Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VPN-399

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00:00:02 2.64	September 23, 1992 - Cop Shoots Self, Staten Island Ferry Terminal Shots of detectives at the scene at the Staten Island Ferry terminal.
00:01:24 84.17	Sign hangs on tile subway wall for the Staten Island Ferry Maritime Museum
00:01:55 116.02	CUs NYC Emergency Service van, CSU police car and 120 Precinct police car
00:02:07 127.38	Sign on building for St. Vincents Medical Center of Richmond Emergency, the 120th precinct police van passes by in front of camera.
00:02:57 177.28	Red and white "Ambulance Entrance" sign against black bkgd.
00:03:03 183.43	Policemen and detectives hang around outside the Ambulance Entrance.
00:03:58 238.9	What appears to be family members arriving at the hospital. A woman in tears is helped out of the police car and into the hospital.
00:04:31 271.96	A police officer with a flashlight looks around for evidence, most likely a bullet casing. Shots of his feet and the light from the flashlight, pan out to the officer in plain clothes looking around on the sidewalk.
00:05:03 303.92	Cutaway presser, two police officials, commanding officers, talk to the press about the incident. An officer while on duty sustained what amounts to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head with his own gun. He is in critical condition. Other officers with him are being treated for trauma. It is still being determined whether this was an accident or not.
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00:08:34 514.1	"Brooklyn Bones" - Old Bones Found 69th Street & Ave N, Brooklyn. CU a shovel digs up dirt. Pan out to policeman with flashlight looking around in the dirt. Two officers are seen in the dark and with flashlights digging in loose dirt.
00:09:26 566.62	Pan over to a cardboard box with various pieces of bone (apparently human), then z'in.
00:10:24 624.31	Crime scene unit van parked at the scene.
00:11:18 678.59	CU on a bunch of large bones, pan out reveals the bones carefully placed in a cardboard box. XCUs on the bones.
00:12:08 728.82	Policemen with rakes and flashlights continue to dig in the loose dirt. Nighttime.
00:12:25 745.25	CU gloved hands show off a piece of bone.
00:12:27 747.63	CU 63 PCT on side door of police vehicle.
00:13:04 784.06	Street signs for Ave N and E 69 St.
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00:14:40 880.66	Fire in Strip of Retail Buildings - 86 AV and 139 St WS of a strip of retail stores, fire hoses spread out in the street, smoke from one of the stores fills the air.
00:14:55 895.98	CU thick gray smoke blows off of the roof of a retail building. Pan out reveals several one story store fronts, a Dry Cleaner, Haskel Monuments, Laundromat. A fire ladder leans against the building and firemen are seen on the roof. Onlookers crowd the streets.
00:15:41 941.88	More shots of the smoke from the roof of the building, gray smoke mixed with flames as the fire seems to be getting worse.
00:16:18 978.76	Dozens of firemen at the scene assess the situation. Pan out to WS of the firetruck with ladder extended out, firehoses spread out.
00:16:45 1005.27	Firemen on the roof of the building engulfed in gray smoke.
00:18:00 1080.4	Street signs 86 Av and 139 St
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00:18:26 1106.36	September 24, 1992 2 Alarm Fire in Apartment Building - West 140 St & Broadway, Manhattan A fireman is seen inside an aparttment building with burned out windows using his axe to break a wall.
00:18:38 1118.07	WS Two firemen in the apartment, window is broken, the bricks on the building are charred. Pan out to street a fire truck parked, some firemen sitting on a bench across the street, others near the truck, onlookers are seen down the street.
00:18:59 1139.68	Street signs above One Way sign - Broadway and W140 St
00:19:09 1149.24	WS of the brick apartment buildings, about 6 stories high.
00:19:20 1160.91	Firemen at their portable station study their notes at the scene of the fire
00:19:45 1185.06	The corner with several onlookers, a female cop holding a walkie talkie and wearing a hard hat, people leaning on the poles, and hanging out on the street, retail store in bkgd
00:20:08 1208.61	Two fire chiefs stand next to each other, look serious wearing hard hats, arms crossed. A truck passes behind them.
00:20:18 1218.72	Small diverse group of local guys, around 30ish, some smile pose for the camera, one gives the ok sign with his hand. Pan out from the small group reveals a few more guys hanging around standing in front of a parked truck with the words Shalom Chidlren's Wear.
00:20:25 1225.51	Fireman uses an axe to successfully break through what's remaining of a window frame on the apartment that was on fire. He then looks up. Pan up the apartment to top then down to retail stores below.
00:21:10 1270.61	About 10 firefighters sitting on a ledge on the sidewalk taking a break.
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00:21:45 1305.21	September 25, 1992 - Turnpike Tragedy Claims 3. New Jersey Turnpike, NJ Traffic stopped on New Jersey Turnpike both directions. Policemen, emergency vehicles, tow trucks crowd the road. Only one lane of traffic gets by.
00:23:49 1429.4	Debris from the accident litters the Turnpike. Dozens of cops and workers at the scene, along with portable lamp lights, barricades and traffic cones.
00:25:18 1518.42	A police official at the scene is interviewed by reporters. He states there were three fatalities as well as injured victims who were brought to hospitals. He explains to the best of his knowledge how it appears the accident may have occurred.
00:26:34 1594.62	Several police officers on the Turnpike at the scene of the accident are seen holding up a white sheet most likely to shield medical workers attending to injured victims or deceased victims.
00:27:15 1635.02	CU on the emergency lights flashing on the roof of a police vehicle.
