1980-19891980s NEWS
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1980s: IRAN HOSTAGES, MORAL MAJORITY, LOTS OF REAGAN, CONTRAS, YUPPIES, DRUGS, COMPUTERS, BREAK-UP OF SOVIET UNION, POP CULTURE REAGANOMICS political ad attacking Contra aid, guerrilla warfare, Reagan with Arab diplomat, war in Lebanon Arafat, war torn city, U.S. Marines in Beirut, embassy bombing, good Dusk Air to Air passenger plane, Reagan, Beirut hostage; Central American guerrillas, training, White house, ground missile shoots down plane, Contras receiving weapons, Reagan lying Hearing, Robert McFarland, Edwin Meese, Oliver North, paper shredder, William Casey, Capitol bldg, Reagan, strike or protest HS intersection, drive by houses, chauffeur waiting by limo, NYSE, Michael Milken, WTC towers, Ivan Boesky, NYSE, art auction ;Street mural, INT modern art gallery, Julian Schnabel, fashion show, Cindy Crawford, 80s fashions & status symbols, yuppies Woman using 80s cell phone, crowded sidewalk, nightclub dance floor, sort of 80s hippies, BMW lot, hand counting money Family on vacation, tourists, Carter carrying briefcase, Reagan, S & L banks, exercise class, ped with walkman, Capitol ;Congress, Jim Wright, VAR George Bush, stock market crash headlines, brokers having nervous breakdowns, Bush Int office, unemployment line, Reagan, people shopping in thrift store, African American teens & kids, NX peds ;Drug bust, man smoking crack, prison scenes, courtroom, body on stretcher, drug bus, prison yard, black man working in office; Louis Farrakhan, arrests, Oliver North, seized drugs, body on stretcher, Nancy Reagan, Challenger crew, Challenger explosion Reagan address, kindergarten classroom, silhouette satellite dish, 1940s people listening to radio, 1950s people watching tv People watching tv, MTV, Mark Goodman, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Ted Turner, CNN anchors, Congress Woman using computer in office, kids computer class, old supercomputers, microchip on finger, PC, Steve Jobs; Electronic ticker, computers in office, stock exchange, PC boxes on forklift, Apple Computer bldg, Bill Gates ;Shrink-wrapping software, IBM PC, IBM bldg, assembling computers, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows disks & on screen Apple Computer signs around parking lot, street scene, plaza below WTC, Ralph Lauren shop, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Cabbage Patch kids, RUSSIA MILITARY May Day parade, Chernenko funeral, VAR Mikhail Gorbachev, Gorbachev & Reagan, war in Afghanistan; Fax machine, Atari computer, Gorbachev, signs welcoming Gorbachev, demonstration in Tiananmen Square massacre Protest in Eastern Europe, May Day parade, Lech Walesa, demonstration, amphibious military vehicle, soldiers landing on beach; Walesa, White house, Walesa, Gorbachev, demonstrations, Tearing down Berlin Wall, demonstration in South Africa, Apartheid riot, Nelson Mandela, George Bush, celebrating fall of Berlin Wall
1980s: IRAN HOSTAGES, MORAL MAJORITY, LOTS OF REAGAN, CONTRAS, YUPPIES, DRUGS, COMPUTERS, BREAK-UP OF SOVIET UNION, POP CULTURE REAGANOMICS political ad attacking Contra aid, guerrilla warfare, Reagan with Arab diplomat, war in Lebanon Arafat, war torn city, U.S. Marines in Beirut, embassy bombing, good Dusk Air to Air passenger plane, Reagan, Beirut hostage; Central American guerrillas, training, White house, ground missile shoots down plane, Contras receiving weapons, Reagan lying Hearing, Robert McFarland, Edwin Meese, Oliver North, paper shredder, William Casey, Capitol bldg, Reagan, strike or protest HS intersection, drive by houses, chauffeur waiting by limo, NYSE, Michael Milken, WTC towers, Ivan Boesky, NYSE, art auction ;Street mural, INT modern art gallery, Julian Schnabel, fashion show, Cindy Crawford, 80s fashions & status symbols, yuppies Woman using 80s cell phone, crowded sidewalk, nightclub dance floor, sort of 80s hippies, BMW lot, hand counting money Family on vacation, tourists, Carter carrying briefcase, Reagan, S & L banks, exercise class, ped with walkman, Capitol ;Congress, Jim Wright, VAR George Bush, stock market crash headlines, brokers having nervous breakdowns, Bush Int office, unemployment line, Reagan, people shopping in thrift store, African American teens & kids, NX peds ;Drug bust, man smoking crack, prison scenes, courtroom, body on stretcher, drug bus, prison yard, black man working in office; Louis Farrakhan, arrests, Oliver North, seized drugs, body on stretcher, Nancy Reagan, Challenger crew, Challenger explosion Reagan address, kindergarten classroom, silhouette satellite dish, 1940s people listening to radio, 1950s people watching tv People watching tv, MTV, Mark Goodman, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Ted Turner, CNN anchors, Congress Woman using computer in office, kids computer class, old supercomputers, microchip on finger, PC, Steve Jobs; Electronic ticker, computers in office, stock exchange, PC boxes on forklift, Apple Computer bldg, Bill