1980-19891980s NEWS
Various news stories from Northern Calfornia - Oakland & Berkeley areas.
University of California Berkeley fraternity house fire where three students lost their lives.
Story about the negotiations to bring the Oakland Raiders NFL Football Team back to Oakland.
Various other local Oakland news stories.
University of California Berkeley fraternity house fire where three students lost their lives.
Story about the negotiations to bring the Oakland Raiders NFL Football Team back to Oakland.
Various other local Oakland news stories.
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University of California Berkeley - Tilt up Sather Tower, bells ring. Pan down from tjhe tower to a group of students looking solemn sitting on the ground beneath it.
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| 01:00:13 13.11 |
Hands holding a single yellow flower.
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| 01:00:15 15.01 |
CU and pan students sitting on the ground with their heads bowed, some with their heads in their hands, as the Sather Tower bells toll and the students share a moment of silence. With unseen narration who tells the story of the death of three students in a fraternity house fire.
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| 01:00:32 32.99 |
WS of the group of students on the ground and adults (professors and parents) standing behind them in a moment of silence.
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| 01:00:53 53.44 |
Talking head parent speaks to unseen interviewer outside about the tragic fire.
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| 01:01:16 76.3 |
A female student holding a bouquet of flowers places them at the door of the fraternity house where the fire took lives.
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| 01:01:34 94.65 |
Blank (KRON newscaster talks about the fire)
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| 01:01:47 107.53 |
Ext. of the burned out frat house. Windows burned out and boarded up. A red Cross sign attached to a tree. TV announcer unseen talks about the wood paneling in the window that may have caused the fire to burn in a flash.
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| 01:01:57 117.98 |
Berkeley Fire Chief Gary Cates speaks in front of several mics about the suspicious fire and the rapid rate of spread.
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| 01:02:18 138.1 |
WS of the burned out, boarded up windows of the frat house, and exterior shots of the front of the building, a ladder leans against it and fire hoses are sprawled out on the ground. Pan in on a bouquet of flowers leaning against the building.
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| 01:02:32 152.57 |
Tilt down from a higher building across the street, cars parked on the street, the burned out fraternity house and other student housing along the street are seen.
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| 01:02:50 170.77 |
Cutaway. Next segment about the San Francisco Raiders football team negotiations to bring the team back to Oakland.
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| 01:02:53 173.33 |
Alameda County Supervisor, Don Perata, speaks with unseen reporters from his office about the Raiders' negotiations. Explains they did the best they could to bring the Raiders back.
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| 01:03:12 192.69 |
Angry loud people speak up at City Council meeting to bring the Raiders back.
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| 01:03:23 203.02 |
Al Davis, football coach, Owner and General Manager of the Oakland Raiders speaks into mics.
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| 01:03:32 212.83 |
Alameda County Supervisor, Charles Santana, speaks to the press about the contract negotiations.
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| 01:04:04 244.9 |
Back with Don Perata, point man for bringing back the team, speaks into mic from his office about the Raiders being an asset to Oakland and to Los Angeles, and how they came within days of bringing the team back to Oakland.
Audoi disappears midway through his interview. |
| 01:04:48 288.75 |
Shots of the Raiders on the playing field.
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| 01:04:59 299.73 |
Oakland management at a press conference talks about the failure and to bring the team back.
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| 01:05:25 325.33 |
Angry Black folk shouting at a public meeting.
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| 01:05:50 350.55 |
cutaway next segment
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| 01:05:51 351.43 |
A bridge and road damaged by a California earthquake. Alameda Supervisor Dan Perata talks at a press conference about the impact of the road and bridge damage to California commerce.
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| 01:06:23 382.99 |
California Lt. Governor, Leo McCarthy speaks outside to the media about the delays by CalTran in repairing the destruction.
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| 01:06:50 410.32 |
WS of a gymnasium shelter filled with people sleeping on cots and sleeping bags, displaced due to earthquake damage.
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| 01:06:55 415.67 |
Newscaster unseen talks about the slowness of FEMA (Federal Emergency Agency) to pay Oakland only $300,000 of the $20M it owes. Long tables of people sign up for FEMA aid.
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| 01:07:04 424.84 |
Volunteers help to repair the bridge and roads.
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| 01:07:44 464.27 |
Cut to next segment. the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Fire at UC Berkeley
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| 01:07:44 464.27 |
A fireman climbs down an ext. ladder on the burned out fraternity house building at UC Berkeley.
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| 01:08:20 500 |
Blank. KRON reporter is heard talking about a dog that the fire department uses to sniff out materials used to start fires.
