Summary

PETRIFIED MATERIAL

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: PETRIFIED MATERIAL
File Number: PET-85 1 inch
Color: Color
Type: Outtakes
Year: 01/01/1950
Subjects: Aerials
Description: Color 1950s Juvenile delinquents. Baseball. Pow wow. House moving. Car crashes and drunk driver. Amoeba. 05:01:13:23 Color 1950s VS Juvenile delinquents, teen gangs, fighting. VS of gang of young white men attacking, beating, and robbing man wearing suit on street. 05:05:12:19 Color 1950s VS baseball crowds in stadium. LS stadium stands full of spectators. CUs baseball fans, mostly men and boys, and mostly white. VS play on field, pitching, batting, catching, running. 05:07:21:05 Color 1950s Four young black men wearing blue uniforms, talk, holding boxes of ice cream, sodas, to sell to fans. CU female and male feet walking across gravel path, good shoe fashion. Cop, smoking cigar, on duty. VS line of spectators waiting to get into stadium including boy wearing Kansas Athletics shirt, good. Man sells Kansas flags and baseball hats. CU passing through turnstile. 05:08:58:24 Color 1950s CU President Harry Truman, seated in stand, laughing, excellent. AV of stadium and surrounds. CU fans. Various long shots of packed stadium stands. 05:13:19:20 Color mid 1950s VS Welcome to Kansas City Parade. Parade route lined with spectators. Marching bands, majorettes, and guests (mostly members of the Kansas City Athletics baseball team) in convertibles with their names on the side, some wave at fans (pretty boring). Kansas City Athletics float. Dairy float, insurance company float, and others. "Hopalong Cassidy" William Boyd (in cowboy suit, astride white horse) smiles and waves in parade. Black Kansas City Athletic player Vic Power waves from convertible in parade. Street vendors - wind-up dogs , baseball paraphernalia. VS Fans leave or enter stadium. CU black Kansas City Athletic player. Man wearing brown overcoat dancing, drunk ? Player and son ? chat on bench. Male youth sit on wall above seats. EXT Kansas City Municipal Stadium with fans waiting on line. Black and white fans wait on line, at commission stand, good shots. 05:24:13:08 Color 1950s Pow wow. Lone Indian dancer wearing colorful feather headdress and decorations, dances in circle. CU feet and lower legs dancing. VS groups of Indians, female, male, and children. Teepees. CU men passing pipe to each other, sitting around smouldering fire. CU beating on drum. Indian paints on stretched skin as others watch. CU young males with bows and arrows. MS man and woman dancing. CU old man speaks. CU art on animal skin depicts battle scene. CU extinguishing fire with smoldering log. MS Indian woman dancing, from back. Indians grind something in hollow bark of tree stump. CU older Indian faces. 05:31:02:29 Color 1950s VS young Indian braves hunting with arrows. Brief recreation, white settler's house, woman and child. 05:32:49:25 Color 1950s VS of house-moving process - entire house is slowly transported on flat platform on top of truck, several angles, excellent. Three people walk behind house as it's being transported - surrealism. VS house being slowly driven into site with people watching progress. VS, including CUs, laying house on new foundation. 05:36:53:30 Color 1950s POV car driving on highway. CU woman's foot on brake pedal. CU wiper button on dashboard. VS wipers in motion in rain, from woman driver's POV. CU profile of anxious woman driving, good. CU hands on steering wheel, out of control. 05:39:24:03 Color 1950s MS lone car driving on country road. It swerves, falls down grassy bank and into ditch full of water. Crash. VS car crashing and landing in water. POV from inside car, driving down winding country road, going out of control and driving into wooded area, many takes. VS black car driving off country road and into bushes, dust rises and envelops car before settling again. Speeding car drives out of control on road, hood of rear trunk swings open. 05:45:18:06 Color 1950s MWA drunk man leaves Lowell's bar road house, staggers a little, and puts key in car's door. VS signs, "LIQUORS," "OPEN," LS "Budweiser" sign outside of store. 05:45:57:24 Color 1950s Medium front view shot of car wreck with man's body (dead ?) leaning on dashboard, slightly through smashed windshield, VS. Badly damaged car. Drunk driving. 05:47:37:21 Color 1950s VS amoebas, excellent (particularly second half of selection
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