News Footage: Every Day Life

Duration: 12:00

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Carnival at Dusk: Ferris wheel at night with vibrant colors, great shot of a suspended wheel with people sitting in chairs and amazing sunset in background, aerial shots of the carnival taken from one of the rides Pawnshops: black man with hat selling a portable radio to man at pawnshop, row of televisions on the shelf with price tags of $59.00, guitars, cameras, man behind the counter is wearing a baby blue three piece suit with white tie and has long feathered hair, older man in red cardigan sweater walks by as Mr. Blue Suit holds camera, different pawnshop employee with afro and polyester shirt writes in log book, black man with pimp hat carries huge box out of store Restaurants (Julius Castle/ 07/30/1980): Exterior shots of restaurant (old white house), diners eating inside the restaurant, CU on newspaper article on wall that describes the SF landmark status given to Julius Castle (located at 302-4 Greenwich Street) constructed in 1922, CU on lion's head door knocker, shots of the bar, aerial shot of the piers and bay (as seen from Julius Castle) Unemployment 1979: Men standing in unemployment line, various ethnicity’s, men and talking to one another, some do not look pleased to be filmed in the unemployment line and walk away from the camera, CU on smiling man wearing baseball cap, listings of jobs posted as men look on, kids smile and wave as they wait in line with their mom Laundromat: Older man in suit standing in Laundromat, young man hanging shirts that come out of the dryer, blue old style dryers in background, CU of clothes spinning in machine, yellow Speed Queen machines with clothes inside, various clothes washing machines Street Repair/ San Francisco (06/1978): Street with "no parking" signs, black construction worker using a sledge hammer to break up the concrete, CU on sledge hammer, CU on man with thick Buddy Holly glasses working the sledge hammer, workers coming in and out of a hole in the ground Car Costs (08/11/1980): Cars driving on 101 near Candlestick Park exit (audio must mention costs) Highway 101 Slide (03/18/1980): Fleeting shot of hillside with construction crews beneath working on the dirt slide Port of Chicago Military Disaster 1940's (black and white): Still of dock workers at the Port of Chicago near a ship, military men stand behind group of dock workers, still of man in office with other man peeking his head in through the window, tables are covered in paperwork, still of nurses in a hospital tending to patients whose beds line the hallways, still of three workers in huge pile of wood, still of battered car in the midst of the rubble, still of injured man with bandage on head and blackened eye, still of woman with tourniquet on arm and bandage on forehead wearing a turban and fancy dress holding hands with cute little girl holding a book, still of military men standing at salute with American flag flying overheard, still of debris in the water, still of police man wearing leather coat, plaid scarf and badge on outside of coat looking at a destroyed boat(?) San Francisco Development: Model of San Francisco with actual footage of downtown, various shots of buildings and people downtown, Diane Feinstein speaking with Christmas tree in background, nativity scene at City Hall, teacher sitting in front of a class of teenagers, black and white stills of Joan Baez, aerial shots of San Francisco taken from Tiburon, sailboats on the bay, woman smoking a joint, gathering in front of SF City Hall full of hippies and freaks, people are passing joints around, CU of man toking the joint and then holding it up for the camera, man smiles and then offers the cameraman a hit, CU on patch that reads "Liberate Marijuana", man with plants discussing the plant