Gates ;Shrink-wrapping software, IBM PC, IBM bldg, assembling computers, Bill Gates, Microsoft Windows disks & on screen Apple Computer signs around parking lot, street scene, plaza below WTC, Ralph Lauren shop, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Cabbage Patch kids, RUSSIA MILITARY May Day parade, Chernenko funeral, VAR Mikhail Gorbachev, Gorbachev & Reagan, war in Afghanistan; Fax machine, Atari computer, Gorbachev, signs welcoming Gorbachev, demonstration in Tiananmen Square massacre Protest in Eastern Europe, May Day parade, Lech Walesa, demonstration, amphibious military vehicle, soldiers landing on beach; Walesa, White house, Walesa, Gorbachev, demonstrations, Tearing down Berlin Wall, demonstration in South Africa, Apartheid riot, Nelson Mandela, George Bush, celebrating fall of Berlin Wall
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1980s: REEL BEGINS. STILLS (CANNOT LICENSE)
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| 01:00:53 53.65 |
CU face of an adorable muti racial child, about two years old.
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| 01:00:57 57.11 |
Snapshots of the events of the year (1980) - African Americans on unemployment lines, the Iranian Hostage crisis - American hostages blindfolded escorted out of a building by Iranians, pedestrians (workers) on a crowded city street during rush hour.
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| 01:01:11 71.08 |
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University expert speaks with unseen interviewer about the Iranian Hostage situation. Talks about the media coverage given to the event.
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| 01:01:38 98.38 |
US Representative Robert Bauman, Republican Maryland, speaks at podium, addresses unseen audience, urging President (Carter) to act on the hostage crises.
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| 01:01:55 115.67 |
CU President Jimmy Carter at podium. 1980
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| 01:02:02 122.25 |
Clips of the Navy helicopters of the Operation Eagle Claw mission.
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| 01:02:02 122.28 |
Navy helicopters circa 1980 - Narrator speaks unseen about the Jimmy Carter night commando raid on Tehran to free American hostages, "Operation Eagle Claw" which failed to get off the ground. A big Jimmy Carter failure.
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| 01:02:26 146.18 |
Remains of two crashed helicopters (from the failed Operation Eagle Claw mission).
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| 01:02:38 158.39 |
President Jimmy Carter at press conference and descending a staircase with members of his Administration.
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| 01:02:41 161.94 |
More shots of the Eagle Claw Mission helicopters, on the ground and crashed.
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| 01:02:47 167.65 |
Jimmy Carter speaks into camera from the Oval Office about the hostage crisis and its threat to the nation.
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| 01:03:27 207.87 |
Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan stand at their podiums during their Presidential debate
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| 01:03:37 217.84 |
Next Segment - The Reagan Revolution
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| 01:03:46 226.74 |
Ronald Reagan and clips from the 1980 Republican National Convention
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| 01:04:04 244.07 |
Reagan speaks from podium to unseen audience about election day and the decision to be made.
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| 01:04:26 266.86 |
Miscellaneous B/W clips of John Lennon, quick color clip John sings, Give Peace a Chance (no audio) - unseen narrator talks about the assassination of John by Mark Chapman.
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| 01:04:36 276.51 |
Clip of Pope John Paul as narrator speaks about the flurry of assassination attempts (after Lennon was murdered) in 1981 on Reagan and the Pope.
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| 01:04:45 285.18 |
Candle light vigil outside the Dakota after John was murdered, large crowd gathered holding banners, man wears a t-shirt - "Lennon Lives On".
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| 01:04:51 291.68 |
Ronald and Nancy Reagan
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| 01:04:56 296.24 |
Reagan gives inaugural address CU's
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| 01:05:17 317 |
Various clips Ronald Reagan
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| 01:05:25 325.41 |
Well dressed woman of the '80's stands on busy street corner in front of a fashion boutique.
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| 01:05:27 327.87 |
Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President in 1980 and various other clips.
