News Program: A Place of Great Importance #7: Environmental Impact (Reel 1)

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: shots of coastal environment, plants, trees, sea lions. Shots of city, aerial, traffic, streets. Press conference presenting plans for a new building complex, possibly airport (???). (1970s) Exteriors of Oakland International Airport,Dianne Feinstein talking head shot, more airport shots (1970s) Man shows viewers illustrations of primitive caveman hunters from book Aerial shots of farming region, billboard for Western Pacific's Milpitas Industrial District in San Francisco, Ford plant exterior, man pruning tree, tree with flowers, girl in convertible (b/w) wheat field, farm machinery collecting wheat, poster "Service Men! Free land!! Government Homesteads in the Plains!! Own your own land!!" from General Land Office. More shots of tractors in field, grain shafts, plowing field in the sunset. Poster "You Own It- We Farm It! Own a farm away from home! Invest in the fastest-growing country in the West! Come to Jonesville and see for yourself!". Machines plowing and tilling into the night. (1930s?) montage of old-fashioned ticker tape machine, grain being processed, field being worked, jazz band, ticker tape machine falls off the table and smashes, fade to black. Shot of cattle bones on cracked dried mud ground, shot of desolate landscape. Man pointing at map of Oakland, data printing on dot-matrix printer,shot of green rolling hills, aerials of green hills