Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: DLM-1

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00:00:07 0	LONG, OVERHEAD SHOT OF MUSICIANS SPREAD OUT ON WOODEN STAGE. GRAND PIANO, SMALL AMPLIFIERS, EIGHT OR SO MUSICIANS, BLACK AND WHITE. ONE FEMALE PERFORMER IN WHITE DRESS. AS IF SHOT FROM BALCONY OF THEATRE. WAVING TO CROWD. MID-SONG. LED BY A HOWLIN WOLF.
00:00:34 27	ZOOM IN SHOT. BAND LEAVING STAGE, TAKING BOWS.
00:01:09 62	SLEEPY JOHN ESTES AND HAMMIE NIXON. VARIOUS MID SHOTS FROM STAGE LEFT AND FROM DOWN BELOW, FRONT ROW. SOME CLOSE-UPS OF ESTES.
00:02:04 117	LIGHTNING HOPKINS BACKSTAGE PLAYING GUITAR
00:02:08 121	POORLY LIT SHOT. LIGHTNIN HOPKINS.
00:02:31 144	DRAMATIC SHOT. FROM BEHIND PERFORMER. PARTIALLY SILLOUETTED AGAINST A OVERHANGING SPOTLIGHT.
00:02:48 161	BRIEF SHOT OF WILLIE DIXON ADDRESSING AUDIENCE.
00:02:55 168	BLURRY SHOT OF SLEEPY JOHN ESTES SINGING.
00:03:20 193	LOW ANGLED SHOT OF HAMMIE NIXON PLAYING HARP.
00:03:41 214	CLOSE-UP OF MAN'S BLACK SHOE STOMPING TIME ON STAGE FLOOR. WHITE SOCKS.
00:04:10 243	HAMMIE NIXON AND SLEEPY JOHN ESTES, LOW-ANGLED SHOT. NIXON IS BLOWING INTO A JUG.
00:04:25 258	CU OF HAMMIE NIXON
00:04:30 263	HOWLIN WOLF SWINGS MIKE STAND AROUND AS HE STALKS STAGE. BLACK SUIT. EYE GLASSES. HAND HELD SHOTS AND DRAMATIC CLOSE-UPS.
00:04:55 288	LOW ANGLED SHOTS OF WOLF, EITHER SINGING OR SPEAKING TO CROWD.
00:04:59 292	SLEEPY JOHN ESTES, SUNNYLAND SLIM & OTHERS BACKSTAGE WITH CREW
00:05:00 293	BACKSTAGE. VARIOUS PERFORMERS BEING INTERVIEWED BY WHITE EUROPEANS. SIT AROUND ON CHAIRS, CHATTING.
00:05:24 317	SLEEPY JOHN ESTES BEING INTERVIEWED BACKSTAGE
00:05:41 334	SMILING LIGHTNIN HOPKINS BACKSTAGE.
00:05:47 340	WILLIE DIXON IN A BERET INTERVIEWED. CAMERA PANS TO THE RIGHT TO REVEAL HOWLIN' WOLF.
00:06:00 353	SUNNYLAND SLIM, CLIFTON JAMES, HUBERT SUMLIN BACKSTAGE
00:06:18 371	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON FIXES COLLAR ON UNIDENTIFIED BESPECTACLED CREW MEMBER'S COAT.
00:06:28 381	DEPARTURE. PERFORMERS (SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON?) LOAD LUGGAGE INTO A CLASSIC 1960s VOLKSWAGEN VAN.
00:06:39 392	POV AS CAR MOVES AHEAD OF VW VAN.
00:06:50 403	HORST MEETING WITH ALL MUSICIANS & CREW
00:06:51 404	BACKSTAGE. HIGH ANGLED WIDE SHOT OF PERFORMERS AND ORGANIZERS IN DISCUSSION, SEATED ON CHAIRS.
00:06:53 406	MID SHOT PANS SEATED PERFORMERS. GREAT, NATURAL SHOT OF GREAT BLUESMEN.
00:07:14 427	BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY ROAD SIGN, OR TRAIN STATION SIGN
00:07:28 441	LETTERS "SWF" ATTACHED TO A CORRUGATED WALL.
00:07:42 455	PANS DOWN TO READ "ERNST BECKER STUDIO"
00:07:55 468	TWO BLUESMEN ARRIVING AT STUDIO (DARK)
00:08:00 473	INTERIOR STUDIO SETTING. WOODEN, RUSTIC APPROXIMATION OF DOWN HOME SOUTHERN BLUES LOCALE, BACK PORCH. HAMMIE NIXON, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES MILL ABOUT AND SIT ON PORCH SETTING.
00:08:19 492	SOMEONE EVEN BROUGHT A DOG. IT WALKS PAST CAMERAS.
