUNG GRETCHEN MORSE SITS IN HER LEGISLATIVE SEAT. CU GRETCHEN SITS ON PICNIC TABLE ON PORCH OF HOME, DOES PAPER WORK CONCERNING HER JOB. SHE NARRATES. CHILDREN SWIM IN SMALL LAKE, PLAY WITH INNER TUBE. GRETCHEN CALLS TO THEM FROM SHORE.
01:06:13 537.2	LEGISLATORS CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN HALLS AND CORRIDORS OF STATE HOUSE. THEY DON'T HAVE PRIVATE OFFICES.
01:06:27 551.2	VISITORS GALLERY FULL OF CONCERNED ADULTS AND VISITING SCHOOL CHILDREN.
01:06:52 576.2	KEI TAKEI: UNUSUAL MODERN DANCE CREATED & BEING DONE BY KEI TAKEI & HER TROUPE. SHE CAME TO AMERICA FROM JAPAN IN 1967 AFTER SEEING DANCERS PAUL TAYLOR & MERSE CUNNINGHAM.
01:07:44 628.2	KEI INSTRUCTS HER TROUPE OF DANCERS CALLED "MOVING EARTH" WHO PERFORM HER BODY OF WORKS WHICH SHE CALLS, "LIFE" THAT SEEM TO HAVE FEW ANTECEDENTS. THEY HAVE PERFORMED IN MAJOR U.S. CITIES AS WELL AS EUROPEAN, EASTERN CAPITALS, RECEIVING HIGH CRITICAL ACCLAIM.
01:08:04 648.2	MONTAGE TAKEI AND FIVE SHIRTLESS MALE DANCERS, WEARING PAJAMA TYPE PANTS DO VARIETY OF UNUSUAL DANCES, EQUALLY UNUSUALLY BODY MOVEMENTS.
01:08:43 687.2	TWO SHIRTLESS MEN DO DANCE RESEMBLING WRESTLING MATCH, INTERLOCKING ARMS, LEGS IN STANDING POSITION, EACH THROWING OTHER TO GROUND.
01:09:12 716.2	TAKEI AND SHIRTLESS MALE DO STRENUOUS TUG OF WAR WHERE SHE PULLS ON HIS ARMS FROM BEHIND TRYING TO TAKE HIM DOWN. BOTH STRAIN VERY HARD. THE TWO DO A BOUNCING DANCE, CHARGING, BUMPING AGAINST EACH OTHER.
01:10:07 771.2	GROUP POUNDS ROCKS TOGETHER, SLAM FEET ON GROUND, AS THEY DANCE TO RHYTHM MADE BY THESE SOUNDS.
01:11:00 824.2	MALE DANCER PERFORMS CHINESE DISCIPLINE OF "TAI CHI" IN PARK, PAN AS GROUP SITS IN GRASS, WATCHES HIS SLOW-MOTION MOVEMENTS. TAKEI AND DANCE TROUPE DO SAME SLOW MOTION MOVEMENTS AS IF IN TRANCE.
01:12:11 895.2	TAKEI, TWO MALE DANCERS, DO SLOW CONTACT DANCE. END UP TOGETHER IN BALL-LIKE EMBRACE.
01:13:24 968.2	CELLULOSE: ZOOM IN ON PLANTS, TREES IN FOREST MOST OF WHICH CONTAIN CELLULOSE. A WAY HAS BEEN FOUND TO CONVERT CELLULOSE, ONE OF MOST COMMON SUBSTANCE ON EARTH INTO ALCOHOL, ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE. CELLULOSE IS WHAT ALL PLANTS ARE PRIMARILY MADE OF.
01:14:05 1009.2	CU DECAYING TREE TRUNK ATTACKED BY COMMON ORGANISM CALLED JUNGLE ROT. THIS ORGANISM BREAKS DOWN CELLULOSE INTO SUGAR.
