1940-1949AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
REVEREND TAYLOR, NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION 1940 - BIRMINGHAM
REEL #23 (SEE CSF-35 FOR SAME FOOTAGE IN HIGHER QUALITY)
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. BAPTIST CONVENTION. CHURCH EXTERIOR. TRAIN. GOING BY INTERSECTION. CONVENTION HALL. TAXI. CABBIE CARRIES SUITCASES INTO BUILDING. CROWDS OUTSIDE AUDITORIUM. MEN CHECK OUT SOME WOMEN AS THEY WALK PAST. CROSSING STREET. SHELL GAS STATION IN BACKGROUND. CRAZY OLD MAN. HAIRY. PREACHER. LINE OF MEN SELLING SNOW CONES & OTHER FOODS ON SIDEWALK. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1940. STREET CORNER. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. CROWD OUTSIDE CHURCH. POLICEMEN. SMOKE COMING OUT OF CHURCH. FIRE. FIRE ENGINES. FIRE HYDRANT TURNED ON. PEOPLE RUNNING. BLACK SMOKE. WATER SPRAYED ON IT TO PUT IT OUT. HIGH LADDER. QUICKLY REMOVING CASKET FROM CHURCH.
REEL #23 (SEE CSF-35 FOR SAME FOOTAGE IN HIGHER QUALITY)
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA. BAPTIST CONVENTION. CHURCH EXTERIOR. TRAIN. GOING BY INTERSECTION. CONVENTION HALL. TAXI. CABBIE CARRIES SUITCASES INTO BUILDING. CROWDS OUTSIDE AUDITORIUM. MEN CHECK OUT SOME WOMEN AS THEY WALK PAST. CROSSING STREET. SHELL GAS STATION IN BACKGROUND. CRAZY OLD MAN. HAIRY. PREACHER. LINE OF MEN SELLING SNOW CONES & OTHER FOODS ON SIDEWALK. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. 1940. STREET CORNER. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. CROWD OUTSIDE CHURCH. POLICEMEN. SMOKE COMING OUT OF CHURCH. FIRE. FIRE ENGINES. FIRE HYDRANT TURNED ON. PEOPLE RUNNING. BLACK SMOKE. WATER SPRAYED ON IT TO PUT IT OUT. HIGH LADDER. QUICKLY REMOVING CASKET FROM CHURCH.
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TITLE CARD HAND DRAWN: "THE NEGRO IN CHURCH LIFE", TAYLOR MADE PICTURES
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DARK - SIGN FOR: NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION, SEPT. 3-9, 1940, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
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UNCLEAR SIGN READS: ASSIGNMENT HEAD QUARTERS: THE MACEDONIA BAPTIST CHURCH, 17TH ST. RE. J.R. MATTHEWS. PASTOR
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| 00:52:59 26.7 |
TILT DOWN CHURCH EXTERIOR, BIRMINGHAM, AL. 1930'S. OLD BUILDING, LOTS OF WINDOWS AND STAINED GLASS. CONVENTION BANNER SIGN ON WALL. PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT, GOING UP THE STAIRS. VINTAGE CARS PARKED OUT FRONT.
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| 00:53:25 52.31 |
SLOW PAN VINTAGE CARS PARKED HEAD IN AT CURB, TRAIN GOING BY INTERSECTION.
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| 00:53:47 74.3 |
OLD TIME TWO-TONE TAXI PARKED. CABBIE TAKES SUITCASES OUT OF TRUNK AND CARRIES THEM UP THE STAIRS. BLACK MAN CARRYING SUITCASE FOLLOWS
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| 00:54:06 93.02 |
CROWD GOING UP THE STAIRS.
