Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: V-A4109

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00:00:50 0.66	Reel begins. Religious Adolescence Film
00:00:50 1.64	Students hanging out on college campus circa 1950's. Two young gals sitting together on the lawn chatting, boys walking by wave. CUs on coeds' cute faces.
00:01:22 33.23	17 year old boy walking on path through the woods in the Adirondak Mountains in New York. He sits on a rock ledge and reflects, thinking to himself (sound byte). With narration - what goes through the mind of a young man of his age?
00:01:57 67.78	Same boy talking to his girlfriend (footage is dark) in the woods. tilt down on the two of them, his deep thoughts are heard. His girlfriend Judy never acted like this, she told him she'd rather stay at home on Saturday nights.
00:02:13 84.27	Same young man and girlfriend inside chatting, girl holding onto boy's arm and looking serious. He thinks - his girlfriend had gone to a church meeting and realized she had to accept Jesus Christ as her savior.
00:02:29 100.5	WS of couple sitting next to each other in the living room. Girl holds an open Bible. Boy doesn't understand and gets up and leaves. CU on teen girl's sad and thoughtful looking face. Serious bkgd music.
00:02:53 124.43	Same young man seen working at grocery store, packing groceries into paper bag for female customer. Customer points to another item after the bag is packed, he squeezes the merchandise into the bag. He's thinking (sound byte) about how the female customers can't seem to make up their minds and are then in a hurry to get home.
00:03:25 155.71	Young man with his boss in the grocery store, shelf with Quaker Oats and other goods behind them. Same female customer comes back and complains about her order. the young man is seen getting impatient and frustrated as customer walks out of store angry.
00:04:13 204.56	Young man with his head down sitting on the edge of his boss's ("Pops") desk. CU on boss's face as he talks with the boy. The boy explains (narration unseen) to Pops about the fight he had with his girlfriend.
00:04:52 243.02	Flashing neon Rialto Movie Theatre marquee at night. Playing Betty Grable film, "Meet Me After the Show". Couple enters theater - dark.
00:05:10 261.23	The young man having fun playing tennis with a gal and driving in a convertible, his arm around blonde gal.
00:05:26 277.03	Boy at work stocking grocery shelves, looks up - sound byte - he sees his girlfriend walk past the store. He looks reflective.
00:05:43 294.11	Boy sitting on steps of home reading the newspaper, looking lonely.
00:06:06 316.67	Vintage radio sitting on table with plaid table cloth. CU Hand turning the dial on the radio.
00:06:26 337.55	Lonely looking boy back out on the porch steps by himself. with the newspaper. CU on his wrist watch. He frustratingly tosses the newspaper aside
00:06:45 355.79	Another CU of the vintage '50's radio
00:06:47 358.49	Boy walking through town all alone at night
00:07:09 380.16	Int. drug store, soda jerk behind the counter reading comics and laughing Young man walks in and stands at counter, soda jerk not aware of customer. CU on Donald Duck comic book and soda jerk with ugly bad teeth, laughing and chewing gum while reading.
00:07:48 419.13	Soda jerk pours a soda for young man at counter. Sound byte - young man looking bored and dejected and feeling like he should have stayed home, then leaves the store.
00:08:18 449.45	Young man walking slowly through down town in the dark. His silhouette in front of store.
00:08:41 471.86	Boy at work on talking on telephone, calls his girl Judy. Sound byte.
00:08:49 480.05	Girl outside seen reading a book to two little kids.
00:09:02 492.77	CU cute young lady, Judy, smiling talking on telephone.
00:09:10 500.95	WS young lady in living room turning dial on vintage 1950's era TV set.
00:09:12 503.04	CU finger on doorbell
00:09:24 515.23	The two teens sit in living room, holding hands and watch TV. "Keep in the Middle of the Road" sung by a male quartet, The Word of Life singers, on B&W TV.
00:11:29 640.29	Young woman sings (on TV) the hymn, "Song of a Soul Set Free". Split screen with the Word of Life Singers and the young unknown female singer.
00:13:46 777.4	Woman singer holds out her hand revealing chains. Woman gleefully breaks chains at end of the song and hold her arms up high for climatic ending.
00:13:53 784.48	Typical farmer outside working hard, wipes his forehead with handkerchief and breaks out in song - a religious song.
00:15:26 876.82	A preacher host, Bible in hand, asks "What is Life?"