00:08:22 495	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON IN BERET ABOARD BUS. EXTREME CU. HOPKINS IN SEAT BEFORE HIM. VARIOUS PERFORMERS IN BUS INCLUDING JH BARBEE & HOWLIN WOLF. DARK, MOST FACES ARE MEAR SILLOUETTES. EUROPEAN TOWNS ROLL PAST OUTSIDE BUS WINDOW.
00:08:55 528	SLEEPY JOHN ESTES PROFILE IN WINDOW OF BUS
00:09:05 538	BLUESMEN ON TOUR BUS (DARK)
00:09:47 580	TEN BLUESMEN IN FRONT OF RESTAURANT
00:09:49 582	GROUP GATHERS ON SIDE OF STREET FOR A PORTRAIT. WOLF HOLDS UP AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR. SONNY BOY GRABS HIS LUGGAGE AND WALKS FOWARD.
00:09:58 591	ATTEMPT AT SHOOTING ALL PERFORMERS HUDDLED TOGETHER.
00:10:10 603	DISSOLVE SHOT FROM GROUP TO THE BACK OF SONNY BOY'S HEAD AS HE RIDES ON BUS. CU OF SONNY BOY WAILING ON HARMONICA. SINGING OR SPEAKING INTO MICROPHONE. COULD BE A TAPE RECORDER MIKE.
00:10:55 648	BETTER LIGHTED SHOT OF SONNY BOY ON HARMONICA.
00:11:15 668	CREW SETTING UP ON STAGE
00:11:21 674	DARK SHOT OF STAGE.
00:11:26 679	YOUNG MEN IN SUITS PURCHASING PROGRAMS FOR SHOW IN THEATRE LOBBY
00:11:30 683	CU SOMEONE PICKING UP A PROGRAM. WHITE DISH FOR COINS. YOUNG STUDENT TYPES MILLING ABOUT LOBBY BEFORE SHOW.
00:12:07 720	BOB KOESTER BACKSTAGE SMILING.
00:12:15 728	VARIOUS COUPLES PASSING BY.
00:12:44 757	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON ON STAGE SHAKING HAND OF ANNOUNCER. LOW-ANGLED SHOT FROM AUDIENCE. HE WORKS HIS WAY TOWARDS CENTER STAGE.
00:12:53 766	HUBERT SUMLIN WITH A GIBSON LES PAUL. EXCELLENT SHOT OF HIM SOLOING, FINISHING A TUNE.
00:13:19 792	CLOSE UP OF SUMLIN.
00:13:26 799	PANNING SHOT OF THEATRE FULL HOUSE. BALCONY.
00:13:47 820	HAMMIE NIXON AND SLEEPY JOHN ESTES ONSTAGE. NIXON SPEAKING TO CROWD. CU ESTES.
00:14:14 847	BRIGHT DAYTIME OF BOULEVARD. MEN SIT ON BENCH; TRAFFIC GOING BY. FOLKS GATHERED AROUND BUS STOP.
00:14:27 860	MID SHOT OF COUPLE. YOUNG SMILING WOMAN AND MIDDLE AGED MAN WITH ODD, DISFIGURED FACE, SPEAKING TO A THIRD MAN.
00:14:32 865	AN OUTDOOR AMPITHEATRE-LIKE SETTING. STAGE WITH A RAILING AROUND IT AND SHRUBBERY BELOW. PAN TO EMPTY SEATS AND LARGE BUILDING WITH COLUMNS IN BRIGHT SUNLIGHT.
00:14:49 882	PARK SCENE. STREAM. LOW-HANGING TREES. LONG WALK WAY.
00:14:58 891	EUROPEAN CITY STREET. BUSY INTERSECTION. CARS AND PEDESTRIANS. OLD EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE. VOLKSWAGEN BEETLES DRIVE BY, PRESUMABLY A GERMAN CITY.
00:15:20 913	SIDE STREET OF CITY. PEDESTRIANS WALK TOWARD CAMERA.
00:15:30 923	SUNNYLAND SLIM AND OTHER PERFORMERS SIT IN EITHER A CAFE OR PATIO.
00:15:37 930	LIGHTNING HOPKINS & CREW MEMBER OUTSIDE
00:16:02 955	HAMMIE NIXON AND SLEEPY JOHN ESTES WALKING ROUND CORNER. NIXON WITH A CANE. SIGN ON SIDE OF BUILDING READS "NEUES SCHLOB"
00:16:17 970	BUS DRIVER LEANS OVER AND UNLOCKS LUGGAGE COMPARTMENT.
00:16:19 972	CU CLIFTON JAMES AT BUS DOOR
00:16:27 980	INTERIOR OF BUS AS IT RIDES ALONG.
00:16:40 993	PAN SHOT OF GERMAN CITY. SMOKE STACKS. ROWS OF HOUSES. INDUSTRIAL. BLEAK. SUN STREAKS THROUGH SMOG.
