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1950s news stories - Florida
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Military men practice climbing up a pole. Military man seen strapping equipment onto another officer, officer climbing pole straps himself to the pole and climbs up demonstrating while other officers watch.
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| 01:00:49 49.27 |
Military men seen lined up outside a building some women and children are seen. Woman holding small child, military man gives him a kiss.
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| 01:01:01 61.44 |
Military men marching toward camera then seen boarding a waiting train. Some women and children at the station but strangely behind some bars, or sort of a barrier.
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| 01:01:10 70.21 |
sign on building for Duval County Armory
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| 01:01:11 71.75 |
Footage of military vehicles driving around on a military base. A long line of trucks coming onto base with tarp like covers and some pulling small trailers. Military men in a jeep drive by smile and wave at camera.
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| 01:01:35 95.75 |
Ws of the Army base, an emergency truck with large red cross is seen, palm trees in bkgd. Men gathered around on base and walking around, jeep parked on street and military man is seen carrying a large suitcase.
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| 01:01:45 105.25 |
Letters on building Imeson Airport - the airport serving Jacksonville, FL from 1927 till its close in 1968. The United States Army Airforce controlled this airfield during World War II.
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| 01:01:49 109.01 |
WS a line of military men boarding a National Airlines plane parked on the airfield. Families with children watching and kids waving as plane takes off.
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| 01:02:15 135.65 |
Large banner on building reads "Nixon - Lodge". An toy model of an elephant (symbolizing the Republican Party) seen in shop window with Nixon-Lodge bumper stickers lining the window on the bottom. This was promo for the 1960 Presidential election in which Nixon lost to John F. Kennedy
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| 01:02:22 142.92 |
Huge B&W poster of Richard Nixon - 1960
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| 01:02:28 148.02 |
Republican Campaign Headquarters Opening: People outside placing peel and stick signs (like bumper stickers) on windows of Republican headquarters building. Shots inside Republican headquarters 1960s. Tables with bumper stickers in boxes. Women standing at table with Nixon Lodge signs and basket of buttons.
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| 01:02:51 171.86 |
American flag being raised. Man on snare drum and trumpet player. group of police officers salute. American flag blowing in the wind.
Film has white tint |
| 01:03:03 183.07 |
Dedication ceremony (unknown) woman wearing white gown and sash (can only see 1959 written on sash) with a gentleman cutting a ribbon, Onlookers in bkgd.
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| 01:03:49 229.71 |
Call House Raided: Nighttime - police officers seen entering a home.
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| 01:03:53 233.82 |
Car(parked) with open car door has large white star painted on it. Sheriff's vehicle?
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| 01:03:56 236.54 |
Well dressed folk coming out of home at night. Women escorted by police officer to waiting car. Two young women getting into parked police car - woman covering her face with her purse. Car arriving at police headquarters women covering their faces being escorted in.
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| 01:04:17 257.59 |
Police car arriving at police department entering secured area. Women covering their faces as they are escorted by police officers into building..
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| 01:04:26 266.2 |
Cutaway - Large sign on the Hotel Roosevelt building awning.
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| 01:04:29 269.29 |
Folk seated at long tables in a conference room. Man at podium. People listening to what he has to say.
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| 01:04:39 279.17 |
Cutaway. Jacksonville, FL city bus turning corner of busy street. Vintage cars parked. Palm trees and tall buildings. Sign on building for Morrison's. WS city street - Grants Department store.
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| 01:04:52 292.84 |
CU shot Jacksonville, FL city bus going by - Writing on bus "The Downtowner" with hours and information listed.
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| 01:05:00 300.04 |
Vintage "Hotel Roosevelt" sign on building - this is a historic building built in 1925-26 in Jacksonville, Florida.
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| 01:05:01 301.33 |
Florida Legislature Meets - businessmen seen seated in a conference room auditorium style taking and reading notes
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| 01:05:32 332.02 |
Elderly Black Man killed - police officers at the seen of a crime on a highway.
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| 01:05:42 342.65 |
A shoe on the street and seemingly some drops of blood.
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| 01:05:44 344.96 |
CU front end of a vintage Ford with a license plate that simply says "Florida", windshield appears to be shattered. Another side shot of vehicle, steering wheel is seen and shattered windshield, z'out from car reveals a dead body lying on the highway.
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| 01:05:57 357.67 |
Cutaway. Copper Fishing Boat Rescue - CU a Navy helicopter in the air
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| 01:06:04 364.61 |
Two helicopters seen landed in a field. Car parked off to the side of a dirt road.
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| 01:06:07 367.54 |
WS of a Navy helicopter in a field, door open and a man is seen talking with the pilot, high rise buildings in bkgd.
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| 01:06:17 377.71 |
Various shots from same open field. Helicopter in bkgd and men gathered around conferring with each other, shots of the parked helicopter. CU of large hook and pulleys.
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| 01:06:34 393.98 |
Group of small motor boats docked in the water, skyline in bkgd. Boats docked along a shoreline, bridge in bkgd.