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| 01:05:40 340.44 |
A woman at her desk seated in front of her vintage computer screen talks on a corded desk phone while taking notes.
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| 01:05:51 351.45 |
George Chauncey from the University of Chicago speaks with unseen interviewer about the many lifestyle changes taking place in society amongst people of color, women, homosexuals, and the upheavals in family life. He speaks of the powerful backlash.
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| 01:06:01 361.93 |
CU peds walk on crowded sidewalk
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| 01:06:17 377.21 |
Var. Regan clips - riding in a jeep, at a ground breaking, giving a speech.
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| 01:06:56 416.69 |
Var lifestyle clips of the 1980 Reagan era: WS New York Stock Exchange floor, a Black man clearing a table in a fast food restaurant, auto mechanic looking under hood, Reagan aide James Watt (EPA). With unseen narration about the Reagan administration policies
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| 01:07:33 453.47 |
The Exxon Valdez oil spill - brown bears covered in oil, the Valdez oil tanker, an Otter covered head to toe in thick black oil, other wildlife covered in black oil.
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| 01:07:59 479.39 |
Next segment: Reaganomics
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| 01:08:05 485.68 |
Reagan at podium. Narrator unseen speaks of the consequences of "Reaganomics"; crowded city sidewalk - rush hour, homeless folk at a soup kitchen.
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| 01:08:21 501.4 |
More Reagan photo ops, campaign clips
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| 01:08:32 512.24 |
slow pan down from tops of buildings on the hustle bustle of peds downtown.
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| 01:08:38 518.48 |
quick clip of George Bush wearing an Army helmet. he stands amidst military men.
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| 01:08:41 521.61 |
Reagan ogles a big jar of jelly beans.
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Fighter jet take off. Several fighter jets fly in formation.
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| 01:08:56 536.2 |
Night time, the U.S. Capitol
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| 01:09:02 542.74 |
David Axelrod, Political Media Consultant talks to unseen interviewer about the consequences of Reganomics. Various shots Ronald Reagan.
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| 01:09:21 561 |
Ronald Reagan applauded in Congress.
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| 01:09:31 571.32 |
Money is printed as Narrator unseen speaks about consequences of Reaganomics - swelling bureaucracy, two trillion dollar federal debt.
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| 01:09:35 575.21 |
People on huge unemployment line
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| 01:09:53 593.41 |
Criminologist, Elliott Currie speaks about how bad people's lives became particularly in the inner cities and rural area. He speaks about the increase in poverty, the widening of economic equality, social services being cut.
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| 01:10:14 614.45 |
Long line of homeless folk outside a social service office. Shots of various homeless people on city streets.
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| 01:10:31 631.15 |
POV moving vehicle - crowded streets of homeless folk, some stand around garbage can fires.
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| 01:10:38 638.69 |
Manning Marable from Columbia University speaks to unseen interviewer about Ronald Reagan's ideologies - anti-communism, cutting affirmative action, anti black etc.
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| 01:11:12 672.72 |
Black people hanging around at a corner store in the inner city. Narrator unseen speaks of the poverty and homelessness that led to increase in racial tensions.
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| 01:11:19 679.25 |
Subway station - train approaches. Narrator (unseen) speaks about racial tension, a murder in the subway.
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| 01:11:26 686.26 |
White perp in handcuffs - New Yorker Bernard Getz, who shot four men panhandling in the subway. CU Getz
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| 01:11:43 703.68 |
Crowded New York City sidewalk. Subway train at station.
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| 01:11:51 711.27 |
The Aids Plague segment:
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| 01:11:59 719.11 |
Exterior pan the Centers for Disease Control building
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| 01:12:07 727.7 |
Aids pamphlets spread out on a table - Acquired Immunce Deficiency Disease
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| 01:12:11 731.37 |
CU AIDS cells as they look under a microscope. chest x-ray. Narrator unseen talks about the virus and how it depletes the body of its immunities.
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| 01:12:21 741 |
Several Africans out in the desert walking around a poor makeshift village with primitive tents. Narrator states the virus originated in Africa.
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| 01:12:24 744.97 |
African children in hospital beds. seated, African women wearing turbans hold their babies appears to be a waiting room. Narrator states most AIDS victims in Africa were heterosexual women.
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| 01:12:36 756.59 |
A male gay couple, casually walk arm in arm past a liquor store with large advertising posters in the windows - ie Korbel Extr Dry $7.99
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| 01:12:40 760.86 |
Montage - A gay male being examined by a doctor, men shooting heroine sharing needles, run-down buildings in the ghetto, man with large sore on his face getting an IV treatment.