00:17:28 1041	CLOSE UP OF YOUNG MAN ON BUS.
00:17:30 1043	INSIDE AIRPORT. WILLIE DIXON AND COMPANION HURRY ALONG WITH UPRIGHT BASS IN CASE. DIXON IS RIDING ON A SCOOTER AS HE DOES THIS! SONNY BOY, HOWLIN WOLF, CLIFTON JAMES AND OTHERS AMBLE BY.
00:17:45 1058	ABOARD PLANE. SHOT OF WILLIE DIXON LOOKING OUT PLANE WINDOW.
00:17:52 1065	DARKENED THEATRE. EXTREMELY DARK.
00:18:16 1089	NIXON AND ESTES IN PERFORMANCE. HOW FROM FRONT ROW.
00:18:40 1113	HAMMIE NIXON "HAMS IT UP". VERY ANIMATED PERFORMANCE WITH HIS JUG.
00:19:00 1133	CU OF ESTES.
00:19:25 1158	JOHN HENRY BARBEE SIGNS GUEST BOOK.
00:19:30 1163	CLOSE UP OF GUEST BOOK FULL OF SIGNATURES.
00:19:51 1184	TWO MEN AND WOMAN OUTSIDE PARKED BUS. MAN WITH VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE IN BACKROUND BOARDS BUS. DOES A COMIC TURN, FALLING.
00:20:06 1199	INSIDE BUS. HAMMIE NIXON AND ESTES SIT.
00:20:14 1207	BUS LEAVES PARKING LOT.
00:20:41 1234	HIGHWAY. ENTRANCE. TREE LINED HIGHWAY.
00:20:51 1244	NIXON AND ESTES IN HATS, STEP OFF BUS. CLIMB STAIRS TO AIRPLANE.
00:21:18 1271	LIGHTNIN HOPKINS IN LIGHT COLORED SUIT STEPS OFF PLANE. FOLLOWED BY CLIFTON JAMES, SUNNYLAND SLIM, HOWLIN WOLF, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES, WILLIE DIXON.
00:21:56 1309	QUICK, BLURRY SHOTS OF A SOUND CONSOLE.
00:22:08 1321	WILLIE DIXON & JOHN HENRT BARBEE BACKSTAGE
00:22:24 1337	JOHN ESTES AND HAMMIE NIXON ARE LED ON STAGE.
00:22:43 1356	LONG AND MID-SHOTS OF THEIR PERFORMANCE. NIXON ALTERNATES WITH AHRMONICA AND JUG. WILLIE DIXON ACTS AS EMCEE. THE DUO LEAVE STAGE AND RECEIVE STRONG RECEPTION, RESULTING IN A CURTAIN CALL AND BOW.
00:24:00 1433	OVER LIT SHOT OF (PRESUMABLY) MAE MERCER IN PERFORMANCE. LOW ANGLED SHOT OF HER IN A LONG, TIGHT WHITE DRESS.
00:24:35 1468	BLURRY SHOT OF SPOTLIGHTED PERFORMERS. POV FROM BACK OF THEATRE.
00:24:58 1491	BRIEF SHOT OF FOLKS BACKSTAGE.
00:25:01 1494	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON, LONG SHOT ON STAGE. SIDE ANGLE.
00:25:50 1543	ESTES AND NIXON IN PERFORMANCE. NIXON W. JUG.
00:26:41 1594	HOWLIN WOLF ON STAGE. STANDING WITH GUITAR. SUNNYLAND SLIM ON PIANO. SUMLIN ON GUITAR. CLIFTON JAMES ON DRUMS. WOLF AND BAND. WOLF IS QUITE ANIMATED.
00:27:44 1657	STUDIO SET. DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE INSIDE OF TAVERN. CHAIRS ARE STACKED. UPRIGHT PIANO. BAND ON A TINY BANDSTAND. WIDE SHOT OF THE HOWLIN WOLF BAND.
00:27:48 1661	OVERHEAD SHOT. CAMERAMEN AND TECHNICIANS ARE VISIBLE.
00:28:02 1675	OVERHEAD SHOT OF WOLF IN MID-SONG. ANIMATED. REELING SIDE TO SIDE WITH GUITAR.
00:28:14 1687	CLOSE UP OF WILLIE DIXON EATING AT TABLE.
00:28:25 1698	MAE MERCER & PHOTOGRAPHER STEPHANIE WIESSAND AT STUDIO. BACKSTAGE IN BLACK DRESS. CLOSE UPS.
00:28:45 1718	SHOTS OF BACKSTAGE OR AT PUB OR CAFE. ENTOURAGE EATING AND CHATTING. CLIFTON JAMES, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES
00:29:10 1743	CLIFTON JAMES, SUMLIN, ESTES AT LUNCH
00:29:47 1780	LONG SHOT OF MAE MERCER IN BLACK GOWN ON WHAT APPEARS TO BE A TELEVISION STUDIO SET. TECHNICIANS IN FOREGROUND.
