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00:27:07 4.43 |
WALTZ OF THE MANNEQUINS:
AERIAL ZOOM IN NEW YORK CITYSCAPE. |
00:27:27 24.43 |
PAN FROM SKYSCRAPER TO ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL,
TO CROWDS OF PEDESTRIANS, WINDOW SHOPPERS, TRAFFIC NEAR CHRISTMAS TIME IN NEW YORK CITY. ROCKEFELLER CENTER, CROWDS, CHILDREN, HUGE LIT UP CHRISTMAS TREE, PAN TO PEOPLE ICE SKATING IN ROCKEFELLER PLAZA RINK. |
00:27:54 51.43 |
TRAFFIC, HORSE AND CARRIAGE, PEOPLE WINDOW
SHOPPING ALONG FIFTH AVENUES FAMED DEPARTMENT STORES. MONTAGE BEAUTIFULLY DRESSED, ANIMATED MANNEQUINS IN STORE WINDOW. |
00:28:31 88.43 |
PAN COLORFUL CHRISTMAS DRAWINGS OF ANIMALS,
PIXIES, FAIRIES, IN ELABORATE COSTUME CREATED BY LUCKY ELROD, PRESIDENT OF BLISS CONSTRUCTION AND HIS ART DIRECTOR JOHN DARKNESS. THEY CREATED ANIMATED DISPLAYS FOR DEPARTMENT STORES FOR TWENTY YEARS. CU ELROD LOOKS OVER DARKNESS DRAWINGS. |
00:28:37 94.43 |
MANNEQUIN HEADS LIE ON FLOOR IN SHOP. WORKER
PLACES WINGS ON FAIRY. FEMALE WORKER DRESSES FAIRY MANNEQUIN. THIS YEARS THEME IS, "THE YEAR OF THE FAIRY." |
00:29:06 123.43 |
CU MALE WORKER AT SEWING MACHINE, MAKING COSTUMES
FOR MANNEQUINS. CU OF MACHINE SEWING. MANY COME OUT OF THEATER. SCULPTORS, CARPENTERS, ANIMATORS, COSTUMERS. CU BLACK FEMALE WORKER CUTS MANNEQUIN'S HAIR. MALE SEWS ON DRESS |
00:29:30 147.43 |
CU WIDE EYED MANNEQUIN NO HAIR, WITH BLOND WIG.
CRAFTSMAN WORKS ON MECHANISM CONTROLLING, ANIMATING FIGURES LIKE A LARGE MUSIC BOX. HE PAINTS DETAILS ON SMALL FAIRY-LIKE FIGURES. |
00:30:07 184.43 |
ANIMATED FIGURES INCLUDE GROUP OF MUSICIANS,
FIGURE WITH FISH-LIKE FACE SPINNING, BRIGHTLY COLORED, ORNATE, BACKGROUNDS IN EXQUISITE DETAIL, ALL DEPICTING THE DARKNESS' DRAWINGS. |
00:31:13 250.43 |
CHILDREN LOOK AT ANIMATED EXTRAVAGANZA THROUGH
STORE WINDOW. CROWDS TRYING TO GET A LOOK, FORM LINES OUTSIDE. CU MONTAGE CHILDREN FACES EXPRESSING AWE, VARIETY OF EXQUISITE ANIMATED DISPLAYS |
00:32:08 305.43 |
AERIAL ZOOM OUT, NEW YORK CITYSCAPE, EMPIRE STATE
BUILDING IN CENTER. |
00:32:22 319.43 |
LIKE HAVING NEW EYES:
CU RED TIPPED WALKING STICK, LEGS OF BLIND WOMAN, AS SHE WALKS. HIGH PITCHED BEEP OMITS FROM SMALL ELECTRONIC UNIT AROUND HER NECK. ANOTHER BLIND MAN WALKING WITH UNIT IN HAND, MAKING A DIFFERENT SOUND. (HF-YTV) |
00:32:44 341.43 |
CU FINGERS ON TYPEWRITER, TYPING BRAILLE.
