1968CIVIL RIGHTS
This film includes footage shot between August 30 and September 1, 1968 of a civil rights demonstration in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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| 01:00:00 19.47 |
Reel opens
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| 01:00:08 27.55 |
Frame filled with bright round white lights on dark bkgd, similar to car headlights or street lights.
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| 01:00:11 30.45 |
No sound. Dark footage, windows illuminated by lighting on the second floor of a building or home in the pitch dark night.
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| 01:00:27 46.71 |
Same pitch dark footage, two men sitting on the front steps of a home at night, illuminated by street lights or flashlights. Vehicle headlights in bkgd.
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| 01:00:34 53.66 |
Nighttime perp dressed in white escorted by police officer barely seen on the pitch dark street
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| 01:00:49 68.61 |
POV moving vehicle driving down the streets of the city in the dark, footage is shaky and mostly dark., passing by store fronts, a cafe and a meat market, and people on the streets. Lighting from street lights.
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| 01:02:27 166.35 |
Police officers wearing helmets arresting a Black man at night.
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| 01:02:33 171.98 |
CU from behind, a police officer wearing a helmet and carrying a rifle. Pan to a Black man talking to police officers. Dark footage.
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| 01:03:31 230.17 |
Footage lightens up a bit but blurry. Crowd of onlookers standing in front of a grocery store at night.
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| 01:03:34 233.9 |
Group of White teenage boys crossing street jumping and waving and jumping at camera.
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| 01:03:42 241.8 |
CU on corner drapery, slipcovers sewing shop - signs all over the building "Free Estimates Free Pick-up & Delivery" "Made to Order". Pan to side of building and fireman are seen breaking the windows.
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| 01:03:49 247.97 |
Street filled with smoke at night. Fire hoses spread out on the ground, firemen hose down burning building.
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| 01:04:21 280.44 |
Some white smoke coming out of the roof of the drapery shop. Firemen at the scene of the fire, walking around building, debris on the inside of the shop.
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| 01:05:01 320.71 |
Street lights on a dark night, car headlights. Dark footage of traffic in the city. Firetruck headed toward camera., bright lights then dark.
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| 01:06:48 427.09 |
More dark footage, street lights and lights from vehicles. Footage gets a bit brighter, police officers wearing helmets and one carrying a rifle can be seen. Lighting reveals an African American man and woman having an argument. Other people gathered around.
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| 01:10:25 644.3 |
White man around 40 outside wearing a suit and tied being interviewed
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| 01:10:51 669.87 |
Store fronts on a city street in brick buildings, CU on deli with broken glass on front window. signs for 7 up and Kosher Corn Beef Pastrami and Salami Peoples Bakers Products on the storefront.
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| 01:10:53 672.33 |
CU on broken glass storefront window of deli or small grocery store. Giant rock on the ground.
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| 01:11:00 679.22 |
Man carrying large wood board down the street walks right by a little boy.
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| 01:11:08 687.31 |
Street sign N.St. Albans and Selby Av. Pan down from sign to street. Some cars driving by and cars parked. Signs on stores, Apex Pest Co.
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| 01:11:18 697.28 |
Cutaway to another shot of the broken glass window of the Deli / Grocery Store. Older man walks over and stands in the doorway of the store
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| 01:11:25 704.29 |
Another building - most likely a General Store. Pan down from sign on top to broken glass window and big boards leaning against the building.
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| 01:11:38 717.05 |
WS of the street, boards leaning against the storefronts and a ladder getting ready to repair all the broken windows. Two men walking down the sidewalk.
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| 01:11:43 722.47 |
Various shots, stores with broken windows, signs on broken glass window, street with many small shops,
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| 01:12:23 762.11 |
Film has light tint. two men hanging boards on broken glass windows, little boy watches.
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| 01:12:37 776.74 |
Cutaway. Police officer with billy club standing guard on street corner at nigjt.
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| 01:12:41 779.9 |
Jumpy dark footage. Police officers crossing street at night, one holding a billy club. Same officers seem to be patrolling along the sidewalk on foot and moving a small group of folk along.
