Oklahoma: Heartland Usa
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Year Published: 1953
Creator: National Park Service.
Format: 16mm
Sound: sound
Description: Script: Dwight V. Swain. Producer/director: D.N. Hockman. A-roll pix and sound have been shotlisted. B-roll pix not shotlisted but contains similar images.02:00:57:09The Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board PresentsA University of Oklahoma Production Extension Division Photographic Service02:02:05:11pan left from field of corn to other produce field02:02:23:19montage of various Oklahoma rural landscapes02:02:37:25LS wheat field with clouds02:02:45:00static LS of Red River02:03:11:23 - 02:03:32:24MS two men in suits and hats talking on crowded street corner, passers by walk between them and cameraVS other shots of pedestrians in crowded downtown streets (good)02:03:32:24 - 02:03:45:18MS man in suit walks into frame on busy city street and directly addresses camera: ""We are Oklahoman and we are proud of it. We live, work and play in this great state of ours, all kinds of folk."" 02:03:45:18LS 1930s vintage car leaving small house in trees coming toward camera down muddy road02:03:59:12LS tractor w/ plough attachment ploughing up field going uphill away from camera toward blue sky w/ clouds02:04:03:07WS cattle running through grasslandsAerial of cattle running through grasslands with trees and cowboys02:04:09:04LS double decker tour boat (name Cherokee Queen partially visible) crowded with people on blue shimmery water against blue sky, people waving, moving L to R02:04:14:20High angle looking down on busy city street lined by tall (10 - story) office buildings. Sign Atlas Life partially visible.02:04:17:23various pedestrians and car traffic on busy city street, men in suits and hats, street railway tracks, African-American or Indian or Native American man in leather jacket on blue motorcycle enters frame L to R02:04:19:29LS of wide tree-lined street with large possibly civic buildings towering in the background02:04:23:36 - 02:04:27:09various oblique shots of tall office buildings or residential towers 02:04:27:10VS downtown Tulsa streets and buildings, including 1st of Tulsa, including MS of ""1st of Tulsa"" logo on building02:04:37:21WS LS of small town downtown street, sparse traffic, lots of 2- and 3- story brick buildings and vintage 1930s cars02:04:41:00LS of group of men in work shirts, dungarees, and hats, some sitting, some standing, outside Dry Goods Co. on small town street with wooden wagon in background and contemporary electircal poles and wiring. 02:04:44:43LS looking down sloping main street onto small town commercial neighborhood. H-C gas sign visible.VS small town streets with stores, people, and cars: includes signs of Royal Crown Cola, Thorpe's Food Store, 02:05:00:19LS with beautiful silver car, late 1940s vintage in foreground, oil wells in foreground and background and a few utility buildings02:05:03:12high angle WS of wooded small town landscape with railway yard02:05:05:25low angle shot of woman in farmwife dress and 19th-century style sunbonnet walking down sidewalk toward camera, men in background are watching the camera.02:05:08:12high angle shot of verdant small town with dirt roads02:05:12:14LS of hundreds of cars parked in a field, all vintage 1930s and 1940s, some with people standing and sitting around them.02:05:15:23CU, backlit and silhouetted, of policeman watching traffic on country road. shot from within police car. Policeman slowly turns head to reveal upturned (piglike) profile of face and nose. Vintage 1940s car with airplane propeller-like hood design drives past.02:05:15:21Vintage 1940s black Chevrolet drives left to right down two-lane country road.02:05:27:00LS white well manicured carpenter gothic farmouse with two peaked eaves at right angles to one another with a square multistory turret rising between them. 02:05:29:08 - 02:05:49:00VS Oklahoma homes: single-story planned unit development homes, one postmodern Wright-style home, one large white multistory tudor-style home, one brick cottage for the poor with children in front, a middle-class well manicured multi-plan street.02:05:56:07 - 02:06:05:29VS Well-dressed churchgoers emerge from services. Women are wearing hats and pearls, men are in suits and ties. The brick church building is partially shown, including a cathedral window. Women shake each other's hands. One oblique shot gives us a better view of the church building, including a larger arched window and a multistory turret.02:06:43:18 - 02:06:55:18Pan rolling green hills dotted with trees crowned by blue sky dotted with cumulus clouds.02:06:55:19VS rural landscapes: a river lined with tall trees, a farmer's field with yellow blooming wildflowers with blue sky above filled with cumulus clouds.02:07:04:16 - 02:07:08:27MS coal miners shoveling coal onto moving machinery, wearing dungarees and head lamps, faces smudged with coal dust. (more shots at 02:09:24:06)02:07:08:28LS low-to-the-water level bridge span across a wide lake02:07:11:06MS brown whitewater sloshes and charges furiously out a water gate02:07:14:02VS oblique shots of electrical towers against blue skies02:07:18:20MS man of industry in hard-hat and leather jacket poses in front of a dam and adjusts his hat, then begins speaking directly to camera: ""I'll tell the world we have resources. This is just one of the many dams we have in Oklahoma."" 