New Orleans, Louisiana and floods in the USA
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following items are available immediately on master from the Footage Farm
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Updated:
5 Sep 05
220658 02:00:00
- 02:05:27 1900s SIL B/W
New
Orleans, early 1900s.
Harbour and docks scenes - steam ships - Cansfjord unloading at dock
02:02:02 housing and shops; street
scenes
02:02:30 pleasure gardens - boating lake and swans.
02:03:20 Strange game played with sticks by boys in park - sort of hockey. Good
street scenes
poor
area - children playing in yard - trams.
Busy shopping area - well dressed pedestrians.
220409 04:23:41
- 04:27:07 1930s Sd b/w
Huey
Long
Short cuts New Orleans - buildings, statues, cannons. Carnival float. River,
Levees. Southern mansion - trees with spanish moss. Group of four young black
boys playing craps on pavement. Aerial views old city and new. Road.
04:25:55 Sections of MOT cut programme. Does
not exist at NARA
221030 03:11:50
- 03:13:12 1934 Sd B/W
Long
longs to Clean up New Orleans
Mayor Walmsley sitting on mudguard of car. Huey Long walks out of building and
makes animated statement re not allowing crime in New Orleans to go on under
licence from city hall.
03:12:39 Mayor Walmsley makes statement re how New Orleans is a clean decent
place to live.
221005 21:18:06
- 21:28:55 1936
- 1937 Sd B/W
Flood
Weather [Part 3]
Ohio River flood of 1937: Weather
vanes - animated weather maps.
21:19:45 River in full flood -
water rushing past bridges.
Newspaper headline Ô80,000 Desert Homes As Midwest Streams Rage to
Higher LevelsÕ. AVs flooded area
in the Ohio River Valley. Flooded
town streets. People being rescued
by boat from flooded homes. West
Virginia - US route 40 flooded, man in row boat. Portsmouth, Ohio - flooded tree-lined avenue w/ rowboat.
21:20:52 Cincinnati flooded areas,
submerged buildings.
Headlines. Manufacturing
plant on fire.
21:21:23 Louisville, Kentucky
flooded. Rescue boats evacuating
residents. River towns flooded. Farm animals in floods suffering from
starvation. Dog perched in snow on
top of submerged car. Cat stranded
in upper window just above water level.
AVs floods.
21:22:55 Blasting of fuse plug on
the Missouri side of river - diverting river over lowlands into Mississippi.
Men raising levees - labourers with sandbags. VS damage caused to property [estiimated at $half a
billion]. Refugees - rescues. Weather vanes - weather bureau gauges -
newspapers - radio mast.
Casualties of flood. Lower
reaches of river where flood damage was minimal.
21:25:30 Above New Orleans new
floodway bypassing river. River in
full flood.
21:26:28 Man looking at book from
Library of Congress which records flood which occurred below Memphis in
1543. Flooded areas.
21:28:03 River steamboat; river at
sunset.
Weather Forecasting.
[NB Poor quality - very scratched.]
LN
505-114 22:00:14 - 22:05:26 1950? SD B/W
[Warner
Pathe News Magazine Of The Screen]
title missing
Bowl Games, The
22:00:26 Orange Bowl Night parade in Miami w/ elaborate
floats. U. of Miami vs
Clemson Half time show w/
eleaborate displays. Good
broken field running & passing.
Final score: Clemson 15, U
of Miami 14
22:02:54 Cotton Bowl in Dallas,
TX Tennessee vs Texas Touchdown passes. Tennessee 20, Texas 14
22:04:07 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans Oklahoma vs Kentucky Good passing. Kentucky 13, Oklahoma 7.
Louisiana
220409 04:12:50
- 04:23:39 1930s Sd b/w
Huey
Long
Optical effect which shows three Huey Longs making animated speech /
gesticulating / waving arms. Normal shots Huey long making animated speech.
04:13:28 Oscar Kelly Adams swearing in as Governor of the state of Louisiana.
04:14:30 First lady governor of Louisiana - makes short speech and poses
04:14:53 Huey Long in various situations - making speech at University - with wife at evening reception - both
speak.
