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Tall Ships


     220538    10:40:02 - 10:40:31  1897 b/w  Si   S.S. Coptic Sailing Away
Copyrighted 25.10.1897
Edison
Four masted ship steams away from dock as people on pier watch. Camera above spectators heads.
Ship looks different from one in S.S. Coptic At Dock

     220646    09:52:58 - 10:00:32  1898 B/W  SIL  Japan and China ca 1898
Native people looking at Bonsai trees.  CU bonsai. Zoo - Wading birds / storks ?  in pond - small deer in enclosure.  School children in crocodile.
09:54:25 Masted passenger steam-ship  Naval battleship ? flying Japanese flag.  Tracking shot past waterside homes. Cargo boats.  Man making parasols.  Street parade - people carrying lanterns, small trees and ?? Rickshaws in parade.  Many marchers.
09:57:55 Street vendor, man cleans and polishes small pipe - old man smoking small pipe (opium?) Coolies get bowls of food from street vendor.  CU Man eating noodles from bowl.
09:59:05 Going down river gorge in small boats - rapids / white water rafting.
09:59:58 Irrigation system - water raised by bullock and emptied.

     220573    01:40:43 - 01:41:28  1899 b/w  Si   Pilot Boats in New York Harbor
Edison
copyrighted 22.04.1899
Two masted Marconi rigged schooner with signal flags sails by camera boat.
Another steamship moves by with signal flags.


 
     220615    11:52:09 - 11:52:55  1899 b/w  Si   Pilot Boats in New York Harbor
A Marconi-rigged schooner of pilot boat hull-design passes in front of the camera. Four crew members are visible aboard. In its trail is a single-masted steamship of approx. 5,000 tons.  

X    221166    09:26:30 - 09:35:36  19?? B/W  SD   [Robinson Crusoe]   Pt 1 of 3
Man stands by WOR mic in tuxedo telling story of Defoe who wrote Robinson Crusoe. 
09:26:45  Grandmother & two children llstening to radio, various shots, others children listening to radios w/ optical effects.  Picture rolls some (not usable 09:27:12--09:27:23)
09:27:26  Square-rigger sailing ship.  Three masted seen from water & onboard with costumed sailors.  Storm, stormy sea, heavy waves.  miniature ship in tank.
09:28:29--09:29:31  black w/  lightening (not too good--tacky)
09:29:34  Crusoe washed up on beach.  Goes to trees then back to man dead on beach, takes knife, carries body up beach to bury him.
09:31:26  Ship washed near shore, takes raft to get food, bullets, etc.  Finds dog & cat alive, brings to shore.  Sitting in house built of bamboo.  W/ dog walks on hills above water, sees no ships.  Carves shovel to plant seeds.  Put up sign of arrival date and then notched pole each day.
09:35:23  Writing in diary.
Adventure Novel; Radio Program; Announcer; Castaway; Survivor;       

221384    10:01:07 - 10:06:45  1900s; 1910s; 1920s  B/W  SIL  [1900 - 1920 Scenes, USA & Europe]
INCLUDING:
10:05:20  Royalty or mlitary VIPS walking in large group past camera.  Tall woman w/ shrt military man. 
10:05:53  Two (?) masted sailing ship thru ice.
10:05:58  Foxes running across snow.  Dog team pulling man on sled thru deep snow.  Crowd of boys & men running across desert w/ cars parked beyond.  Two men sitting on ground holding Land Claim stakes (?).   Old men watch.
10:06:30 
      

220565    12:13:40 - 12:15:18  1914 - 1918    b/w  Sd   World War One -  Naval
World War One - German Commerce Raider Moewe which destroyed 200,000 tons of Allied shipping.  Shots fired from German ship, transport ship hit, rolls over and sinks.  Full masted ship Duchess of Nantes  sunk by Moewe. Galleon like ship hit and sinks.
WWI    

220679    15:00:12 - 15:10:56  1914 - 1918    B/W  SIL  Deutsches U-Boot auf KaperfahrtINCLUDING:
Partly or wholly staged documentary of German submarine / U-boat cruise during World War One.
Sub loads up on torpedoes & supplies, crew comes aboard, sub puts out to sea waved off by German sailors.  German fleet in harbour.  U-boat on surface, men in lookout tower.  Three-masted ship hit by submarine - men rescued & taken to sub before ship sinks.  U-boat underway, brief shot interior engine room.  U-boat submerges.  Interior man looking through periscope.  Torpedo into tube.  Steamship underway.  Torpedo launched.  Ship sinking.  Ship firing guns, depth charge?  Sub underway.  Surface launch torpedo tube.  Ship sinking. 
15:09:38 
      

