19641960s NEWS
Various Florida News Stories from 1964. (little to no audio)
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Bryant News Conference 10/15/64
Governor of Florida, C. Farris Bryant at podium talks at a news press conference. |
| 01:02:43 163.92 |
Fatal Accident 10/15/64
Faded footage - white cast to film. Scene of an accident in a rural area. A tow truck at the scene. Sign on door of truck, Julian & Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida. CU Truck tires in mud. |
| 01:03:27 207.43 |
Spiro Speech 10/15/64
Nighttime neon sign on restaurant "Town House Cocktail Lounge Air Condiotioned". Vertical Restaurant sign with some of the letters missing. |
| 01:03:30 210.96 |
Tilt down interior large banquet room - dark footage -man (Spiro??) at podium gives speech to large group of businessmen who listen intently.
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| 01:03:50 230.97 |
Mechanical Engineers 10/15/64
Florida mechanical engineers enjoy a meal at a banquet. Long tables with men dressed in suits. Smaller tables of four men enjoying a meal together. 10/15/64 |
| 01:04:11 251.22 |
Next segment. Boss of the Year 10/15/64.
Two women at a podium present an award to a businessman. CU on the award. |
| 01:04:36 276 |
B & E Squad Suspect Question 10/15/64
Int. sign hangs above windows, "B and E Squad". Two men, one in a business suit and hat, the other a younger man in a t-shirt sit across a small table from each other and have conversation. CU on bottles of booze on the table, and a telephone. |
| 01:05:09 309.37 |
Senior Center Party 10/15/64
Letters on glass door read: Senior Center "Going Like Sixty" Sponsored by the Salvation Army and the Pilot Club. Hands holding cake knife, pan out older couple cutting cake together. Seniors at Senior Center Party. |
| 01:05:24 324.64 |
CU hands on piano keys. Older man plays piano at senior event,
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| 01:05:31 331.63 |
A table with deck of playing cards laid out.
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| 01:05:34 334.35 |
Giant letters on factory ext. wall "Rivers Body Factory"
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| 01:05:37 337.95 |
Int. large warehourse, a tractor trailer truck. Man opens back door and slides open sides of truck to reveal a huge telescope type of equipment or something.
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| 01:06:13 373.67 |
Nerdy looking guy with thick black horn rimmed glasses and thin black slicked hair looks into camera and reads Amendment number 2 from Florida's Constitution.
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| 01:06:52 412.35 |
Florida Secretary of State Tom Adams talks into camera on news program about why he is in favor of Amendment Number Two, the Board of Regents Amendment.
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| 01:07:48 468.16 |
Mathews Speech - Gatepost 10/15/64
Ext. "Restaurant" sign on building. Int. large conference room, business men enjoy a banquet meal and listen to "Mathews" speaking from podium. Could be John Mathews, Jr. who ran for Governor of Florida in 1964. |
| 01:08:26 506.32 |
FL Nurses Association 10/15/64
Sign(on building) for Duval County Taxpayers Association. A businessman accepts a check from a nicely dressed woman who wears a hat and gloves. Another man and woman look on happily. They all shake hands, Most likely a donation. |
| 01:08:57 537.03 |
Boys Ranch Benefit? 10/15/64
Sign for Jacksonville News Club and an arrow on a wall. Int, folks sit around small tables having a meal, a man accepts a check from another businessman |
| 01:09:20 560.17 |
Ext. tilt up on a tall office building or hotel.
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| 01:09:22 562.24 |
Florida Nurses Banquet 10/64
Nurses in uniform at a banquet, sipping coffee or tea. Nurse at podium gives speech. The nurses applaud from their banquet tables.. |
| 01:09:45 585.25 |
Ext. Sign on building - Giant letters atop a marquee "G. W." Welcome Florida Nurses. (Most likely the Hotel George Washington in Jacksonville)
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| 01:09:47 587.88 |
A priest stands at a podium and makes a speech. Audience of nuns. listen.
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| 01:10:04 604.3 |
B&W Sign points the way to the "Sheriff 224" office.
Int. man at desk in office looks at papers, shakes hands with another man who presents him with some papers from a small white box. They shake hands. |
| 01:10:35 635.78 |
Civil Service Hearing 10/15/64
Sign points the way to the Civil Service Board 411 (rm). People seated around a conference table with paperwork spread about. A stenographer takes notes at the hearing on a stenography machine. |
| 01:11:31 691.21 |
Atl Blvd Collapse 10/15/64
An "accident investigation" vehicle approaches the camera. Dark footage of a big hole in the asphalt, traffic goes by. A man fixes a flat tire on a vintage car. |
| 01:11:45 705.09 |
A policeman directs traffic,.. CU of the large hole in the asphalt. AAA sign above the hole.
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| 01:11:55 715.45 |
Expressway Accident 10/15/64
Two Black men lean over and look under the open hood of a car. |
| 01:11:57 717.55 |
A smashed vehicle on the street. Other cars and people on the lawn. Men kneel around a wounded victim who lies on the ground covered in a white blanket. Various cars pulll up the accident scene. A badly hurt victim is placed onto a stretcher and into a waiting emergency station wagon.
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| 01:13:31 811.92 |
Jacksonville Queen Contestant 10/14/64
Beauty pageant girls in bathing suits, their names and/or sponsors on banners draped across their bodies. They stand and pose and some look at the award trophy that could be theirs. |
| 01:13:54 834.57 |
A male photographer adjusts a contestant's banner across her bathing suit for a photo. Pan slowly up the gal's legs to her smiling face as she poses for the photograph. The photographer adjusts lighting.
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| 01:14:12 852.14 |
Miss Associated Construction poses for camera in her swimsuit. Other contestants pose together.
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| 01:14:22 862.36 |
Beauty contestants wearing shorts, lined up and pose for the camera - their competition numbers attached to their shorts. big numbers attached to their shorts. Pan down the line across their faces.
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| 01:14:42 882.37 |
Shots of their legs as they walk past the judges.
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| 01:14:59 899.03 |
Number 12 contestant is crowned the queen.
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| 01:15:12 912.12 |
Narcotics Robbery 10/14/64
Int. pharmacy, aisles filled with var. bottles of drugs. CU hands holding some capsules. CU bottles of various drugs and medicine. |
| 01:15:24 924.69 |
CU a detective brushes for evidence and fingerprints.
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| 01:15:27 927.46 |
Safe Jobs 10/14/64
Cutaway to a single story suburban residential building. |
| 01:15:30 930.12 |
An large square opening in the roof of a garage or warehouse, and a ladder. Pan down the ladder to detectives and a police officer who look up at the opening.
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| 01:15:40 940.33 |
Papers scattered all over. Detectives sit at an open safe, remove what's inside and take notes on a clipboard.
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| 01:16:06 966.08 |
Ext. sign on building "Superior Tractor Company"
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| 01:16:09 969.68 |
Int detective looks at a destroyed safe, steps on the broken safe door on the ground. var. shots of the destroyed empty safe.
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| 01:16:35 995.79 |
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