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BLACK SEGREGATION
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220273 07:08:10
- 07:13:43 1936 USA B/W Si
Pan
across Blacks in front of house; sheds; sharecroppers; Dilapidated farm
buildings; Family. 07:09:49 Black high school students. Younger girl; man w/o legs, in wheel chair. Cemetery
07:10:15 White kids getting
on school bus. Brick school house
(white school). 07:10:34
Wooden school or church with group outside. People standing posing for
picture. Variety of rural
buildings & people.
07:11:30 High school girls
dancing outdoors while others clap. Boys in overalls & men pose for picture. Railroad track past dilapidated cabin. When with corn stalks.
07:12:54 Mary Bethune? (Old
Black woman) comes out & shakes hands, given loving cup (several). Group of students in coats pose for
picture outdoors.
220458
& 200532 04:30:42 -
04:46:27 1936 USA b/w Si
A
Study in Educational Inequalities in South Carolina Reel 1
National Association for Advancement of Colored People produced comparison of
educational conditions for Blacks & Whites in S.C.
Map of USA showing
South Carolina & map of South Carolina w/ proportion of Negroes.
04:32:09 Pan rural landscape w/
wooden houses & tenant farmer shacks. Dirt road w/ car.
Black women working in field stripping cane & with men.
Map of SC shows chief crops: corn, cotton, tobacco. Woman & boy picking cotton.
04:34:44 Teenage boy drives mule
cart w/ cotton to farm. Cotton sucked through pipe to barn
storage.
Chart showing increase in iilliteracy during 1920s. Four of every five illiterate people are Blacks; one in
every five Blacks between 16 and 20 are ililiterate.
04:36:05 Black boy worker shovels
out loose material into carriage. Bales of cotton weighed & rolled out of barn onto wagon & hauled off. Wooden farm building, old Black woman
in front with White man, old Black man shakes hands with man.
Chart & text outlining SC school administration & school population
& spending by race.
04:40:20 Black students into two
story wooden school building, teachers in front.
Chart compares Black and White teacher salaries. Teachers in front of school. Children file out of school & students lined up outside school posing stiffly.
04:43:29 Children out of school
with brooms, little girl sweeping outdoors; teacher rings handbell and blows
horn, children file into school.
04:44:56 Wooden outdoor toilet
propped up.
04:45:23 Outside Oakley Hall brick
school building for Whites w/ new painted outhouse. Paved road. White kids playing basket ball.
220458
& 200532 04:46:32 -
05:03:00 1936 USA b/w Si
A
Study in Educational Inequalities in South Carolina Reel 2
Shows role of Blacks & Black church in supporting education.
Well dressed Black
people past cars parked around Black church, groups chatting, talking, going
into church & coming out. Man
& boy looking at dirt covered graves in cemetery as others look on.
Crawford Rosenwald School at Ogden w/ kids in school yard play, dancing in
circle & running. Separate
groups of girls & boys play game: crack-the-whip.
04:49:15 Girls dancing to hand
clapping.
04:49:53 White man with black men
standing in front of unused house. Wooden church or school in flat landscape in front of railway
tracks. Derelict wooden house,
previously school, inspected.
04:51:17 Temporary school in small
house in front of railway tracks. 68 black children from one room school pour out of school building, pose
to camera, including teenage boys.
04:53:42 Unused wooden school for
Whites 3 miles away; w/ broken windows.
04:54:03 Richberg school (White),
brick building, water fountain, school buses parked.
04:54:52 Butler Chapel School
falling down, derelict wooden building, shut down, windows boarded up.
04:55:5? Wooden black church as
temporary school, man walks out. Children sit outdoors on bench for lessons.
04:56:50 Limestone School (for
Whites), compared to other Black derelict school building. Black children on dirt road put hands
up.
Chart compares elementary school
attendance figures for Whites and Blacks.
04:59:00 Roxanna Frazier who
teaches small children in her home, outside building. Moores Pond Black children being taught sitting on benches
outside of church building, White or light skinned teacher. Papers in door showing cracks. Unused White school nearby.
05:01:48 Bethel Grade School built
by Julius Rosenwald Fund by not maintained by County government except for a
new roof. Children pose
outside. Most windows are broken.
220460 06:42:40
- 07:00:44 1936 USA b/w Si
Study
in Educational Inequalities in South Carolina
Rural
poverty. Everyday life of Black
people in South Carolina, church, school, street scenes.
Black men, women and boys walk through woods in Sunday costumes.
Exterior wooden building. Exterior
various houses and buildings. Ruins.
Black boy polishing car. Black nannies and white children on park bench. Group
of women with stacks of leafy branches on pavement, trams and cars past.
