1900-1940CELEBRITIES
Documentary biography on the life of entertainer, Will Rogers - with footage from the early 1900's to mid 1930's of U.S. history. Footage of Will as a lasso throwing cowboy, scenes from the Prohibition and Jazz era, trip to Europe and the Soviet Union, Alaska; the Great Depression
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Reel Opens - Will Rogers - a few black lines going through initial frame.
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| 01:00:04 4.6 |
Will Rogers, Actor, Vaudeville Performer riding along with some others, in an open air car, convertible, American Flag flying and draped on back seat. Circa mid 1930's
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| 01:00:18 18.38 |
Rogers at an outdoor event, hand up in the air as if making a point, laughing, smiling.
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| 01:00:21 21.97 |
Aerial political parade in Hollywood, nighttime, 1932, floats lit up, lights beaming down
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| 01:00:41 41.55 |
Tilt down on huge crowd of seemingly all men because all that is seen is the tops of their hats!
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| 01:00:44 44.17 |
Will Rogers making jokes to large crowd and introducing then candidate for President, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 01:02:03 123.83 |
Prop plane circa 1930's landing on runway, crowd of people watching the landing.
Faded tint to film. A swarm of people running across airfield toward plane to see Will Rogers. |
| 01:02:16 136.9 |
Tilt down on crowd from behind, all hats no faces. Will Rogers surrounded by a crowd of folk speaking to an unknown man in uniform.
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| 01:02:22 142.48 |
Cutaway to long line of folk walking past extremely long table and chairs set up for the dedication of the Coolidge Dam in Arizona, flags draped along back wall. Line of hundreds of people stretching way back along the hills in bkgd.
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| 01:02:28 148.11 |
Ex-President Calvin Coolidge at outdoor dedication ceremony puffing on a long pipe given to him by an American Indian standing by.
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| 01:02:37 157.38 |
Rogers at the outdoor dedication ceremony speaking into mic and making political jokes about the Ex-President Calvin Coolidge.
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| 01:03:37 217.81 |
Pan from top down on radio tower.
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| 01:03:46 226.82 |
People sitting in living room of home listening to vintage '30's radio. Floral wallpaper, man wearing knickers, man smoking pipe, woman on sofa reading book
Vintage radio console with strange looking clock on top. |
| 01:03:51 231.48 |
Rogers in living room setting, standing doing his radio show, telling mostly political jokes and stories
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| 01:04:08 248.03 |
Couple sitting on living room chairs real close to their vintage radio and turning the dials
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| 01:04:31 271.55 |
CU beautiful vintage circa 1930's radio
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| 01:06:01 361.55 |
Pan up to top of tall radio tower
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| 01:06:04 364.13 |
Pan 1930's movie audience, full house. Men are wearing suits and ties. Tilt down on audience applauding.
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| 01:06:10 370.72 |
Rogers up on the movie screen in a clip from one of his movies.
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| 01:08:15 494.96 |
LS a home in the country in the distance, lots of land in fgd., trees surrounding home
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| 01:08:20 500.64 |
WS large white farm house with crooked wooden fence in fgd. Roger's home in Oklahoma on Indian territory. POV from behind the fence, vast acres of mostly barren land
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| 01:08:28 508.53 |
B&W photo still Will Roger's father. CU on his face
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| 01:08:37 517.68 |
B&W photo still Roger's grandmother, clearly showing Indian strain
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| 01:08:43 523.77 |
Var B&W photo stills young Will Rogers in a military style uniform, other photos from military school he attended, including a photo where he and a friend are holding playing cards and pointing handguns at each other.
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| 01:09:15 555.22 |
Pan across B&W photo still of seven lovely sisters, circa early 1900's or earlier, the Blake girls, Will's "Lovely" companions.
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| 01:09:29 569.48 |
CU photo of Betty Blake, Will's wife. Other great B&W stills of Will as a young man.
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| 01:09:44 584.6 |
WS cattle out on the range in most likely Argentina or South Africa, dog chasing cowboy on horse, cowboys on horses including Rogers.
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| 01:10:01 601.41 |
Fade to dark
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| 01:10:03 603.71 |
Footage of Texas Jack's Wild West Circus parade, very early 1900's, hundreds of cowboys on horses, stagecoaches, indians, indian teepees, indians in native costumes dancing, audience shots. Narrator unseen explains how Will joined this circus thus began his show business career.