220845    06:22:35 - 06:26:26  1914 - 1918    B/W  SIL  Friday on the Bosphorous  (segment)
INCLUDING:
06:25:23  POV from water past ships & boats docked in Istanbul.  Several large mosques behind.  Very good shots of liners, ferries, freighters & masted ships at docks.  Abrupt end.
Middle East; Exotic Travel; Transportation; Shipping; Royalty; Muslim; Islam;
NOTE:  Eclipse-Kleine film.  Selamlik is portion of palace reserved for men.  Scutari district on Asian shore of Bosphorus is now known as Uskudar where Blue Mosque, St. Sophia, Topkapi are located.

     220495    23:05:43 - 23:10:35  1914 ?; 1910s; b/w  Si   [1910s Harbor & Dock Activities; Engine Room; MCUs of Ship Funnels & Wake]INCLUDING:
23:05:52  Sailing yachts w/ small single mast & 2-masted boats.  Race w/ many single-sail boats towards & alongside cameraboat.  Boats docking in port.  Port & dock scenes w/ men unloading large burlap bags
23:06:51

     220536    07:30:59 - 07:48:10  1914 / 1915    b/w  Si   Bowhead Hunting in the Arctic; Or, the Cruise of the Whaler "Herman"INCLUDING:
A graphic pictorial record of life aboard and old time whaler on a trip to the frozen North.
Whaler Herman leaving the dock at San Francisco - movie cameramen on dock.  pov ship pulling away from dock.
Sailor cod fishing  with line on the way north.  Arrival at Unalaska - shots snow covered mountains - old church at Unalaska.  Four young native boys pose for camera.  Back on board ship, sorting whale lines, coiling rope. Pan round harbour, various masted ships in dock
Coaling at Dutch harbour.  Shots housing along quayside - coal delivered on board ship by barrow.
Leaving Dutch harbor - shots snowy  peaks and coastline.
07:36:05       

220698    12:08:33 - 12:22:33  1914 / 1915    b/w  Si   Bowhead Hunting in the Arctic; Or, the Cruise of the Whaler "Herman"INCLUDING:
A graphic pictorial record of life aboard and old time whaler on a trip to the frozen North.
Hauling dead polar bear on board ship. Herschel Island and harbour - small sailing boats in harbour. Shacks and housing. Royal Northwestern mounted police. Policeman feeding dogs. Landing supplies for explorer Stefansson at his camp on Banks Land.  Small sailing boat anchored on shore while supplies off loaded. Stefansson camp and his power schooner Mary Sachs hauled up on beach out of danger from the Winter ice.  Polar bear cubs, pets of Captain Bernard who is in charge of Stefanssons camp - bear cubs chained. Ships of the ill fated Steffanson expedition - various ships and boats including four masted sailing ship grounded on shore. Two men pose for camera - Steffanson ?
12.18.21       

220580    06:13:42 - 06:22:30  1916-1918 b/w  Si   WWI  Recruits - Training - Naval Ships - Pershing in France
Pan over barracks & wagons. Navy Yard, construction & launching of 4 masted ship; Armament production - Men working on large guns, crane moving them.   Barrels for ships guns.  Shells manufactured.  Stirring draft capsules & drawing
06:15:44  Draftees arriving.  Crowd of soldiers sitting around platform.  Field kitchens serving, eating.  March along road. Callisthenics; bayonet drill; inspection. Trucks.  Planes t.o.  (upside down aerial).  Battleship firing.  Navy or coast guard Callisthenics & gun training.  Ships firing.  Pershing & others reviewing French troops.  Huge crowd outside station & Pershing leaving in motorcade.  Troops off ship & march through town.  Military parade.        220896    16:07:12 - 16:17:51  1917 B/W  SIL  WWI - Newsreel Excerpts
INCLUDING:
16:08:25  Count von Luckner, famous German sea raider poses for portrait during visit to Los Angeles.  Count and Countess with mascots, two dachshunds.  Von Luckner inspects naval crew.  16:09:06 Sailing in the schooner Vaterland for continued tour of the World.  Four masted ship underway.  16:09:33       