Quiet residential street, church tower, fence with painted sign for white
only.
Black area, wooden houses, man leaning out of balcony, woman talking to man in
suit and hat outside house gate. Boy and girl carrying small children, two play
fighting on ground. Girl carrying sack on head. Talking to neighbours outside
window. People hanging out in front of houses.
Other more rural black area. Groups outside church, cars. Men in overalls.
Outside school building with children playing, running in field.
Outside class, boys sat on floor play trick game with stones as other children
watch. CU kids. Tying handkerchief on girls head. Into school building as
teacher watches.
Woman sat on bridge by river fishing, girls fishing in pond. Two women on house porch, old woman CU. Two men
outside house riding bareback on mules and leading third mule, pickup truck.
Scorched earth.
Farmer ploughing with mule.
Families in front of houses in fields posing.
School children outside school building, sweeping. Teacher in wheelchair.
Large brick building (school). Blacks outside church with cars.
Surrounding dry landscape. Schoolgirls dancing as others watch in circle and clap. derelict shacks.
Black teenagers in dungarees pose.
Farmer family sorting through pile of corn in front of farm house. Grandmother
given trophy cup outside house.
Schoolchildren of all ages in line outside pose.
220460 07:00:44
- 07:15:43 1936 USA b/w Si
Study
in Educational Inequalities in South Carolina. Kids at School bus.
Black rural poverty. Everyday life
of Black people, church, school, street scenes
40 - 80 children in line outside school in front of school bus, posing. School bus on road, motor
hand-cranked. Girls pose in front
of bus. Bus parked with other
cars. Driving on leafy road. Children walking on road. Damaged bus parked.
White children pose. White bus, larger than blacks bus, drives past, white children board.
Outside Thaxton white school, girls playing ball.
Hog and piglets, cows outside farm house.
Modern building and hoses near fields (modern farm?).
Black people outside church, wear suits and hats. Teenagers walk through school garden.
07.08.23: Group of men in overalls and caps standing in line waiting.
Waiting outside public school
emergency relief administration building of Tennessee. White man shakes black womans hand on
porch. Poorly kept houses with
laudry hanging. Well-dressed young women walk out of house, pose. Farmers on porches.
07.12.01: Maryland State Normal School for Colored to train elementary teachers
(sign): large modern building in well-kept field with trees.
Students outside. Other modern buildings and surroundings.
Black men out of Alabama Lumbe shop. Large farm or factory near railway tracks.
2221397 15:52:20
- 16:00:22 1944 USA Atlanta B/W Sd/Si
[Atlanta, Georgia Street Scenes &
Statement On Integration, ca 1944]
Si. Blacks & Whites, pedestrians along street under Cafeteria marquee,
soldiers, othrs. side street w/
people jay walking. Two White
women into Business University. Blacks & others past camera, some looking.
15:53:31 Large entrance to building, sign above Standard Building.
15:53:52 Sd. Integrated
meeting listening to Black speaker standing behind table: Negroes in the South comprise more than
seventy per cent of the nation. We
have to live w/ the race problem every day of our lives; but we believe that
the time has come when a specific program can & should be launched for an
improvement of the Negros position: improvement in fundamental things, entirely attainable, if both Negroes
& Whites cooperate on an intelligent & unemotional plan of action. Applause.
15:54:46 repeat w/ slight variation - probably slightly better.
15:55:26 repeat, shot from audience point of view. Some different phrasing, second
version. Better than first
version.
15:56:42 repeat from same position of second version. Not as good as 07:55:22.
15:58:05 repeat of second version, shot from closer.
15:59:15 Very close shot of second version.
Black
laborers
221142 04:11:39
- 04:21:28 1937 USA B/W SD
The
River (1937) R1 of 3
[Main title missing.] R1 traces
growth of Mississippi River from sources to Gulf of Mexico; construction of
levees, cotton picking, river shipping & lumbering activities.
Pictorial of clouds boiling; still around mountain peaks; CU water running over
rocks & flowing streams to rivers; POV from river across water.
04:14:11 Silhouette mules, horses
& farmers building dikes. CU
plowing, blade through soil..
04:15:32 Black workers picking
Cotton. Riverboat & black smoke. Loading sacks; bell ringing; CU
paddlewheel. Blacks rolling bales
onto the Tennessee Belle. Three
racing paddlewheel steamers.
04:17:19 Newspaper article re
General Lees capitulation, 1865. Flames. Ruined &
decrepit Southern mansions. Eroded
soil; erosion. Blacks w/
belongings on wagon & walking. Clouds. Tilt up forest. CU axe into tree. Falling trees. Logs down flume into river. Pile of logs beside log pond. Dynamiting stacks of logs into river
for drive. CUs log into saw blade.