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| 00:54:09 96.79 |
SIGN: "MAIN CONVENTION HALL, 20TH ST. & 8TH AVE. SO. MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM"
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| 00:54:27 114.92 |
SLOW PAN HUGE CONVENTION CENTER BUILDING, VINTAGE CARS PARKED OUT FRONT, ALL TYPES OF BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE CARS DRIVING BY
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| 00:54:56 143.69 |
PAN LARGE CROWD IN FRONT OF OLD BRICK BUILDING. LARGE AWNING ON BUILDING READS "MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM"
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| 00:55:06 153.33 |
GROUP OF FASHIONABLY DRESSED 1940's WOMEN. WOMAN FANS HERSELF. STATUE ON PEDESTAL IN BKGD.
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| 00:55:08 155.15 |
VARIOUS PAN LARGE CROWDS MILLING ABOUT IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM. 40's MEN IN THEIR FINEST SUITS, HATS AND TIES. MAN WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA LIGHTS A CIGARETTE
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| 00:55:18 165.03 |
WELL DRESSED MAN POSES FOR CAMERA. STATUE ON PEDESTAL IN BKGD.
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SLOW PAN LEFT AND RIGHT - FRONT OF MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM. CROWD OF WELL DRESSED, FASHIONABLE MEN AND WOMEN CONGREGATE IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM. WOMAN HOLDING LARGE UMBRELLA.
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| 00:55:43 190.18 |
THREE WOMAN POSE FOR CAMERA. MAN JUMPS IN FRAME TAKES OFF HIS HAT.
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| 00:55:54 201.77 |
THREE FASHIONABLY DRESSED MEN STANDING IN FRONT OF VINTAGE CAR POSE FOR CAMERA. MAN TAKES OFF HIS HAT
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| 00:56:07 214.81 |
TWO WELL DRESSED MEN, AND A WOMAN IN THE MIDDLE WEARING PRETTY HAT, POSE FOR CAMERA. CROWD MILLING ABOUT IN BKGD.
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| 00:56:14 221.69 |
TWO FINELY DRESSED MEN IN HATS SHAKING HANDS IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM
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| 00:56:24 231.59 |
TWO FASHIONABLY DRESSED WOMEN HOLDING THEIR PURSES STANDING NEXT TO TWO MEN, THE MEN TAKE THEIR HATS OFF AND POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 00:56:32 239.6 |
VAR SHOTS - FINELY DRESEED MEN POSING FOR CAMERA, TAKING OFF THEIR HATS FIRST!
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| 00:57:00 267.9 |
VAR. PAN LARGE CROWD CONGREGATING IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM
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| 00:57:29 296.29 |
VAR WELL DRESSED MEN, SOME WEARING HATS AND POLITELY TAKING THEM OFF, POSING FOR CAMERA
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| 00:57:48 315.94 |
MAN STANDING IN FRONT OF TAXI GRACIOUSLYTAKES OFF HAT AND REMOVES HIS GLASSES, STANDS AT ATTENTION FOR CAMERA
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| 00:58:24 351.25 |
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| 00:58:26 353.87 |
TYPED SIGN READS: " THE WOMEN'S CONVENTION WAS AT THE 16TH ST. BAPTIST CHURCH, 16TH AND 6TH AVE., SOUTH; REV. D.E. THOMPSON, PASTER.
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| 00:58:37 364.36 |
PAN LARGE FORTRESS TYPE BUILDING, VINTAGE CARS PARKED HEAD IN
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| 00:58:54 381.27 |
WELL DRESSED, FASHIONABLE, 1940'S CROWD CONGREGATING ON STAIRS LEADING UP TO BUILDING
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| 00:59:27 414.63 |
HUGE CROWD OUT FRONT OF BUILDING, PEOPLE WALKING UP AND DOWN STAIRS.
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| 00:59:42 429.73 |
PAN LARGE FORTRESS TYPE BUILDING. WIDE SHOT HUGE CROWD OF PEOPLE ON STAIRS TO BUILDING. VINTAGE CARS PARKED OUT FRONT AND TRAFFIC GOING BY.
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| 01:00:02 449.8 |
VAR. WELL DRESSED WOMEN POSING FOR CAMERA
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| 01:00:12 459.12 |
TITLE CARD READS: "NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEPT. MRS. L.L. CRAIG. STATE DIRECTOR OF LA. MRS. M.C.KLYES. EASTER DIRECTOR, MRS. ETTA V. FRYE."