04:15:25 Short shot Adams
04:15:36 Long putting on graduation robes
04:15:58 Long leading march
04:16:08 Col Robert Ewing, publisher, presents Long with first edition of
newspaper.
04:16:16 man standing in front of placard Ò Gov. LongÕs Plans - 1932 Louisiana
will lead the World in good roadsÓ
04:16:24 Long making speech (mos). Bridge. Cars over bridge to Slidell
04:16:58 French ? Naval ship - Huey Long with Col. Seymour Weiss and A.
Danziger greeted by Commander .
Group standing for national anthem. Sailors fire gun salute.
04:17:59 Long addressing outdoor meeting. Long stops on road to New Orleans to
talk to foreman of road builders. Long standing with family ? and others
04:18:59 Exterior Long house / mansion. Long making animated speech. - various
cuts some out of synch. Talks re redistribution of wealth
Louisiana
220870 03:12:34
- 03:13:39 1935 Sd B/W
Huey
Long Stands on His Record
Long to camera makes animated
speech re successes - adult education,
new roads, new
prisons. Warns corporate
businesses.
Louisiana
220409 03:00:05
- 03:08:00 1938 Sd b/w
Your
Job Insurance
Exterior Capitol with flag flying. Interior congress in session. President Roosevelt (FDR) seated
surrounded by men and women as he signs. Map of USA with moving pix
superimposed. Members of Social Security Board.
03:01:29 Louisiana - Baton Rouge, pan down building. Governor Richard W. Lesh
? with State Labour Commissioner in office.
03:01:58 Dock scenes - industry - offices. Wages office, men clocking
off. ÒSteveÓ who has just lost his job - he goes to Department of Labor State
employment office. Steve with
woman clerk,
Steve interviewed by male clerk re benefit payments for unemployment. On screen
display of jobs which do not cover / insure against unemployment. Steve leaves office. Dates on calender falling March
1938. Steve reports back to unemployment office after a week. Pages of calendar falling. Steve reports
again to unemployment office. Steve
opening his mail box and getting
unemployment cheque. Steve and wife in grocery store. Steve and family at home, gets letter
telling him employment office have found him a job. Map of US superimposed
with workers. Declaration of
Independence.
Mississippi
River
220408
02:05:55 - 02:09:13 1927 Si
b/w Th
Secretary Hoover and Sec. of War Davis at Vicksburg on tour of flooded areas.
With them are Jasper Feiser acting Chairman of Red Cross and others.
Group standing on porch of house.
LS Sea-plane takes off from river. POV from steamship travelling towards
Baton Rouge - Sec. Davis on deck looking at disaster. Group on deck - tracking shot during journey from Vicksburg
to Natchez past submerged houses.
02:06:15 Official party at Camp Natchez. People displaced by flood - children
outside tents with members of official party. Old black woman smoking pipe meets officials
02:06:45 Mass of tents at Baton Rouge. Registering names of refugees. Medical
aid - mass vaccination.
02:07:18 Camp kitchen - white families eating in large tent. Black families eating in open air. Children in queue for baby bottles / milk.
Lovely shots kids. Washing clothes in tubs. Major Schneider
inspecting tents of the homeless (out of rack)
Mississippi River Vicksburg
220625 02:29:42
- 02:36:?? 1927 Sd b/w
The Mississippi
River Flood of 1927
Raging water with farm buildings behind seen from levee near break. Soldier patrolling. POV past submerged houses, barns &
trees. people marooned on levees
with animals & goods. People
in RR car and on barges to stay above water. OUtboard boat pushing barge with horses. Hoover & Red Cross. Blacks moving cars of army cots &
loading trains with crates. Baton Rouge levee reinforced with sandbags et. Moving cattle down street & barging
off. Army moving boat into water
for rescue work & loaded with people and others following. Mules off barges. People moving out by boat. Paddle wheel boat pushing barge; amphibious
plane over. Man rows to woman
on roof. Coast Guard boat &
rescued people. POV from boat on Mississippi. US Coastguguard boat with rescued people. CU mother and daughter. Paddle Boat load of rescued cattle.