221246 03:44:57
- 03:53:07 1945
[+ 1914 - 1918 ] USA B/W SD
New
Ways In Farming Pt. 1 of 2
INCLUDING
03:49:58 Deep South - poor family eating in
shack. Black farm workers - VO re failure of Southern
one-crop system. EXT typical
Southern plantation house - INT Georgia textile tycoon Cayson Calloway talking
about new farming methods [MOS] - map of South showing Calloway farm near
LaGrange, Georgia. Bulldozers
shaping land into contours preparing it for new beneficial crops. Calloway poses w/ crop of grapes
planted in regenerated soil. Black
workers picking fruit & blue berries. Chinese
Kudzu [?] crop harvested & processed as sileage - cattle grazing -
ducklings in coop - ducks on pond.
220789 05:47:13
- 05:54:58 1937 USA B/W SD
We Work
Again
Documentary: On the employment of Negroes in Works Progress Administration
(WPA) projects.
Depression scenes,
black men on doorsteps and street corners. Young black men whittling. Line of unemployed black men and
women.
Montage Black people working in Federal Work programmes intercut with
breadlines.
05:48:50 Black labourers reporting to construction office for work
assignments. Labourers work
on road improvements.
05:49:45 New York City, WPA demolition project underway, old blocks of flats
being torn down for new housing. Building of new bath house next to swimming pool in Harlem.
05:50:36 Swimming pool - children off diving boards and in pool. Colonial park paddling pool and
playground area, swings and slides.
05:51:34 Nursery school, kids playing and eating. Getting medicine from nurse. Afternoon rest, kids asleep.
05:52:07 Adult education, older
women learning to read and write. Adults in Spanish language class. Clerical workers in the WPA scheme, filing cards,
working in land records offices. Women in typing pool.
05:53:15 Household training schools, black women having domestic science /
cookery lesson. Cooking, turning mattress on bed,
making beds. Healh education, hospital.
05:54:38 Community sewing
rooms.
LN
504-147 17:21:53 - 17:24:34 1941 B/W SD
Ferry-Boat
Serenade
Minoco Productions
W/ Wini Shaw
SOUNDIES ARE PD. MUSIC RIGHTS, IF
USED, MUST BE CLEARED!
Woman at rail of ferry (set decoration w/ Manhattan skyline backdrop) in hat
& striped coat. Sings of
loving to ride the ferry etc. Accompanied by violin, accordion & trumpet. Black shoe shine boy at work shining
shoes. Three couples dance, others
romancing. Black tap dances after
shining shoes & man throws coins.
Church
221337 09:44:22
- 09:50:16 1938 USA B/W SIL
[Negro
Church & School] (1938)
Georgia
Black woman in hat at pump organ, church members in suits beside stand and sing
(MOS). Various shots. CU of
congregation listening. Exterior
of church on blocks w/ bell tower, people arriving & minister at door in
white coat. Well dress people.
09:46:09 Interior, preacher to
pulpit, people rise. Wood burning
stove in middle of church. Minister opens bible & reads from it.
09:47:18 Wooden school house &
black children arriving. Girls
into line; teacher ringing bell in MCU. Girls entering in MCU, followed by boys. Interior & two students at blackboard, teacher calls on
girl who comes to front and writes on board. Mathmatics on board. Hands raised; various shots for cutting. Views from front & back of classroom. Map of US on rear wall.
Segregation
signs
LN
505-133 06:25:35 - 06:40:11 1966 USA COL SD
The
Negro American
Solis-Jones
Prods.; dist. Bailey Films, Inc.; Wr./Dir. John Paul Jones; Prod. Jim Solis
Well-meaning cartoon drawings exploring the history of African Americans from
slavery to present day [1960s]. Blacks shown integrated into everyday life - judge, secretary, factory
workers etc. African jungle
village - slave trade montage - cotton seeding - Whitney & cotton gin - more slaves needed for
increased harvest - slave auction.
06:31:42 Racism scenes - signs
Negroes Not Welcome - No Colored etc. Quaker abolitionists - anti-slavery
movement & intimidation - Frederic Douglas - schools burned. Benjamin Franklin school.
06:35:38 Booker T. Washington
& Tuskegee Institute - George Washington Carver.
06:37:17 Ku Klux Klan scenes. Contributions of Black Americans - fighting in Civil War -
Harlem Renaissance. Education of
the negro alone isnt enough to guarantee them all the privileges and
opportunities of full freedom as American citizens...superstition and ignorance
can be wiped out only by the education of all Americans, Negro and White. Some striking imagery.