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| 01:06:46 406.71 |
Tilt down on a small boat docked in the water with a skull and cross bones flag. Flag flapping in the wind.
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| 01:06:56 416.07 |
Cutaway. Girl dressed in white gown and wearing a banner and crown smiles at camera and cuts a large ribbon, onlookers behind her.
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| 01:07:06 426.51 |
St. Augustine, Florida Anniversary celebration:
Small parade through St. Augustine led by some military man and men dressed as Spaniards , a horse drawn buggy going by, onlookers at a park. |
| 01:07:18 438.65 |
Tilt down on outdoor audience applauding - late 1950's.
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| 01:07:23 443.59 |
Man and woman dressed in costumes - looking like gypsy's - at a table cutting a large cake shaped like a fort. Men in vintage Spaniard get ups.
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| 01:07:33 453.01 |
Row of columns on what looks like a government building
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| 01:07:33 453.59 |
Father/Daughter Reunion - 'Trains loading' sign and track numbers at a passenger station. Passenger train speeding through station and coming to a stop. People waiting, camera focusing on a particular gentleman anxiously looking at the train.
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| 01:07:43 463.75 |
Conductor looking out from his car on the train
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| 01:07:45 465.56 |
Man waiting at station, holding a handkerchief to his face. Tall and pretty young woman walking through the crowd, reaches the man and excitedly embraces him. They walk out of the terminal, their backs to the camera, arms embraced.
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| 01:08:03 483.66 |
Older woman and pretty younger blonde woman standing outside train terminal. Same man with the girl from the train approach, the man hands the girl to the oder woman and they hug tightly.
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| 01:08:15 495.41 |
Cutaway. Post Office Robbery White House Florida.
Woman walking out of a rural white clapboard post office |
| 01:08:19 499.52 |
Woman at old fashioned desk in post office talking with man. Shots of an old fashioned heavy duty safe with door wide open (dark footage). Man standing at mail slots inside the post office, mail iis seen in the individual slots.
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| 01:08:41 521.38 |
Cutaway. Sailor Motorcycle. CU shots of a completely mangled motorcycle. A tire is discernible amidst mangled metal. Police officers dragging the parts away
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| 01:08:56 536.05 |
Sign on what looks like the bumber of a chekered van or vehicle, reads: "Check-R-Board. Jacksonville, FLA."
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| 01:09:00 540.08 |
CU a completely shattered windshield, huge hole above driver's side.
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| 01:09:07 547.39 |
Sheriff's Department emblem - St. John's County
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| 01:09:09 549.11 |
WS Purina Chows parked van with checkerboard design.
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| 01:09:12 552.93 |
Cutaway, unidentified official speaking from his desk into camera. Ragged black edges around the frame.
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| 01:09:13 553.34 |
Historic looking old building, traffic and peds going by.
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| 01:09:53 593.16 |
Int. wide shot from behind audience of a conference room. People on chairs facing a long dais at the front of the room. Room is dark with light coming in from tall windows.
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| 01:09:54 594.05 |
Vintage automobile pulling into gas station in town, vintage gas pumps are seen. Man pumping gas.
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| 01:10:01 601.5 |
CU on gas pump reads .75. Those were the days!
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| 01:10:04 604.86 |
Two tone vintage car pulls up to gas pumps. Man kneeling pumping gas into cool vintage car.
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| 01:10:11 611.23 |
WS conference room. A meeting going on. Men sitting at head table at a long table on a dais and man standing at podium in front of dais.
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| 01:10:11 611.93 |
A close up on a vintage 1950's Sinclair gas pump.
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| 01:10:27 627.49 |
Building with the letters "Baymar Building 133"
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| 01:10:36 636.31 |
Tilt down, hands signing a document.
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| 01:10:45 645.75 |
CU talking head male seated speaking into mic. Looks like he's telling a story or testifying rather than giving a speech
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| 01:11:25 685.34 |
Sewer Projects: Scenes of a flooded street, large pipes are seen and hoses in the water. Water being flowing out of a hose into a body of water.
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| 01:11:38 698.83 |
A wet dog looking out over a body of water. Water flowing out of pump.
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| 01:11:45 705.23 |
Tilt down on a sewer drain with muddy looking water flowing in from street. CU on a giant sewer pipe
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| 01:11:52 712.31 |
Shot through the hole of a sewer pipe creating a round frame - workers across a flooded street laying hoses down to drain water.
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| 01:11:55 715.03 |
Cutaway. Roosevelt Award Ceremony.
WS the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt ship, # 42. Sailor with whistle in his mouth on board ship looking out. Captain or Admiral walking by, sailors salute. |
| 01:12:09 729.05 |
Ceremony on board ship. American flag flying. Four sailors lined up holding rifles and at attention. Military marching band dressed in white seen in bkgd.
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| 01:12:12 732.5 |
Var. shots, Captain or Admiral giving speech from on board the F.D. Roosevelt ship, the number 42 painted on the ship behind him. Hundreds of sailors standing at attention. Audience seated watching ceremony.