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| 01:10:34 634.55 |
Rodeo shots from early 1900's. Cowboys in the arena chasing and roping cattle, cowboy holding onto bull's hors and being dragged, cowboy riding bull and smashing dummy man. Cowboys in the audience cheering.
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| 01:10:49 649.39 |
Shots of Will Rogers riding the bucking broncos and getting thrown. According to unseen narrator is now known as "Cherokee Kid"
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| 01:11:02 662.03 |
Shots of Will on horseback on the range, riding fast and roping cattle with his lariat, doing tricks with the lariat, roping horses with amazing tricks as they run past him, showing off his unbelievable lariat prowess. He became known as the "Roping Fool" and the "champion lasso thrower of the world".
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| 01:12:20 740.88 |
B&W photo stills ,circa 1907, Will Rogers with his lariat
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| 01:12:28 748.78 |
CU on a program with Will Rogers on the lineup billed as expert lariat thrower on horseback. Orpheum program with Will Rogers billed as The Oklahoma Cowboy". early 1900's
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| 01:12:44 764.93 |
Times Square and Broadway nighttime early 1900's, var neon signs - Ziegfeld Follies, Macy's, Coca Cola
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| 01:12:51 771.39 |
Well dressed folk going to theater on Broadway early 1900's, men wearing top hats and tuxedos, women in long coats, fancy dresses and hats
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| 01:13:03 783.23 |
Int audience at Broadway theatre show.
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| 01:13:07 787.4 |
Montage of photo stills - the Ziegfeld Follies gals on stage, posing in groups, close ups on their beautiful faces.
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| 01:13:34 814.4 |
Photo still of Will Rogers holding his lariat and posing on stage with the Ziegfeld Follies girls on stage. CU on Will Roger's face winking.
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| 01:13:39 819.36 |
Var photo stills, Fanny Brice, Marilyn Miller, W.C, Fields posing withe the girls a flower tucked behind his ear, CU Eddie Cantor.
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| 01:14:01 841.19 |
Montage of more photos, Will with the Follie gals, pan photo of the girls posing hands under their chins, cu's on Will, Will holding lariate around girl's neck, var oithger photos of the Ziegfeld gals.
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| 01:15:06 906.57 |
Fade out from photos to the busy streets of New York City in the early 1900's, peds, trolley cars, vintage cars and traffic.
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| 01:15:24 924.55 |
Early newspaper headlines about the war, the Daily Eagle "America Remains Neutral"; z'in on the classic Uncle Sam poster - "I Want You....enlist Now"
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| 01:15:32 932.63 |
Getting ready for war...Footage of men gathered on sidewalk wearing suits and carrying suitcases and holding American flags getting ready to go to war. Men marching along on dirt road wearing civilian clothes carrying their luggage.
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| 01:15:41 941.55 |
Soldiers walking past row of barracks, some waving. Men training for war, doing exercises, digging narrow trenches, practicing with bayonets, marching in formation
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| 01:16:07 967.13 |
President Woodrow Wilson standing by window looking pensive, sitting in his chair laughing. Unseen narrator states Woodrow Wilson was the first President Will Rogers ever made laugh.
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| 01:16:23 983.32 |
Vintage automobiles driving out of gated area, could be white house.
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| 01:16:26 986.57 |
President Woodrow Wilson in Europe at end of WWI speaking with other dignitaries.
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| 01:16:40 1000.88 |
Old ship with hundreds of soldiers waving, American flag flying, soldiers looking out from top level of ship, heads hanging out of portholes and waving
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| 01:16:45 1005.94 |
Packed crowd of people waving flags welcoming soldier home from war, folk standing on outside ledge of tall building looking down at parade of soldiers marching down the street.
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| 01:16:54 1014.28 |
Tilt down on soldiers carrying bayonets marching down city street, audience is a sea of hats.
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| 01:16:57 1017.21 |
Cute little boy waving American flag as soldiers march by.
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| 01:16:58 1018.6 |
Var other footage, to the music of "Johnny Comes Marching Home", of returning World War 1 soldiers marching down the streets, huge crowd welcoming them, big parade of vintage open air automobiles , women in nurses uniforms, dancing in the streets with soldiers.