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| 01:12:56 795.63 |
More nighttime police activity. dark footage of police officers holding clubs standing around on the streets, a few peds are walking away as if they were asked to move along.
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| 01:13:07 805.94 |
Pan along a street at night, corner shop, and a few people hanging the front of around a restaurant or shop. Cutaway to blurry jumpy shot of mob of people (could be police) lined up from one end of the street to the other, street lights. Film gets blurrier and more jumpy
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| 01:13:36 834.79 |
More clear image of a police officer in the street wearing a helmet, white van goes by. Footage gets dark again. can barely see images, just the red light of a police car flashin, cars in the streets and lights
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| 01:14:44 902.97 |
Footage lightens up a bit. Large crowd of onlookers in the streets and sidewalks - maybe demonstrators gathered, cluster of vehicles, and police officers walking about.
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| 01:17:22 1060.74 |
Image of a vehicle looks like it may have driven through a yard, a smashed up chain link fence and broken down doors are seen.
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| 01:17:23 1062.43 |
Shots through the open doors of a car's front and back seats. Debris on the floor of the back seat
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| 01:17:56 1094.89 |
Dark footage. Police officers in riot gear (helmets and wooden clubs), night, man wearing a suit is amongst them. Back of police car with "Police" in letters on the window, a Black man is seen in the back seat
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| 01:19:10 1169.13 |
Small group of people hanging around on a street corner at night. Corner store is lit up , they begin to cross the street. Footage gets dark, police officers walk past camera.
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| 01:20:04 1223.65 |
LS down a street at night - appears to be a crowd in the distance, cars parked and police officers seen walking in the street
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| 01:20:15 1234.01 |
People can be seen running down the middle of the street at night. Dark footage.
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| 01:20:36 1255.66 |
WS Red flames and smoke in the distance lighting up the night sky. Firemen with hoses putting out a fire - smoky hazy.
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| 01:20:54 1272.93 |
Police man with helmet and carrying a rifle walking the street at night. Police car parked, sheriff's car goes by camera and turns cofrner. People are seen in the distance hanging out in front of a shop.
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| 01:21:09 1287.92 |
New segment. A young African American woman in her 20's setting at a table, other Black folk seated in the room behind her. Appears to be maybe a deposition or hearing. Shot of a long table and Black men seated next to the young woman with mics in front of them. CU on the young woman speaking into a mic.
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| 01:22:03 1342.44 |
CU on a White police officer speaking into mic to unseen interviewer or reporter.
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| 01:22:23 1361.97 |
CU of a large piece of wooden fencing (possible) smashed through the rear window of a car. Shots inside the car, broken glass on front and back seats. Var shots.
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| 01:22:51 1389.91 |
Blazing fire lighting up the sky in red flames POV across street. Flames shooting out of a building into the night sky. Firemen with firehose seen enveloped in black smoke.
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| 01:23:01 1400.18 |
Firemen with oxygen tanks and axes breaking the windows of the Drapery Slip Covers shop. Emergency vehicle driving fast pulling up to curb, door swings open before vehicle comes to a stop.
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| 01:23:14 1412.99 |
Cutaway. POV across street. People seen hanging out on a street corner at night.
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| 01:23:15 1413.98 |
Cutaway, EMT's placing gurney into the back of open ambulance.
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| 01:23:24 1422.65 |
Flashlights illuminating, shinging on the top of a home in the dark.
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| 01:23:32 1431.2 |
Various night shots of folk being arrested, frisked and escorted into police cars.
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| 01:23:58 1457.16 |
Crowd of demonstrators and many police officers in the streets at night. Police holding clubs and wearing helmets seen moving people along the streets and sidewalks.
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| 01:24:21 1479.78 |
White male official being interviewed by a reporter outside at night.
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| 01:25:11 1530.48 |
Dark and blurry. Long line of people walking down a wide street at night.
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| 01:25:15 1533.56 |
Unfocused blurry and jumpy footage
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| 01:25:25 1543.9 |
Film clears up. Police officers, one holding a club, talking to unseen person in a parked white van.
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| 01:26:35 1613.94 |
Rear shot of a Police van. Perps can be seen (barely) inside.
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| 01:26:45 1623.84 |
End tape.
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