Paddle steamship USS Inspector on river between Vicksburg and Baton
Rouge. Boats searching for marooned victims - past submerged houses.
South;
Northwest; MS, Mississippi - River
220625 02:35:15
- 02:44:44 1937 Sd b/w
Uncle
Sam ... The Greatest Builder
About the mighty dams of the Government Works Program during Depression years.
VS dam construction, coal on conveyor belt, Grand Coulee on Columbia
River; steam shovels and other earth moving machines in operation. WPA. 1933
in Montana at headwaters of Missouri, Ft. Peck dam being built. Tunneling
type machine; man welding; Colorado River Gorge and Boulder Dam. Electric
transmission lines out of Boulder. irrigation lines. VS Boulder Dam. Giant
truck being nauled up by ropes. Locks on the Mississippi River. Horses plowing.
Steamboat on Mississippi. Pilot at helm. VS steamships on river. Slow pan
of steamboat name, Mark Twain and paddlewheel.
02:42:25 - Bonneville Dam project. VS construction in California's Sierra
Nevadas.
South;
Northwest; MS, Mississippi - River
LN
505-105 03:12:37 - 03:22:25 1937 SD B/W The River [Reel 1 of 3]
[Main title missing.] R1 traces
growth of Mississippi River from sources to Gulf of Mexico - construction of
levees, cotton picking, river shipping, and lumbering activities.
Pictorial of clouds boiling; still around mountain peaks; CU water running over
rocks & flowing streams to rivers; POV on water.
03:15:09 Silhouette mules, horses
& farmers building dikes. CU
plowing.
03:16:30 Black workers picking
Cotton. Riverboat & black
smoke. Loading sacks; bell
ringing; CU paddlewheel. Blacks
rolling bales onto the Tennessee Belle.
Three racing riverboats / paddlesteamers.
03:18:17 Newspaper article re
General Lee's capitulation, 1865. Flames.
Ruined & decrepit Southern mansions.
Soil erosion. Blacks w/
belongings on wagon & walking. Clouds. Tilt up forest. CU axe into tree. Falling trees. Logs down flumes into river. Pile of logs beside log pond. Dynamiting stacks of logs into river for
drive. CUs log into saw blade.
Mississippi River
LN
505-105 03:22:25 - 03:32:24 1937 SD B/W
The
River [Reel 2 of 3]
R2 consists mostly of Mississippi River during 1937 flood. Unloading ships, coal, steel mill with
steam/smoke. Slag into cars Dumping ladles w/ sparks. Cotton bales unloaded on conveyors from
barges by Blacks. Cotton
mill. Large freighter. Growing river ports w/ factories and
docks.
03:24:57 Clouds, hilltops. Burned tree stumps on foggy hillside.
Icicles & water drops. Water
on mud. Erosion. Rain. Running
water. Flooding streams &
rivers. Clouds, lightening, high
water markers. Rescue boats -
sirens. Levee patrols - sandbags on dikes. Flooded farms & victims. Tent cities. CU of kids & mother w/ baby. Dog on roof. POV
from boat among buildings. Aerials
of flooded city.
LN
505-105 03:32:25 - 03:42:55 1937 SD B/W
The River [Reel 3 of 3]
Cleaning up debris after flood - scenes of destruction - cars upside down. Soil Erosion - over-cultivation. Shacks. Deserted farms.
White workers gleaning sparse cotton. Kid & toy of tin can. Poverty - woman cooking fat meat w/ four kids in cabin. Kids eating w/ hands & wiping plate
clean. Beds crowded into
shack. Clouds above river.
03:37:00 Diagram of Mississippi
River showing damage caused by logging & farming.
03:38:45 Building dam, pouring
concrete, explosion, jack hammer.
Feet & people walking.
CCC planting trees & filling gullies. Cattle graze.
Tennessee Valley with new farming village - VO re government
initiatives. Homesteaders building
houses. Farming. Hydro-electric dam - electrical power
lines.
Tennessee Valley
220459 05:23:32
- 05:33:45 1939 Si b/w
Various
old Southern Mansions
Sign'Welcome to Natchez'.