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00:27:46 1666.21	More shots from the scene of the New Jersey Turnpike fatal accident. CU on the broken cement on the dividing wall, ropes, broken cement debris on the road.
00:28:14 1694.79	CU a red baseball style hat lies on the ground with a patch, "Construction Laborers Local 472" .
00:28:24 1704.07	Pan out from the hat wedged under a Colonial Foods mac truck. CU on the door which reads Colonial Foods with New Jersey address and phone numbers
00:28:36 1716.74	Smashed front end of Colonial Foods truck. z'in on the New Jersey license plate.
00:28:53 1733.48	Tilt down on a workers vest and some clothing on the ground amidst a bunch of rope.
00:29:07 1747.83	CU Bloodied debris on a roped off hole in the ground where workers may have been when the accident occurred.
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00:30:04 1804.8	Rough Ocean & Beach Erosion, Seagate, Brooklyn Shots of rough ocean waters along the coast of Seagate, waves crashing against the sea wall. Gray cloudy day.
00:33:15 1995.95	A person walks their two dogs along the rugged shoreline. Logs and large rocks and boulders are seen washed up on the beach.
00:33:45 2025.89	Broken squares of cement piled up along the seawall as waves crash
00:34:59 2099.31	WS of a lighthouse or beacon in the fog way out in the ocean. Z'in to the shoreline where a row of boulders are seen several feet out.
00:35:34 2134.26	WS of a span of most likely the Verrazano Bridge in the fog. Several long shots, the bridge in the distance, large boulders piled up on the shoreline.
00:36:52 2212.1	A duck splashes around in the ocean
00:37:14 2234.9	Var. shots of a rugged New York coastline including where homes appear to be dangerously close to the shore due to erosion with no beach left protecting them.
00:39:13 2353.81	Street signs - Beach 44 St and Atlantic Av.
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00:39:41 2381.26	Paint Factory Conflagration - Lee Ave & Lorimor St, Brooklyn Fire hoses spray down a burning building in an industrial area. Fire hoses line the street and firetrucks in the bkgd are seen with their ladders extended out.
00:40:03 2403.2	CU of the burning metal structure of a factory, the air filled with gray smoke billowing up.
00:40:27 2427.02	CU fire ladder basket extended up with two firemen in it against gray smokey sky.
00:40:41 2441.95	WS Firemen hose down the burning factory from the fire basket, extremely thick dark gray smoke fills the sky. Firemen standing on the fire truck observe. Several shots.
00:41:05 2465.38	Entirely Gray frame - from smoke.
00:41:08 2468.39	Fire ladder basket to right of frame with stream of water from the hose on the burning building. The building is entirely engulfed in dark gray smoke. Some firement on the scene observe.
00:41:27 2487.22	Fire trucks jammed on the streets looking very red against the gray smoke firemen and onlookers on the sidewalk observe.
00:41:45 2505.1	CU burned out metal framed window, visible fire burning inside.
00:42:00 2520.3	Great shots of the burning paint factory building and fire fighters at work. Lots of dark gray smoke engulfs the building and the sky, fire ladder basket shots, hose shoots water down on the building from way above.
00:43:47 2627.29	Yellow flames shoot out from the roof of the building and blow in the wind.
00:44:10 2650.5	Fire inside the building are seen from a tall broken window.
00:44:48 2688.49	CU a young boy about 8 years old, a Hasidic Jew, wearing a yarmulke and sporting long blonde side curls.
00:44:58 2698.16	Pan out from the young Hasidic Jewish boy to a large group, maybe 30, of Hasidic Jews observing the fire from a vacant field.
00:45:03 2703.16	More shots of the firemen and the burning paint factory.
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00:46:43 2802.99	Bus Accident - 17 Injured. Pennsylvania & New Lots - Brooklyn Nighttime two busses parked, some young Black kids walk by towards the camera, a bit of a commotion going on, a gurney and medic are seen by one of the busses. One bus has an advertising poster on the sign that reads, "Consenting Adults"
00:46:59 2819.58	Medics carry an injured person on a stretcher off the bus and onto a gurney, lots of onlookers. a whistling sound in the film. the victim is wheeled and placed into a waiting ambulance.
00:48:42 2922.13	Several other badly injured victims are removed on stretchers from the bus one at a time and placed in waiting ambulances.
00:51:42 3102.55	Digital display across front window of bus reads 815 Broadway.
00:51:56 3116.74	Interior shots of the bus reveal several mostly Black folk in the seats wearing neck braces as medics in the aisle work on other injured people. Continued victims being removed from the bus including a child holding a balloon.
00:53:06 3186.8	CU the face of a badly injured little Black boy on a stretcher with his head bandaged and the hand of a medic (most likely) gently rubbing his cheek.
00:53:24 3204.76	Ambulance with lights blinking slowly backs up on a rainy nioght.
00:53:40 3220.98	More shots of dozens of injured victims on stretchers carried out of the bus.
00:59:44 3584.72	Street signs Pennsylvania Avenue above Granville Payne Avenue sign and New Lots Av.
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00:59:56 3596.33	A man wearing a Bomb Squad uniform stands on the sidewalk outside the 61st Precinct Police Station. A few police officers stand at the door. Two women employees are also seen and talk to the officers, they are heard stating "...if they kicked you guys out, I sure as hell ain't going in..."
01:00:39 3639.49	CU on the words Bomb Sqd written on the side of a police van.
01:00:52 3652.35	Street signs: Coney Island Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road
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