00:15:55 905.99	CU hand holding bottle of liquor or wine pouring it into glasses, cigarettes in ashtray. Preacher can be heard talking about "sin"
00:16:08 918.7	Teenage boy with his arm around girl (watching unseen tv, listening to preacher). Boy gets annoyed at what he's listening to and takes his arm off girlfriend.
00:16:19 929.83	Back to preacher, talks about sin, sin will drag you down into the "pit of hell". and if you want real "pleasure, happiness and joy" it can only be found in knowing Jesus Christ...
00:17:02 973.13	CU hand counting dollar bills into a big pile. - preacher sound byte then back with preacher on tv - riches are the root of all evil.
00:18:29 1060.11	CU hand opening a text book entitled, "Chemical Engineering Series", leafing through the pages
00:19:44 1134.7	Man, side profile - looks like Alfred Hitchcock - signs autograph. CU of hand holding autographed piece of paper - autograph illegible
00:19:48 1139.57	Teen couple, same boy and girl, sitting watching religious tv show (unseen). Back and forth with preacher going on and on about what life's all about.
00:20:11 1161.9	Cutaway from preacher talking about having friends, to two women having tea and pastries together.
00:20:40 1191.16	CU older woman embroiders "home Sweet Home" as preacher talks about having an "eternal" home
00:21:12 1222.95	CU old man puts on his glasses and wipes his mouth with a napkin
00:22:13 1283.88	Old man, the manager of supermarket - Bob, sits at desk using adding machine. Young man from before sits on edge of desk - sound byte - the boy tells Bob things are all right and asks for a week off to attend the "Word of Life" camp.
00:22:50 1321.45	Word of Life Camp sign with arrow
00:22:56 1327.1	Beautiful vintage car pulls into gate of estate. Young couple gets out of car and gaze out from a white archway at the beautiful mountain lake and scenery.
00:23:35 1366.03	People walking along boat dock and get on small boat. Boat speeds away leaving water trails.
00:23:49 1380.16	Boat arrives at island resort. Mountain scenery in bkgd. Girl waves to boat from shore. Young couple hand in hand walk up path to resort, they pick some flowers along the way.
00:24:36 1427.49	At dinner table everyone prays, says Grace. Lots of food in bowls being passed around long banquet type tables.
00:25:01 1451.7	Lots of people going up the steps and into building. Inside, teenage couple seen laughing during a presentation.
00:25:12 1463.4	Man speaking at podium. Audience of young adults. Teens stand up and tell their story of finding Jesus. Girl holding Bible stands up. Young man unseen narrates about how teens talk about finding happiness through the Lord.
00:25:41 1492.04	POV from behind - silhouette of young man's head, preacher at podium.. Boy narrates (sound byte) about being confused - he thought life was about having fun!
00:25:57 1508.17	Shot of young couple listening to sermon. boy looks skeptical
00:26:01 1512.11	Young man sleeping in bunk, tossing and turning. Restless sleep. trouble sleeping.
00:26:17 1527.98	Young adults sitting in Adirondack chairs, watching people play tennis. Young couple sit together on bench with their rackets, waiting to play
00:26:30 1541.51	Couple shaking hands with camp counselor
00:26:39 1550.55	WS of the lake at camp. Floating dock in the middle, girl swimming back stroke, people diving into the water, putting on flippers, water skiing, hanging out at the shore, having fun
00:28:10 1640.77	pedaling on old fashioned pedal boats, riding horses, playing mini golf and football.
00:29:07 1697.7	Two young adult guys, lying on the grass, casually chatting about becoming a Christian. (unseen narration by main character - slowly becoming convinced about finding Jesus)
00:29:37 1727.86	CU hand pointing at versus in the pages of small Bible
00:29:44 1734.83	Large group of young adults sitting outdoors on a hillside listening to preacher. Preacher man, "Jack" sitting at the lake with an open Bible talking with our young man, main character. Jack's voice is heard - sounding like he's being slowly convinced about big life decicision.
00:30:51 1802.11	Young man sitting on a rock, Bible beside him, overlooking mountainside contemplating life. CU on his face with the expression of discovery and revelation. Looking suddenly happy he stands up and runs off.
00:31:25 1835.67	Walking hand in hand happily with his girlfriend by the lake. WS of scenic lake and mountains, waves hitting rocky shore. The End.