[Frank Putnam Flint Memorial Fountain Interviews] (sound)

Description: Content advisory: Racist remarks.

Across several sequences, a television news journalist interviews passersby for their views about whether the Frank Putnam Flint Memorial fountain in Los Angeles should be torn down, primarily focusing on its maintenance needs, and also with reference to an incident in which a person had drowned in the fountain. Interviewees express a range of remarks, accents, and speech performances, not all of which relate to the fountain and some of which contain racist remarks. The interviewer bypasses potential Black interview subjects.

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"Mag Sound - TV interview Monument"

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Subjects: 1960s, Parks and monuments, Cities, Racism

Tags: interviews; media production; man on the street; man with microphone; water; stained marble; stains; soft marble; danger; decay; fountains; maintenance; English language; speech performance; spoken word; language forms; dialects; accents; Frank Putnam Flint Memorial Fountain; fountains; Los Angeles City Hall; Circle Hall; person on the street interviews; Pueblo Park; marble statues; public spaces; beehive hairstyle; 1960s fashions; geometric dress design; 1960s hairstyles; news media; rambling; water; racist remarks; Chinese manufacturing insulted;

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

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Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1968

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Geographical Location: USA; California; Los Angeles, California

Genre/Form: television newsfilm, outtakes and trims

Language: eng

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Ektachrome

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: magnetic stripe

Edge Code: plus plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 235