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00:45:04 0 |
Pan across a harbor to WSs and CUs of an impressive nighttime waterfront fountain display. Boats docked in the water. People including lots of children wander gaze at the fountain.
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00:45:43 39.17 |
Bailey on Budget (3/10/65)
Bailey talks into mic about restoring the legislative cuts in the school appropriations budget and the need to do more especially the for the Exceptional Child Program and the funds for vocational education. He states more needs to be done, not less. Speech cuts off to tilt up to top of a government building (most likely) with an American Flag flying high. |
00:46:23 79 |
Tilt up top of a most likely government building, American flag on pole flying high.
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00:46:24 80 |
Local government Planning Board Meeting: (no audio)
Government officials in hallway outside meeting room, meeting room with large conference table and an audience. Overhead Projector and audio visual equipment circa 1960s. |
00:47:25 141.17 |
Atlantic Beach Report
A crumbling sandy beach access ramp. A reporter talks about beach access ramps in need of repair. He stands in front of a crumbling sandy rock strewn ramp inaccessible to the public. He talks about the controversy about the funding for the repair of the ramps and cuts to Jack Rutherford for his comments. |
00:47:49 165 |
Civil Defense Director, Jack Rutherford speaks into camera about Public Law 875 which prohibits the emergency repair of any recreational areas including the beach.
Political double talk. |
00:48:41 217 |
Same reporter on the beach stands in front of the decaying beach ramp and cuts to Commissioner Bob Harris for his comments.
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00:48:44 220 |
County Commission Chairman Bob Harris, a nerdy looking guy with black horn rimmed glasses, speaks into camera about the ramps being ready for the beach opening in June. He makes a promise to have surveys complete to present to the County Commission and the Budget Commission next week.
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00:49:20 256.17 |
Same reporter (Jim Korin) stands on the beach (Seminole Beach - most likely in Jacksonville, Florida) - flotsam, jetsom fill the beach ramp.
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00:49:34 270.31 |
Public Access to Beach, Access No. 3 sign at Seminole Beach, Florida. POV driving to the beach.
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00:49:37 273 |
POV looking down at the beach from above - over the crumbling beach ramp.
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00:49:46 282 |
WS wooden stairs for access to the beach in between some dunes. Man walks up wooden staircase, beach access. Various shots of the staircase. Palm trees on the beach. CU eroding ramp.
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00:50:04 300.06 |
CU eroding beach access ramp. Various shots of the eroding ramps. Sign for Public Access to Beach, Access No. 4.
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00:50:14 310.17 |
POV driving down road to Seminole Beach in Jacksonville, Florida. Floatsom and erosion. Lone man walks on the beach in the distance. The beach storm fence, sand piled high up against broken down chain flink ence. CU feet from a man walks on the sand .
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00:50:49 345 |
News reporter, John Hayes, Tallahassee wearing black horn rimmed glasses and short haircut reports on the ever increasing use of "Pep Pills" and "Goof Balls" has become an increasing problem in Florida.
He quotes from Regional Director Sapp of the State Bureau of Narcotics that the use of barbiturates and amphetamines have become more of a problem than hard narcotics and is spread evenly between all age groups. He blames the parents for not keeping an eye on their prescriptions and children get hold of their parents pills. Sapp states they are after the source rather than the user. |
00:52:01 417 |
Various shots of a huge wooden warehouse in ruins. Buildings falling apart, piles of crumbling wood], railroad tracks running through. A vintage pickup truck parked. Workers burn debris.
No audio |
00:52:58 474.17 |
(3/10/65) Helicopters parked outside a hangar. Pilots and officers in uniform walk together away from the hangar. An award is presented to a uniformed man and some sailors also in uniform.
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00:53:28 504.17 |
Price Gibbs Slain (3/10/65). No Audio
Sign on wall "Homicide Section". Two young men appear to be interrogated by several detectives in the Homicide Division office of a local Florida police station. Secretary on the phone. CU hands hold evidence - a handgun with the barrel of the gun open |
00:54:22 558.17 |
Exchange Club, Jacksonville Banquet.
Exterior George Washington Hotel in Jacksonville, FL . Men have lunch in a fancy banquet room, officals sit at a dais. Men give speeches at the podium. Some men sit listening from the fancy bar. |
00:54:54 590.17 |
Box Slide Feature:
Black boys and girls slide downhill on opened up cardboard boxes. Free form of recreation. Little girl "surfs" down hill on cardboard. Having the time of their lives. Happy poor children create an inexpensive way to have fun. |
00:55:27 623.17 |
SS Businessman: No Audio
WS a group of signs outside a local strip mall - Strickland's, Town House Restaurant, Shell Gas Station. |
00:55:31 627 |
Int. a businessman's luncheon meeting. An unknown man speaks from podium, men listen. Some dark footage.