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| 01:17:12 1032.82 |
Fade to dark
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| 01:17:15 1035.31 |
Fast forward to the 1920's Prohibition and the Jazz Age montage- couples dancing the Charleston, streamers coming down off balcony as folks party and dance like its New Year's Eve, scantily clad woman dancing around wildly on stage.
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| 01:17:38 1058.57 |
More party time shots of the Jazz and Prohibition era. Jazz orchestra performing, feet of dancers doing the Charleston, shots of horn players in the orchestra, drummer drumming wildly.
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| 01:17:40 1060.67 |
Silhouettes of four dancers on stage doing the Charleston
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| 01:17:52 1072.41 |
CU hands rolling champagne bottle in bucket, hands on cork of champagne bottle popping it open. CU champagne being poured into champagne glass, hand on keys of saxophone, people dancing, drink being poured into glass next to bottle of Bourbon Whisky, bartender mixing drink, people partying and drinking alot of booze.
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| 01:18:11 1091.63 |
Large coins dropping onto cash box, hand on keys of cash register, TL paper money stacking up next to stacks of large coins, jewels overlay dollar bills fluttering down.
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| 01:18:19 1099.53 |
Shadow of a handgun. Hand firing shotgun, man shot, falls to the ground in a seemingly dark alley or street. Narrator unseen talking about "gang warfare"
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| 01:18:26 1106.09 |
Throngs of people, mostly men wearing hats in the streets and sidewalks of city, only tops of cars can be seen
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| 01:18:29 1109.63 |
CU's American gangster, John Dillinger
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| 01:18:37 1117.77 |
Throngs of people in front of Chicago police station as gangster, Al Capone, wearing a three piece suit and hat, walks out confidently and gets into waiting vintage car
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| 01:18:53 1133.11 |
Pan across B&W photo still of Will Rogers standing in the midst of dozens of folk, family and neighbors, from his home town in Oklahoma. Unseen narrator states, Will Rogers called them "the Big Moral Majority" and they remained untouched by the frenzied Jazz Age.
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| 01:19:07 1147.05 |
Clips from silent Will Rogers' movie
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| 01:19:25 1165.1 |
Man behind vintage movie camera, manually turning the wheel quickly, while filming a scene for a silent movie
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| 01:19:28 1168.59 |
Clips from some of the dozens of Rogers' silent films
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| 01:20:39 1239.98 |
Behind the scenes of the filming of a silent film. Vintage camera on tripod, men in director's chairs. WS on the set, canvas chairs with names on the back.
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| 01:20:51 1251.16 |
Neon theater marquis and signage for the RKO Mayfair nighttime New York City. Flashing neon signs announcing "talkies"
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| 01:21:04 1264.96 |
Flashing neon for Will Rogers' talkie film, "They Had to See Paris".
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| 01:21:11 1271.63 |
Clips from Rogers' first talkie film in 1929
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| 01:23:15 1395.8 |
Vintage car driving down pPalm tree lined street in Hollywood. Narratior unseen stating Rogers' moved there and lived the "Hollywood Royalty" lifestyle. Mansion up on a hill with playground below and in ground pool.
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| 01:23:30 1410.6 |
Will Rogers playing polo in Los Angeles
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| 01:23:42 1422.51 |
Rogers' horse stables on his property in Hollywood. Will and his three children riding horses around track standing up.
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| 01:23:53 1433.02 |
Rogers' kids tumbling doing somersaults and tricks on outdoor mat, Will watching as his kids diving into their big in ground pool
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| 01:24:07 1447.95 |
Log cabin bunk house Rogers' had built on his Santa Monica estate. Will's three children coming out of cabin followed by their dog.
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| 01:24:15 1455.09 |
Stage theater in basement of Rogers' home, mom watching the kids perform and claps as they bow and walk off stage. Rogers performs with his lariat for the family.
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| 01:24:47 1487.44 |
Rogers at home enjoying dinner with family, reading the newspaper, sitting at his desk writing articles for his daily column.
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| 01:25:47 1547.8 |
Fade to dark.
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| 01:25:50 1550.53 |
Giant passenger steam ship at dock. Folk walking up the United States Lines gangplanks. Rogers on board the ship, poses for camera motioning to come on.
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| 01:26:00 1560.75 |
Giant smoke stack of ship billowing white smoke
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| 01:26:04 1564.65 |
Steamship with passengers aboard pulling away from harbor, three large smoke stacks and an American flag. Folk in harbor watching as ship pulls away.
