Compilation Reel #17 (Television)

Complete Record: 1. appears to be small part of a documentary on western expansion, or the gold rush ... LWS of stage coaches and covered wagons. Stage coach silhouetted against the setting sun on the horizon. The transcontinental railroads two tracks meeting. 2. CBS Value of Editing Short CBS-produced short on the art of editing. B&W, 1951. Two men and a cow do vaudeville-type early TV sketch before live audience. Cow shits, audience goes nuts, sketch derailed. CBS camera visible. Cut to narrator discussing importance of editors. Fake, ironic commercial for ‘old happiness’ liquor using clips from westerns (Richard Boone as Paladin in Have Gun Will Travel), ending with Rod Serving Twilight Zone clip. Return to narrator, various sound gags. NBC logo shown as a joke. 3. Walker Scott Gift Certificate Sale (Color) Various shots of a 1960’s era organ. White man in business suit with mustache and lamb chops at a clock store. Attractive brown haired woman in pink with blue name tag purchases gift certificate. Zoom on certificate, which reads “Walker Scott Company, San Diego County.” Sound missing. 4. Trailer for a TV show called “Thriller” narrated by Boris Karloff, featuring young William Shatner and Russell Johnson (the Professor from Gilligan’s Island). Scary clips of various shows. (B&W 1960’s) Revue Studios Old man with pitchfork walks down country road in the dark, passes out. Phantom approaches man who shoots it repeatedly and screams. Two men talk through cobwebby bars of a jail cell. Frankenstein-type monster with long hair grabs sleeping woman’s face. Man with glasses is frightened of scarred and scary man; screams and rips of glasses, smashes them, scratches his own face. Man in suit grabs a stick to hit an old man in black coat and hat. Drops stick as old man beckons to him. Old man reaches out with hand but grabs the man around the neck with a claw. Shot of train wheels. Man runs into attic through a door in the floor, sees ghostly woman being dragged away in a mirror, and smashes the mirror with a poker. Another man comes in and tries to restrain him. A woman is lying on the floor. Old man zombies approach a woman at a door. She runs away, tries to open a door, they surround her and she falls to the floor. Cool Thriller title card. 3. Bela Lugosi Television Interview (B&W) Exterior. Interviewer in double breasted suit holding large microphone. Lugosi smiles, chatty, in fedora, bow tie, tweed suit and trench coat. Dracula never ends. No cuts; camera closes from long shot to medium shot. Interviewer mentions he’s a ship’s reporter bringing the viewer “ship’s news”. 4. Hollywood and the Stars Teaser (B&W) Hollywood and the Stars Teaser. The changing role of women. Shots of men and woman kissing passionately, Theda Barrow, Bridget Bardot, Jean Harlow (coming through door), Marilyn Monroe (talking to reporters) 5. Close up of Ingrid Bergman (B&W) A program about a day of Ingrid Bergman 6. (B&W) People are leaving a ship. CU shots of people hugging and kissing by the ship. Israel flag. 7. (Color) CU shots of organ. CU shots of a white male sales person at a store and a female customer. CU of gift card from the store. 8. (Color) Different sizes of television screen. First, the same image on the screens and different images later. 9. (Color) CU shots of a white female sales at a fragrant store trying to sell products to a female customer. CU and pan shots of products with Christmas decollation. 10. very short shot of a house wife or woman who’s hands are being bound (color) 11. very short shot of a man entering a very 70’s looking living room w yellow shag carpet where he hugs a woman.