Huge timber yard. Timber plant with smoking chimneys. River. Tops shot town
centre, streets, traffic. Armstrong tire & rubber company, trucks in front.
Exterior official building with
pillars.
well preserved old mansion, debutante
in ball gown or bride with family. Various large Old South plantation
mansions, two women on porch served by black servant. Black gardeners.
Construction site on derelict mansion, building brick wall. New house built next to dilapidated
mansion, detail of old worn out plantation mansion. Old style hotel. Pillars overgrown with weeds. Part of wall
from destroyed house.
Inside hall luxurious mansion,
Black female servant carries silver tray, serves coffee to white women in
living room by fireplace. Portrait of woman ancestor
Mississippi
220863 07:36:15
- 07:55:29 1942 Si Col
Mississippi
River
The stern wheel steamers W.L. Quinlan and Mark Twain sail on the Mississippi
River stopping at remote landings to pick up passengers and cargo and pushing
or towing loaded rafts - coal transported. Includes close-ups of the pilot
houses and paddle wheels of the vessels. Scenic shots river and countryside. ships
bell and hooters - smoke from stacks
Mississippi
River
Floods
220435 00:37:36
- 00:38:25 1916
? Si b/w
Floods
Aerial views flooded areas - river and city with airfield ? AVs city.
Natural Disasters. 1910s.
221092 16:53:12
- 16:54:11 1932 SIL B/W
Convicts
Rushed To Aid Flood-Stricken River Communities
Prisoners in striped uniforms digging flood defences & carrying sandbags
across swollen river. All convicts
appear to be Black. Farm buildings
& houses surrounded by water, some partly submerged - man in rowing boat.
Natural Disasters - Flooding.
1930s.
220893 12:11:48
- 12:16:03 1940s SD B/W
Today
and Tomorrow - Harnessing American Rivers
Tennessse Valley Authority - TVA
Flowing rivers and floods aftermath.
Congress. Architect's
office. Building dam - construction
- drilling - Animated map shows reservoirs. Various dams incl. Norris Dam, Tennessee (first dam built
by TVA). Releasing waters. Interior dam. Grand Coulee Dam (Columbia River). Fields. Water
out of dam. Electric towers.
Washington
Tennessee
221107 16:35:39
- 16:37:06 1963 SD B/W
20,000
Flee: Floods And Winds Devastate 4 States
Aerial swollen river & collapsed bridge in one of four affected Southern
states - sign Cumberland River - downed US Army helicopter - sign for Harlan
& Pineville. People w/
salvaged possessions outside homes after flood water receded. High water marks on church door &
diner window. People remove
trolleys full of tinned food from damaged supermarket - looting ?
Natural Disasters. Flooding.
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LN
505-034 05:45:14 - 05:54:59 1947 SD B/W
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? Cemetary 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.
LN 505-061 09:41:04 - 09:50:36
1951 SD
B/W
French
Influence In North America
Coronet Instructional Films [main title missing]
Typical small town US main street - Coca Cola sign visible - awning w/'Suburban
Restaurant - Home Cooking' - teenager Jack & younger sister Louise into
restaurant. INT Louise looks
at menu & points out words that don't seem American - 'menu' - 'fillet'
-'casserole' etc. Title: '1534'
- map showing explorer Jacques Cartier's route from France to gulf of St.
Lawrence, Canada & first settlements of Quebec & Montreal. Statue of Champlain & early wooden
settlement showing French architecture.
French missionary outside chapel shakes hands w/ man dressed as stereotypical
Native American Indian. Church
built in Quebec in 1688 - one of oldest streets in New World - more French
architecture - horse & carriage.
Quebec street scenes - women talking on street - French shop signs.
09:44:26 Cut to examples of French
influence in typical American town - store signs 'Chalmette Drug Store' -
ÔLecorgne HardwareÕ. Statue of
Jesuit priest Father Marquette & fur trader Louis ? - map showing their
route from Quebec to Mississippi Valley on mission to convert Indians - recreation
of the two explorers canoing down river.
Examples of chapel, trading post & fort built by French explorers
as they travelled through valley. Vincennes,
Indiana - French style cathedral. Map of US showing French influence in city names like Montpelier,
Detroit, Baton Rouge etc.