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00:56:02 658.17 |
Skyview Drive-In, Jacksonville, Fire
Nighttime POV moving car toward Skyview Drive-In fire - dark smoke fills the air from the fire in the distance. Vintage vehicles on the road. Fire truck parked, billboard destroyed by fire. Firemen putting out fire hosing down the burned movie screen. |
00:56:41 697.89 |
CUs of the burned out drive-in movie screen. Water from firemen's hoses blast through it as pieces of the screen fall (sadly!) to the ground.
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00:57:23 739.06 |
CU the original Skyview Drive*In Movie Sign. water from firehoses spray the screen behind the sign.
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00:57:26 742.17 |
Exhausted firemen sit down and hose the fire from seated position.
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00:57:32 748.17 |
Eddie Acosta (3/9/65)
A Florida official talks into camera about the drastic changes in a proposed school board budget bill. He urges the Secretary to write to Senator John Matthews and members of the delegation and ask for a conference. |
00:57:57 773.57 |
CU a 1960's News Camera
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00:58:21 797.17 |
CU another shot of a 1960s news camera
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00:58:40 816.17 |
City Commission: No audio.
Low angle palm tree leans toward a skyscraper (silhouette). INT. City Commission Meeting. A bunch of boring looking local Florida government guys attend the meeting. A frumpy older woman wearing a big hat in the audience takes notes. Commissioner Claude Smith, Jr. looks completely bored, tired, rubs his head. |
00:59:32 868 |
Harris Speech at Women"s Club (3/9/65)
Exterior Women's Club. Women's Club Luncheon. Speaker in the corner at the podium. American Flag speech. |
01:00:10 906.17 |
Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns story:
Reporter speaks into camera about Florida Governor Haydon Burns and his reckless spending on redecorating Governor's office. An overspending Governor. |
01:01:11 967.17 |
Actor Anthony Perkins Arrives (3/9/65)
Actor Anthony Perkins walks through crowded airport, stops and smiles for camera. He gets into a waiting limosine. |
01:01:57 1013.17 |
Safety Council
Ext. neon sign for the Thunderbird Inn in Jacksonville. Int. shots of a dinner meeting of the Safety Council. Man gives a speech from the podium. EXTRA 2023 news: Abandoned Florida reports the Thunderbird hosted huge acts like Fats Domino and the Rolling Stones back in its hay day. It turned hands several times over the years and has sat vacant for more than a decade, and now, the walls with so many memories will come down. |
01:02:28 1044 |
Lions Club:
Braille machine for the blind. Large sign on glass door "Jones College a Junior College of Business. A blind female student is taught how to use the machine. Machine on her lap, a teacher guides her hands across the keys. |
01:03:00 1076.17 |
Kaiser Dedication (3/9/65). NO AUDIO
CU "Kaiser Gypsum" on huge tall water tank or storage tower. Z'out to WS of the tower. Int. businessmen shake hands. Commemorative Plaque on the wall commemorating the dedication of Kaiswer Gypsum Company the Jacksonville Plant. Business luncheon. Officials seated at a long dais. Speeches from the podium. . |
01:03:59 1135.17 |
Robbers Captured - Crime.
Lettering, "Robbery Auto Theft Worthless Check Section" on glass doorC Various evidence on table, a shotgun, hats, sunglasses. Detectives look at papers. |
01:04:19 1155.44 |
Tilt shot - Holy Bible on a desk.
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01:04:23 1159 |
Bond Salesman Hearing:
Judge. Hearing. Lawyers around a table. Alleged criminal covers his face. Shields his identity as handcuffs are removed from him. White collar crime case. Suspect led away outside by detectives. |
01:05:03 1199.17 |
Florida East Coast Railway - Strike and Sabotage
Official talks into camera about a railroad transportation strike, certain service is to continue. Another official, maybe W.L. Thornton, VP East Coast Railway, talks about the sabotaging of the Florida East Coast Railway. |
01:06:40 1296 |
"My Room" Dining and Dancing letters on building of night club.
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01:06:43 1299.27 |
Turbine Car
Man opens car door for woman. Esso (gas) sign in background. CU woman smiles at camera from inside car. She wears 1960's cat eye style eyeglasses. Woman behind the wheel of the car, interior shots of the car and dashboard. the man leans in and points to the steering wheel. The woman drives away in a new 1960's car with whitewall tires, many men in suits watch her go |
01:07:13 1329 |
Car hood opened, the woman looks inside at the 1960's turbine engine, as do all the men.
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01:07:21 1337 |
FILM ENDS
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