Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: V-A0515

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00:01:43 11.17	CU PLAQUE: "IN MEMORY OF BETSY ROSS WHO MADE IN THIS HOUSE THE FIRST AMERICAN FLAG"
00:01:52 20.17	MS BUILDING FLYING AMERICAN FLAG WITH CIRCULAR 13 STARS ORIGINAL COLONIES EARLY FLAG
00:01:58 26.17	CU PLAQUE " ABRAHAM LINCOLN STOOD HERE WHEN HE RAISED THE FLAG ON INDEPENDENCE HALL 2/22/1861"
00:02:04 31.17	LS INDEPENDENCE HALL PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
00:02:13 40.17	LOW ANGLE STATUE OF WILLIAM PENN
00:02:48 76.17	STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA CIRCA 1926, MAN WALKING UP FROM SUBWAY. STREETCARS, HORSE & CARRIAGE, VARIOUS MODES OF URBAN TRANSPORTATION. MAN WALKING DOWN STREET FOLLOWS OLD MAN FROM HIS CAR INTO BUILDING
00:03:09 96.17	TWO MEN WALKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH WALKING CANES. IN OFFICE BUILDING HALLWAY, GO INTO SEPARATE OFFICES, "VICE PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF OPERATION"
00:03:25 112.17	CU ELDERLY MAN IN TOP HAT & CARNATION IN LAPEL GIVING THE "HAIRY EYEBALL"
00:03:32 120.17	BUSINESSMAN IN HIS OFFICE LOOKS UP AT WALL CLOCK 8:45. LOOKS AT EMPLOYEE WHO LOOKS AT CLOCK, THEN AT HIS POCKET WATCH. LATE FOR WORK
00:03:50 138.17	CU MAN SETTING TIME CHANGING TIME ON POCKET WATCH
00:04:04 151.17	BUSY LARGE OFFICE, ROWS OF DESKS. EMPLOYEE LATE FOR WORK TAKES SEAT AT HIS DESK, OPENS & READS NEWSPAPER. CU NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE REPORTS
00:04:28 175.17	CU COMIC SECTION FROM EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA
00:04:30 177.17	CU MAN READING COMICS LETTING OUT HARDY LAUGH LAUGHING AT THE FUNNIES. GRUMPY OLD MAN AT DESK BEHIND HIM TURNS TO YELL AT HIM, CO-WORKER SHOWS HIM THE COMIC, HE DOESN'T THINK IT'S FUNNY
00:04:44 192.17	BOSS PUTS HAND ON LAUGHING EMPLOYEE'S SHOULDER, GIVES HIM A WARNING
00:05:35 242.17	WOMAN ENTERS OFFICE, SOLICITING RAFFLE FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS FUND. OFFICE WORKERS BUYING RAFFLE TICKETS
00:06:31 298.17	COLD HEARTED MAN THROWS TICKET IN GARBAGE BASKET THEN PULLS OUT RING BOX FROM POCKET. CU OPENING RING BOX WITH BIG DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT RING. WOMAN TURNS & LEAVES
00:07:10 337.17	MS OFFICE WORKER WATCHES HER LEAVE, PICKS UP TORN RAFFLE TICKET FROM WASTE BASKET, NONCHALANTLY PUTS IN HIS POCKET, ADJUSTS TIE
