Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VM-1509A

00:02:14 4.1	SENIOR SOFTBALL: BASEBALL'S DETROIT TIGERS RUN OUT ONTO FIELD FOR SPRING TRAINING IN FLORIDA. TEAM LINES UP ON FIELD, DOES CALISTHENICS. SMALL BOYS WATCH FROM STANDS, AS NEW PLAYERS WARM UP PITCHING, FIELDING.
00:02:39 29.1	CU PLAYER'S SPIKE DIGS INTO DIRT AS HE GETS UP TO HIT. PITCHER STRETCHES, HITTER'S HANDS GRIPPING BAT. SCENE CHANGES TO SENIOR CITIZEN PITCHING SOFTBALL AND SENIOR BATTER HITTING AT FIELD IN ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA.
00:02:59 49.1	CU FACE SHOT OF SENIOR WOMAN IN STANDS APPLAUDS AS SHE WATCHES SENIOR TEAM, THE YOUNGEST OF WHICH IS SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD.
00:03:32 82.1	CU WELL CONDITIONED SENIOR SAYS, "THE WAY I FEEL NOW I'M JUST AS GOOD AS I WAS LAST YEAR, I OUGHTA GO ON FOR A COUPLE OF MORE YEARS, THAT IS TO AT LEAST NINETY, WHICH IS TWO YEARS TO GO."
00:03:39 89.1	SENIOR PITCHES, THIN OLD SENIOR HITS, RUNS TO FIRST. HE SAYS, "JUNE 19TH, I'LL BE 92 YEARS OLD" MONTAGE NUMBER OF OLD TIMERS TELL HOW THEY ENJOY IT. AS OLD TIMER BATS AND RUNS VOICE OF ANOTHER RECITES POEM ABOUT THE "GRAND OLD GAME".
00:04:50 160.1	HAMBURGER UNIVERSITY: MCDONALD'S. CU HAMBURGERS & CHEESE BEING PLACED ON OPEN ROLLS SIX AT A TIME. LARGE VAT OF FRENCH FRIES ARE SCOOPED UP BY EMPLOYE AT MCDONALD'S HAMBURGER FRANCHISE. COOK SPEEDILY PLACES DOZENS OF HAMBURGERS ON GRILL.
00:04:59 169.1	FEMALE MCDONALD WORKER ATTENDS TO CUSTOMERS AT COUNTER AS WORKERS PACKAGE ORDERS TO-GO IN BACKGROUND. CU HANDS OF YOUNG EMPLOYEES FILLING TAKE-OUT ORDERS. PILING WRAPPED HAMBURGERS ON SHELVES.
00:05:48 218.1	LARGE CLASS OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN SIT AT DESKS AND TAKE NOTES AS SPEAKER GIVES THEM PEP TALK AT SCHOOL MCDONALD'S RUN OUTSIDE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS CALLED HAMBURGER UNIVERSITY. CURRICULUM COVERS FOOD PREPARATION, EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, COMMUNITY RELATIONS.
00:06:46 276.1	CLASS WATCHES MOVIE WITH ADULTS, CHILDREN EATING, ENJOYING FRENCH FRIES, FROM MCDONALD CONTAINERS.
00:07:09 299.1	EACH STUDENT EXAMINES A MCDONALD HAMBURGER ROLL AT HIS DESK. CU INSTRUCTOR BITES INTO BUN, TELLS STUDENTS TO DO SAME. STUDENTS BITING INTO BUN.
00:08:16 366.1	FUTURE FRANCHISE OWNERS GATHER AT FAREWELL DINNER WHERE EACH IS GIVEN DEGREE OF HAMBURGEROLOGY.
00:08:45 395.1	BUSCH GARDENS: WATER RIDE IN A BEER BARREL AT BUSCH GARDEN, AS SEEN FROM TOP AS IT SPEEDS AWAY DOWN WATER CHUTE. PANORAMIC VIEW OF BUSCH GARDENS SEEN FROM TOP.
00:09:01 411.1	CAMERA FOLLOWS CHUTE OF WATER AS IT BARREL GOES INTO TURN. RIDERS INCLUDE MAN IN FRONT SEAT, WOMAN WITH BABY IN ARMS IN MIDDLE. AND WOMAN IN REAR, AS RIDE APPROACHES TOP OF RUN, SPEEDS DOWN WATER CHUTE, LANDING IN A SPLASH.
00:09:19 429.1	MONTAGE BARREL SEEN FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES AS PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ENJOY THE RIDE, GET SPLASHED.
00:09:50 460.1	CU TWO LARGE COLORFUL PARROTS ON PERCH. ONE GROOMS THE NECK OF THE OTHER.