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| 01:12:59 779.18 |
Fundamentalist Christian group demonstrate holding posters, such as,:"Better Safe than Sorry!"
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| 01:13:05 785.94 |
A hearing regarding the AIDS epidemic. A male AidS patient speaks into mic and states that Aids is a human issue not a political or gay issue.
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| 01:13:28 808.71 |
shots of the AIDS protest in Washington D.C. - the AIDS quilt
Narrator unseen states that in the next 20 years 47 million people worldwide would be infected by the virus. |
| 01:13:37 817.58 |
Actor Rock Hudson looks up at camera as he sets his handprints at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA.
Various shots of Hudson as narrator talks about his death from AIDS and how he hid his homosexuality from the general public. |
| 01:13:48 828.55 |
Rock Hudson with Elizabeth Taylor at the Grauman's Theatre
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| 01:14:00 840.14 |
President Reagan at podium shocked by Hudson's death from AIDS makes speech about the young boys in Florida who were Hemophiliacs afflicted with the AIDS virus. Shots of the boys as Reagen speaks. Reagan talks about how the Pastor of their church asked them not to come back (for fear of the virus spreading)
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| 01:14:03 843.18 |
Three young boys about 10 years old and Hemophiliacs with the AIDS virus, carry their fishing poles, play in a tree house, climb a tree, swing on a tire.
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| 01:14:30 870.45 |
Talking head male talks to unseen interviewer about Rock Hudson and his honesty about having AIDS.
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| 01:15:15 915.42 |
Shots of televangelisits Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, and Jim & Tammy Baker
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| 01:15:31 931.1 |
Crowded pedestrian filled city sidewalk
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| 01:15:34 934.04 |
Var. Christian activists protest - used the AIDS virus as an excuse to denounce homosexualty, abortion, sex education, sex in general, single mothers, etc.
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| 01:15:52 952.83 |
Man at protest thumping on a Bible at a protest.
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| 01:16:00 960.09 |
Ronald Reagan - narrator unseen states Reagan gave support to social conservatives and condemned abortion and homosexuality.
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| 01:16:13 973.37 |
Blurry shot of American flag burning
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| 01:16:16 976.9 |
Elementary school children in a classroom praying. Shot of Reagan - he states children have a right to begin their days in prayer.
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| 01:16:29 989.57 |
Pro-abortion and Anti-abortion protesters. People carry Keep Abortion Legal signs. Other anti abortion folk carry white crosses
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| 01:16:52 1012.9 |
The Teflon President segment:
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| 01:17:00 1020.26 |
Overhead shot of the Republican National Convention, 1984.
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| 01:17:02 1022.14 |
Ronald Reagan at podium, crowd shots, various photographs of Reagan, Tip O'Neal.
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| 01:18:03 1083.82 |
More Ronald Reagan, various stills, Reagan making speeches -
with narration unseen about Reagan's foreign policies, his black list in the 50's of known communist sympathizers in Hollywood and his determination to stand up agains the Soviet Union and Communist aggression. |
| 01:18:30 1110.61 |
footage of a nuclear missile on a flat bed truck driving through the desert
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| 01:18:58 1138.6 |
Anti-nuke protest. Huge sign reads: Nuclear Arms No Peace Yes
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| 01:19:06 1146.62 |
Satellite dish. The Strategic Defense Initiative.
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| 01:19:26 1166.24 |
The Communist Sandistas protest in Nicaragua 1979
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| 01:19:40 1180.72 |
Contra rebels, military"freedom fighters" in Nicaragua
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| 01:19:52 1192 |
Political poster attacking Contra aid.
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| 01:20:01 1201.79 |
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| 01:32:52 1972.63 |
Poor African Americans segment: Elderly old black women and others shopping for clothes in thrift store.
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| 01:32:58 1978.19 |
Children in poor Black neighborhood, 1980s. Young Black man in ball cap and baggy jacket, Hip Hop street fashion. Black teen boys play basketball in slum neighborhood. Ghetto. Underprivileged African Americans, at risk youth.
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| 01:33:15 1995.93 |
Black female sex workers, prostitutes, streetwalkers on sidewalks and street in ghetto - urban neighborhood.
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| 01:33:31 2011.95 |
Black men being arrested, bent over hood of car, plainclothes undercover police officer holding up drugs found on suspect after search. Packet of cocaine. Stop and Frisk? Drug bust. African American, Black person. Black person smoking crack from crack pipe using small torch or large lighter.
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| 01:33:38 2018.25 |
Wall Street, street sigh, computerized digital stock ticker, trades.
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| 01:33:40 2020.59 |
Shirtless Black man being led away in handcuffs by two white cops, police.