00:07:39 366.17	PHILADELPHIA STREET SCENE CIRCA 1926 STREETCAR, HORSE & CARRIAGE SHARING ROAD WITH CARS. MAN PAUSES ON STREET, PULLS OUT POCKET WATCH, CHECKS THE TIME. GIRLFRIEND ARRIVES, MEETING WOMAN, SHE TAKES HIS ARM, WALKING IN PARK
00:08:06 393.17	COUPLE SITTING ON PARK BENCH COURTING. MAN PULLS OUT RING BOX, GIVES TO HIS INTENDED. SHE CLUTCHES HER HEART WITH GLOVED HAND SURPRISED, TAKEN ABACK ENGAGEMENT RING POPS THE QUESTION. CUTS TO A GRINNING POLICEMAN WATCHING
00:09:47 494.17	PLAIN WOMAN WEARING APRON SETTING KITCHEN TABLE
00:09:52 499.17	ELDERLY MAN COMING HOME FROM WORK, ENTERS HOUSE, TAKES OFF COAT, HAT. WIFE KISSES HUSBAND ON THE CHEEK. MAN SITS IN CHAIR UNLACES SHOES, RELAXING AFTER WORK
00:10:28 536.17	YOUNG WOMAN, DAUGHTER RUNS INTO ROOM, ELATED HAPPY. SAYS HELLO TO PARENTS, RUNS UPSTAIRS
00:10:38 546.17	YOUNG MAN NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR PAUSES ON HIS DOORSTEP, WHISTLES THROUGH HIS FINGERS AT GIRL NEXT DOOR WHO COMES OUT, GOING TO DINNER NEXT DOOR
00:11:04 571.17	MS MAN HELPING WOMAN CLIMB OVER FENCE BETWEEN THEIR HOUSES APARTMENTS
00:11:13 580.17	MOTHER SETTING DINNER TABLE, YOUNG COUPLE COMES IN, GREETS MOTHER, GIRLFRIEND HELPS SET TABLE. DAUGHTER RUSHES IN, MOTHER CHASTISING DAUGHTER FOR BUYING NEW DRESS
00:12:11 638.17	FIANCE ARRIVES AT DOOR, GIRL RUNS, OPENS DOOR FIANCE TALKING TO GIRL'S BROTHER, LETS OUT HEARTY LAUGH. CU MAN HOLDING HIS EARS SHIELDING OUT LOUD LAUGHTER. TAKES OFF COAT & HAT, MOTHER & DAUGHTER TALKING BEHIND HIS BACK
00:14:01 748.17	UNCOMFORTABLE MOMENT; FIANCE'S FAMILY TRYING TO GET RID OF HIM, HE DOESN'T GET THE HINT, THEY'RE STUCK WITH HIM FOR DINNER
00:15:36 843.17	CU MAN PRETENDING TO BE MAKING PHONE CALL, PUTS ELBOW ON RECEIVER BUTTON
00:16:58 926.17	FAMILY & GUESTS SITTING DOWN FOR DINNER. SON RECEIVES REJECTION LETTER FOR INVENTION. CU LETTER. FAMILY & GUESTS DISCUSS INVENTION .
00:18:56 1043.17	FATHER SAYS GRACE PRAYING BEFORE EATING. DINNER GUEST COUNTING CHICKEN LEGS FIGURING OUT PROPORTIONS, GIRLFRIEND CATCHES HIM, SHARE A SMILE
00:19:39 1086.17	INVENTOR IN BASEMENT LABORATORY SHOWING FATHER & SISTER NEW INVENTION
00:20:27 1135.17	ENGAGED COUPLE IN HALLWAY TALKING. MOTHER EAVESDROPPING. LISTENING BEHIND CLOSED DOOR HEARS THEM MAKING PLANS FOR WHEN THEY'RE MARRIED
00:21:27 1195.17	REST OF FAMILY CATCHES MOTHER LISTENING AT DOOR EAVESDROPPING.