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| 01:00:21 468.44 |
TWO FASHIONABLE WOMEN IN THEIR FINEST HATS, CONVERSING IN FRONT OF BUILDING.
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TITLE CARD (DARK). "THE AUDITORIUM, AND FIRST WE SEE: THE GROUP FROM THE BAHAMA ISLAND BROUGHT TO THE CONGREGATION THROUGH THE WORK OF ..."
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TITLE (DARK) CONTINUES: " REV. T.T. LOVELACE SECY."
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VAR SHOTS GROUPS OF 1940'S STYLE FINELY DRESSED MEN AND WOMEN POSE FOR CAMERA IN FRONT OF MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM. MEN TAKE OFF HATS FIRST!
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| 01:01:30 537.15 |
WELL DRESSED MAN WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA, TURNS AND CHECKS OUT WOMEN PASSING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
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| 01:01:35 542.27 |
THREE WELL DRESSED WOMEN IN HATS POSE FOR CAMERA IN FRONT OF SHELL GAS STATION
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COUPLES WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA CARRYING SUITCASES
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| 01:01:52 559.22 |
COUPLE POSING FOR CAMERA, MAN JOKINGLY PUSHES WOMAN AWAY THEN GRABS HER HAND,
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| 01:02:13 580.34 |
VAR MEN POSING FOR CAMERA OUTSIDE AUDITORIUM, SMILING, TILTING THEIR HATS, SHAKING HANDS WHILE LOOKING AT CAMERA.
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| 01:02:34 601.15 |
TITLE: "FROM WEST POINT MISS., A REV. COOPER GETS THE DELEGATES TOLD"
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| 01:02:43 610.13 |
A WILD LOOKING MAN WITH BUSHY WHITE HAIR AND BEARD PREACHES TO GROUP OF MEN GATHERED AROUND. HE GETS A BIT ANIMATED AND CRAZY
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| 01:03:12 639.38 |
SLOW PAN MEN AND WOMEN DRESSED IN THEIR FINEST FASHION POSE FOR CAMERA.
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| 01:03:30 657.33 |
TITLE: "THIS GREAT MINISTER PREACHED ON FRIDAY NIGHT TO THE CROWD THAT COULD NOT GET INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM"
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| 01:03:36 663.86 |
OLDER BLACK MAN DRESSED IN WHITE POSES LOOKING SERIOUS
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| 01:03:40 667.92 |
"DINNER TIME AND SO A DELEGATE EATS A GEORGIA PEACH"
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| 01:03:47 674.2 |
GROUP OF MEN POSING, ONE MAN MUNCHING ON A GEORGIA PEACH
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| 01:03:55 682.46 |
PAN LINE OF BLACK MEN WITH SMALL BICYCLE-DRAWN CARTS SELLING CONES AND OTHER FOODS ON SIDEWALK.
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| 01:03:59 686.69 |
HANDSOME COUPLE POSE FOR CAMERA. WOMAN IS WEARING FANCY HAT.
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| 01:04:26 713.09 |
TITLE CARD: "THIS GENTLEMAN WITH HIS MANY SIGNS, WAS A FAMILIAR FIGURE ON THE CONVENTION SITE."
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| 01:04:32 719.85 |
PEOPLE GATHER AROUND SHORT AND THIN WHITE HAIR'D OLD MAN, AN INTERESTING LOOKING CHARACTER, CARRYING A FOLDING CHAIR STRAPPED TO HIS BACK AND A SIGN HE'S POINTING TO "THE Ten COMMANDMENTS...
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| 01:04:43 730.89 |
A TOKEN WHITE MAN (?) POSES FOR CAMERA
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| 01:05:04 751.75 |
PAN LARGE CROWD MILLING ABOUT IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM. VAR. PEOPLE POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 01:06:07 814.76 |
ECCENTRIC THIN WHITE PONY TAIL'D OLD MAN WITH CHAIR STRAPPED TO HIS BACK AMIDST PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT
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| 01:06:55 862.24 |
PAN LARGE CROWD OF CONVENTIONEERS POSING IN FRONT OF BUILDING FOR GROUP SHOT.