00:30:00 1793	MERCER SINGS AS SONNYBOY PLAYS HARP AND CLIFTON JAMES PLAYS DRUMS BELOW IN ORCHESTRA PIT.
00:30:16 1809	CAMERA PANS IN MID-SHOT.
00:30:25 1818	SUNNYLAND SLIM PLAYS PIANO.
00:30:35 1828	TROUPE STROLLS DOWN CITY STREET. WALK THROUGH AIRPORT. DESCEND ESCALATORS. SMILING WOLF, WITH PIPE.
00:31:19 1872	SUNNYLAND SLIM, WILLIE DIXON, SLEEPY JOHN ESTES ON BUS
00:31:30 1883	BLURRY SHOT ABOARD PLANE. CU OF DIXON AND SONNY BOY. ESTES.
00:31:42 1895	CLIFTON JAMES, SONNY, MERCER, BARBEE ESTES ON BUS
00:32:53 1966	HOWLIN' WOLF & HORST ON BUS
00:33:00 1973	HAMMIE NIXON ON HARP, SINGING TO FOLKS AT BUS STATION.
00:33:18 1991	CU OF SLEEPY JOHN ESTES.
00:33:45 2018	CU OF TURNTABLE WITH VINYL LP. DELMARK RECORD LABEL. "BROKE AND HUNGRY" (A BLUES COMPILATION ALBUM).
00:33:52 2025	WILLIE DIXON BARELY FITTING INTO PHONE BOOTH, CONSULTS LITTLE BLACK BOOK.
00:34:03 2036	NIXON, ESTES, BARBEE AT AIRPORT
00:34:23 2056	IN LOBBY OR AIRPORT WAITING AREA, HUBERT SUMLIN, IN HAT, MUGS FOR THE CAMERA, POINTS FINGER, CRADLING AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR.
00:34:28 2061	CU OF WHITE WOMAN SPEAKING ON PHONE.
00:34:38 2071	SUNNYLAND SLIM AT TICKET COUNTER OF AIRPORT. GIVES WAVE.
00:34:45 2078	CU OF WOMAN'S HAND AS SHE WRITES ON PAPER. PASSPORT ON HER DESK.
00:34:56 2089	CU OF BLACK MAN'S HANDS FOLDING PAPERS OR PASSPORT. PANS UP TO SHOW SUNNYLAND SLIM'S FACE.
00:35:15 2108	HOWLIN WOLF, ESTES, SUMLIN, BARBEE, NIXON STAND AND CHAT AT AIRPORT.
00:35:31 2124	HOPKINS AND OTHER BLACK GENTLEMAN SIT IN CROWDED WAITING ROOM.
00:35:38 2131	SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON SNOOZING ON BUS.
00:35:42 2135	ESTES SLEEPING ON BUS
00:35:53 2146	WILLIE DIXON SLEEPING ON TOUR BUS.
00:36:01 2154	POV FROM BACK OF BUS LOOKING OUT TO A CAR FOLLOWING ALONG ON THE HIGHWAY.
00:36:12 2165	CLIFTON JAMES, IN SHADES AND DOO-RAG ASLEEP ON BUS.
00:36:43 2196	POV OVER DRIVER'S SHOULDER AT WINDING TOWN ROAD.
00:36:47 2200	PASSING A ROAD SIGN: "STRASBOURG."
00:37:30 2243	PULLING UP TO STATION. SIGN FOR STRASBOURG WITH BUSES IN BACKROUND.
00:37:52 2265	FRENCH FLAGS FLY IN WIND.
00:38:08 2281	STEEPLES AND TOPS OF CASTLES. STREET SCENE. OLD BUILDING IN STRASBOURG.
00:38:25 2298	SHOT LOOKS UP AT SIDE OF BUILDING. "PALIS DES FETES"
00:38:34 2307	CLOSE UP OF YOUNG WOMAN LISENING TO SLEEPY JOHN ESTES. YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN CLAPPING ALONG AS ESTES AND NIXON DO THEIR ACT ON SMALL STAGE.
00:39:50 2383	SIDE ANGLED SHOT OF TECHNICIAN WITH SOUND EQUIPMENT CONSOLE. HAS LIGHTED CIGARETTE IN HAND AS HE ADJUSTS DIALS.
00:40:00 2393	BACKSTAGE. ESTES IN VEST WITH YOUNG WOMAN. CUs. SITS WITH GUITAR AND THE YOUNG WOMAN BY HIS SIDE. ESTES & NIXON PERFORM. LARGE STUDIO MICROPHONES. APPEARS TO BE EITHER A RECORDING STUDIO OR RADIO SHOW.
00:41:01 2454	BLURRY CLOSE UP ON CONSOLE.