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TEEN BOY (MIKE) WALKS HIS PAPER ROUTE CARRYING BUNDLE OF PAPERS IN CLOTH PACKET AROUND HIS WAIST, ROLLS ONE UP AND THROWS IT ON DRIVEWAY OF CUSTOMER
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| 00:32:54 10.13 |
TEEN BOY (MIKE) WRITES HOME TO HIS PARENTS AS HIS ROOMMATE LOOKS ON.
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| 00:33:07 23.13 |
MIKE'S MOM READS HIS LETTER ALOUD AS SHE SITS ON SOFA, DAD LOOKING OVER HER SHOULDER. SHE HANDS DAD PICTURE OF FAMILY OF KITTENS MIKE SENT HER. CU PHOTO OF KITTENS."THE THINGS MIKE REPORTS TO HIS FAMILY DOES NOT QUALIFY AS NEWS".
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| 00:33:34 50.13 |
MIKE ON HIS PAPER ROUTE, THROWS PAPER O9NTO PORCH, WHICH IS PICKED UP BY MAN. "THE MEMBERS OF MIKE'S CITY. ARE INTERESTED IN THEIR COMMUNITY AND THEIR WORLD, AS IF THEY WERE MEMBERS OF ONE BIG FAMILY....".
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| 00:33:58 74.13 |
CU ZOOM IN ON ARTICLE IN NEWSPAPER, "CABBIE SOUGHT AS DISEASE CARRIER". IS OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COMMUNITY. "HOW DID THIS ATORY FIND ITS WAY INTO THE COMMUNITY?"
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| 00:34:07 83.13 |
MS PAN BUSY NEWSROOM OF A BIG PENNY NEWSPAPER. :HERE WE FIND THE PEOPLE WHO GATHER THE NEWS, WRITE THE NEWS AND WHO PLAN AND DIRECT HOW IT WILL BE HANDLED". .
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| 00:34:21 97.13 |
CU EDITOR, PIPE ON MOUTH, HE DECIDES HOW MUCH OF THE STORY WILL BE PRINTED IN THE PAPER. HE HANDS A PAPER TO A REPORTER WHO IS BEST QUALIFIED TO REPORT THAT NEWS STORY.
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| 00:34:55 131.13 |
PAN DESKS OF REPORTERS WHO ARE OUT MAKING THE ROUNDS OF PLACES THAT MIGHT MAKE NEWS. BECAUSE "ALL NEWS IS NOT SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE",
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| 00:35:02 138.13 |
VARIOUS SHOTS OF PLACES THAT MAY MAKE THE NEWS INCLUDE EXTERIOR SHOT OF CITY HALL, COURT BUILDING, SCHOOL WITH KIDS PLAYING IN SCHOOL PLAYGROUND, POLICE HEADQUARTERS WITH PATROL CAR RIDING INTO UNDERGROUND GARAGE.
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| 00:35:16 152.13 |
POLICE REPORTER LOOKING FOR STORY, EXAMINES BOOK IN POLICE STATION. HE ALSO TALKS TO POLICEMEN AND POLICE CAPTAIN. HE LEARNS OF INCIDENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW HOURS. SOME BIG, SOME SMALL.
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| 00:35:58 194.13 |
CU REPORTER ON PHONE IN SPECIAL PRESS ROOM FOR REPORTERS AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS. CU POLICE TELETYPE MACHINE IN PRESS ROOM BRINGS THE REPORTER THE SAME BULLETIN GOING TO DIFFERENT POLICE STATIONS.
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| 00:36:09 205.13 |
CU RADIO RECEIVER ON WALL BRINGS REPORTER ALL THE POLICE CALLS COMING INTO STATION. "A REPORTER MUST DECIDE WHICH STORY HIS EDITOR WILL CONSIDER WHAT NEWS IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO PRINT".
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| 00:36:25 221.13 |
CU POLICE RADIO ON WALL REPORTS,OF CAB DRIVER WHO TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, A MISSIONARY WORKER FROM AFRICA, WITH A POSSIBLE CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. IT DESCRIBES THE CAB DRIVER AND CAB COLOR. CABBIE MAY BE CARRYING THE DISEASE.
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| 00:36:42 238.13 |
CU REPORTER QUICKLY ON PHONE TRIES TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON WHAT HE HEARD. HE THEN INFORMS HIS EDITOR.
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| 00:36:56 252.13 |
CU EDITOR PICKS UP PHONE, MAKES DECISION ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT THIS NEWS. HE TURNS POLICE REPORTER TO A RE-WRITE MAN, TO GET OUT AN IMMEDIATE SHORT REPORT FOR THE 1ST ADDITION. NS REWRITE MAN TYPES REPORT.