220930 19:23:56
- 19:33:28 1939 USA B/W SIL
Jim
Crow Signs
Front Union Station of Richmond. Sign coloured entrance, section of
station for coloured people. Street with
traffic, pedestrians and trams, groups of white and black people,
policeman. Front large building,
cars and lorries past.
Two men enter Liggett and Myers (?) tobacco company office. LS former Capitol of Confederacy Building,
sign White House of Confederacy.
Outside building (bus station?) w/ signs coloured waiting room.
White pedestrians at crossing on Broad Street. Sign on highway coloured
tourists stop at Hotel McGuire.
Large official building
with pillars, old church and big modern buildings behind. Policeman past
restaurant for coloured people, woman looks through window.
Ladies enter mansion with vine. Church spire. Old-fashioned, leafy narrow
street with two storey houses. Iron gate R.G. Rhett, No 147, two old ladies
comes out. Man in garden by house,
enters house.
Battery Park, car past, people on
benches. Promenade by sea w/ palm trees, cannons displayed.
Front mansion, two ladies enter. Statue on promenade to confederate defenders of Charleston. More mansions and imposing buildings,
church.
220273 07:00:02
- 07:08:10 1936 USA B/W Si
Outtakes
- Study of Educational Inequalities of SC, Pt 1 of 2
Outtakes. Blacks in suits along dirt road beneath
Spanish moss. Houses, farm w/
silo & empty milking shed, shack, moss, mud, small church w/ empty bell
tower.
07:01:45 Black boy polishing
car, street scenes
of courthouse, black nanny & others sitting on bench. Shopping along
sidewalk. Street scenes, churches.
07:02:30 Sign For White Only. LS along
street w/ clapboard buildings & traffic. Scenes of blacks talking by wooden houses, boy sweeping,
wrestling. Girl carrying
bundle on head.
07:03::30 Telephoto down sidewalk; ext. of rural black church & people
outside; walking past fence Outhouses. Men walk
down street. Kids playing at school.
07:04:51 People watch kids play
jacks w/ mud pieces while sitting on ground. CU teenage kids.
07:06:04 Into school past teacher
at door. Barefoot woman fishing
off small creek bridge. Girls fish
by stream. 07:07:01 Old woman on porch smiling at
camera. Blacks on mules down road.
07:07:37 CU dried mud; man plowing w/ mule w/ shack in background. Looking at soil. 07:08:10
Ku
Klux Klan
220308 10:00:50
- 10:06:11 1949 USA b/w Si
Large
outdoor Ku Klux Klan meeting.
Children in KKK
costumes. Men marching in line. KKK at night holding burning torches. LS group
with burning cross. Chatting with hoods up. Grand priest in dark robes with
hood off smiling, CU and amidst other KKK.
At night walking past burning pots. Standing with US flag & burning cross.
Night group shots. uncostumed Men marching in line. uncostumed men with KKK
220308 10:07:14
- 10:08:35 1960s
? USA b/w Si
KKK
- Durham, North Carolina Night Cross Burning
Ku Klux Klan
burning cross with torches in field, throwing torches, cross in flames. Circle
of KKK going round cross
220307 09:26:40
- 09:27:12 1967 USA B/W Si
News
in brief - Ku Klux Klan meeting - KKK
New recruits being
marched into circle; children in
robes kneeling on ground man with them; CU of Klan Chiefs face (no mask);
(very large gathering) part only
220321 08:37:51
- 08:39:17 1960s
? USA B/W Si
KKK
- Durham, North Carolina Night Cross Burning
Ku Klux Klan
burning cross with torches in field, throwing torches, cross in flames. Circle
of KKK going round cross
220460 06:35:42
- 06:36:43 1949 USA b/w Si
Ku
Klux Klan rally, day and night.
Crowd of KKK in
field. Dignitary in darker clothes putting on headgear. Two men with cameras talk to KKK dignitaries. Group with one man in city clothes
wearing eye mask. Dignitary
holding up baby with KKK costume.
Night. Marching, most members in
city clothes with eye mask. Swearing allegiance. Burning cross.
220309 12:05:48
- 12:06:33 1970s USA COL Sd
About
the FBI section
Brief crime compilation - robbery, plane explosion at night in the sky, aftermath of bomb?
Ku Klux Klan ceremony with torches and burning KKK cross
Martin Luther King interviewed (no sound).
Gambling tables, dice, roulette.
Portrait of Edgar Hoover, former head of FBI 1924 - 1972 in office.
220309 12:06:33
- 12:06:47 1949 USA b/w Si
Ku
Klux Klan ceremony.
