Summary

THE 1970s: PROTESTS, UNREST, NIXON, WATERGATE SCANDAL, WOMENS RIGHTS, GAY RIGHTS, CESAR CHAVEZ, POLLUTION, MOVIE MAKING, POOR ECONOMY, DISCO DANCERS, RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS, REAGAN REVOLUTION, COCAINE, IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS, ETC. Vietnam War, boy crying, anti-war protests, veterans, Jane Fonda interview, protest, VAR Nixon, Aerial factory smokestacks; Nixon signing treaty with Soviets, soldiers return home, Nixon as Hitler on sign, coup d'etat in Cambodia, Nixon pointing to map Nixon tv address, Supreme Court bldg, protest, riot police, Kent State massacre, construction workers attack protesters National Guard around campus, students relaxing on campus grounds, riot police watching protest, protesters, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Woodstock, protesters, burned out bldg, NX bldg on fire, NX protesters making peace signs, burning bldg Armed revolutionaries march into bldg, Tom Hayden, protesters, Nixon & Agnew, crowd waving peace sign, newspaper press, Students relaxing on campus, Vietnam War, protests, Daniel Elsberg, soldiers parachuting, tank in paddy, B/W Vietnamese P.O.W.s ; Boxes labeled "Top Secret" Pentagon Papers, headlines, soldier struggling with Vietnamese woman, dead body, Nixon address; WATERGATE Drive by White house, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden & Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, city street scene, news press Gregory Peck with Oscar, Carol Channing, Steve McQueen, crowd outside White house, Tom Houston, stack of papers; Newspaper press, radio bx "On the Air" light, reel to reel, hearing, John Mitchell, men under arrest, Hoffman, John Lennon & Yoko Ono bed-in, Angela Davis making speech, in jail, soldiers crossing paddy, protest, White House, Howard Hunt, Thomas Eagleton, hands counting money, stacks of money, money being printed, hands holding checks, Elsberg, Nixon Campaign ;McGovern & Eagleton campaign Larry O'Brien highlighted, JFK, Howard Hughes, Nixon, NX city lights & traffic; "Democratic National Committee" door, NX Watergate Office bldg, Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, Watergate, NX Howard Johnsons motel White house with tulips in FG, crowded sidewalk, Nixon inauguration, Capitol bldg cars in FG, Nixon, Howard Baker, Nixon Alexander Butterfield, mother & daughter watching tv, John Dean, Jed Magruder, Nixon with aids, Nixon speaking, reel to reel Nixon with dog, hearing, Barry Goldwater, crowded sidewalk, Nixon farewell address, Church Committee looking at guns Coup d'etat in Chile, Allende poster burning, Che Guevara, COLOR crowd going into subway station, Nixon touring China, etc; Soldiers relaxing, peace talks w/Vietnamese & Soviets, fleeing embassy in Saigon, protests, women's liberation, feminists Air stewardess in spacious cabin, Betty Friedan, protest march, very 70s modern office, empty courtroom, protest; Good Dusk Capitol bldg at sunset, Congress, anti-abortion protest, pro-abortion protest, Barbara Young, Andrew Jordan Hi-tech job, black women chat in doorway, Carl Stokes, Tom Bradley, gay rights protest, San Francisco skyline, drag queens; Cesar Chavez, farm labor strike, field workers, Ralph Nader, auto plant, woman looking at meat counter, Nader, cheese counter Canned items on shelf of grocery store, Chavez, ugly industrial area, Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, VAR pollution images, WS grimy factory on horizon idyllic neighborhood in FG, famous "Crying Indian" TV AD, anti-pollution, environmentalism, Iron Eyes Cody TV commercial, PSA. Horse race on TV set, girl watching TV, Bobby Riggs, Billy Jean King, cheerleaders, King/Riggs tennis match, Hank Aaron home run, B/W 1950s couple dancing, 50s bride & groom kiss, B/W 1960s sit-in, TV set, Richard Pryor, run-down downtown street scenes Jim Brown, B/W 1960s black pop singer, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Gaye, Wonder, INFLATION city street scene, crowded sidewalk Int supermarket, cashier, international exchange rates, market analysts I guess, good smokestack blue sky in BG ;Customer in record store, Capitol bldg, grocery store scenes, shoppers, check out aisle, cash register 1972 Olympics, spectators behind police barricade, bombed helicopter, Yasser Arafat, Israeli soldiers, war torn bldgs Bombed bus, soldier on patrol Northern Ireland, Egypt-Israeli War, Egyptian flag, man bowing on ground, oil pump, gusher ;Digits on gas pump, gas crisis, snow plow, oil pump, fwy traffic, solar panel, Jimmy Carter address, street scene ;Oil pumps, food on shelves in market, new car, boy looking at price of baseball mitt, Aerial of what must be Detroit ;Passenger plane landing, auto assembly line, unemployment lines, industrial area, adding machine, cash register, mayor of NYC ;Low angle skyscrapers, movie making, Universal Studios tour, Hollywood sign, movie making, Woody Allen ;Roman Polanski Sharon Tate wedding, movie making, protest etc, movie making, Gerald Ford, Agnew, Ford taking oath of office ;Ford campaigning etc, WS Ford tripping (this isn't as amusing as the MS version), assassination attempt, crowded sidewalk ;Carter & Ford shaking hands, men playing chess in the park, NYC street scene with Radio City Music Hall, disco dancers (plaid) INT trendy clothing shop, women wearing short shorts hot pants something like that, dance floor, parade of streakers ;People mingling, couple making out, crowded bar, Playboy Bunnies, adult theater marquee ("Loaded with Sex, Rated X"); Porn, Linda Lovelace, Pussycat Theater, Deep Throat on marquee, Jesus Movement, Christian revival, Hare Krishnas Witch Wiccan ceremony, Jim Jones cult mass kool aid suicide Jonestown massacre, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, drug use, cocaine ;Communist demonstration in Central America, seized cocaine, Manuel Noriega, disco dancers, Studio 54 dance floor, folk singer ;Dance floor. At this point a talk head claims disco revolutionized radio because there's a 12 minute song by Donna Summers Nightclub, disco dancers, drag queens, Andy Warhol, Brooke Shields, Pele, Steve Brubelle, men being arrested, Black Panthers Ronald Reagan, demonstration, Carter, Congress, river thru city, Reagan campaign, Jerry Falwell, Jim & Tammy Baker Shooting range (looks British), Capitol, Reagan, audience applauding, prop 13 proponent, drive by upper class houses; Talk about yuppie scum, mansion, Reagan, COMPUTERS hi-tech images, computer technicians, Xerox Alto PC, electronic cables INT furniture store of some sort, printing money, cash register, workers leaving factory, Ford bldg, INT factory; Man looking thru wallet, Aerial cargo ship at dock, fwy traffic, CB radio, calculator, gold digital watch Nicaraguan Communist leaders, guerrillas in El Salvador, Carter, funeral of murdered nuns; Carter signing bill, Iranian city, angry Iranians, Reagan, burning flag, Shah of Iran, Iranian street scenes, Carter, Ayatollah Khomeini, protest demanding Shah, burning flag, protest, seizing hostages, Carter, Reagan inauguration; Iran US Hostages return home