1970HOME MOVIES
Footage of Atlantic City, Summer 1976. Three reels: boardwalk scenes, various outdoor contests (prettiest waitress, turkey carving, dog grooming etc.), Bicentennial celebration, 4th of July parade, amusement park rides, billboards for Tanya, Frankie Avalon, Curtis Knight/Jimi Hendrix Band
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| 01:00:16 16.47 |
Grainy footage and no audio from 1970. A couple of men with '70's sideburns and wide collared shirts seated at a long banquet table are joined by a person in a gorilla costume. People in the assembly hall watch. A man at the table appears to be interviewing a woman seated next to him
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| 01:01:45 105.67 |
CU vintage TV screen, circa 1960's
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| 01:02:25 145.76 |
Some type of recording device on the table
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| 01:03:14 194.78 |
Next segment of the reel, faded footage and no audio
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| 01:03:15 195.04 |
Looks like a scene outside a large warehouse style grocery store, women carrying grocery bags, shopping carts, vintage 1960's automobiles parked and drive by including a Volkswagen van, shopping carts
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| 01:04:15 255.25 |
Cut to a crowded beach scene of mostly young folk in their 20's. Cut to WS of buildings in the distance off the boardwalk
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| 01:04:36 276.12 |
Crowd of folk outside the grand opening of Warner Drug Store. A vintage station wagon parked at the scene
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| 01:05:09 309.63 |
Looks like a street fair. Pretty girl with big curly red hair happily drives a golf cart down the main drag, lots of people walking about in the streets. WS of the cart reveals a larger cart with front seat where three older folk are seated - the cart, driven by the pretty gal with curly hair, proceeds down the boardwalk in Atlantic City
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| 01:07:42 462.14 |
Signs posted on windows on the boardwalk "Welcome Doctors"; "Atlantic City Welcomes AMA"
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| 01:08:18 498.43 |
Large letters spell out Welcome AMA in a glass enclosed display window
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| 01:08:45 525.57 |
Workers paint and touch up white paint around a porch and windows of a fancy hotel or home
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| 01:09:43 583.2 |
A large crowd seated on the boardwalk watch as pretty young female waitresses parade before them to be judged in the Prettiest Waitress Contest. The girls dressed in their waitress uniforms stand and are judged by an other woman
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| 01:12:40 760.18 |
People watch a bikini contest that takes place on the second floor of a building. Girls walk out onto the deck from the second floor in bikinis, stand and pose
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| 01:14:43 882.99 |
CUs and pan of girls butts in bikinis. Onlookers from below whistle
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| 01:15:56 956.53 |
Long buffet table outside, maybe at a beach club
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| 01:15:58 958.83 |
Var. shots people dining outside on the boardwalk, gals in bathing suits, tables with umbrellas and a buffet table is seen
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| 01:18:41 1121 |
Shots of the uly 4th parade on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, vintage red convertible with a gal sitting up waving, cadets carry the flag and rifles, gal waves at camera from convertible, majorettes, pups from Division A walk by with family, kids on homemade floats
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| 01:26:56 1615.98 |
Parade hits the streets in front of Zaberers and Frank and billboard for a Frankie Avalon show
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| 01:27:02 1622.02 |
Scenes at the start of the parade on the street: Motorcycle with a sidecar rig, cool vintage convertible, kids dressed as brides and grooms, clown in front of marquee for (maybe) impersonator show including Frank Avalon, Curtis Knight, Jimi Hendrix Band (?)
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| 01:28:11 1691.15 |
Signs Keep Boardwalk Clean Don't be a Litter Bug!, Atlantic City
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| 01:28:18 1698.56 |
Little girl wtih long "banana curls" wears a sailor captain hat
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| 01:28:21 1701.42 |
The Coast Guard
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| 01:29:14 1754.11 |
Folks relax on a passenger ferry boat
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| 01:30:36 1836.25 |
Shots of Atlantic City Boardwalk 1970 - summer fun
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| 01:31:42 1902.33 |
Standard poodles being groomed outside, people gathered for a dog show - shots of various dogs
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| 01:34:48 2088.09 |
Amusement park rides
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| 01:37:25 2245.96 |
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