Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: AFC-573

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01:00:02 2.83	Footage of tiny robots or remote control objects on a small race track, they are seen crashing into objects. POV from behind - silhouettes of an audience watching the action on a screen.
01:00:09 9.8	Andy "Droid" , a small robot on a tiny three wheeler introduces himself as he steers his bike around the rink. With narration unseen who announces this is the California First Annual Robot War competition.
01:00:29 29.45	CU hands working a remote control.
01:00:32 32.35	Custom made tiny remote controlled 'road warrior' machines on a rink. A small machine in the middle of the rink spinning around with an extended 'arm' trying to knock out the competitors. Onlookers in the stands.
01:00:43 43.87	CU one one of the robots with metal spinning wheels causing sparks to fly on the rink.
01:00:45 46	WS Audience cheers
01:00:48 48.93	Live action footage of the rink - a small canon ball hanging from a chain tries to wipe out competitors.
01:00:52 52.07	Audience cheers!
01:00:54 54.35	CU hands working a remote control
01:00:56 56.6	Some audience members standing holding their ears due to the loud noise.
01:00:59 59.73	A player wearing a headset controls his robot with a remote control and long metal beam and demonstrates how the robot walks on four legs. Onlookers take photos.
01:01:16 76.51	Mark Pauline founder of Survival Research Laboratories talks with unseen interviewer at the event. He states they do extreme shows which "frankly are very weird"...
01:01:20 80.8	Footage outside Survival Research Laboratories in the parking lot. Narrator states Mark Pauline attempts to redirect science and technology away from their practical uses to live performances in what he calls socio-political satires.
01:01:24 84.64	scenes of robots performing in the parking lot of the laboratory. Fire is blasted out of a robotic canon, smoke fills the air and other robots walk around on four legs, dead chickens hang from a wall.
01:01:42 102.95	WS a remote controlled crane swinging a flaming ball back and forth.
01:01:52 112.57	Pauline in his laboratory wearing a helmet type contraption on his head with a binocular, a high pressure air launcher capable of automatically loading and firing 26 two pound beer can size projectiles. The robot is seen moving wherever Pauline looks.
01:02:03 123.39	In the parking lot of Survivor Research Laboratories, Pauline, wearing the device over his head, demonstrates to onlookers how the robot works in conjunction with the air launcher.
01:02:11 131.92	Montage of live footage of the robot, fire shooting out of it.
01:02:14 134.16	Tilt down on a wide city street where a large gathering of people are seen there to watch a demo of Mark Pauline's robots.
01:02:23 143.32	Live action demonstrations of the robots, looking like war machines. Fire spewing from them as they walk around on four legs in the parking lot.
01:02:34 154.58	Pauline talks with unseen interviewer and states they are continually trying to operate on an extreme edge, because that's where technology belongs.
01:02:48 168.99	Blank
01:03:01 181.29	Slate: Know Zone Utah Arm
01:03:08 188.09	A woman is seen hauling a bale of hay. Unseen narrator states the woman lost her arm in a farming accident. CU and its evident her right arm is artificial.
01:03:16 196.24	Cutaway to a man cutting wood in a woodshop.. Unseen narrator states he was electrocuted. CU of his prosthetic artificial hand.
01:03:22 202.14	Same woman as before, on a farm, is seen twisting her prosthetic arm into place. And CU of the man with a prosthetic hand adjusting his hand while cutting wood outside.
01:03:38 219	CU a prosthetic arm gripping a steering wheel.
01:03:42 222.27	Clip of a doctor removing the conventional prosthetic arm of a female patient, Kim Dolan.
01:03:49 229.8	cut to a laboratory in Salt Lake City, Utah where technicians work on prosthetics. Various shots in the lab, hands holding two small pins and working on a computer chip, a scientist looking through a microscope.
01:03:59 239.41	A doctor is seen assisting a patient putting on a new prosthetic, The Utah Arm. Unseen narrator states it's the most sophisticated artificial arm in the world.
01:09:46 586.81	Color Bars
01:09:53 593.92	Slate. know zone "Window Washing" 11/28/94 - Next segment
01:10:17 617.69	San Francisco Radio Reporter, Craig Miller, in an elevator steps out to an upper level floor of a high rise building. He looks out from the large glass windows overlooking San Francisco Bay. He mentions what it would be like to have to clean the windows, so up high!
01:10:34 634.92	Miller out on the balcony of the high rise, explains the methods used to clean high rise windows.
01:10:49 649.86	Miller holds up the apparatus used by window washers to repel off skyscrapers.
01:10:50 650.74	A window washer climbing down the skyscraper hanging on a rope. Shots of the man repelling down the high rise from several hundred feet up.
01:10:53 653.97	Miller with an unknown gentleman on the balcony of the high rise overlooking several other skyscrapers across the city. The man states that the windows are still easy to wash, but getting to them is another story, and the trade has expanded.
01:11:05 665.73	Two window washers on the upper floor of the high rise - one steps out onto the ledge of the buildingwhile the other manipulates the rope. A scary looking view over the parking lot from top of the building demonstrates how high up they are.
01:11:25 686	Tilt up on window washers cleaning window from a long platform way up high, a cable runs diagonally across the frame.
01:11:26 686.58	POV inside looking out as window is being cleaned with a large brush
01:11:30 690.4	Miller standing on the balcony asks a window washer what they do if they have to relieve themselves.
01:11:37 697.72	Z'in on large yellow cones on the sidewalk - "Danger Men Working Above" (a large arrow on the cone points up.
01:11:53 713.26	Miller at a new location, stands in front of a home in Oakland, California - the home of Italian immigrant, Ettore Steccone, known as the father of the modern Squeegee. Miller holds up a squeegee.