221618    22:37:11 - 22:42:10  1922 B/W  SIL  [Mining - Coal; Tacoma & Olympia, Washington]  Pt. 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
22:39:55  Flash title:  Extensive coastwise & foreign commerce is negotiated at Tacomas waterfront.  Two men looking at harbor, pan bridge.  HA w/ five masted sailing freighter docked.
22:40:18 
      

220455    01:24:10 - 01:28:48  1923 ca;  B/W  Si   [10 Millionth Ford Trip Across USA - Excerpt]
INCLUDING:
01:28:29  Across bridge w/ five-masted ship seen (briefly).  Henry Ford (?) talking w/ two men, railroad car behind.
Promotion; Advertising; 1920s; 1923; 
      

220870    03:42:43 - 03:45:00  1924 B/W  SIL  [Rum Runners off Florida, ca May24]
POV from sailing ship to freighter; View of sailing ship from frieghter.  Three masted sailing ship at anchor in choppy seas, smaller boats approach.  Crates off loaded from sailing ship onto smaller boats, crates marked Fine Old Brandy.  Men in suits & topcoats on deck.  Name on stern of sailing ship General Pau.  GOOD.
Crime; Smuggling; Prohibition; 1920s;

     220870    03:33:10 - 03:35:20  1925 B/W  SIL  [Liquor & Cuba  - Prohibition, 1925]
Men roll barrels of alcohol out of warehouse at docks.  Ocean liner, ship, unloaded at dock.  Barrels & cases of alcohol stocked under shed roof.   Barrels on barges along ship; loading on sailing ship.  Man in owwboat.  Three masted sailing ship; two two-masted ships w/ sails furled. Cases of liquore stack.
Rum runners; Caribbean;

     221154    13:01:07 - 13:02:23  1929 B/W  SIL  Italys Naval Cadets In Mid-Air Ship Drill (1929)  Leghorn Academy boys do daring stunts in review for Admiral Rota 
Shipboard w/ Admiral & others.  Cadets climb rigging of ship,stand on arms and spars.  Ship Christoforo Colombo at sea w/ sails unfurled.  Three-masted.
Military Training Ship; Tall-Ships; Italian navy;

     221154    13:49:21 - 13:50:14  1930 B/W  SIL  Yank Schooner Nips Canada In First Of International Races  (1930)  Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gertrude Thebaud beats Bluenose in race for Lipton Cup.  (lost in 1931).  Twin masted and various views across water.  One seems to show the loose sails of Bluenose that contributed to its loss.  Ships side by side.
Sports - Wealthy;       

221223    06:13:58 - 06:14:45  1930 B/W  SIL  [News Paragraphs - Re-enact prison ship scenes]
Newark, New Jersey
View of 3-masted ship in dock.  Top shot convict walking on deck with ball and chain - staged.  Others shown trussed up by guards.  Man flogged w/ cat onine tails & dragged off.  Convict ship Success arrives! Re-enact old prison scenes in famous British felon vessel.
Sailors; Mutiny Uprising; Oddities; Punishment; Behavior Modification;  1930s.

X    221211    06:31:09 - 07:14:56  1930s     B/W  SIL  [Home Movies - Liner Deck Activities; Arctic Adventure] 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
07:07:10  View of twin masted sailing boat from another w/ people on rail.  CU of man outside NORDKAP. Cabin.  Puppies w/ man on deck & man washing dogs.  Into harbor from boat looking beyond men.  Boats in harbor.  Woman greeting men from rowboat & coming off ship on dock. 
07:10:52  Women & men at rail of boat.  View of ship (1701 on side) w/ several sails from another boat.  NORKAP II from another boat & from crows nest.  Large ferry in harbor.  Large bridge (NY-NJ?)  behind people on boat. US flag flying under bridge.
Travelogue; Amateur Filmmaking; Exploration; Exploring; Butchering;       

221154    14:26:02 - 14:26:48  1932 B/W  SIL  Royal Pilot King George V Guides Yacht to Victory in Famed Race Classic
Cowes harbour, crew, huge single & twin-masted yachts under full sail, schooners racing. 
Sailing Race;
 
    

221089    17:40:21 - 17:41:02  1933 B/W  SIL  Old Ironsides Balboa Bound Via Canal Zone
Three-masted sailing ship through Panama Canal, seen from vars angles.