At night, hooded
men holding cross illuminated with light bulbs,
220463 10:00:48
- 10:06:18 USA b/w Si
Ku
Klux Klan
Klan meeting
Children in KKK costumes. Men marching in line. KKK at night holding burning
torches. LS group with burning cross. Chatting with hoods up. Grand priest in
dark robes with hood off smiling, CU and amidst other KKK.
At night walking past burning pots. Standing with US flag & burning cross.
Night group shots. uncostumed Men marching in line. uncostumed men with KKK At
night, hooded men holding cross illuminated with light bulbs,
221137 19:21:40
- 19:29:49 1925 USA B/W SIL
[1925
America: Famous Events - Ku Klux
Klan march; Scopes Trial; Bryan Obituary]
KKK parade in Washington, DC w/ Klansmen riding down Pennsylvania AVenue. Large delegation marching w/ American
flags. High angle of parade from
Capitol to White House. Members
carry flags, march in shape of Cross. Marchers in sheets & caps passlarge crowd of Klan & others
lining street; march w/ state banners Rhode Island Convention. Float past w/ Miss 100% America,
Paterson, NJ. Klan with huge
American flag onto mall under dark skies. Members assembled at base of Washington Monument; Uncle Sam
costume. NOTE: rally was rained out.
19:24:40 Woman w/ pennant over
shoulder at Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee. Ext. Robinsons Drug store where George Rappleyea convinced
business men to challenge the Butler Act; two men pass on sidewalk; man in
straw hat in CU (John T. Scopes). Courthouse clock tower, people outside on lawn sitting &
laying. CU of William Jennings Bryan. DTrain into station. CU of Clarence Darrow shaking hands w/
Scopes.
19:25:58 Pan over people waiting
in shade outside of courthouse.
19:26:28 Baptist preacher William
Bell Riley (?) w/ bible on street. Man wearing jacket or shirt w/ Champion Bible on back. William Jennings Bryan & others men
posing. Clarence Darrow & men posing. Lawyers into courthouse.
19:27:36 Men in courthouse w/
fans. Reporters. People sitting on floor & standing
around back.
19:28:04 CU of Moneky watch fob
medaliion hanging from belt.
19:28:20 Teenage girl playing w/
monkey doll.
19:28:36 Fox News story of Bryan
death. Cu Bryan. Shots of crowd at on lawn under palm
trees listening to Bryan speaking from porch of ? View from behind him as he gestures. Walking in rain in Washington D, stops
& tips hat.
220309 12:05:48
- 12:06:33 1970s USA COL Sd
About
the FBI section
Brief crime compilation - robbery, plane explosion at night in the sky, aftermath of bomb?
Ku Klux Klan ceremony with torches and burning KKK cross
Martin Luther King interviewed (no sound).
Gambling tables, dice, roulette.
Portrait of Edgar Hoover, former head of FBI 1924 - 1972 in office.
Black
Slums
220460 06:14:57
- 06:19:22 1920s
- 1930s ? USA b/w Si
Towards
the Horizon.
Scenes of everyday life of Black people, rural and city.
Statue Lincoln. Pan on fields.
Man ploughs field with oxen. Women rake ground. Derelict farmers houses.
Two boys on horse. Woman pulls
water from well. Man in farm yard hacks wood. Wife washes laundry in metal
bucket. Family on mule cart.
Church, people in Sunday best sing, good CUs.
Couple past on home-made oxcart. Group of men in front of restaurant, people
walking in busy street, both black and white, various groups standing around
idly. Woman walks past carrying basket on head.
Slum area
exterior. Children in dungarees on doorstep. Children on swings. Small kids
eating at table
220507 22:52:10
- 22:53:12 1960s
? USA col Sd
Headstart
- Watts. Appeal
Dilapidated shacks
/ poverty slum housing - Young black children sitting outside. Oscar Anderson, community leader and others outside
house. Meeting in house, collection. Exterior, construction work
- timber being cut. Black
community raising wooden structure - Headstart Community house
220756 20:14:05
- 20:21:30 1961 USA col Si
Housing,
apartments, slums,
ghetto.
Kids on stoop. Men over table
& blue prints. Interior of
apartments. CU faces. Policeman on
street. Vegetable seller on
streets. Policeman walking
beat. Black youth, people sitting
in windows & in front of boarded up buildings. Garbage in midst of apartment courtyard. Clothes on line. Graffiti. High angle kids playing. Wrecking ball & bricks falling. Meeting with people in suits. Pamphlet Housing Act of 1961.