00:22:52 1280.17	OLDER COUPLE RELAXING IN LIVING ROOM, SHE KNITTING, HE READING THE PAPER SMOKING PIPE COUPLE TALKING ABOUT DAUGHTER
00:23:29 1316.17	ENGAGED COUPLE GO IN TO TELL HER PARENTS THE NEWS OF THEIR ENGAGEMENT
00:23:55 1343.17	FATHER GETS ANGRY AT GUEST FOR MOVING LAMP FROM TABLE. NIT PICKING, FINDING FAULT WITH DAUGHTER'S BOYFRIEND. DAUGHTER POURS GLASS OF WATER FROM PITCHER. PARENTS MAKING FACES AT GUEST. GRUMPY FATHER. FIANCE SLAPS FATHER-IN-LAW-TO-BE ON THE BACK, FATHER GETS VERY ANGRY, THROWS PAPER DOWN, YELLS IN-YOUR-FACE AT FIANCE, WALKS OUT
00:25:59 1467.17	OBNOXIOUS FIANCE OPENS UP FAMILY ALBUM, LAUGHS HEARTY LAUGH
00:26:22 1489.17	FATHER LEANS OVER SECOND FLOOR RAILING, YELLS AT LOUD BOYFRIEND TO BE QUIET
00:26:42 1509.17	FIANCE LOOKS AT POCKET WATCH, PUTS ON HAT & COAT, THANKS MOTHER, KISSES HER ON FOREHEAD, LEAVES
00:27:33 1560.17	DAUGHTER & MOTHER HAVE WORDS ON STAIRCASE, DAUGHTER ANGRY AT PARENTS
00:28:20 1607.17	WOMAN LOOKING AT ENGAGEMENT RING ON HER FINGER DREAMILY DAY DREAMING
00:29:03 1650.17	NEWLYWEDS ARRIVING AT "LOVE NEST" SHE TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED. HUSBAND DOES NOT CARRY WIFE OVER THE THRESHOLD
00:29:51 1698.17	INVENTOR IN BASEMENT LABORATORY, FATHER ENTERS, INVENTOR DISAPPOINTED WITH EXPERIMENT. CU CHECK WRITTEN MAY 25, 1926 FOR ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FATHER HELPING SON WITH MONEY
00:31:51 1819.17	NEWLYWEDS IN APARTMENT, WIFE PUTTING MURPHY BED AWAY IN CLOSET, HUSBAND EATING BREAKFAST. TINY APARTMENT. WIFE IRONING, HUSBAND READING NEWSPAPER. SEXIST HUSBAND MAKES WIFE STOP IRONING TO REFILL HIS COFFEE CUP WHEN COFFEE POT IS WITHIN REACHING DISTANCE
00:33:39 1927.17	WIFE HELPING HUSBAND INTO SUIT JACKET, BRINGS HIM CANE & HAT, SENDING HUSBAND OFF TO WORK KISSES HER GOODBYE
00:35:23 2030.17	HOUSEWIFE RELAXING, READING NEWSPAPERS LOOKING AT CLASSIFIEDS CU FOR RENT
00:36:02 2069.17	DESPONDENT DAUGHTER GOING HOME TO MOTHER FOR COMFORT. TOTALLY EXHAUSTED, SHE COLLAPSES IN CHAIR, CONCERNED MOTHER.
00:37:27 2154.17	WOMAN IN OFFICE LOOKING FOR RAFFLE WINNER, CU MAN PULLING RAFFLE TICKET FROM WATCH POCKET, HE WON THE CAR
00:38:11 2198.17	BUSINESSMAN CALLING WIFE ON TELEPHONE
00:39:19 2266.17	DAUGHTER TALKING TO MOTHER, MOTHER LOOKS CONFUSED THEN ANGRY
00:39:54 2301.17	MS TWO MEN SHAKING HANDS IN FRONT OF NEW CAR NEW OWNER GETS IN CAR, LEARNING HOW TO DRIVE CAR WITH GEAR SHIFT, STICK SHIFT. DRIVER DRIVES BACKWARDS INTO SHOP, THEN FORWARD, DRIVING ERRATICALLY DOWN MAIN STREET, LOOKS LIKE DRUNK DRIVER. INEXPERIENCED DRIVER IN URBAN TRAFFIC
00:42:16 2443.17	PHILADELPHIA TRAFFIC CIRCA 1926
00:42:25 2452.17	INEXPERIENCED DRIVER CAUSES TRAFFIC ACCIDENT TRAFFIC JAM. DRIVERS GET OUT OF CARS HAVE WORDS WITH BAD DRIVER
00:43:09 2496.17	TRAFFIC POLICEMAN IN MIDDLE OF BUSY STREET
00:43:12 2499.17	BAD DRIVER SITS DOWN, DRIVES AWAY INTO BUSY TRAFFIC. CU POLICEMAN TRYING TO STOP CAR WEAVING ERRATICALLY THROUGH TRAFFIC
00:43:19 2506.17	OUT-OF-CONTROL CAR DRIVING ON SIDEWALKS, CHASING POLICEMAN, PEDESTRIANS RUN OUT OF THE WAY. CAR PINS POLICEMAN TO BUILDING
00:43:32 2520.17	MAD MOB RUSHING CROWD SWARMS AROUND CAR, OTHER POLICEMEN HELP PINNED POLICEMAN, FREE HIM. MOB SURROUNDING DRIVER, PHOTOGRAPHERS SNAPPING PHOTOGRAPHS, WAVES OF RUSHING CROWDS ARRIVING ON THE SCENE.