X    221277    05:57:46 - -06:08:01 1938 B/W  SD   New England Fishermen
ERPI Classroom Films Inc.
Good shot two masted schooner at sea, fishermen into whale boat, full nets emptied on deck of boat.  Monument of fisherman in Gloucester Harbor, fishing boats moored.  Fishermens cottage.
05:58:39  Int.  Fisherman packing bag, wife pours coffee.  Husband & wife talk, she wants him to give up fishing & become a farmer.  He says theres no money in that either.  Goodbye kiss & leaves to go to sea. 
06:00:16  On board schooner, sails raised, shots of schooner under way w/ diesel auxillary motor.    Fishermen prepare lines, bait hooks, dory lowered, marker buoy & anchor thrown out.  Second dory sets out.  Fisherman bring in trawl lines.  Dory back to schooner, offload fish. 
06:02:34  Steam trawler modern fishing boat.  Diesel powered trawler.  On board trawler, nets lowered, engine room.  Doors holding net open & nets hauled up by electric winches, catch released onto deck, nets relowered.  CU Haddock, cod.  Trawling.  Cook in ships galley, on deck cleaned fish thrown into ice storage bins, Cod livers into bucket.
06:05:04  Crew having meal, eating below deck.  Men in bunks.  Night fishing.  Radio operator at telegraph.  Pull in catch watched by captain giving orders.  Repair nets.  Lots of seabirds follow ship.  Ship returning to port, overtakes schooner.  Ship putting into Boston Harbor w/ sign Boston Fish Pier.
Working men; laborers; Educational Film; Fishing; Danger;

     221223    06:07:26 - 06:08:01  1939 B/W  SIL  Girls Sail on Sea Scout Cruise
City Island, New York; NYC
Teenage girls board yacht past camera; throwing duffel bags & kit bags on board.  Girl wipes brow.  VS girls working on deck, raising sails, pull ropes etc.  Girls wave from rigging of twin masted ship.  Girl at steering wheel as sailing ship passes New York skyline.
Girl Scouts

     221265    15:47:58 - 15:55:06  194? B/W  SD   [WWII Military Service Sing-a-long Songs]  main title missing
INCLUDING:
15:52:07  Title:  The U.S. Government Presents The Marines Hymn. 
15:52:21  Four masted ship & early marines on ships during battles. 
15:52:40 1940s navy ships & marines reviewed shipboard & parading w/ equipment.  Montage:  Flag raised.  Planes taking off and marines parachuting out.  Digging in on beaches.  Marching thru jungles.  Camouflaged ships w/ marines into rubber landing craft & larger boats.  Landing craft.  Explosions on beach, marines running ashore.
15:54:30  subtitles.   Incomplete.
Patriotism; Propaganda; War Effort;

 
    221292    05:11:14 - 05:20:25  1940 B/W  SD   A Heritage We Guard  R1 of 3
Department of Agriculture
05:11:43  Sea gulls in flight; multi-masted sailing ships in harbor w/ sails furled.  Hand writing w/ quill pen letter re shipping of fur pelts, CU Dec. 5, 1683  My Lords...
05:13:14  Sealing w/ wax & stamp.
05:13:27  View of forested hills.  Pan across thick forest; 3 moose grazing in pond, bear in river & chicks being fed in bird nests (several), CU.  Woodpecker; snake on branch moving along.  Pan over forests; grasslands w/ many buffalo or bison running across.  CU grazing.
05:15:15  Wapiti elk on grass; winter & stags; deer.  Mt lion or cougar; deer running.  Pronghorn antelope grazing.  Grizzly bear eating salmon in river; sow & two cubs on hillside.
05:16:22  Snow capped mountain (Mt. Hood?) from alpine meadow.  CU bald eagle.  ECU.
05:16:42  Water fowl, geese overhead, landing on water w/ other birds.  LS of American Indian standing; MCU. 
05:17:08  Roof & flaming arrow setting on fire.  burning farm & Indians riding around.  CU letter 1750 re moving westward & problems of shipping furs across country.  CU hand writing w/ pen. 
05:18:28  Trapper in leather jacket & hat w/ fur pelts walking past camera thru woods.
05:18:57  Dockside w/ masted ships; men in tri-corner hats wheeling goods, carry keg, stage coach.
05:19:06  CU ax cutting tree.  Tree falling toward camera.  men clearing stumps & brush; pulling stumps w/ horses.  Blacksmith working.  CU corner of log cabins.  Oxen pulling plow.
05:20:11  Woman sewing seeds.  Walking to cabin w/ husband.  End of reel 1.
American History; Americana; 1800s; Wildlife; Ecology; Frontiersman;