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| 01:07:02 869.19 |
THREE HAPPY SMILING BLACK WOMEN WALKING, FANNING THEMSELVES. WALKING TOWARD CAMERA. HOT DAY
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| 01:07:14 881.69 |
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| 01:07:17 884.75 |
TITLE CARD: "SCENES FROM THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF THE LATE DR. L.K. WILLIAMS PASTOR OF THE OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH...31ST AND SO. PARK, CHICAGO, ILL., NOV. 6, 1940". BLACKS ON STREET IN CHICAGO CIRCA 1939 CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE. BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD BLACK LIFE IN CHICAGO.
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| 01:07:25 892.51 |
TITLE: "DR. WILLIAMS WAS PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION INC. U.S.A. FROM OCT. 1922 TO NOV. 1940"
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| 01:07:33 900.76 |
TITLE: DR. WILLIAMS AND THE REV. WM HAYNES ALSO OF CHICAGO, AS THE RESULT OF AN AIRPLANE CRASH, WHILE IN ROUTE FROM CHICAGO TO FLINT, MICHIGAN TUESDAY PM, OCT. 29TH 1940.
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| 01:07:46 913.03 |
TILT DOWN OLD STEEPLE TO ENTRANCE OF OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, CHICAGO. MOURNING BANNERS DRAPED OVER WINDOWS AND ENTRANCES OF CORNER CHURCH. VINTAGE CARS PARKED.
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| 01:07:59 927.04 |
CU LOUD SPEAKER OVER ENTRANCE. TILT DOWN TO PEOPLE ENTERING AND EXITING THE CHURCH FOR FUNERAL SERVICE.
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| 01:08:06 933.92 |
SIGN READS: OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. JUTS OUT FROM CORNER OF CHURCH AS WELL AS A LOUD SPEAKER
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| 01:08:14 941.96 |
WHITE MAN STANDING GUARD AT FRONT OF CHURCH. CROWDS AT ENTRANCE OF CHURCH EXITING AS OTHERS WAIT TO GET IN.
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| 01:08:34 961.82 |
VAR SHOTS OF PEOPLE WALKING HEADING TOWARD CHURCH, WOMAN RUNNING TO GET IN
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| 01:09:15 1002.3 |
TWO WHITE POLICEMEN GUARDING ENTRANCE DOOR.
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| 01:09:18 1005.2 |
TITLE: "SUDDENLY! 30 MINUTES BEFORE CEREMONIES GOT UNDER WAY "SMOKE" WAS DISCOVERED NEAR THE TOP OF THE ANNEX TO THE CHURCH BUILDING."
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| 01:09:24 1011.25 |
VAR SHOTS CROWD ACROSS AND IN STREET WATCH SMOKE COMING FROM TOP OF CHURCH. SMOKE FILLS THE SKY.
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| 01:09:32 1019.39 |
SMOKE BILLOWING OUT FROM TOP OF BEAUTIFUL OLD OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH.
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| 01:09:45 1032.88 |
FIRE ENGINE BACKING UP TO FIRE HYDRANT. VERY SMOKEY SKIES, PEOPLE STANDING AT CORNER WATCHING.
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| 01:09:55 1042.27 |
PAN SMOKING CHURCH ROOF
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| 01:09:57 1044.42 |
CU HAND OF FIREMEN TURNING ON WATER AT HYDRANT. WATER GUSHING OUT.
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| 01:10:04 1051.13 |
CROWD RUNNING FROM CHURCH TOWARDS CAMERA.