00:44:51 2599.17	MOB SURROUNDING DRIVER'S CAR, DRIVER SHOUTING ORATING, PREACHING
00:45:05 2612.17	CU INJURED POLICEMAN BEING HELPED BY ANOTHER PAINED EXPRESSION IN PAIN
00:45:26 2633.17	WOMAN WAITING IN FRONT OF HOUSE ANTICIPATING HUSBAND'S ARRIVAL LOOKING LEFT & RIGHT
00:45:35 2642.17	LOVEY DOVEY COUPLE SITTING ON PORCH LEDGE,
00:45:52 2660.17	CAR TOWING ANOTHER CAR, CAR BEING TOWED IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD. FAMILY STARING IN DISBELIEF AT REALIZATION THAT CAR IS HUSBAND'S NEW CAR
00:46:22 2689.17	CU DRIVER WITH BANDAGED HEAD SITTING DRIVER'S SEAT OF TOWED CAR, EMBARRASSED, HE PUTS HEAD IN HAND
00:46:39 2706.17	1920s TOW TRUCK DRIVER UNHITCHING CAR. DRIVER OF NEW CRASHED CAR GETS OUT THROWS HAND IN THE AIR, TAKES HAT OFF, SHOWS BANDAGED HEAD. CU WIFE WITH CONCERNED LOOK. HE EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED. WIFE COMFORTING INJURED HUSBAND
00:48:43 2830.17	COURTING COUPLE SITTING ON STAIRCASE LAUGHING WHEN INJURED MAN ENTERS, THEY CLAP, APPLAUD HE IS NOT HUMORED
00:49:20 2867.17	WIFE DOTING ON INJURED HUSBAND
00:49:30 2877.17	COURTING COUPLE ON STAIRCASE, MAN GETS UP TO ANSWER TELEPHONE. MS NURSE CALLING TO TELL FATHER IS IN HOSPITAL, GIRLFRIEND LOOKS CONCERNED AT BOYFRIEND'S EXPRESSIONS
00:50:39 2947.17	SON / BROTHER TELLS FAMILY FATHER IS IN HOSPITAL WIFE / MOTHER BREATHS HARD, SHORTNESS OF BREATH AT BAD NEWS. DAUGHTER CONSOLES MOTHER. EVERY ONE GOES OFF TO HOSPITAL, MOTHER MAKES DAUGHTER STAY HOME WITH INJURED HUSBAND
00:52:51 3079.17	PEOPLE LEAVING HOUSE IN CROWDED URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD, MANY HOUSES CLOSE TO EACH OTHER
00:52:56 3084.17	UPSET WOMAN LEANS ON FIREPLACE MANTLE SOBBING INJURED HUSBAND CONSOLES WIFE
00:53:26 3113.17	COUPLE IN HOSPITAL WARD STARING AT DOOR, WAITING FOR NEWS. WIFE / MOTHER WALKS IN SHOCKED LOOK GIRLFRIEND WALKS TO HER, BOYFRIEND / SON CALLS HOME, SISTER ANSWERS PHONE, HANGS UP STUNNED AT THE NEWS, INJURED HUSBAND CONSOLES HER
00:55:54 3262.17	INJURED MAN MOVES LAMP TO WHERE DEAD FATHER DID NOT WANT IT, INSENSITIVE MOVE
00:56:38 3305.17	NEWLY WIDOWED WOMAN MOVING SLOWLY UP STEPS INTO HOUSE FOLLOWED BY SON & HIS GIRLFRIEND. GRIEVING FAMILY. MOTHER & DAUGHTER HUG IN SHARED GRIEF FAMILY MOURNING PASSING OF FAMILY MEMBER, INSENSITIVE MAN PUTS LAMP BACK WHERE DEAD MAN HAD IT. IN A SENSITIVE MOMENT, SLIDES DEAD MAN'S SLIPPERS OUT OF VIEW