02:07:27:09VS damsVoice over narration continues: ""We have plenty of others: Grand, Tenkiller, Texoma, Fort Gibson, and more to come. They give us power, more power than the folks who first settled here even dreamed of. And at the same time they cut down erosion, stop floods, and help us save our soil. But flood control and power aren't even half the story....""02:07:53:05 - 02:08:10:29VS CU, MS, LS, field being ploughed, Narration continues: ""...Oklahoma's a big state! 70,000 square miles of some of the finest land in the country. Most of it's tops for farming. Wheat, cotton, alfalfa, broomcorn, all kinds of crops.""02:08:29:14 - 02:08:57:11VS CU, MS, low angle shots of oil wells pumping, low angle shot of pump bearing directly down on camera, camera looking straight up interior infrastructure of well.02:09:01:19 - 02:09:06:24LS coal processing plant (good). Camera looks up a path between sparkling piles of coal toward plant sitting large on the horizon.02:09:06:25 - 02:09:14:00CU, VS miners wearing helmets with head lamps, one with cigarette dangling from mouth.02:09:20:15MS miners wearing head lamps shoveling coal into moving machinery (repeat of shot from 02:07:04:16)02:09:24:06 - 02:09:33:03VS coal moving on conveyor belt on underground machinery, men loading large (two feet diameter) chunks of coal onto conveyor belt (good!), large chunks of coal on conveyor belt heading into dark tunnel with small round light at end of tunnel02:09:33:29 - 02:09:39:01CU pottery wheel, man's hands shaping vase on moving wheel. 02:09:41:04CU forklift with large load of rocks and gravel, pulling load out of quarry and dumping it into bed of dumptruck (?). 02:09:46:25LS Quarry manager hut at base of cliff inside of quarry with moving forklift dumping load of rocks into dumptruck. Man stands at far right of frame for scale. (good)02:09:53:12MS factory with crane in factory yard against blue sky. Crane dumps load of dirt onto pile (pile is off camera).02:09:57:18 - 02:10:09:26LS Quarry wall being sprayed with water hose pressure jet.02:10:32:22 - 02:10:38:00VS silhouetted picnickers at lakeside02:10:55:29 - 02:11:00:15LS fishing hole filled with eleven men with fishing poles standing in a circle. Men wearing overalls, jeans, and fishing hats. Woman in sunbonnet with back to camera in foreground. (Good!)02:11:00:17 - 02:11:10:03CU line of many fish being pulled out of lake onto rocks. Fish are brightly colored, silvery and pink, and wiggling. (good!)02:11:10:04LS 4 men fishing with poles on riverbank, backs to camera02:11:13:06MS man fishing in river with fishing pole with rapids in background, wearing fishing hat outfitted with many fishing flies, struggling with a bite on the line.02:11:16:18LS deep blue still lake with forested hills on far shore and shoreline development distantly visible as small buildings. Tree silhouetted in foreground.02:11:22:00LS Vintage 1940s cars driving out on fishing pier. Camera looks out pier toward water.02:11:24:23MS Four people, three men, one woman, in festive straw hats and dungarees, plaid shirts and overalls clustered on rail of fishing pier, looking away from camera over the rail.02:11:27:17profile of same four people (above), shown each holding a fishing pole looking over rail of fishing pier.02:11:29:18LS Four people (two grandparents, two boys) in fishing boat. Grandfather is holding a long fishing pole.02:11:33:04MS fish being cleaned on rock by shirtless man as two boys look on with disgust and fascination.02:11:38:26CU bird (quail?) being held in hands, hands ruffle its feathers, bird panics and tries to fly away but is held fast by its feet.02:11:41:23LS three mallards floating on lake.02:11:45:09LS two men in hunting gear holding rifles with two German shorthair pointer hunting dog stand in front of vintage 1940s car, viewed through tall weeds, men begin walking toward camera, dogs turn and run forward.02:11:48:20MS English pointer hunting dog wearing leather harness held and petted by man in suit and leather gloves. Man pulls tail upright into field trial pose position.02:11:52:29LS VS, men in suits and hats on horseback milling about a gravel road, waiting for a field trial to begin, three of the men head out into a field.02:12:33:27 - 02:12:43:17LS VS, man on water ski rides behind a boat. Camera looks off back of boat down the line toward the man. Another boat zips past in the background.02:12:46:29 - 02:12:54:07LS VS, young women on horseback ride into view on dirt road through overhanging trees02:12:54:10 - 