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| 01:10:08 1055.93 |
OLD 1940'S FIRE TRUCK
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| 01:10:21 1068.15 |
VAR SHOTS OF THE SMOKING OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. SMOKE BILLOWING OUT GETTING HEAVIER
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| 01:10:42 1089.9 |
TITLE CARD: "FIRE AND WATER TURNS A GREAT CHURCH, INTO ALMOST COMPETE RUIN"
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| 01:10:47 1094.98 |
EXTREMELY BLACK THICK BILLOWING SMOKE FILLING THE SKY COMING OUT OF CHURCH
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| 01:10:57 1104.79 |
FIREMAN CLIMBING HIGH LADDER POINTED STRAIGHT UP INTO THE SKY, PEOPLE WATCH AS HE ATTEMPTS TO PUT OUT RAGING FIRE WITH HOSE
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| 01:11:20 1127.58 |
VINTAGE FIRE TRUCK DRIVING PAST CHURCH
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| 01:11:29 1136.76 |
TITLE CARD: THE BODY IS HASTILY REMOVED FROM FLAMING BUILDING
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| 01:11:35 1142.22 |
GROUP OF MEN CARRY BODY OUT OF BUILDING TOWARD WAITING HEARST.
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| 01:11:37 1144.49 |
MANY PEOPLE SURROUNDING VINTAGE HEARST AS IT BACKS UP. TWO MEN RIDE ALONG STANDING ON THE FOOTBOARD.
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| 01:11:56 1163.18 |
TWO FIREMEN RUNNING TOWARD CAMERA. FIREHOSE LINING THE STREET, PEOPLE CONGREGATE
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| 01:12:29 1196.99 |
VAR SHOTS BURNING CHURCH, SMOKE FILLED SKIES, FIRE HOSES AIMED AT CHURCH.
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| 01:12:51 1218.75 |
OLD TIME FIRE ENGINE, FIRE HOSES SPREAD OUT ON GROUND
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| 01:13:01 1228.13 |
PAN LINE OF FASHIONABLY DRESSED WOMEN AND MEN AS THEY WATCH THE ACTIVITY
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| 01:13:09 1236.06 |
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BLACK LIFE IN MEMPHIS |
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PAN SMOKY STREET SCENE, CROWDS AND TRAFFIC OUTSIDE BURNING CHURCH
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| 01:13:31 1258.08 |
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| 01:13:34 1261.07 |
WIDE SHOT FIVE FASHIONABLY DRESSED LADIES WALKING WITH UMBRELLAS - CARS PARKED AND LARGE ONE STORY BUILDING IN BG
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| 01:13:58 1285.18 |
PAN LARGE FORTRESS TYPE BUILDING (ARSENAL?) IN DESOLATE AREA, UNKEMPT GROUNDS. PEOPLE ARE COMING AND GOING, CARS PARKED IN BACKGROUND.
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| 01:14:33 1320.48 |
LOOKS LIKE A WINDY DAY AS WOMAN HOLD ONTO HAT, MAN'S JACKET BLOWING OPEN AS HE WALKS WITH GROUP OF WOMEN..
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| 01:14:48 1335.11 |
VAR. PAN CROWD MILLING IN FRONT OF AUDITORIUM BUILDING. LOOKS WINDY AS WOMEN'S DRESSES ARE BLOWING. PEOPLE POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 01:15:36 1383.58 |
UPSIDE DOWN BANNER READS: "WELCOME DELEGATES!"
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| 01:15:41 1388.16 |
FAMILY POSES ON STEPS OF AUDITORIUM
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| 01:16:02 1409.95 |
WIDE SHOT OF STONE AND BRICK BUILDING, LOOKS LIKE AUDITORIUM, MANY VINTAGE CARS PARKED OUT FRONT
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| 01:16:21 1428.03 |
VAR PEOPLE POSE FOR CAMERA, ALL ARE DRESSED IN THEIR FASHIONABLE FINEST. THREE WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE
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| 01:17:06 1473.57 |
PAN ENTIRE CROWD OF CONVENTIONEERS POSING IN FRONT OF BUILDING FOR GROUP SHOT.