220756 20:22:00
- 20:30:50 1961 USA col Si
[Housing
- Apartments, Ghetto, Reconstruction]
Policeman. Apartment block model. Meeting w/ men in suits. Ghetto slum apartments w/ people in
windows. Construction
workers. Kitchen & bathroom
module assembled. Delivered &
raised by crane, Brooklyn bridge in background. CU locks, peepholes, trash disposal chute. Construction workers gutting
building. Sign 5th Street Mother.
Black family packing suitcase, moving vans. Construction workers on roof of building, Men in hardhats
watching lowering of module through roof. Wiring module. Old
bathroom. Crane at work.
221340 14:05:45
- 14:06:15 1938 USA B/W SIL
[U.S.
Government Slum Clearance Begins]
LS wooden houses w/ gardens, MCU w/ barrels, animal cages outside. Large group of men in suits at
speech. Blacks & whites on
platform and in audience. Black
family sitting on chairs on porch roof. Building being pulled down as people watch. Men w/ pry bars breaking up wood.
WPA Program;
Black
Panther
220298 21:54:42
- 22:00:49 1960s USA B/W Sd
Off The
Pig
Excerpt from film about Black Panther Movement and police treatment of Blacks.
Includes shots negroes on streets - demonstrations - armed police - Black
Panther member speaking at mic. Various others at microphones - black woman re
free breakfasts for children - kids eating breakfast. Black man walking down street - police on motorbike. Blacks on streets - interior Black
Panther offices. Panthers in
berets - marching with flags. Group of Panthers sing re Revolution has come - time to pick up the
gun.
Black porters, domestic,
X 221282 15:41:50 - 15:52:02 1955 USA B/W sD
The
Passenger Train (Second Edition)
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Films
INCLUDING
15:45:36 INT Bob alone in small sleeper
compartment, roomette - watches neighbor locate pull-down washbasin. POV from front of train; CU speed
gauge. Train & Pullman
Conductors arrive - tickets please - CU Bobbys tickets. Bob explores train, passes thru chair
car w/ Black conductor. Passengers in dome car
w/ glass roof & MCU
people. Bob in observation
car at rear.
15:47:11 Cooks in train kitchen,
CU meat in pan. POV from
engine. Lunch chime; dining car w/ Black waiters serving White passengers looking out window. Bobby eats sandwich at lunch car counter. Train into small station - new crew
takes over. DTrain pulls out.
15:48:28 INT engineer in cab. Bob watches scenery w/ new friend
Clyde. Boys play checkers in
observation car. POV. Woman puts toddler to bed: VO this room is called...a bedroom.
15:49:19 Evening meal served in
dining car; Bobby shares table w/ adults. LS train in canyon at
dusk. Black porter prepares
beds. Train passes in night. CU gage. Passenger to bed in his roomette.
15:50:09
X 221310 20:12:25 - 20:22:29 1946 USA B/W SD
Cotton
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Blacks picking cotton, CU cotton bolls. White farmer &
son walking thru field; CU of
bolls that son picks & strings out. Two Black men dragging long sacks & picking bending over; women working & children
picking. Weighing sacks as whites
watch. Loading into wagon &
shaken out of sack. Son rides out
of field on load.
20:15:05 Cotton picking machine on tractor moving
thru field & vacuuming cotton into screened container.
20:15:34 Prairie Gin on side of
building; truck arrives w/ load of cotton & pipe moved in to suck up the cotton from the truck. Int. w/ cotton gins working taking seeds out,
dropped into pile; cotton thru pipe to large bin. Cotton from bin into large pressed bales, turned on turn table
& wrapped w/ metal bands. Bales rolled out to loading dock, then loaded onto railroad freight car
by hand truck. View of freight
train past.
20:18:15 HA of large textile
mill. Bales unloaded & into
warehouse, straps cut & cotton into machine to loosen it up. From there to the picker machine which loosens more &
rolled onto pole, then to a carder which combs & straightens cotton fibers. CU strands coming out of carder, then into machine which
draws it out into thing strands & winds onto spools.
20:20:05 View down spinning
machines & CUs drawing out & making finer yarn. Full spindles repaced w/ empties. Woman at large machine that draws lines
for cloth & large room w/ weaving machines. MCU of looms working & woman attending. Shuttle.
20:21:52 HA women folding cloth
from looms for packing. Finished
cloth wrapped & packed by women. Putting finished cloth onto train; freight cars leaving across road
crossing.
X 221265 15:09:40 - 15:21:57 1935 USA B/W SD
George
Washingtons Railroad Pt. 2 of 3
(R1)
Chesapeake & Ohio
INCLUDING
15:12:48 Loading food into bar car. View of refrigerator. #492 pulling out of station w/ bell
ringing. Large car w/ swivel
chairs. Black porter or
conductor. Man working & looking out. Women putting on make up in lounge, one
smoking.