01:14:23 1027.2	CU PAN THREE SMALL TRAYS WITH VARIOUS FORMS OF CELLULOSE BROKEN DOWN BY JUNGLE ROT IN LABORATORY RESULTS ARE DRAMATIC. CU SMALL GLASS BOWL OF WET MASH MADE FROM GARBAGE AND ANOTHER AFTER FUNGUS WORKED ON IT FOR A FEW HOURS. IT BECAME LIQUEFIED.
01:14:57 1061.2	BLACK FEMALE TECHNICIAN AT GULF OIL CHEMICAL TAKES VIAL OF LIQUID SUGAR OUT OF VIBRATING MACHINE, AFTER IT WAS CONVERTED FROM CELLULOSE. THE REASON FOR THE INTEREST IS THAT SUGAR IS ONE STEP AWAY FROM ALCOHOL, WHICH IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PETROLEUM.
01:15:20 1084.2	SCIENTISTS WORKING IN LAB TO PRODUCE ALCOHOL. SYNTHETICS MADE FROM PETROLEUM CAN ALSO BE MADE WITH ALCOHOL MORE CHEAPLY.
01:15:51 1115.2	SCIENTIST PUTS SOURCE OF CELLULOSE, IN THIS CASE, TREATED MUNICIPAL GARBAGE, IN LARGE GLASS BEAKER, HE ADDS YEAST, ENZYME DERIVED FROM FUNGUS. TH E ENZYME CONVERTS CELLULOSE TO SUGAR, AT SAME TIME YEAST CONVERTS SUGAR INTO ALCOHOL.
01:16:39 1163.2	MONTAGE MEN, WOMEN SCIENTISTS WORKING ON PROCESS IN LAB.
01:17:09 1193.2	HARD HAT WORKERS SHOVEL INDUSTRIAL WASTE AT PAPER MILL, ONTO CONVEY WHICH TAKES IT UP TO LARGE VAT OF LIQUID, DROPS IT IN. THIS WASTE IS A SOURCE OF CELLULOSE WHICH GOES THROUGH PROCESS AT PLANT, COMES OUT ALCOHOL ON THE OTHER END.
01:18:51 1295.2	BOSTON MARATHON: HIGH ANGLE OF MALE, FEMALE JOGGERS RUNNING ALONG COASTAL ROAD IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. SINGLE MAN RUNS THROUGH CITY PARK PATH, SKYSCRAPERS IN DISTANCE.
01:19:15 1319.2	MONTAGE COUPLE JOGGING TOGETHER ON BOARDWALK, WOMAN RUNS WITH HANDS IN POCKETS OF JACKET, YOUNG GIRL RUNS ON SIDEWALK, PASSING CAB IN BACKGROUND. MEN RUNNING BOTH WAYS ON PARK WALK, PARK BENCHES IN BG. OTHERS RUNNING, DIFFERENT SETTINGS.
01:20:00 1364.2	VARIOUS ANGLE SHOTS OF HUGE CROWD WATCHING HUGE CROWD OF RUNNERS COMING TOWARDS CAMERA, PASSING BY, DURING BOSTON MARATHON. THE 5000 RUNNERS LOOK LIKE ONE SOLID ENDLESS MASS.
01:20:34 1398.2	CROWD WATCHES RUNNERS PASSING BY SMALL STORES IN BUSINESS DISTRICT. OLD WOMAN IN WHEELCHAIR WITH CHILD IN HER LAP. CROWD OF RUNNERS NARROW OUT INTO SMALL GROUPS.
01:21:05 1429.2	RUNNERS IN SLOW-MOTION. STRAIN SEEN ON RUNNER'S FACE. YOUNG RUNNER REACHES OUT FOR CUP OF WATER OFFERED HIM BY SPECTATOR. FRONT SHOTS, BACK SHOTS OF RUNNERS.
01:21:56 1480.2	SMALL CHILD SITS IN STREET AMID SPECTATORS.
01:22:18 1502.2	RUNNERS PASSING FINISH LINE, HUGE CROWD WATCHING. CU YOUNG WOMAN RAISES HANDS, SMILES AS SHE CROSSES WITH OTHERS.