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| 01:26:16 1576.09 |
The Palace of Westminster in London, POV from ship
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| 01:26:18 1578.5 |
Bustling downtown London scene, double decker busses, traffic, theater signage for "On with the Dance", peds, traffic. Narrator unseen talking about Rogers being right at home in London, became friends with Prince of Wales and Lady Astor, but didn't like the coffee!
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| 01:26:24 1584.59 |
Rogers' on a foggy day in London pointing to Palace of Westminster behind him across the River Thames.
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| 01:26:29 1589.29 |
Rogers' walking across street to quaint building "the Old Curiosity Shop"
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| 01:26:35 1595.71 |
The Queen's Guard marching band. Rogers standing next to a Guard, Guard remains looking straight ahead.
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| 01:26:52 1612.92 |
Montage of Rogers meeting different people in various cities he visited in Europe, talking with folk, posing with kids on the street. Unseen narrator quotes Rogers' "I never met a man i didn't like"...
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| 01:27:13 1633.63 |
Dozens of adorable little kids lined up on the sidewalk posing for camera.
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| 01:27:29 1649.22 |
Rogers, hanging out the window of a moving passenger train, reaching out and shaking folk's hands as train pulls away
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| 01:27:44 1664.14 |
Hand holding pamphlet "The International Aerial Time Table"
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| 01:27:46 1666.84 |
Rogers boarding a prop driven bi-plane.
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| 01:27:55 1675.36 |
Scenes in the Soviet Union from the mid 1920's. A line of horse drawn sleds loaded with goods driving down snow covered streets, folk on horse drawn passenger sleds, peds walking about, peds carrying their goods in sacks - bustling snowy city
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| 01:28:20 1700.92 |
Women shoveling snow clearing streets in the city. More horse drawn sleds going down city streets, folk walking in large group wave at camera, people sitting around a fire in middle of city. Unseen narrator states Will told his American readers, "it seems like the whole idea of Communism...is based on propaganda and blood. Russia is starving their own people to feed propaganda to the world."
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| 01:28:34 1714.79 |
Montage of the austere conditions in Russia - overly crowded area with filled with wagons and camels, natives posing holding the reins of a camel, child posing in front of the large head of a camel, huts lined up along muddy streets in the ghetto, lone horses trudging through wide street of thick mud, dilapidated wooden huts, peasants posing for camera
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| 01:29:06 1746.05 |
Int. Russian factory, workers men and women working on machinery, man helping woman with machine, spinning wheel on equipment, male workers together working on the parts to a vehicle.
With unseen narration, narrator states that Will discovered the people in Russia worked together and no man ever objected. |
| 01:29:21 1761.72 |
Ext. line of tractors and farm vehicles moving along on the flatbed cars of a train.
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| 01:29:30 1770.59 |
The faces of the hardcore Soviet workers, men and women - man smoking a cigarette and spitting, woman wearing a head covering
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| 01:29:38 1778.72 |
Montage of farm tractors and machinery - A long line people driving tractors through rough muddy terrain, tilt down on rows of tractors dragging rotary hoes across a field
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| 01:29:47 1787.4 |
Tilt down WS of Russian farm workers manually bailing hay in a large field
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| 01:29:53 1793.53 |
Hay being manually thrown by fork shovels into waiting vehicle.
Narrator unseen quotes Rogers' "...those people are going somewhere and we better watch out while they're on their way..." |
| 01:29:54 1794 |
Blurry shots hay flying through the air and landing in dump truck. CU hay piled up in truck
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| 01:29:59 1799.06 |
Classic shot of a group of Russian farm workers walking together holding sickles on long sticks
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| 01:30:03 1803.56 |
Sunrise through some clouds over body of water
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| 01:30:11 1811.21 |
Will Rogers being interviewed by the press about his trip abroad, surrounded by folk and speaking into mics on tripods
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| 01:31:14 1874.97 |
WS prop plane in the air landing on air field, man on runway chasing plane as it lands.
