1990TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, GENERAL
Computer control room at a water and power control station.
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Film starts. Gray bar through film. Camera jumpy (around the computer room)
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| 01:00:16 16.16 |
Var shots of a Black man sitting in front of several computer terminals and talking on a hand held cord phone and taking notes.
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| 01:00:58 58.77 |
Computer screens built into the walls at a computer service desk. Jumpy camera pans the space consisting of keyboards, terminals, a large brown high back desk chair, paperwork.
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| 01:01:43 103.36 |
Color Bars
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| 01:02:13 133.15 |
Z'in on a white board with a chart that has columns, one column lists categories, "Oroville Spill", "Flood Control Release", "Delta Requirements" second column with handwritten numbers. A scratchy voice is heard over a transmitter or walkie talkie.
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| 01:03:09 189.16 |
Var. shots of a Black man working in a computer terminal cubicle with several built in computer screens, terminals and keyboards. He looks through some paperwork, takes notes and answers the phone. He eventually looks up, smiles and laughs with unseen cameraman.
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| 01:05:51 351.03 |
Jumpy camera pans the room. Another man, White man, speaking on the phone in another similar computer cubicle, surrounded by computer screens, terminals and keyboards. Behind him a wall of technology equipment takes up the entire wall.
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| 01:07:11 431.6 |
CU side shot White man talking on phone, phone is tucked under his chin as he speaks, computer screen in bkgd.
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| 01:07:42 462.23 |
CU computer screen with data displayed. Partial hand hitting keyboard keys. Pan out from the computer, hand holding a pencil is on the keyboard and points to data on the screen. Voice is heard.
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| 01:08:30 510.49 |
Var. shots of the white male computer technician in his cubicle surrounded by terminals and screens reading data, looking at the numbers on the screens, doing his job.
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| 01:09:24 564.32 |
Man standing at vintage (circa 1990s) computer data printer station. He is partially obscured but talks with unseen cameraman and states they speak with PG&E (Pacific Gag and Electric or "Edison") every hour.
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| 01:09:40 580.9 |
Z'in to CU of hand on a data printer. CU dot matrix printer, cartridge going back and forth printing out data.
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| 01:09:55 595.55 |
Several dot matrix printers lined up on a shelf.
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| 01:09:58 598.94 |
Man standing over one of the printers waiting for the information to be printed.
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| 01:10:31 631.75 |
Pan around the control room, CU male technician at his station on a cord phone and taking notes. Camera jumps then steadies. Several computer screens in the man's cubicle with data and a funky looking keyboard.
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| 01:12:32 752.3 |
Camera jumps back to the previous technician, he is at his station and explains to cameraman about how they call PG&E and Edison's control area regularly throughout the day about which way the power flows are going, loads, demands and sales. CU's and various other shots as he talks on the phone.
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| 01:18:07 1087.22 |
Return to the original Black computer technology guy in his computer terminal cubicle. He talks with unseen cameraman about what he does. He states that he takes care of water deliveries, coordinates their commitments ensuring they can meet the commitments to water and power customers.
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| 01:20:26 1226.05 |
Blank - end.
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| 01:21:04 1264.32 |
Reel fast fowards with lines going through film.
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| 01:22:09 1329.42 |
End film.
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Reel End.
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