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| 01:12:46 766.5 |
Cutaway. Vacant House Fire
Firemen at work respond to a house fire. They're seen going into a log cabin style home. Interior shots, fireman with an axe breaking down a wall. two liquor or bottles of beer sitting on kitchen sink counter. Other furnishings in home. Fireman using shovel to get rid of water. |
| 01:13:23 803.67 |
Jacksonville University Speakers:
WS speaker at podium on a stage. Others sitting in chairs on the stage A blackboard in bkgd. Audience shot. Man from audience standing. |
| 01:14:00 840.44 |
School Board and Registration:
Board Room plaque on door |
| 01:14:03 843.62 |
Interior shots board room. People in meeting. Long table on dais. Tilt down - Hand holding pencil and writing
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| 01:14:13 853.41 |
White street post stuck in the ground - "McCoys" on one side, "King" on the other
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| 01:14:15 855.93 |
Wide shot - ext. two floor industrial or office building, palm trees, and big lawn - z'over to wide dirt road and pan across the semi-wooded landscape
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| 01:14:28 868.07 |
Cutaway.
Big Registration sign with arrow pointed to Library |
| 01:14:29 869.56 |
Interior library, women at a long table collating papers lined up on table
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| 01:14:32 872.44 |
Children sitting at individual desks and reading books in the library. Book shelves lined up behind them.
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| 01:14:34 874.72 |
Street sign. Daughtry (top of sign) and Mother Hubbard Dr below.
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| 01:14:35 875.53 |
WS - Long low lying building and grounds, looks deserted and most likely was a school. Z'over and a man is seen walking along the building.
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| 01:14:41 881.45 |
White wooden sign post in the ground - Cottage Ave on one side and Dayton on the other.
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| 01:14:43 883.88 |
Poster sign, looks like it fell down, and hanging on an angle for Hyde Grove Elementary School, names of Engineers, Architechts, etc. listed
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| 01:14:46 886.52 |
WS looks like partially constructed low lying building in a field. Two men kneeling and looking at architectural building plans
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| 01:14:51 891.62 |
Plow moving dirt. Cement truck driving by in background.
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| 01:15:00 900.89 |
Cutaway. Older businessman sitting at desk in office, looking at camera. Z'in on his face as he speaks (no audio)
Black ragged edges around frame |
| 01:16:13 973.81 |
Cutaway. Large sign outside for Jacksonville Police & "Civilian" Pistol Club with
Membership dues listed. |
| 01:16:17 977.31 |
WS Outdoors - long line of people at gun (pistol) target practice.
WS people shooting pistols from target range booths outdoors. smoke from the guns as they go off. |
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POV from behind target shooter. Shooter seen aiming gun at target on the target range - outdoors.
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| 01:16:31 991.13 |
Var shots at the Pistol Match. Man writing on large board. Closer view from behind of the line of people in the shooting range.
Three men pointing their pistols and shooting at the targets |
| 01:16:38 998.32 |
POV from behind man wearing protection earmuffs shooting pistol at target on the shooting range.
Var shots men at target range. |
| 01:16:54 1014.54 |
Cutaway - Film has white tint and rough black ragged edge around frames. Cars are seen parked on a wide beach, people carrying beach chairs on the sand, people in the water. Film clears a bit - two gals in one piece swimsuits sitting on blanket in the sand
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| 01:17:01 1021.53 |
Volunteer Life Guard Station "Life Saving Corps". Life Guards seen coming out of station carrying their gear
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| 01:17:05 1025.06 |
White tint to film. Life guards seen running toward the water and carrying life saving gear
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| 01:17:10 1030.82 |
White tint to film. Dog frolicking in the water. Small child standing in the water by himself.
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End Reel - News Stories - Florida 1950's
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Year: 1950-1959
Color: Black & White
Genre: 1950s NEWSREELS
Specialty CollectionGenre: 1950s NEWSREELS
Description: 1950's NEWS STORIES (FLORIDA): NO AUDIO 1. 317 MP BATTALION 2. REP CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTER OPENING 3. DEDICATION 4. STORE LOOTED 5. CALL HOUSE RAIDED 6. CIVIC ROUNDTABLE 7. FLORIDA LEGISLATURE MEETS 8. ELDERLY BLACK MAN KILLED 9. COPPER FISHING BOAT RESCUE 10. PIRATE CRUISE FROM ORLANDO 11. ST. AUGUSTINE ANNIVERSARY 12. FATHER/DAUGHTER REUNION 13. POST OFFICE ROBBERY WHITE HOUSE FLORIDA 14. SAILOR MOTORCYCLE 15. LABOR DAY WEEKEND 16. LEGISLATORS 17. SEWER PROJECTS 18. ROOSEVELT AWARD CEREMONY 19. VACANT HOUSE FIRE 20. JU SPEAKERS 21. SCHOOL BOARD AND REGISTRATION 22. KIRKMAN 23. CHAMPIONSHIP PISTOL MATCH / POLICE VS PISTOL CLUB 24. BEACHES / LABOR DAY
Keywords: TARGET