MACHINE READS, RECITES, LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN ELECTRONIC SOUNDING VOICE. |
00:33:07 364.43 |
WELL DRESSED BLIND MAN TAPS ALONG WITH HIS CANE
ALONG BUSY DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY SHOPPING AREA. |
00:33:37 394.43 |
INVENTOR LINDSAY RUSSELL, WORKS AT HIS DRAFTING
TABLE WORKING ON NEW DEVICE FOR THE BLIND. HE QUIT HIS JOB TO DEVOTE FULL-TIME TO THE PROJECT. |
00:33:49 406.43 |
CU YOUNG BLIND MAN WITH LINDSAY'S DEVICE CALLED
PATH FINDER, ON HIS CHEST, TESTS THE DEVISE AS LINDSAY WALKS BEHIND HIM. THE DEVISE SENDS OUT SOUND WAVES TELLING HIM WHEN AN OBSTACLE IS IN THE WAY. BLIND MAN RECEIVES SIGNAL FROM DEVISE, GRABS POLE BEFORE HE WALKS INTO IT. |
00:34:20 437.43 |
PAN OF MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
BUILDINGS WITH HUGE MODERN SCULPTURE ON CAMPUS. |
00:34:31 448.43 |
BLIND MAN WALKS WITH SMALL DEVISE IN HAND, WHICH
GIVES OFF SIGNAL AS HE APPROACHES CONCRETE COLUMN ON CAMPUS. |
00:34:45 462.43 |
CU BLIND WOMAN TYPES ON KEYBOARD OF BRAILLE EMBOSS
MACHINE WHICH CONVERTS ELECTRONIC SIGNAL INTO BRAILLE, VICE VERSA. IT COMMUNICATES OVER ORDINARY TELEPHONE LINES. WOMAN CHECKS WORK WHICH IS TYPED INTO BRAILLE, BY RUNNING HER FINGERS OVER IT. |
00:35:11 488.43 |
CU BLIND PERSONS FINGER RUNS OVER TINY BUTTONS OF
MOVING BRAILLE DEVICE PRODUCES TACTILE REPLICA OF ELECTRONIC NUMBERS. TELEPHONE IS PLANNING TO INSTALL THEM AT LONG DISTANCE STATIONS. |
00:35:44 521.43 |
RESEARCHER AT CONTROL ELECTRONIC PANEL, WITH
ANOTHER INSIDE BOOTH SITTING WITH HAND ATTACHED TO DEVICE, AS THEY TRY TO LEARN HOW TO SEND TOUCH INFORMATION TO BLIND, DEAF. LOOKING FOR WAYS TO SEND PAINLESS SENSATIONS |
00:35:58 535.43 |
CU CURRS REEL READING MACHINE SCANS GETTYSBURG
ADDRESS, RECITES IT WITH ITS ELECTRONIC VOICE. IT MAKES PRINTED WORD AVAILABLE TO BLIND. WITH AIDE OF SMALL COMPUTER, TRANSLATES TEXT INTO SPOKEN WORDS. CU RESEARCHER WORKS KEYBOARD ON COMPUTER. |
00:36:46 583.43 |
WORKER AT LIGHTHOUSE OF NEW YORK, PLACES A LINDSAY
RUSSELL DEVICE AROUND NECK OF BLIND WOMAN, SHOWING HER HOW IT WORKS. BLIND MAN SITS WITH THEM, LISTENS. HE IS HANDED THE DEVICE. |
00:37:35 632.43 |
CU WOMAN DEMONSTRATES LASER CANE. BLIND MAN TRIES
IT. HE WALKS THROUGH TWO POLES WITH ROPE ATTACHED AT NECK HIGH. AS HE WALKS TO POLE WITH CANE, HE LIFTS ROPE BEFORE HE RUNS INTO IT. HE WALKS BACK LIFTING ROPE AGAIN. |
00:38:09 666.43 |
BLIND MAN, CHEWING GUM, WALKING DOWN BUSY NEW YORK
STREET WITH LASER CANE. WALKS HEAD ON INTO BLACK WOMAN USING CANE. HE CHEWS GUM AS HE WALKS DOWN SUBWAY STAIRS WITH NO HESITATION. |
00:38:43 700.43 |
YALE UNIVERSITY COMPOSERS:
CAMPUS AT YALE UNIVERSITY, WITH ITS CATHEDRAL. STUDENTS WALKING TO CLASSES ON SNOW-BOUND CAMPUS GROUNDS. |
00:38:59 716.43 |
YALE'S SCHOOL OF MUSIC BUILDING. STUDENT ORCHESTRA
PLAYS ON STAGE AS STUDENT CONDUCTOR WITH EARPHONES, BATON, LEADS. OF THE MANY COURSES OFFERED ON THE MUSIC CURRICULAR, COMPOSING FOR MOTION PICTURE IS THE MOST UNUSUAL. |