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| 01:31:30 1890.18 |
CU Will Rogers in open cockpit of plane wearing vintage aviation head gear and goggles
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| 01:31:42 1902.36 |
Will Rogers climbing out of a United States government air mail plane. Posing with pilot friend wearing aviation head gear
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| 01:32:11 1931.6 |
CU female pilots, Amelia Earhart and Ruth Nichols
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| 01:32:17 1937.79 |
will Rogers with Charles A. Lindbergh
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| 01:32:31 1951.03 |
Vintage prop plane taking off from airfield
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| 01:32:44 1964.38 |
Will Rogers pov inside airplane looking out window.
Mississippi River flooding POV looking down from flying plane, tops of homes and trees can be seen, completely flooded territory. |
| 01:33:16 1996.51 |
WSs huge dark clouds of dust headed toward a farm house. Dark gray ominous and billowing dust. Woman picking up child and running toward cabin as dust storm is about to engulf them
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| 01:33:23 2003.22 |
Vintage car, headlights on, driving down dark dusty road through main street in town with little visibility as dust storm approaching. Two men running toward camera, man's hat blows off and rolls down the sidewalk. Two children running across the street.
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| 01:33:31 2011.58 |
Car driving through dust storm in rural area, little to no visibility, sky is totally gray. Rural home, barely seen, in the distance covered in dust. Two people stuck outside, obscured by thick dust and fighting against the wind to walk.
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| 01:33:39 2019.04 |
Var shots of effects of dust storm in rural Kansas, looking like a desert, devastated crops.
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| 01:33:49 2029.42 |
Midwestern farmer kneeling on his property, CU he grabs hands full of sand, the wind blows it through his fingers
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| 01:33:52 2032.36 |
WS a decimated crop after the dust storm, buried corn stalks a few poking up out of the sand, farm house in bkgd.
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| 01:33:55 2035.94 |
Prop plane landing on airfield in dust storm.. (Will Rogers to the rescue bringing good will. Folk gathered around Will. )
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| 01:34:14 2054.13 |
Relief for rural kids. Children picking up cups of soup and pieces of white bread from table set up outside. Little kids seated outside eagerly eating soup and bread.
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| 01:34:20 2060.27 |
Hands picking up the cups of soup with spoons lined up on picnic table
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| 01:34:25 2065.25 |
Slices of white bread in a big bowl, hands digging in grabbing pieces
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| 01:34:26 2066.35 |
Cute little rural kids sitting on a bench eagerly drinking cups of soup and pieces of bread
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| 01:34:32 2072.71 |
Montage of the faces of adorable poor rural children
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| 01:34:45 2085.09 |
Man in town carrying a large sign hung from his neck "Unemployed will take any job", peds walking by him
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| 01:34:47 2087.22 |
Man with beard looking forlorn in the midst of crowd of other men
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| 01:34:50 2090.4 |
Jobless folk selling surplus fruit in the city - Apple stand on sidewalkmen dressed in suits walking by; woman selling fruit on street her sign propped up on her parked horse.
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| 01:34:57 2098.01 |
Montage of the unemployed in the city during the Great Depression - Men sitting around on walls and park benches, unemployed.
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| 01:35:05 2105.08 |
Thousands of people on food and unemployment lines 10 and 15 deep.
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| 01:35:13 2113.37 |
Fade to dark
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| 01:35:17 2117.11 |
Several shots of families gathered in their living rooms, circa 1931, listening to their radios. WS woman, hand under her chin, seriously listening to radio
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| 01:35:29 2129.4 |
Will Rogers broadcasting his radio show live, talking about the Depression and the starving people.
He talks about how he can't understand how we are in a country where crops and money are in abundance, but people are starving. He talks about "something cockeyed" going on in the country. |
| 01:36:09 2169.08 |
Var shots of families and couples gathered together listening intently to Rogers on their radios from their living rooms. CUs on the pensive and sad faces of folk as they listen.
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| 01:38:32 2312 |
Z'out from Will Rogers for President poster
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| 01:38:38 2318.72 |
WS from a national political convention, could be 1932 - crowds of people waving American flags in convention center. Tilt down on the crowd, people seen holding State signs.
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| 01:38:53 2333.66 |
Various overly excited and frenzied people at the convention, animated woman wearing a large hat waving her arms, man with his mouth wide open, man standing on podium waving and acting crazy
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| 01:39:10 2350.38 |
Tilt down WS thousands of pieces of paper flying down over crowd at convention
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| 01:39:17 2357.87 |
Montage of var people at the convention. man wearing top hat puffing on a cigar, man at podium making speech, young girl standing high above folk and waving a baton, politicians giving speeches, man in orchestra with tuba.