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| 00:38:05 321.13 |
CU REPORTER MAKES PHONE CALL. "A REPORTER MAY EASILY LEARN THE FACTS WITHOUT LEAVING THE NEWS ROOM". HE CALLS CONTACTS AT THE HEALTH DEPT., POLICE, AND OTHERS.
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| 00:38:45 361.13 |
REPORTER SPEAKS TO EDITOR AFTER LEARNING THE CAB DRIVER HAD CONTACTED SMALL POX, A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. A COMMAND POST IS SET UP AT THE HEALTH DEPT. TO CONDUCT THE MANHUNT FOR THE CAB DRIVER.
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| 00:39:06 382.13 |
REPORTER SHOWS A LIST OF PEOPLE THE MISSIONARY HAD CONTACT WITH, NOW NUMBERING IN THE HUNDREDS, AND MAY GO INTO THE THOUSANDS.
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| 00:39:12 388.13 |
MONTAGE MS PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE VISITS HOME OF PROSPECTIVE VICTIMS. MS POLICE OFFICER STOPS CAB IN EFFORT TO FIND INFECTED CAB DRIVER WHO PICKED UP MISSIONARY.
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| 00:39:29 405.13 |
PASSENGER LIST OF AIRPLANE WHICH MISSIONARY TRAVELED IS ALSO CHECKED. PEOPLE SCATTERED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY MUST BE FOUND.
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| 00:39:56 432.13 |
"THIS IS NO LONGER A LOCAL STORY". CU A TAPE PUNCHED WITH HOLES SENDS TELETYPE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. MONTAGE TELETYPE MACHINES SPREAD THE NEWS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
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| 00:40:10 446.13 |
CU SIGNS "UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL" AND "ASSOCIATED PRESS". CU PHOTOGRAPH SENT BY WIRE, SENT TO 800 MEWS OUTLETS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY..
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| 00:40:40 476.13 |
TV NEWSROOM STAFF AT TYPEWRITERS ALSO COVERING THE STORY. CU POLICE RADIO RECEIVER RIGHT AT THE TV NEWSROOM BLARES OUT POLICE REPORTS.
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| 00:41:29 525.13 |
MONTAGE VARIOUS RADIO NEWSROOM REPORTERS BROADCASTING THE NEWS. ONE OF WHOM SAYS THAT THERE ARE NO KNOWN CASES OF SMALLPOX IN THE AREA WHERE THE MISSIONARY CAME FROM AND NO WHERE ELSE.
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| 00:42:44 600.13 |
NEWSMAN REPORTS THAT THE CABBIE IN QUESTION AND BROUGHT TO HOSPITAL TO BE VACCINATED..
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| 00:43:35 651.13 |
MS LONG LINE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN BEING VACCINATED AGAINST SMALL POX, AS TV CAMERAMAN TAKES SHOTS. THIS MAKES TV AUDIENCE "EYE WITNESS" TO THE EVENT.
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| 00:44:06 682.13 |
IN TV CONTROL ROOM , TECHNICIANS SELECT WHAT WILL BE AIRED BY WATCHING A NUMBER OF TV CAMERAS WITH VARIETY OF NEWS STORIES PROJECTED.
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| 00:44:27 703.13 |
TV NEWSMAN REPORTS NEWS AS TV CAMERAMAN TAKES THE SHOTS. HE REPORTS THAT THE CABBIE IN QUESTION KNEW THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR HIM, BUT HE WAS IN FEAR OF LOSING HIS JOB IF HE CAME FORWARD.
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| 00:45:54 790.13 |
TV REPORTER REPORTS THAT LATTER TESTS GY DEPART. OF HEALTH REPORTS THAT THE DIAGNOSIS OF SMALL POX WAS IN ERROR. INSTEAD THE DEASE WAS REALLY CHICKEN POX, A MILDER LESS SERIOUS DISEASE.
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| 00:46:06 802.13 |
MS PRESSES ROLLING. HEADLINE IN NEW STORY, "VICTIMS OF SMALLPOX HAD CHICKEN POX".
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| 00:46:29 825.13 |
CROWDS OF NEWSMEN WITH VARIETY CAMERAS TAKE SHOTS AS IMPORTANT POLITICAL FIGURE (LBJ ?)EXITS BUILDING WITH HIS ENTOURAGE, FOLLOW HIM AS HE SHAKES HANDS WITH PEOPLE. .
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Year: 1952
Color: Black & White
Genre: COMMUNICATIONS
Specialty CollectionGenre: COMMUNICATIONS
Description: GETTING THE NEWS (1952). FILM TELLS HOW NEWS S GATHERED, AND HOW BOY ON PAPER ROUTE IS PART OF THAT DELIVERY SYSTEM. TV AND RADIO NEWS BROADCASTS STORY OF FOREIGNER IS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL BY CAB, IS DIAGNOSED IN ERROR WITH SMALLPOX. CREATING BIB NEWS STORY ..