     221251    14:13:41 - 14:24:25  1940s ?   B/W  SD   Hilfskreuzer auf allen Meeren  [Part 2 of 2]
INCLUDING:
14:20:51  Naval funeral - bodies covered in British naval flag buried at sea w/ military honours.  Passengers & crew of british three-masted tallship taken on board - ship fired at & sunk. 
14:23:29  Cadets at graduation ceremony? - Captain presents certificates.  Nazi Kriegsmarine flag flying.
WWII.  Shipping.  Atlantic.  PoWs.  Gags.  Oddities.  German Navy; Burial at Sea; Sailing Ship        221506    00:00:02 - 09:08:50  1941 B/W  SIL  China Shall Have Our Help  R1 of 2, Pt. 1 of 2
INCLUDING:
00:06:46  CU title:  Why?  Man turning pages of Chinese character, etching, etc.  Map of US, Pacific Ocean & China w/ connecting dotted line, 3 months.
00:08:09  1792 beginning of trade w/ China.  3-masted tall ship Yankee Clippers under full sail.  US flag dropped from pole & unfurled.  Tall ship arriving in Chinese port, another docked.  Two Europeans talking w/ Chinese sage in robes.  Continued...
History; Oriental; Shipping; Transportation; Pre-WWII; Sino-Japanese War; Conflicts; Propaganda;

     220848    09:06:10 - 09:16:11  1941 - 1945    b/w  Sd   Battle Stations - USCG - Narr  by Ginger Rogers and James CagneyINCLUDING:
Medals / Citations superimposed over battle scenes.  Coast Guards on parade ground - marching / drill. Masted coast guard ship. Cutter in heavy / rough seas. Citation over battle scenes.
09:08:32  Bodies covered in US flags.
09:08;48       

221199    17:28:03 - 17:38:20 1942? 1943?    B/W  SD   Know Your Enemy - Japan (1945)  R4 of 6
INCLUDING:
17:28:17  Montage of telephone, railroad, calendar, photography, sewing.  Ships sails on tall ships w/ English flag.  Building army w/ Europeans.  Militarization.
17:28:59 
      

200558    11:11:50 - 11:13:06  1943 B/W  SD   Four-Masted Bark Prepares For Mercy Voyage
VS Portugese sailing ship Foz do Douro loaded with 200,000 Red Cross food parcels and supplies for PoWs at docks near Baltimore.

     221546    11:07:43 - 11:15:35  1943 B/W  SD   [WWII - German Newsreel Excerpts, 1943]  R2 of 4
INCLUDING:
11:09:41  Argentine four-masted training sailing ship docked, Spanish cadets board, salute.  Newsreel cameramen w/ tripod board.  Military at attention; large anchor chains hoisted, gangway taken aboard & ship leaving.  Briefly under sail.
11:10:28
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     220468    02:19:32 - 02:21:10  1945 B/W  SD   Sports - Track Meet  (London International; Schooner Sailing)
INCLUDING:
02:20:28  Title: Art of Sailing.  Raising sail of Tabor...  Schooner sailed by students from Cape Cod Academy.  2-masted.
Title:  Buy That Extra War Bond Today
Post-WWII; Recreation;   X    221293    07:36:26 - 07:52:04  1949 B/W  SD   Benjamin Franklin
Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc & Emerson Film Corporation
Dramatisation of Ben Franklins early life.
INCLUDING:
07:40:00  Tall ship at sea. (GOOD)
07:40:12  Franklin in printing shop w/ handset type box.  Sign The Pennsylvania Gazette  (bought by Franklin).  Franklin at home w/ wife who is dusting w/ feather duster; Franklin at desk w/ quill writing & quoting  Poor Richards Almanac. 
07:41:25  Franklin at 46, retired civic leader, interest in science shows experiment to sceptical friend who gets electric shock from Franklins latest experiment, Leyden Jar.
07:42:28  Recreation of kite scene in thunder storm, lightning.  Franklins son & Ben flying kite in rain w/ light - conducts electricity to key in CU.
07:43:47  London:  skyline inc. St. Pauls Cathedral.  Franklins return 1757; at desk w/ quill & standing talking to two men as spokesman for American colonies, objects to stamp act: they will never submit to this tax, they will never pay it.  Discusses England military forcing enforcement & threatens rebellion.
07:45:40  Philadelphia church, streets.  Cannons fired & barrels cleaned.  Riders thru woods.  Frankllin writing w/ quill at desk.  Talking to others in wigs. 
07:46:19  Tall sailing ship (GOOD).  Franklin announced in France as Commissioner; talks w/ King We in France, we sympathise with you in your war against England - please assure Congress of my friendship.Franklin talks w/ French nobility (SOF), introduces Thomas Jefferson to suceed himself.
07:48:30  Philadelphia  Franklin addressing Constitutional Convention. (SOF) 
07:50:44  Franklins autobiography superimposed over life scenes.  Plaque:  American Philosophical Society Founded By Benjamin Franklin 1743.  Inventions - Franklin stove & lightning rod.  Shots of things done:  founded first fire company, hospital & University of Pennsylvania.  Franklins tomb & statues.  The End.
American History - 18th Century; Colonialism; Revolution;