15:14:14
X 220382 11:48:04 - 12:03:10 1940s USA Col Sd
Big
Trains Rolling R2 of 2
INCLUDING
Train pulling into
station, steps put down, luggage loaded into baggage car; mail bags loaded
& passengers board. Children
seated by Black porter. Conductor signals, train
pulls out past parked cars & people on platform; thru countryside, POVs
from alongside, children look out window & tracking shots of
farms & landscapes. Conductor
inspects tickets. Mail sorted in
postal car.
11:50:53
X 220381 10:51:26 - 11:00:02 1952 USA B/w Sd
The
Super Chief
INCLUDING
Washing machine w/ streamline locomotive out toward camera. Map of route Chicago to Los
Angeles. View in window of man in
roomette & Black porter hanging up his coat. Passenger smoking. Man
shows washroom & toilet; gets into bed & pulls up blankets. Woman in bedroom; couple in bedroom in
three-person drawing room. Runby.
10:53:44
X 220382 11:24:14 - 11:38:10 1955 USA Col Sd
The New
Big Trains Rolling R2 of 2
INCLUDING
Conductor signals, engineer in cab & Santa Fe train pulls out in MCU;
running thru western countryside.Children visit domeliner observation car &
watch scenery past. Conductor collects tickets. Railway postal clerks sorting mail in mail car into pigeon
holes & bags.
11:26:01 Dining car w/ black
waiters serving people. Children shown table
& order food from menus. Kitchen & chefs preparing meals. Kids eating. Passenger runby; interior of loung & dome car. Sleeping roomettes, bedrooms,
compartments & drawing rooms.
11:28:03
X LN 505-034 05:45:14
- 05:54:59 1947 USA B/W SD
Life In
Old Louisiana [Main title missing]
ERPI Classroom Films
POV from river boat. Two costumed
men & family talking in French & English. Houses raised above ground shown. Cotton picking by black slaves.
05:46:2? River bank from river;
views of plantation from land. Workers cutting sugar cane with negro workers. Other views of mansions.
05:47:1? Shore and shots of steam
boat on river. New Orleans and
French Quarter with servants scrubbing flagstones on patio, make fire in
fireplace and cooking. White
family comes home.
05:48:22 Family kneeling in
prayer. Then sitting in courtyard
and speaking Creole with servants serving.
05:49:00 Woman practicing harp in
large ornate room. Two young
children with governess learning English. Read about all men created equal.
05:50:0? Men dueling with sabres
in CU.
05:50:45 Slave market, men onto
auction block. White men in top
hats bidding.
05:51:3? cemetery and wreath
laying on above-ground tomb.
05:52:00 Formal dinner with black
servant serving. You Creoles live the
good life... Statement about all
nationalities sharing freedom.
05:53:0? Maid makes up bed and
dresses young white woman. boyfriend arrives and chaperone and servant lead them along the street.
05:54:1? View of farming,
riverboat scenes intercut to people in drawing room talking. Other riverboat shots w/ good shot of
wake from riverboat.
X LN 505-019 00:45:34
- 00:56:12 1950 USA COL SD
The
Plantation System In Southern Life
Coronet
Instructional Films [Colour version]
Family visiting pre-civil war plantation home. Mansion interior & tourists viewing map of
plantation. Sharecropper type
houses. Sheds, barns. Blackman at forge and others working in field and
spinning. Two blacks with team of
horse trying to pull wagon thrugh mud in orchard. Riverboat passsing and people on board with two blackmen
rolling cotton bales.
00:48:5? Workers picking cotton
(good). White overseer or planter giving
directions to men picking cotton. Plantation
with aristocratic life and people in costume. Black man watching others, walk past w/ hoes.
00:51:1? Family into car and
driving down road, abandoned plantation house with weeds and land. Blacks walking beside field. Cotton field and picking. Blacks with white land owner laughing,
with family.Sharecroppers housing and working. Weighing cotton. Tractors and
wagons. Shipping cotton by train and truck. Beef cattle; dairy cows. Discing. Cotton mechanical picker, and cutting stalks, soybeans, sorghum
and peanuts shown.
00:55:3? Barbecue with blacks and
whites but mostly blacks serving the food. The
End
Life
of Booker T. Washington
X LN 505-013 14:36:46
- 14:46:21 1951 USA B/W SD
Booker
T. Washington [Part 1 of 2]
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Films / Emerson Film Corp.