Arrest of African American suspect in slum, Ghetto. Drug Bust? |
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Black woman, man smoking crack cocaine from glass crack pipes. White woman smoking crack in 1980s. Crack addict. Drug Addiction
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| 01:33:51 2031.88 |
DOORS BEING LOCKED AND UNLOCKED IN JAIL. AFRICAN AMERICAN PRISONERS IN ROUGH-LOOKING JAIL. BLACK MEN, CONVICTED CRIMINALS IN PRISON. BLACK MAN ON TRIAL IN COURTROOM. ON DRUG CHARGE? WHITE LAWYERS AND JUDGE. MORE MEN IN JAIL. BLACK UNIFORMED COP PUTTING PISTOL, GUN IN CASE. COP CARS.
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| 01:34:10 2050.63 |
WHITE EMTs, FIRST RESPONDERS, TAKING COVERED DEAD BODY AWAY ON STRETCHER, GURNEY. PUTTING BODY INTO VAN. VICTIM OF VIOLENT CRIME OR DRUGS?
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| 01:34:15 2055.43 |
CU COCAINE, WHITE HAND OF DRUG ADDICT CUTTING LINES OF COKE
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| 01:34:24 2064.5 |
ROUGH-LOOKING PRISON BARS, CELLS. VIOLENT POLICE RAID, GUNS DRAWN. DRUG BUSTS. ARRESTS OF BLACK MEN IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE DRUG DENS. MOSTLY AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN, PRISONERS, IN OUTDOOR PRISON ENVIRONMENT.
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| 01:34:57 2097.09 |
YOUNG BLACK URBAN PROFESSIONAL, YUPPIE, WORKING AT 80s PC COMPUTER AT DESK IN OFFICE. TYPING ON KEYBOARD. WEARING TIE. WHITE COLLAR JOB.
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| 01:35:05 2105.15 |
MIDDLE AGED BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN WORKING CASH REGISTER AT COUNTER IN DRUG STORE, CONVENIENCE STORE. CIGARETTES, WORKING CLASS. TAKING CASH, MAKING CHANGE.
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| 01:35:08 2108.62 |
BLACK MAN RUNNING ACROSS STREET, PAST CARS, TRAFFIC, IN GHETTO, SLUM NEIGHBORHOOD
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| 01:35:16 2116 |
NATION OF ISLAM LEADER LOUIS FARRAKHAN SPEAKING AT PODIUM. WHITE AND BLACK COPS SEARCHING BLACK MEN, SUSPECTS, WHO ARE HANDCUFFED ON THE GROUND. POLICE SEARCH. ARREST.
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| 01:35:32 2132.04 |
CU OLIVER NORTH. BUNDLES OF DRUGS. TAPED UP COCAINE? EVIDENCE FROM DRUG BUST. DEAD BODY IN GHETTO BEING TAKEN AWAY ON STRETCHER BY EMTs.
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| 01:35:45 2145.48 |
RONALD AND NANCY REAGAN MONTAGE, NANCY APPLAUDING
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| 01:35:53 2153.89 |
END OF DRUGS/CRIME SEGMENT
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| 01:39:22 2362.79 |
ELDERLY COUPLE WATCHING TV IN THE 80S. OLD MAN AND WOMAN ON COUCH WATCH TELEVISION.
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| 01:39:28 2368.48 |
BLACK FAMILY WATCHING TV. AFRICAN AMERICAN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN 1980S WATCH TELEVISION WITH ANTENNAE, RABBIT EARS.
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| 01:45:34 2734.5 |
NBC NEWS VIDEO CAMERA ON OPERATOR'S SHOULDER
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| 01:46:21 2781.91 |
1980s COMPUTER SEGMENT BEGINS
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| 01:49:05 2945.66 |
80s COMPUTER SEGMENT ENDS
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| 01:49:12 2952.92 |
wide shot: bust lower manhattan street, 1980s
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| 01:49:39 2978.99 |
fall of Soviet Union, Reagan and Schultz at UN emergence of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. clips of Reagan Reagan and Gorbachev shaking hands and signing peace treaty
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| 01:51:31 3091.94 |
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev visits China 1989
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| 01:51:46 3106.48 |
shots of Chinese student protests in Tiananmen square , student in front of tank Beijing. protests in Russia and poland
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| 01:53:11 3191.52 |
Lech Walesa segment, solidarity in Poland, 1989
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| 01:54:35 3275.35 |
fall of the Berlin Wall footage
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1980s: REEL ENDS
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| 01:55:39 3339.74 |
1980s: FILM ENDS. CREDITS (CANNOT LICENSE)
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