X    221461    08:18:52 - 08:22:36  1949 B/W  SIL  Title:  The Foreign Page  (Unidentified)INCLUDING:
08:21:41  Young women in swimmnig suits on side of boat swinging legs.  ?? Yankee on side.  Porpoises swimming along side seen from boat.  CU woman watching.  Women washing hair &bath out of bucket.  On back on deck sunning, reading.
08:22:26  Two masted sailing ship underway.
ca 1950.

X    LN 505-027 08:34:43 - 08:40:19  1949 B/W  SD   James Fenimore Cooper [Part 1 of 2] Prod. by Emerson Film Corp & Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
INCLUDING:
08:37:36  Large three-masted square rigger at sea in medium-long shot.  Studio shots of working on shipboard and with captain and crew, argue over English drafting seaman without papers into British Navy.
08:38:58
 

X    LN 505-027 08:40:19 - 08:51:17  1949 B/W  SD   James Fenimore Cooper [Part 2 of 2] Prod. by Emerson Film Corp & Encyclopaedia Britannica Films
INCLUDING:
08:48:0?  Miniature of two masted boat in tank of rough water.
08:48:3?   X    221318    12:15:36 - 12:31:51  1950 B/W  SD   Oliver Wendell Holmes
Emerson Film Corp.INCLUDING:
ext. of Federalist buildings w/ large shade trees; Harvard campus.
12:16:25  Int. Seriously father, I dont want to be a lawyer & poetrys merely a hobby.  Talking over formal breakfast.  Reads from newspaper scrap old Ironsides; suddenly quotes poem.  3-masted sailing ship The Constitution docked as museum exhibit.
12:17:42

X    221456    02:20:32 - 02:22:07  1950 B/W  SIL  Title:  Record Death In Plane Crash  (Lake Michigan, 23Jun50)
02:20:37  MS Coast Guard boat, view of arriving amphibious military helicopter past boat; C-47 flying over.  Two masted sailing boat w/ sails down.  Helicopter circling; CU of floating debris.  Whale boat w/ sailors.
02:21:13  Man hooking clothing debris out of water & bringing on board ship.  Reporters taking notes as partially destroyed Northwest flight book is shown.  CU of Northwest jacket.
02:22:01  Reporters at dock & sailors bringing debris ashore.
Airplane Crash Aftermath; Deaths;
NOTE:  Northwest DC-4 Flight 2501 from LaGuardia airport 23Jun50 killing all 58 on board.