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| 01:19:19 1606.25 |
WIDE SHOT CONVENTION CENTER, CROWD OF PEOPLE OUT FRONT, VINTAGE CARS DRIVING BY
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| 01:19:22 1609.73 |
CONVENTION CENTER SIGN ON TOP OF BUILDING READS BACKWARDS: WELCOME NATL BAPTIST CONV.
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| 01:19:32 1619.65 |
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| 01:19:44 1631.66 |
WINDY DAY OUTSIDE CONVENTION CENTER, PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT, MEN'S JACKETS BLOWING OPEN
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| 01:20:33 1680.21 |
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| 01:21:07 1714.74 |
GROUP OF MEN IN WHITE JACKETS, POSE. ONE MAN HAS CIGARETTE HANGING OUT OF MOUTH
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| 01:21:30 1737.13 |
MORE VARIOUS PEOPLE AND GROUPS OF PEOPLE POSE FOR CAMERA, MEN LINE UP, SMILE AND POSE, MEN IN GROUPS TALKING AMONGST THEMSELVES. TWO OLDER WOMEN CHATTING.
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| 01:22:56 1823.08 |
TWO BLACK MEN DRESSED IN BEAUTIFUL 1940'S FASHION SUITS AND HATS SITTING ON A BENCH, TAKE HATS OFF AND POSE FOR THE CAMERA..
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| 01:24:25 1912.55 |
SIGN - READS BACKWARDS: CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, MINISTER WILLIAM HARVEY III, B.D.
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| 01:26:15 2022.35 |
LINE UP OF PARKED CHARTERED BUSSES, PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT
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| 01:29:14 2201.73 |
LARGE GROUP SHOT ENTIRE CROWD POSING ON STEPS IN FRONT OF BUILDING
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| 01:30:28 2275.97 |
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| 01:30:34 2281.74 |
BACKWARDS TITLE CARD: ANSCO
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| 01:30:40 2288.04 |
LARGE CROWD OF FASHIONABLY DRESSED MEN AND WOMEN (DRESSED MOSTLY IN WHITE) PARADE TOWARD CAMERA, TROLLEY CAR AND TRACKS IN BKGD. CHILDREN WATCHING CROWD GO BY.
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| 01:32:42 2410.04 |
CUTE YOUNG CHILDREN MALE AND FEMALE DRESSED IN WHITE AT VERY END OF LONG PARADE OF PEOPLE
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| 01:33:20 2447.89 |
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| 01:33:28 2455.65 |
OLD BRICK BUILDING, COULD BE A SCHOOL
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| 01:33:50 2477.57 |
LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE, MEN IN FINE SUITS AND HATS FIRST, FOLLOWED BY WOMEN DRESSED IN HATS AND ALL WHITE COMING DOWN STAIRS OF BUILDING.
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| 01:33:58 2485.82 |
NEXT GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING DOWN STAIRS LED BY OLD WOMAN HOBBLING DOWN STAIRS WITH A CANE, IS ANOTHER GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN DRESSED IN WHITE.
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| 01:34:22 2509.32 |
GRADUATION DAY - FINALLY, YOUNG WOMEN IN WHITE GRADUATION CAPS AND GOWNS FOLLOWED BY YOUNG MEN DRESSED THE SAME COMING DOWN THE STEPS OF BRICK SCHOOL. PEOPLE OF VARIOUS AGES STREAM OUT OF BUILDING FOLLOWING THE GRADUATES.
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| 01:35:39 2587.02 |
PAN HUGE GROUP POSE IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING
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| 01:36:11 2618.36 |
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| 01:36:26 2633.08 |
BANNER ON STONE BUILDING ABOVE DOORS READS: THE 43RD ANNUAL SESSION, NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND B.T.U. CONGRESS OF AMERICA, JUNE 21-27, 1948
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| 01:36:47 2654.45 |
PAN OLD BRICK BUILDING AND OTHER POSSIBLY GOVERNMENT BUILDING. VINTAGE CARS PARKED OUT FRONT
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| 01:37:32 2699.93 |
HUGE CROWD GATHERED OUTSIDE NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE
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| 01:40:31 2879.02 |
VINTAGE CHARTER BUS PARKED WITH DOOR OPEN, PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT ON SIDEWALK.