INT Lincoln Memorial. Statue of
Booker T. Washington. Dramatisation of Bookers childhood - w/ mother & siblings around
dinner table in shack, mother explains why she prays for freedom from slavery - we gets to
draw free breath...we gets to go to school like the white man - tells Booker
she wants him to get an education. CU 1865 Proclamation ending slavery. Booker in schoolroom after emancipation & working at
salt mine in West Virginia - defeatist attitude of older men you just a black
boy - arrives at Hampton college asking to enrol after walking miles -
principal General Armstrong & school secretary put him to work for his
board.
14:41:19 Booker as a grown man
after graduation - receives letter from Gen. Armstrong asking him to come back
to Hampton to teach. Talks w/
Armstrong about another job teaching negroes in Alabama - no one else wants
job. CU telegram dated 1881
approving Booker for job.
14:43:26 Booker teaching at pulpit
of old church w/ Black boy holding umbrella to shield him from leaky roof. INT plantation bought by Booker to
serve as school house - secretary brings in a students mother to see him - not
happy about his teaching methods - Booker explains he is trying to teach them
something useful for the community. Secretary brings in a letter from a White group threatening to run them
out of town.
Race / Racism. Segregation. Civil Rights.
X LN 505-013 14:46:22
- 14:54:30 1951 USA B/W SD
Booker
T. Washington [Part 2 of 2]
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Films / Emerson Film Corp.
Dramatisation. INT Booker meeting
w/ angry White commmunity leaders - youre teaching them Blacks to read and
write, why its getting so they wont do an honest days work anymore - Booker
invites them to visit school at Tuskegee. INT Booker marrying Fanny Smith 1882 [dies two years later]. Old woman visits Booker to praise him
for trying to make better mens and better womens for the coloured race -
gives him six eggs. VO describes
Bookers second & third marriages.
14:49:15 Booker w/ Gen. Armstrong,
now in wheelchair - discuss Bookers invitation to speak to a mixed crowd at
opening of Atlanta Exposition & possible conflict. Booker at podium making speech to
Exposition; thanks White governor after speech. Newspaper men dictating story re success of speech.
14:52:08 Booker w/ President
Theodore Roosevelt - asks Booker if it is time to appoint negroes to higher
positions in South - Booker urges caution. Booker receiving honorary degree from Harvard. Booker as old man before death in
1915.
Black
Panther
X 220487 04:39:49 - 04:48:50 USA.
Ireland b/w sd
At Home
and Abroad Part 2 of 2
The Newsreel - Radical Documentary
Re Irish immigrants, IRA, African-Americans.
INCLUDING
04.43.22: Black Panther ,
VO talks of other liberation groups and armed struggle. Black kids at school
canteen. Black women preparing food.
04.45.19:
X 220488 05:53:32 - 06:07:48 1960s
late USA 1 B/W SD
[Black
Panthers]
The Newsreel -
Radical Documentary
Stills police arresting Black Panther Huey P. Newton. Damaged windows Black Panther HQ after police raid. Bullet
holes.
05:54:28 Huey P. Newton
interviewed in jail re similarity between Black-American & Vietnamese
people; due process of law; ownership of property etc. Eldridge Cleaver at Panther HQ re
riots, Vietnam, police etc.
05:56:37 Newton interviewed
continued on Black Panther actions in monitoring police brutalising people in
Black Community. Self-defense.
05:57:03 Cleaver interview continued & walking past Panther posters. Policeman on motorcycle past Black men
hanging out on street corner. Inside Panther HQ.
05:58:46 Panther parade w/ berets
& flags; raised fist salute. Womens group. Angela
Davis? or Kathleen Cleaver? at
rally w/ sign Hutton Memorial Park. Bobby Seale.. Kathleen
Cleaver at mic. Angela Davis in
CU? Kathleen Cleaver at mic. Large raised fist sign on house above
rally.
06:00:44 Free Huey rally in
front of Alameda County Court House; protesters sing Off The Pig . Many women. Police disperse crowd.
06:02:07 Eldridge Cleaver.
06:02:40 Black Panther marching,
chanting. Van w/ sign Huey for
Congress, Peace & Freedom Party. MCUs Whites & Blacks marching, talking in park; Black man in African
clothes. Huey Newton talking re
Vietnam by copy Venceremos!, Che
Guevara book.
06:04:24 Tracking shots in poor
Black ghetto neighborhoods w/ empty streets - school yard with Black kids. Voice over Bobby Seale outlines Ten
Point Program.
06:06:34 Police patrol on
motorcycles. Illustration Black
man holding gun & other Black Panther art (Emory Douglas). CU policeman holding baton, stick. Raised fist salute in front of
courthouse.
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