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| 01:08:27 506.96 |
A female fire department official talks with unseen reporter about the dog they use who is trained to look for fire accelerants.
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| 01:08:35 515.23 |
Cutaway to next news story
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| 01:08:37 517.8 |
Story about a fertility clinic. A woman at the clinic looks into a microscope. Reporter unseen talks about how it has been determined by scientists that women over the age of 43 will no longer be eligible to be involved in the clinic because their ability to conceive falls off drastically to almost zero.
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| 01:08:49 529.23 |
CU petri dish
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| 01:08:54 534.43 |
CU a gloved hand reaches into a vat filled with liquid and pulls out a tray of test tubes.
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| 01:09:24 564.5 |
CU 2 year old baby sound asleep in its crib. Another child 4 years old asleep in his bed.
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| 01:09:35 575.71 |
A reporter speaks to a woman in her living room, Melanie ?, who used the fertility clinic to get pregnant. She had one unsuccessful pregnancy and speaks about the chances of non-conception and the stress it may cause
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| 01:09:58 598.26 |
Sign for Birth Center (and SurgiCenter) at the John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, Cal. Front entrance to the hospital.
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| 01:10:13 613.42 |
cutaway to next newsstory segment.
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| 01:10:15 615.88 |
Official outside the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) building in California talks with reporter about the lack of parking for the BART system. People who want to use the system cannot.
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| 01:10:36 636.34 |
Blank - cutaway
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| 01:10:42 642.91 |
An architect, Peter Calthorpe, at a meeting conducting a presentation. He states most new urban developments are designed for cars not people. He talks with unseen reporter about how streets used to be walkable in the past.
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| 01:11:03 663.88 |
Helicopter Aerials of the Dunbarton rail bridge crossing going across the Bay from San Francisco to San Jose. Reporter talks about the possibility of extending the railway bridge.
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| 01:12:02 722.85 |
Reporter talks with local residents about their opinions about the extension to the railway due to the disruption it would cause ie trains going through the neighborhoods and backyards.
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| 01:12:13 733.54 |
Blank and cutaway to the next newsstory
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| 01:12:14 734.34 |
Clips from the Nightmare on Elm Street movie starring the fictional scary man, Freddy Krueger.
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| 01:12:40 760.3 |
Reporter tells a fun story about the Freddie Krueger of their own in the Bay area. Z'in on a home, a 74 year old man in the window tips his hat in a friendly manner.
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| 01:12:54 774.27 |
Same man out in his garden and then inside his home talks with reporter unseen about the fact that his name is also Freddie Krueger. He picks up his yellow dial phone - he gets many calls around Halloween!
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| 01:13:47 827.66 |
Cutaway to next segmement.
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| 01:13:48 828.39 |
WS the AC Transit building, an Oakland California public transportation agency
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| 01:13:56 836.25 |
Reporter unseen tells the story about fraudulent activity in the company having to do with a 7 million dollar bond going into the wrong account. WS of the Board room with a huge curved wooden table. CU on a signed document. Interviews with officials, including General Manager Jim O'Sullivan.
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| 01:15:32 932.15 |
Next news segment. Tilt down WS of a freeway system, I-980, in Northern California - highway roads intersect each other in all directions. News story about traffic congestion caused by a detour from an earthquake.
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| 01:15:44 944.16 |
Traffic congestion.
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| 01:15:58 958.45 |
Smoke emanates from an exterior exhaust pipe on a TBX mac truck.
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| 01:16:16 976.11 |
Traffic congestion headed toward camera, many mac trucks amidst the vehicles.
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| 01:16:26 986.83 |
A green road directional sign hanging from a traffic light pole, "Signals Not Timed. Use 11th St."
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| 01:16:31 991.21 |
Tilt down shots on highway 980 and 580 in Northern California.
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| 01:16:40 1000.94 |
An attractive multi racial woman official from the transit authority speaks with reporter about the interim measures they will take to alleviate the traffic congestion.
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| 01:17:17 1037.32 |
Cutaway Blank - next news segment
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| 01:17:17 1037.75 |
Large sign in front of San Leandro High School & Adult School announces Enrollment beginning for Fall Quarter. Z'out from sign to the High School campus and building.
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| 01:17:29 1049.15 |
Hundreds of high school students run away from the campus in fear. Reporter unseen talks about a riot that took place between students and police.
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| 01:18:34 1114.92 |
Group of five female high school students walk down the street toward camera.
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| 01:18:44 1123.98 |
Four multi racial high school boys outside the high school hanging out together.
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| 01:18:52 1132.92 |
Sign in front for San Leandro High School "Home of the Pirates".
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| 01:18:55 1135 |
End reel - Oakland area news stories.
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