- Title: CF121
- Date:1940s
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Summary:
01:07:36 - 01:12:08
VS Workers leaving factory, farm worker, school children, commuters, family sitting down for dinner - American Life. Zoom into empty chair at the Oval Office. Fighter Pilot aiming the bomb target, bombs dropping from a plane. American family look into the camera outside a movie theatre. Usher shows family to their seats guided by a torch. Good shot of old cinema screen with a historical epic playing, chariot racing. Little boy imagines he is in the film. Clips from King Kong and Lawrence of Arabia. The mother fantasises that she is in a film saved by a man on horseback.
01:12:08 - 01:17:35
Sporting movie, Father imagines he is playing American Football in a film. Scenes of destruction, huge waves, buildings collapsing. Zeppelin / Blimp flying over New York explodes like the Hindenburg explosion. Good shots of the wooden frame burning. Atomic Bomb mushroom cloud explosion. Dare devil actor, Harold Lloyd in Safety Last, climbs up a sheer wall and hangs from a lock face - clalssic comedy.Good shot of audience reaction laughing. Western film, the whole family travel in a wagon being shot at with arrows. Man jumps across horses to take control of the galloping. Clips from The Three Musketeers. Mountain explorers. Good aerial shot of New York City, Manhattan from helicopter. - TYPE:Historical
- DATE:1940s
- GENRE:
- SOURCE:Filemaker
- Decade:
- Colour:B&W
- Keywords:CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD, FILM CLIPS, COMEDY, WESTERNS, HAPPY FAMILY, AMERICANA, MOVIE AUDIENCE, REACTION SHOTS, IMAGINATION
- Master Title:CF121
- Segment:1
- Sound:Sound