00:09:59 469.1	YOUNG MOM WITH CHILD IN ARM POSES FOR PHOTO, BETWEEN TWO ELEPHANT TUSKS, WATERFALL IN BG. CU DAD AIMS CAMERA, TAKES SHOT OF DAUGHTER HOLDING TWO LARGE PARROTS PERCHED ON HER ARMS.
00:10:19 489.1	LITTLE GIRL POSES ON STATUE OF HORSE IN FRONT OF "ANHEUSER BUSCH, INC." BUILDING.
00:10:24 494.1	MONTAGE SOME OF THE OVER TWO MILLION VISITORS WALK THE GROUNDS OF THE 300 ACRE PARK, DOTTED WITH LUSH TROPICAL PLANTS.
00:10:42 512.1	GIRL TRAINER STANDS BETWEEN TWO SEA LIONS AT EDGE OF POOL, ENTERTAINING THE AUDIENCE. SEALS PUT ON BALANCING ACT BEACH BALLS TO HER COMMANDS.
00:10:53 523.1	PARROT ROLLS OVER BACK AND FORTH ON GROUND IN CENTER RING AT BIRD SHOW. PARROT ROLLS OVER ON ITS PERCH. ANOTHER RIDES MINIATURE BIKE ON TIGHTROPE. PARROT WALKS ON GROUND, CLIMBS STEPS OF MINIATURE SLIDING POND, SLIDES DOWN. CU THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN STANDS APPLAUD. FACE SHOT OF SMILING BOY.
00:11:27 557.1	PARROT PUSHES MINIATURE CAROUSEL WITH ANOTHER PARROT PERCHED ON IT. FACE SHOT OF EXOTIC WHITE PARROT
00:11:46 576.1	AT SHOW'S END, FEMALE TRAINER TAKES PARROT ON HER ARM, TO KISS SMALL CHILDREN IN STANDS.
00:11:49 579.1	FIVE SMALL KIDS GET RIDE ON LIVE ELEPHANT, OVERHEAD MONORAIL IN BG. ZEBRAS, OSTRICH, GIRAFFE IN OPEN FIELD AS CROWDED MONORAIL RIDES BY.
00:12:14 604.1	OLD VINTAGE TRAIN WITH ENGINEER AT CONTROLS, ROLLS BY. CU THREE HUGE ELEPHANTS WALK TOWARDS CAMERA. ELEPHANT WITH MONKEY ON ITS BACK, BALANCES HIMSELF ON ROUND DRUM, SLOWLY ROLLING IT ALONG.
00:12:38 628.1	ZOOM OUT FROM FOUNTAIN TO LARGE GROUP OF PINK FLAMINGOS STANDING IN POOL OF WATER
00:12:47 637.1	SEAGULLS, DUCKS, BABY DUCKS SWIM BY. CU SHOT OF FLAMINGOS BUNCHED TOGETHER. MORE DUCKS.
00:13:10 660.1	CU MAN TAKES CLOSE LOOK AT SMALL CHIMP SITTING, LOUNGING ON MONKEY BARS.
00:13:23 673.1	"J. FRED MUGS", CHIMP DRESSED IN BRITISH CRICKET OUTFIT, POSES COMICALLY WITH CHIN LEANING ON CRICKET STICK. "MUGS" FENCES WITH TRAINER, FALLS TO GROUND, PLAYS DEAD WHEN "STABBED BY TRAINER. CU MUGGS SHAKES FOOT IN FINAL DEATH GESTURE.
00:13:47 697.1	"MUGS" PLAYS "BELLS OF ST. MARY" TUNE ON COLORED BELLS, WITH ORGAN ACCOMPANIMENT.
00:14:46 756.1	HARPERS FERRY: JOHN SEAGRAM, MASTER WOOD CARVER, WORKS IN HIS SHOP ON HILLTOP HOME, AT HARPER'S FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA.
00:15:15 785.1	CU FACE SHOT OF ELDERLY SEAGRAM, WHO HAS PRACTICED HIS CRAFT FOR FIFTY YEARS, USES LARGE WOOD CHISEL AS HE WORKS ON LARGE PIECE. SEAGRAM WORKS ON SMALL TOY SQUIRREL FOR YOUNG ADMIRER. CU SEAGRAMS HANDS CARVING WITH CHISEL.
00:16:23 853.1	JOHN CARVES LARGE PLAQUE WITH FACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON FOR UNITED STATES PARK SERVICE.
00:16:44 874.1	JOHN PLACES TRACING PAPER OVER WOOD PLANK TRACES LARGE AMERICAN SHIELD ONTO THE WOOD. BUST SCULPTURES OF MEN SIT ON WORK BENCH WITH NUMBER OF ANIMALS, SMALL FIGURES.