01:12:07 727.78	Interior of a squeegee manufacturing place known as the Steccone Products Company. Factory workers, men and women, at work making Squeegees.
01:12:24 744.11	Miller talks with plant manager who states the Squeegee revolutionized the window cleaning industry
01:12:41 761.49	CU a woman factory worker working with the rubber pieces that attach to the squeegee. CU boxes of rubber strips.
01:12:45 765.56	CU hands of a worker holding a bundle of Squeegee blades.
01:12:49 769.7	CU hands wearing gold wool gloves melding two pieces of Squegee together.
01:13:00 780.23	Miller sitting on a conveyor belt holds up a Squeegee and sums up his story by stating that down the road we may have "robotic" window cleaners hovering all over buildings. But there will still be a Squeegee.
01:13:19 799.47	Slate
01:13:32 812.6	B-roll. Craig Miller standing on a window washer's platform. Z'out reveals a wide shot of the platform attached to the third floor of a building in San Francisco.
01:13:49 829.5	Slate
01:13:59 839.69	WS a time lapse of a construction zone - a giant roller coaster being built in an amusement park.
01:14:10 850.82	People (only legs are seen) strapped into a ride and literally dangling and hovering from high above ground.
01:14:14 854.77	Talking head male (from Aerodynamics Corp) talking to an unseen interviewer from his office states that people will ride anything. He states the ride shown being built will be scary.
01:14:16 856.48	POV from an extremely fast roller coaster ride - the tracks whiz by and upside down.
01:14:21 861.52	WS of a looping roller coaster
01:14:24 864.84	Various shots of people riding roller coasters including the Viper at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California.
01:14:35 875.66	Camera turns round and round demonstrating what it feels like to ride the loops on the Valencia.
01:14:39 879.19	Great shot of several of the seven loops on the Valencia roller coaster.
01:14:43 883.51	POV front seat of the Raptor roller coaster in Cedar Point, Ohio - ready to plunge down. Riders seen suspended in air. POV from the ride as it loops around. Various other shots of the green tracks and structure.
01:14:58 898.63	POV front seat of a traditional steel roller coaster.
01:15:08 908.02	Same man from the Utah based Aerodynamics Corp. talks with unseen interviewer about the roller coaster industry and the competition including law suits over the tallest and fastest coasters.
01:15:12 912	B&W footage Roller coaster ride. Riders with their hands up in the air heard screaming as the coaster heads downhill.
01:15:16 916.46	Talking head male from an amusement park at the Nevada California border states they have the fastest, tallest roller coaster in the world.
01:15:21 921.05	Zoom across the desert to a big white sign with a hand drawn roller coaster - "Coming Summer 1994" Another Spectacular Hotel Casino at StateLine..."
01:15:24 924.21	Z'out from a brown barren mountain range to Buffalo Bill's Casino, with " the world's tallest roller coaster" wrapped around the casino building.
01:15:29 929.88	Various shots of the Desperado Roller Coaster - POV front seat of the ride - wide views of the surrounding desert terrain and the gigantic 209 foot lift hill and 225 foot drop straight down, and a ride through a tunnel into the mountain.
01:15:47 947.26	CU roller coaster riders with their hands up in the air
01:15:51 951.49	Computer sketch of the coaster's design from Utah based Aerodynamics Company.
01:16:00 960.17	Man from Aerodynamics continues talking with unseen interviewer about how the company began designing on the computer 4 years ago, before that it was all done by hand.
01:16:07 967.18	Workers in the factory seen building the trains for the coasters, sanding the pieces and constructing the fiberglass trains. The cars with no engines are seen on the tracks as gravity pulls them down the tracks.
01:16:49 1009.73	Various shots of different roller coaster rides and riders with their hands up in the air enjoying every minute.
01:17:16 1035.98	Color Bars
01:17:23 1043.77	Slate: Know Zone - Craig Miller
01:17:31 1051.06	CU hands with a red laser beam shining on the palm. Laser beams.
01:17:40 1060.78	Craig Miller sitting outside on steps of his porch next to his barbecue grill holds up a giant pair of garden scissors and introduces his topic, lasers - and how they have found their way into everyday gadgets.
01:17:53 1073.63	Montage of laser uses today - CD player with a disc, a hospital operating room, dentist working on a patient - being Craig Miller whose trying to talk while dentist works on him. supermarket cash register .
01:18:33 1113.63	Miller in a workshop, standing near a power saw - he states laser guided saws were not successful.
01:18:51 1131.49	Miller standing in a kitchen states there's always a laser to do a job - he demonstrates several examples, he holds up two soup cans - laser can opener, he is seen at a barber shop getting a shave from laser guided hair clippers, laser curb feelers for your vehicle.
01:19:31 1171.43	Man (presumably Miller) raking leaves in his yard, gets frustrated and swings the rake at a tree branch overhead.
01:19:45 1185.43	Miller standing in front of a large film shot of a giant roller coaster ride. He states that it was designed in the 1920's designed simply and holds up a jack hammer.
01:20:03 1203.53	Miller sitting at his desk looks at his 1990's model computer screen and states ..."there's something to be said for smarter people and dumber machines, technology up to a point"..he points a laser pen at the camera.
01:20:27 1227.47	Next segment. WS of a dark theater., POV from back of theater, behind audience. Photo of a deer on a screen, robots roam the stage. "On Broadway Theatre March 6, 1984" overlay. A robotic dinosaur stands on two legs with his head spinning around
01:20:35 1235.33	A robotic dinosaur stands on two legs with his head spinning around. Mechanical equipment and technician on the stage. A line up of heads of fake prehistoric animals on the stage as robotic machinery with mechanical arms grabs the heads. Weird!
01:22:17 1337	End reel.