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| 01:44:26 3114.02 |
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| 01:44:29 3116.75 |
TITLE: MT. ZION BAPTIST CHIURCH, SUN. OCT. 15, 1939
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| 01:44:30 3117.39 |
BLANK
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| 01:44:32 3119.54 |
PAN OLD BAPTIST CHURCH, PEOPLE MILLING ABOUT OUT FRONT, SOME HOMES IN BKGD
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| 01:44:43 3131.02 |
SIGN ON EXTERIOR WALL OF CHURCH: 11:30 A.M. B.Y.P.U, 6:30 P.M., PREACHING 8:00 P.M., REV. WM MATLOCK PASTOR
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| 01:44:54 3141.98 |
PEOPLE, VERY SLOWLY, FILING OUT OF FRONT DOOR OF CHURCH. TWO MEN HOLDING SIGN READING "DEACONS", MAN AT FRONT MOTIONS WOMAN TO STOP WALKING AND POSE FOR CAMERA.
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| 01:50:27 3474.87 |
PAN HUGE GROUP OF MEN AND WOMEN POSE FOR CAMERA,
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| 01:51:00 3507.38 |
BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE CHARTER BUS, YOUNG GIRLS DRESSED IN WHITE CROSSING STREET PASS BEHIND BUS, VINTAGE CARS DRIVING BY, CROWDS OF PEOPLE GATHERED. FOUR NURSES POSE.
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| 01:51:01 3508.79 |
VINTAGE CARS DRIVING BY PARKED BUSSES
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| 01:51:18 3525.46 |
TWO WHITE POLICE OFFICERS TALKING TO BLACK DRIVER STANDING BESIDE VINTAGE AUTO. THEY ARE SMILING AS BLACK MAN COUNTS SOME CHANGE AND PUTS IT INTO OFFICER'S HAND.
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| 01:51:36 3543.81 |
YOUNG WOMEN LINED UP DRESSED IN WHITE WITH FLOURS PINNED ON THEIR DRESSES POSE FOR CAMERA, SOME BLACK MEN KNEELING IN FRONT
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| 01:51:55 3562.62 |
1940'S ADORABLE BLACK CHILDREN LINED UP FOR PHOTO POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 01:52:39 3606.76 |
SIGN READS: AT THE CHICKSAW BAPTIST EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION 2ND EXECUTIVE BOARD WITH THE GOLDEN LEAF BAPTIST CH., MEMPHIS TENN. FRIDAY, MAR. 29TH, 1940 - REV. S.M. EDWARDS, MOD.
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| 01:52:46 3613.83 |
PAN FRONT OF OLD WHITE CHURCH, A FEW PEOPLE OUT FRONT, VINTAGE CARS PARKED AT CURB.
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| 01:52:57 3624.91 |
TITLE CARD: OFFICERS AND MINISTERS OF THE DISTRICT--------------
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| 01:53:10 3637.16 |
GROUP OF PEOPLE, MEN AND WOMEN IN THEIR FINEST CLOTHES, FILING OUT OF FRONT DOOR OF CHURCH, THEY EACH PAUSE AND POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 01:53:35 3662.14 |
TITLE: "VISITING MINISTERS"
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| 01:53:40 3667.5 |
APPARENTLY, MINISTERS, FILING OUT OF FRONT DOOR OF CHURCH.
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| 01:53:55 3682.97 |
TITLE: MEMBERS AND MESSENGERS OF DISTRICT CHURCHES
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| 01:54:07 3694.05 |
WOMEN, INDIVIDUALLY, EXIT CHURCH AND POSE FOR CAMERA
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| 01:54:19 3706.14 |
GROUP SHOT OF WOMEN OUT FRONT STEPS OF THE CHURCH, SOME SMILING SOME LOOKING QUITE SERIOUS
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| 01:55:05 3752.97 |
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