00:39:29 746.43 |
PAN OF MALE, FEMALE MUSICIANS WHO ARE ALL STUDENTS
OF MUSIC SCHOOL, PLAYING A SCORE WRITTEN BY STUDENT COMPOSER FOR FILM PROJECT SHE HAS CHOSEN FOR HER GRADUATE THESIS. |
00:40:08 785.43 |
HAND FULL OF STUDENTS SIT, LISTEN TO FRANK LEWIN,
WELL-KNOWN COMPOSER OF MUSIC SCORES THAT INCLUDE OPERAS, FILMS, TELEVISION DRAMAS. |
00:40:24 801.43 |
STUDENT RUNS 16MM MOVIE CAMERA AS OTHERS WATCH
MOVIE WITH NO SOUND, SO EACH CAN PROVIDE IT WITH HIS, HER OWN VERSION OF SCORE BY END OF SEMESTER. |
00:40:49 826.43 |
LEWIN SITS WITH STUDENT, DEMONSTRATES HOW DIALOG,
NARRATION, SOUND, CAN BE USED WITH MUSIC TO CREATE DRAMATIC EFFECT. CU STUDENT TAKES NOTES. |
00:41:18 855.43 |
LEWIN SITS AT PIANO WITH GARY SMART, CONCERT
PIANIST, COMPOSER, WHO HAS CHOSEN FILM CALLED WATERS EDGE, BECAUSE FLOW OF SILENT IMAGES APPEAL TO HIS MUSICAL SENCE. CU SHOT OF WATER SPRAYING UP FROM FOUNTAIN HEADS. HE MUST DECIDE WHAT INSTRUMENTS TO USE IN HIS MUSIC. |
00:41:52 889.43 |
MONTAGE FOUNTAINS OF ALL SORTS, SPRAYING WATER AS
SOUND OF GARY PLAYING PIANO TO DRAMATIZE SCENES. |
00:42:03 900.43 |
CU GARY WATCHES TELEVISION SCREEN OF FILM EDITING
MACHINE, SHOWING WAVES CRASHING ON SHORE. TAKES NOTES. ZOOM OUT FEMALE PLAYING HARP. ANOTHER ON VIOLIN. FACE SHOT OF STUDENT COMPOSER AS HE DIRECTS WITH BATON. CU MALE CLARINETIST, GIRL PLAYING VIOLA. MALE PIANO PLAYER WATCHING CONDUCTOR. PAN FROM STRINGS ON BASS TO MALE WITH BOW PLAYING. HAND POUNDING CYMBALS. |
00:43:14 971.43 |
AS GARY, LEWIN WATCH FROM CONTROL STUDIO AS FILM
OF FINAL MARRIAGE OF MUSIC, IMAGE SHOWN. WAVES POUND ROCKY SHORE DRAMATIZED BY MUSIC CREATED BY GARY. CU FACE SHOT OF GARY FOLLOWING SCORE. |
00:43:50 1007.43 |
COMPUTERIZED SUPERMARKET:
MONTAGE IMAGES BEING DEMONSTRATED BY LASER BEAMS, WHICH IN 1960s WAS VIEWED BY SOME AS FASCINATING RESEARCH TOOL, BY OTHERS A SCIENCE-FICTION TOY. (HF-YTV) |
00:44:11 1028.43 |
PAN OF SUPER MARKET SHELVES WITH WOMEN IN AISLES
FILLING THEIR FOOD CART. |
00:44:24 1041.43 |
CU CLERK AT CASH REGISTER SCANS EACH ITEM FOR
PRICE ON LOW POWERED LASER BEAM CONNECTED TO COMPUTER. CONVEYOR BELT MOVES ITEMS FORWARD. CU MONTAGE COMPANY NAME, ARM AND HAMMER, LA CHOY, GREEN GIANT, BUMBLE BEE, OTHERS, AND PRODUCT CODE FOR EACH COMPANY IS SHOWN. |
00:45:11 1088.43 |
CU FEET OF SHOPPERS, HANDS TAKING PRODUCTS WITH
FAMILIAR BRAND NAMES, BARING BAR CODES, OFF SHELVES, PLACING THEM IN CARTS. YOUNG COUPLE WITH YOUNG DAUGHTER STACK CART. LITTLE GIRL SKIPS DOWN AISLE, COMES ACROSS TOY, PULLS IT OUT. |
00:46:22 1159.43 |
WOMAN PICKS ORANGES FROM HUGE BIN IN PRODUCE
DEPARTMENT. YOUNG COUPLE, DAUGHTER, COME TO CHECK-OUT COUNTER, PLACE ITEMS, TOYS, ON CONVEYOR, ARE RAPIDLY SCANNED BY CASHIER. |
00:46:50 1187.43 |
CU PRICE, BRAND NAME, TIME OF PURCHASE, IS
PRINTED ON PRINT-OUT SHEET. CU COMPUTER SAYS, "THANK YOU." |
00:46:56 1193.43 |
VACHEL LINDSAY'S SPRINGFIELD:
PAN OLD SUBURBAN RESIDENTIAL HOMES WITH PORCHES IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. HOME OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND POET, VACHEL LINDSAY. (HF-YTV) |
00:47:15 1212.43 |
CU "A. LINCOLN OFFICE AND COURT", WRITTEN ACROSS
ENTRANCE TO OLD BRICK AND STONE BLOCK LONG BUILDING IN SPRINGFIELD WHERE LINCOLN PUT OUT A SHINGLE, PRACTICED LAW. STATE CAPITAL WHERE LINCOLN SERVED IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IS SEEN ACROSS STREET, FROM OFFICE WINDOW. CAPITAL BUILDING |
00:47:41 1238.43 |
BUST SCULPTURE OF VACHEL LINDSAY, POET, ARTIST,
DREAMER OF AMERICAN DREAM. LINCOLN MADE DEEP IMPRESSION ON LINDSAY THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. |
00:47:59 1256.43 |
ZOOM IN ON LINDSAY'S HOME, AS NARRATOR QUOTES FROM
1922 LINDSAY WRITINGS ABOUT HIS LIFE. PAN OF INSIDE HOUSE WITH ITS OAK STAIRWAYS, MOULDINGS, WOOD FLOORS, FURNISHINGS. ZOOM IN ON OLD CHANDELIER. HOME WAS BOUGHT FROM MRS. C. M. SMITH, SISTER TO LINCOLN. 'PARTIES WERE GIVEN TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN THERE" QUOTED LINDSAY. |
00:48:42 1299.43 |
PAN MONTAGE OF QUAINT OLD HOME OF JOHNSON LINDSAY,
UNCLE TO VACHEL. LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO LINCOLN'S HOME. PAN OF LILAC BUSH, USED AS CHRISTMAS TREE IN SHADOW OF LINCOLN'S HOME. PAN SHUTTERED WINDOWS, IRON BALCONY RAILING ON UPPER PORCH. |
00:49:02 1319.43 |
CU SIGN ON LAWN, "HOME OF ILLINOIS POET NICHOLAS
VACHEL LINDSAY, 1879 - 1931". YOUNG VOLUNTEERS OF SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL, CLEAN AND CULTIVATE LAWN AND GROUNDS OF HOME. PAN OF STAINED GLASS WINDOW. |
00:49:33 1350.43 |
CU FACE OF BESPECTACLED TEENAGE BOY READING
LINDSAY'S POETRY IN LINDSAY'S LIVING ROOM. PAN TO TEENAGE GIRL, ELDERLY ELIZABETH GRAHAM, SITTING, LISTENING. GRAHAM TELLS WHY SHE LIKED POETRY, GESTURING WITH HER HANDS. |
00:49:54 1371.43 |
GRAHAM, FORMER TEACHER OF ENGLISH AT SPRINGFIELD
HIGH, SITS, SPEAKS TO GROUP OF YOUNG ADULTS, TEENS, SPEAKS. DETERMINED TO KEEP UP LINDSAY'S WORK IN FINDING OUT, SOUNDING OUT, ABOUT WONDERS OF SPRINGFIELD. SHE DEVOTES ALL TIME TO PRESERVE WORKS, LEGACY OF LINDSAY, AS WELL AS HIS HOME. |
00:50:17 1394.43 |
DENNIS KEMP, PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LITERATURE AT
SAGALON STATE COLLEGE, SITS IN LIVING ROOM, CHATS WITH MRS. GRAHAM. HE IS COMPILING BIBLIOGRAPHY OF COMPLETE WORKS OF LINDSAY. MRS. GRAHAM IS IMPORTANT SOURCE FOR KEMP. |
00:50:40 1417.43 |
CITIZENS GATHER IN LINDSAY LIVING ROOM, MAN
RECITES HIS POETRY, AS OTHERS SIT IN CIRCLE, LISTEN. CU PAN TO EACH PERSON IN ROOM. NARRATOR RECITES LINDSAY POETRY AS CAMERA PANS BUSHES, HOME, FURNISHINGS IN COURT HOUSE, LEGISLATURE, OLD OFFICE DESK WITH QUILL PEN IN INK WELL, CANDLE, SEAT, WHICH LINCOLN ONCE USED, LIVED. |
00:52:14 1511.43 |
PAN STATUE OF LINCOLN STANDING, HUGE BUST OF
LINCOLN ALONGSIDE STATUE. |
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