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| 01:39:50 2390.42 |
CU Balloons
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| 01:40:00 2400.61 |
Ext. political victory parade down city streets, open air car with winning politicians rolling down the street, tilt down revealing the size of the crowds, adorable little girl big bow in her hair waving excitedly, politicians on balconies giving victory speeches, man with long white beard cupping his ear.
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| 01:40:36 2436.43 |
WS U.S. Capitol building circa early '30's, vintage cars
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| 01:40:39 2439.47 |
CU top of Capitol and pan down to businessmen walking up the front steps
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| 01:41:03 2463.12 |
Tilt down pan and var shots inside the Hall of Congress in the US Capitol - folks seated including an audience in balcony. Officials business taking place, official talking from podium, congressman standing up at his seat waving his arm and trying to make a point (no audio)
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| 01:41:45 2505.5 |
Hands leafing through proposed Congressional Bills and the Congressional Record. Hands casting folded paper votes into bin
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| 01:42:08 2528.16 |
People streaming out of the U.S Capitol building, going down the front steps
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| 01:42:14 2534.66 |
Fade to dark
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| 01:42:16 2536.05 |
Will Rogers and his wife Betty Blake outside, Rogers talking with unseen reporter
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| 01:42:28 2548.99 |
Sea prop plane outside airplane hangar being pulled by man on tractor
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| 01:42:43 2563.93 |
Rogers' pilot, Wiley Post wearing an eye patch
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| 01:42:48 2568.97 |
Rogers and Post casually leaning on plane having a cigarette
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| 01:43:12 2592.89 |
Sea plane being launched into the water, tv cameras and people watching. Will Rogers crawling on the wing of the plane and getting in with Post. Women waving to them from shore
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| 01:43:34 2614.57 |
Propellors turning and sea plane is taking off from shore, across the water and into the air - dramatic music is heard
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| 01:44:01 2641.04 |
Shots of land over Seattle area, POV from seaplane flying overhead
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| 01:44:14 2654.53 |
CU fluffy white clouds in the skies
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| 01:44:17 2657.05 |
Aerials snowcapped mountains of Alaska - POV plane flying overhead
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| 01:44:38 2678.9 |
WS Vintage prop Seaplane in the air
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| 01:44:49 2689.88 |
Rogers and Post posing with officials in Matanuska Alaska
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| 01:45:04 2704.29 |
Aerials beautiful snow capped peaks in the Arctic Circle, snowcapped peaks poking through clouds.
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| 01:45:53 2753.96 |
Blank
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| 01:46:00 2760.02 |
Scene opens with shots of Wiley Post's plane crashed in the water - Will Rogers aboard - no survivors
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| 01:46:13 2773.03 |
Native Eskimo couple standing looking straight ahead and looking sad , a tea pot hanging over an open fire
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| 01:46:16 2776.46 |
Whaling boat leading a long line of fishing boats filled with people - dreary cold looking day
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| 01:46:24 2784.59 |
Prop plane on landing strip. Narrator unseen talks about the sadness felt when the word go out of Rogers' death.
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| 01:46:32 2792.03 |
Crowds of folk (in different places) expressing sadness at the announcement of Will Rogers' death. Soldiers standing with rifles, heads bowed, people lining the street.
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| 01:46:39 2799.75 |
Side shot American Airways System plane landing entering hangar (carrying Will's body)
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| 01:47:06 2826.76 |
Hoards of people gathered on the steps and in front of a government building in Los Angeles for Will Rogers funeral. Will's casket covered with an American flag is carried down the steps. Aerial shots of thousands of folk as they walk to Rogers covered casket to pay their respects.
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| 01:47:38 2858.26 |
WS Will Rogers' covered casket, soldiers standing on either side, as steady stream of people walk by to pay their respects.
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| 01:48:03 2883.76 |
Sky filled with flying planes in salute to Rogers' memory.
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| 01:48:48 2928.66 |
United States Capitol building.
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| 01:48:55 2935.83 |
Int. Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol - pan statue monuments including one of Will Rogers. Rogers' and shadow against the wall.
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| 01:49:01 2941.6 |
Int Statuary Hall - pan the statues including Will Rogers
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| 01:49:43 2983.5 |
CU Will Rogers grave stone with the inscription "I never met a man i didn't like"
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