X    221307    11:57:22 - 12:13:17  1950 ca   B/W  SD   24 Hours of Progress   Pt. 1 of 2
Presented by Atlantic Refining Company INCLUDING:
New England coastline & farms.  Church, harbor w/ 3-masted sailboat.  Sun dial alone & superimposed with pendulum. 
11:58:33       

221627    06:22:00 - 06:27:22  1957 ca.  B/W  SIL  [Aerials of US Naval Fleet, ca 1957]
Aerial over US Fleet in Mediterranean w/ USS Wisconsin (BB-64), circling aircraft carrier.
06:23:06  USS Saratoga (CV-60 w/ sailors on deck); other ships including four-masted ship in distance.  Submarines w/ missiles, battleship, two carriers, etc.  Aircraft carrier USS Leyte (CV-32) w/ sailors on deck.  USS Valley Forge (CV-45).
950s; Lebanon Related (?); Navy; Cold War;

     221564    01:00:57 - 01:14:48  196?; 1960s;   COL  SD   Twin-masted Coast Guard training ship under full sail.
01:01:07  Main Title:  AMVER - The Automated Merchant Vessel Report System
01:01:21  Mercator chart of world w/ narration about distances.
01:02:05  Men on ships bridge; man smoking at rail; man playing solitare.  Helmsman spinning wheel; steering failure, officer on telephone.  Men checking charts; storm w/ high waves over deck.
01:03:06  Freighter underway. Int. seaman reading, has stomach pain.  Captain told, writes notes for radio message.  Illustration showing route of message.  Man at teletype machine, given message to send to AMVER.
01:04:26  Sailor takes message from teletype.  Ships around shown on map.
01:04:56  Sailors in room, one typing message into computer.  Computers large memory discs; reading magnetic disc.  Main frame & blinking lights.  More map illustration.
01:06:41  Sailor at keyboard, computer (IBM 1403?) running, printing out & punch cards sorted.  Cards generate punch tape; cards fed into card transmitter & message to rescue center.  Sailor at map plotting. 
01:08:09  Ill sailor laying, given hot water bottle.
01:08:15  Freighter wallowing heavily in rough seas.
01:08:27  Sailor at computer; officer plotting position by hand.  Sailor checking filing cabinet.  LS of computer room equipment.  Radiomen sending sailing plan; received & checked for errors.  Sailors making up cards for ship.
01:10:06  Sail plan.  Card into computer; hard drives storing information on oxide discs.  Computer working.  Sailors working in computer room.
01:11:07  Illustration of passenger jet crossing Atlantic above clouds; radioing alert.  Illustration showning glide area.  AMVER printing out.  CU fingers typing to list nearby ships.  Punch cards come out, gathered, sorted & transmitted.  Controller on phone to pilot.  Illustration of ships in area.
01:13:01  Sailor at computer; man w/ punch cards; man plotting.
01:13:15  Aerial over tanker & freighter turning.  Man sending w/ telegraph key.  Illustration.  Computer.
01:13:51  Coast Guard search & rescue plane taking off; view in cockpit, view from below.  Jet amphibian helicopter taking off from ship deck.  Computer operator.  Tail title & credits.  The End.
Technology History; 1960s; Transportation;

     221416    06:05:25 - 06:06:24  1961 B/W  SD   [Sports, Sailing Race - California to Honolulu, Hawaii]
Many sail boats on smooth water beginning of Trans-Pacific Handicap Yacht Race.  Aerial over many ships including tall ships w/ two Japanese square rigger of three masts.  Viewes from on small press boat. among the boats.  Aerial.

     221408    14:14:10 - 14:27:36  1978 COL&B/W   SD   Price of Peace and Freedom, The  Pt 2 of 2
INCLUDING:
14:21:43  Tall ships in New York harbor 1976 w/ people watching, boats on water.  GOOD crowd Americana.  Small town parade w/ applause & drum majorette, others.
14:22:24 
      

221322    00:55:52 - 01:05:19  1985 COL  SD   [Satellite File #083: Afghan-Americans Demo; Computer Chips; Chamber of Commerce BizNet]   Pt. 1 of 3INCLUDING:
Opening montage of stories w/ introduction by Nelson Benton.  Montage of Americana:  parade, beauty queen on float, people at beach, picnic, Disneyland, break dancer,  4-masted tall ship past Statue of Liberty; fireworks.
00:57:14

     221322    01:16:40 - 01:22:07  1985 COL  SD   [Satellite File #083:  Computer Designed Hip Joints; Carousel Restoration]   Pt. 3 of 3
INCLUDING:
01;21:17  Americana montage of marching units in parade, people on beach, picnicing, family playing, Disneyland, 4-masted tall-ship past Statue of Liberty, fireworks. 
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Note:  sound ends at 01:19:03

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