Historic Films Stock Footage Archive: VPN-330

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00:00:08 8.44	12/29/91 Body Removals City College Stampede - Manhattan Several police and officials in plain clothes gather outside a building. some shake hands. Man in bright orange jacket with letters on back spell out "Executive Director N.Y.C. EMS". A priest walks into the building.
00:01:31 91.39	Pan in on front entrance of building, a cop stands outside on guard at the door, litter scattered all over the sidewalk at the entrance. Medics carry a dead body strapped onto a stretcher and covered in a white sheet out the door and into a waiting ambulance. Three or four more dead bodies follow and are loaded into the ambulance.
00:04:19 259.42	Two New York City ambulances pull away from the building.
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00:05:49 349.43	Double Homicide and suicide - Manhattan CU on letters CSU on parked police station wagon. CU "10 PCT" on police car.
00:06:24 384.28	Address numbers on apartment building above entrance, 415. Pan out on the building from across street, rainy day. Pan up to the top reveals a hi rise apartment building, at least 15 floors. CU on same address numbers. Several other shots of the building.
00:08:35 514.98	Banner juts out from building - "The Towers at London Terrace The Great Brioton in Manhattan Cooperative Flats"
00:09:13 553	Z'in to two specific windows of the building. a strange pice of equipment or machinery is seen in one of the windows -
00:10:29 629.92	A young woman 20s or 30s a neighbor of the victims is questioned by the media. She talks into mics and states she is shocked and talks about the father and son relationship and the fights between them, the tension she felt, but never saw anything or any physical abuse between father and son.
00:12:51 771.03	Another woman, older, well groomed, talks to press about the father and son. She states (either father or son) dressed "like a lady with beautiful makeup and clothes..."
00:14:38 878.33	Police official talks to press and states the investigation is ongoing, that there were two males and a female.
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00:15:16 916.14	A dead body wrapped in a body bag is carried out of a building and is placed into the trunk of a police van. Two more dead bodies follow and are placed in the van. The building has plaque for a Dentist office on the ext. wall.
00:17:58 1078.59	Several ext. shots of the hi-rise apartment building.
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00:18:56 1136.78	12/30/91 -Shot, Burned and Dumped, 66 RV & GCP, Queems
00:18:57 1137.11	Graphic shot of a burned dead body lying in some weeds on side of the road, police look on and take photos. Firetrucks parked and several firemen at the scene as well. crime scene tape around the area. 112 PCT police car parked.
00:21:01 1261.79	Various graphic CU shots of a burned and charred deady body. Clenched hand with gold ring
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00:23:53 1433.18	December 30, 1991 Al Sharpton press conference on the crowded steps of City Hall about the City College New York crowd crush tragedy during a charity basketball game. A crowd of African American folk gather around Sharpton. He points out the parents of the (8) young people who died in the tragedy.
00:24:54 1494.63	Man holds small color photo of his deceased son, a victim of the tragedy
00:25:48 1548.61	Sharpton offers condolences, and to share in the grief with the families, offers community help financially and their cooperation in the investigation. A woman standing beside Sharpton breaks down in tears.
00:29:56 1796.31	Various family members speak into the mics about their lost love ones.
00:32:53 1973.06	Sharpton introduces Charles Warfield, General Manager of KISS Radio. Warfield expresses condolences to the families and talks about the importance of gathering the facts about what happened and ensuring it could never happen again.
00:34:31 2071.98	Sharpton introduces rap artist, Doug E. Fresh who was at the event. A young Doug E. speaks into mics and sends out his sympathies to the families. He states he was there as part of the event and tried to help the situation. He also states damage came from the outside, people coming in not from people inside and that police department didn't help even though they said they would.
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00:37:54 2274.74	December 31, 1991 - Bridge Sign Injuries Japanese Tour Bus - Williamsburg Bridge CU Shattered windshield, pan out reveals tour bus with shattered windshield.
00:38:08 2288.84	Police officers at the scene inspect the tour bus looking underneath and inside
00:38:37 2317	Various shots of the bus with drivers side window shatteredand inside at the driver's seat.
00:39:23 2363.56	Shots of the iron pylons of the Williamsburg bridge and traffic going over the bridge.
00:39:59 2399.28	CU writing on rear of bus - "For Charter Plaza Services Corp", phone numbers listed
00:40:31 2431.03	CU blood drippings on the interior steps of the bus and a small "watch you step" sign on top step.
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00:41:03 2463.69	10 Stories Up in Smoke - New Rochelle bright yellow flames on roof of building, smoke billows out. Firemen at work on ladder with hose and in ladder basket attempt to put out the raging flames.
00:42:18 2538.32	Great shots of billowing yellow flames of fire and thick gray smoke off rooftop of building.
00:43:28 2608.94	Pan away from Jewelry Store front to fire ladders, fire hose and smoking rooftop. More shots of fire and billowing gray smoke filling the sky.
00:44:38 2678.28	Fire ladder extended out in a smoke filled sky. "New Rochelle" banner hangs on the side of the ladder..
00:44:39 2679.53	Pan out from the ladder to WS of firemen on the firetruck working the hoses.
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00:45:06 2706.73	Three Alarm Explosion Collapse, Richmond Terrace, Staten Island LS of the scene of a fire - white smoke billows up and fills the sky, fire ladders extended up, hoses on the street, firetrucks.
00:45:28 2728.64	WS firemen shoot firehose at burning collapsed building.
00:45:50 2750.04	Good shot of two firemen in a ladder basket high up, smoke engulfs them till they are no longer seen.
00:46:17 2777.41	Pan out from firemen observing the scene to a WS of the collapsed building with firehoses spread out on the street and sitting in water,
00:46:30 2790.83	Firemen shoot their hoses at the burned out building
00:47:22 2842.06	Several firemen in the ladder basket extended up. Z'out from the basket to the seen below, several onlookers and firemen, hoses, dark smoke.
00:48:16 2896.54	CU Oxygen masks are given two small children maybe 1 - 2 years old. Pan out reveals the children in an ambulance, their parents sitting with them also breathing in oxygen.
00:49:39 2979.75	Various shots around the scene of the fire - fire trucks, the burned out building with gray smoke still billowing, firefighters with hoses.
00:50:12 3012.95	Great CU of a firefighter and firehose.
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00:52:04 3124.27	Man Blows off Hand - Queens CU front door with black address numbers 8959. Pan out from door reveals small residential home wedged between two other homes
00:52:33 3153.1	CU "105 PCT" on police car door. The car is parked on a residential street in Queens. WS of the street, as an emergency police car heads toward the camera.
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00:54:55 3295.35	January 1, 1992 Two Alarm Synagogue Fire - 901 Avenue L, Brooklyn
00:55:06 3306.03	WS fire ladder extended out, onlookers on the street, firetrucks.
00:55:19 3319.82	A fireman stands on top of a firetruck, shot from behind.
00:56:01 3361.7	A residential home with a fire ladder extended on to the roof and a regular ladder leaning on the home.
00:56:24 3384.25	Dark footage of many people and firemen gathered on the sidewalk in front of the building including some Hasidic Rabbis
00:57:02 3422.52	CU broken exterior building vent.
00:57:19 3439.78	Various shots of the many onlookers at the scene, firemen, Hassidics gathered at the rear of the building. CU shots of the crowd. Wide shots of the building with fire ladders extended from the firetrucks.
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