09:46:21 Louise out of restaurant
w/ brother - wearing beret - walk past sedan car. Traffic past. Buy
newspaper from sidewalk vendor - point to French words 'Premier' & 'Bayou'
on front page - shot of typical Louisiana bayou.
09:47:17 Statue of explorer Robert
de la Salle. Map of US showing
region la Salle named Louisiana after French king. CU street sign 'New Orleans City Limit'. EXT Parish Court house. Cathedral in old section of New Orleans.
French Quarter - Chartres Street - French-style carriages on street
- balconies. French plantation house outside city.
Jack & Louise walk down suburban street as VO points out French
influence in US architecture - French provincial style, chateau - INT furniture
in French style, French print on wall & French literature.
VO summarises areas in which French influences visible. High angle shot of small town main street w/ traffic.
LN
505-118 05:33:31 - 05:49:18 1959
c SD COL
Inland
Waterways In The Development Of American Transportation
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
Aerial views river, coastline.
Old-fashioned steam locomotive past. Industrial scenes.
Factories on riverbank. VO
re fall & rise of US waterways.
Freight barges. Pan across
river to dam / bridge. Allegheny
Mountains - VO re Westward expansion in 19th Century - barge loaded w/
goods. Niagara Falls. Man dressed as George Washington -
quote re waterways. Erie Canal -
canal boat drawn by mule - Albany-Buffalo - water level raised in lock &
barge continues.
05:38:08 Map of US showing canal
construction. Vars paddle
steamboats on river. Locomotive
steam whistle - early trains along railroad - VO re decline of inland waterways
by 1850.
05:40:02 Industrial scenes - steel
mills - ore barge along river - coal barge towed - oil tanker barge - chemical
barge - grain into covered barge - top shot goods loaded into barge.
05:42:10 Map of North America
showing inland waterways & links w/ rivers & sea. Cars & steel transported down Ohio
River en route to Texas - towboat pushing barge - INT cab - past Cincinatti -
new industrial development on riverside - barge through lock - new barge full
of tractors added at Louisville.
Night scenes barge using arc lights & radar. Fog.
05:46:20 Barge passes through Baton
Rouge & New Orleans, Louisiana - dock scenes. Map showing point where barge leaves Mississippi River &
enters Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
Aerial views GIW - passes Galveston & arrives at Brownsville, Texas
where freight unloaded.
05:48:12 New cars loaded onto
four-deck self-propelled barge - Tennessee River - bridge raised - vars barge
& aerial shots.
LN
505-026 07:01:11 - 07:10:23 1948 SD COL
Arteries
Of Life
New York Zoological Society / Dist. Encyclopaedia Britannica
Part Three of The Living Earth series.
Animated diagram showing chain of life - raw materials, energy, plants,
top soil, organization, water, forests.
Ocean - air currents - mountain range - dramatic cloud formations &
rain shower. Dry area inland
- stream running from mountain & through forest. Forest floor absorbing water like sponge - experiment w/ one
square foot of turf, absorbs 2 gallons.
Snow melting slowly on wooded area of hillside - area where trees burned
shows almost no snow; CUs rainwater running off sparse land; vegetation protecting
soil. Studio cross-section model
of soil w/ water pouring - one side 'Forest Absorbs', the other 'Bare Surface
Sheds Rain' - moisture on protected side filters to water table & spreads
by capillary action. Farmland
in shadow of mountain - alfalfa crop harvested - churning mountain river -
moose wandering in grassland.
07:06:00 Beaver on dam - important
resource but most killed off. Man-made
dam & huge reservoir. Green
irrigated land downstream next to desert - not enough water. Melted snow into springs & brooks
- into rivers. Stream through
mountains of Continental divide - splits off in different directions - irrigating
fruit trees in California & lands of Mississippi Valley, south into Rio
Grande.
07:08:25 Fertile San Louis Valley
- irrigation canals & ditches through fields. Map of US showing 'arteries of life' carrying water through
states. Fertile farmland - Dust
Bowl - polluted river - tree felled - marshes drained - soil tilled - combine
harvester.
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