00:58:50 3437.17	CU JUDGE BANGING GAVEL, COURT ROOM TRIAL, CUTS TO SPECTATORS WATCHING TRAIL. ACCUSED GIVING TESTIMONY. SWEARING IN, MAN BEING CHARGED WITH CRIME. GIVEN FINE OR JAIL TIME. THREATENS JUDGE, ANGRY, JUDGE GIVES HIM STIFFER SENTENCE
01:03:15 3702.17	CRIMINAL SAYING GOODBYE TO FAMILY BEFORE GOING OFF TO JAIL
01:03:36 3724.17	CRIMINAL PAYING FINE TO COURT AFTER SENTENCING BROTHER-IN-LAW PAYS FINE WITH CHECK WRITTEN BY HIS DEAD FATHER TO PAY MORTGAGE WITH. SAVING HIM FROM DOING JAIL TIME. HUGS HIM IN BROTHERLY WAY
01:05:14 3821.17	WOMAN PICKING UP NEWSPAPER DELIVERED TO FRONT STEPS. CU NEWSPAPER ARTICLE SHOWING "MANIAC DRIVER SAVED FROM JAIL" BY BROTHER-IN-LAW. REALIZES HE PAID $1000.00 FINE
01:05:38 3845.17	MOTHER SWEEPING KITCHEN FLOOR, WOMAN RUNS IN & SHOWS HER NEWSPAPER, THE MEN TRY TO STOP HER BUT TO NO AVAIL, THE SECRET IS OUT. MOTHER TURNS HER HEAD IN DISAPPOINTMENT, COMPLETELY SHAMED. EMOTIONS RANGE FROM ANGER TO SADNESS
01:09:07 4054.17	MAN WALKING DOWN TO BASEMENT LABORATORY, SITS DOWN, PULLS OUT LETTER, READS LETTER, PUTS BACK IN POCKET. PICKS UP TUBE
01:10:17 4125.17	MAN IN FRONT OF BOARD MEMBERS, MEETING, ORATING GIVING SPEECH HOLDING TUBE, TRYING TO SELL BROTHER-IN-LAW'S INVENTION
01:13:12 4299.17	ELDERLY BANK MANAGER ARRIVING AT FAMILY'S HOUSE TO TELL THEM THEIR HOUSE HAS BEEN FORECLOSED MOTHER TAKES A SEAT, WEAKENED FROM NEWS
01:14:02 4349.17	BROTHER-IN-LAW MANAGES TO TALK FIRM INTO BUYING INVENTION. MEMBERS SIGNING DEAL
01:14:59 4407.17	MOTHER HOUSE OWNER GOES TO SIGN PAPERS, SIGNING OVER DEED TO THE HOUSE, PEN DOESN'T WORK
01:16:22 4489.17	MAN GOES OVER TO POLICEMAN, SHAKES HIS HAND, POLICEMAN ANGRILY TAKES HIS HAND AWAY, DOES NOT LIKE THIS MAN
01:16:57 4525.17	PEDESTRIAN CROSSING URBAN STREET AT FAST PACE
01:17:24 4551.17	CU MAN LAYING DOWN INK WELL & PEN. CU WOMAN PICKING UP FOUNTAIN PEN
01:17:42 4569.17	MAN MAKING HIS WAY HOME THROUGH PHILADELPHIA
01:17:51 4578.17	CU WOMAN DIPPING PEN IN INK WELL
01:17:58 4585.17	TWO MEN ON CITY STREET ARGUING, PUSHING & SHOVING, ONE ESCAPES OTHER'S GRIP, RUNS AWAY WITH MAN RUNNING AFTER THEM
01:18:15 4602.17	MAN RUNS INTO HOUSE, POINTS AT MOTHER TO STOP SIGNING PAPERS, SAVES THE DAY. SHOWS CHECK TO BROTHER-IN-LAW. CU CHECK FOR $50.000 SELLING HIS INVENTION
01:19:05 4652.17	MAN CRANKS PHONOGRAPH MACHINE, PUTS ON RECORD WIFE & FAMILY FAWNING OVER HIM
01:20:42 4750.17	SON COMES IN LIVING ROOM, MOTHER LOOKS UP TOWARD HEAVEN, LAYS HER HEAD ON HER SON'S SHOULDER
01:21:16 4783.4	TAPE ENDS