00:17:14 904.1	LARRY WEIL AND CORNEL MACK, YOUNG WHITE AND BLACK MEN, TWO OF 200 MEN, MOSTLY FROM INNER CITIES WITH NO HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION, TRAINING AT JOB CORP CENTER AT HARPER'S FERRY, WALK TO THEIR OUTDOOR JOB SITES AT CENTER.
00:17:21 911.1	THEY SEPARATE WITH MACK ENTERING PRINTING SHOP. CU PRINTING MACHINE MECHANISM ROLLS, MACK AND ANOTHER BLACK MAN WATCH AND LISTEN AS INSTRUCTOR EXPLAINS OPERATION.
00:17:45 935.1	WEIL AND OTHERS ARE SHOWN BLUEPRINTS BY INSTRUCTOR AT CONSTRUCTION SITE WHERE HE IS ASSIGNED. CU FACE SHOT OF INSTRUCTOR WITH LONG SIDEBURNS, DARK SUN GLASSES.
00:18:05 955.1	WEIL AND BLACK STUDENT START LAYING BLOCK UNDER SUPERVISION OF CONTRACTOR. TRAINEES IN WHITE COVERALLS, HARD HATS WORK IN TEAMS SAWING STUDS, NAILING BEAMS INTO ROOF OF BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
00:18:41 991.1	BLACK TRAINEE WITH WELDING MASK BEGINS TO WELD AS INSTRUCTOR AND OTHER TRAINEES WATCH. MOST TRAINEES COME FROM INNER CITY, UNEMPLOYED, NO HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION.
00:19:19 1029.1	HOUSE-ON-THE-ROCKS: MODERNISTIC HOUSE, STANDS 450 FEET IN THE AIR ATOP HUGE ROCK FORMATION, FORMED OVER 25,000 YEARS AGO OVER BY FORCES OF THE GREAT GLACIERS, IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. BUILT BY ARTIST ALEX JORDAN IN 1940s AS A RETREAT. PAN OF MASSIVE STRUCTURE AS SEEN FROM BELOW.
00:19:56 1066.1	SHOTS OF MODERN INTERIOR, WHICH STARTED OUT AS CRUDE ONE-ROOM STUDIO AND EXPANDED TO A 20 ROOM SHOWPLACE. COLORFUL MODERNISTIC INTERIOR WITH STONE WALLS AND REPLEAT WITH SCULPTURES ARTIFACTS.
00:20:16 1086.1	RED CEILINGS MATCH RED CARPETING AND SOFAS, WITH BLACK AND YELLOW PILLOWS. ZOOM IN OF GROTESQUE STATUARY, STAINED GLASS, HEAVY WOODEN BEAMS. PAN OF ROOMS AND ITS CONTENTS, CALLED BY MANY, "AN ARCHETECHTURAL JEWEL."
00:21:59 1189.1	LS VIEW OF HOUSE ON THE ROCKS.
00:22:03 1193.1	EVA JESSYE: 90 YEAR-OLD HUBIE BLAKE, CREATOR OF RAGTIME MUSIC, SITS AT PIANO, PLAYING TRIBUTE TO EVA JESSYE, GREAT FIGURE IN BLACK-AMERICAN MUSIC, WHO LOOKS ON IN AUDIENCE. FACE SHOT OF EVA.
00:23:09 1259.1	EVA IS ESCORTED TO PODIUM WHERE SHE MAKES SPEECH. EVA TELLS ABOUT HER LIFE. MONTAGE OLD PHOTOS OF EVA AS YOUNG GIRL WHEN SHE EARNED HER FIRST PRIZE IN POETRY AT THIRTEEN. OTHER PHOTOS WHEN SHE BEGAN ORGANIZING CORAL GROUPS AT TWENTY-SIX.
00:24:42 1352.1	EVA CONCLUDES WITH, "I'D LIKE TO SAY TO YOUNG PEOPLE, YOU HAVE THE EYE OF THE WORLD, PLEASE SEE THE WORLD SEES ONLY BEAUTY". "YOU HAVE THE EAR OF THE WORLD, BE SURE YOU FILL IT WITH MUSIC, WISDOM AND JOY."
00:25:14 1384.1	EVA SITS AT PIANO AND CONDUCTS YOUNG BLACK CORAL GROUP IN SONG. CU PAN FACE SHOTS OF BLACK MALE AND FEMALE SINGERS. EVA PLAYS AND SINGS ALONG. CU FACE SHOT OF GIRL WITH AFRO, SINGING SOLO. MALE SINGING SOLO IN DEEP BASE VOICE.