02:12:56:10LS group of fifteen to twenty youths prepare a campsite for overnight camping02:12:46:11 - 02:13:02:24LS school building, modern one-story architecture with stonework front, parking lot in front of it filled with vintage 1940s cars02:13:02:26LS group of about sixty young women in uniform raise an American flag up a flagpole in a grassy field surrounded by trees.02:13:44:25 - 02:14:13:11VS, LS, MS, CU, including low-angle oblique shots of farmer ploughing field.02:14:30:16 - 02:14:35:15time lapse shots of cumulus clouds, some dark with rain, moving through a blue-gray sky02:14:35:17 - 02:15:02:21VS: MS man wearing enormous goggles and denim cap sits behind wheel of tractor and turns to look skyward. Farm machinery in background.CU man removes goggles and looks around (good), then replaces them and resumes drivingLS man in goggles drives tractor Right to Left across field, then stops, looks skyward, and dismounts.CU man removes goggles again and looks around with concern and skepticism regarding the sky02:15:02:23 - 02:15:17:15VS: CU stalks of wheat waving against dark and ominous skyLS dark sky parts and lightning bolts shoot downwardCU stalks of wheat wave in face of impending stormLS farm fields darkened by storm.02:15:27:13 - 02:15:35:00MS farm worker lifts bales of hay off hay baler02:16:07:22 - 02:16:29:03LS hay baler plies golden field of wheat, baler moves toward camera and LS becomes CU, baler moves fully across camera's field of vision and then away, showing back of machine. Brand name CocheHutt visible.02:16:42:07LS two ploughs with disc plough attachments working golden field moving away from camera, large concrete multi tower grain tower complex visible beyond end of field02:16:51:23VS: CU top of concrete grain tower complex, pan from top to bottom of grain tower, showing gate / sallyport at center bottom, vintage 1930s farm truck drives toward camera through sally port02:16:59:05low angle shot, CU, farmer holds live turkey and squeezes its throat02:17:02:20MS many full grown live turkeys crowd a farmyard, CU adult turkey with large dangly comb (good)02:17:06:17 - 02:17:11:10low angle shot: several white chickens peck ground of farmyard, behind them a grandmother walks with two small twin boys in matching outfits. (good)02:17:11:11 - 02:17:21:01VS farm pigs: LS pigs in a farmyard, pigs walk toward camera, pigs crowd a feeding trough, CU pigs ears as pigs feed (good)02:17:21:01 - 02:17:29:24VS: low angle beautiful horses, chestnut, white and tan, MS, CU horses enjoying grass and breeze02:17:29:25LS cattle cluster on golden hillside, some under shade trees02:17:35:19VS: MS lambs nuzzle one another in field of short green grass, dirt road partially visible in foreground. LS adult sheep enjoy green grass02:17:40:25VS: LS horsemen rounding up cattle on grassy hillside spotted with trees. LS cattle in field. LS cattle cluster under a windmill.02:17:56:05MS man feeding cattle in farmyard from bales of hay02:18:04:14cattle crowd and push toward camera down muddy path between corrals.02:18:07:19CU cattle heads, red cattle with white heads, crowding together.02:18:10:14calf being pulled by rope tethered around its neck by cowboy on horseback02:18:50:03 - 02:19:06:07VS Oklahoma industry:LS tree-framed view of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. factory including watchtowers on its roof, LS five smokestacks rise from partially seen factory roof, LS tighter view of watchtowers on glass factory roof, oblique angle of three smoke stacks and partially seen water tower, oblique angle of watchtowers and smokestacks, LS factory roof with complex piping infrastructure, watchtower, and smokestacks, 02:19:06:09 - 02:19:12:28MS man in suit and hat reads blueprints with oil rigging in background. Man turns to face camera and begins addressing camera directly: ""Where industry's concerned, Oklahoma has everything.""02:19:12:29 - 02:19:38:02VS pipe factory yard: LS pipe factory yard with large piles of long copper-looking pipe, men standing on top, moving equipment swinging overhead, swinging more pipe onto pile, MS pipe being lowered onto pile, low angle CU man helping pipe settle onto pile02:20:06:00MS wood frame house half built02:20:11:22 - 02:20:29:07VS furniture factory: LS looking down into interior of lumber warehouse, men and women load various sizes of lumber onto wheeled carts, MS woman and man operate power sanders to refine unfinished furniture (good), MS man and woman work next to each other finishing furniture, man puts finishing nails while woman uses router or awl to refine edges (dark), low angle CU of finished chair.02:20:41:15VS: MS woman wearing high heels and satin dress reveals leg by hiking up skirt to adjust stocking, MS woman rubs leg, stands, MS woman standing turns and rubbes her calves, adjusting stockings.02:20:57:09MS boy on hands and knees wearing white t-shirt and blue jeans crawls then begins to stand02:21:03:07CU earthenware pottery displayed on dining room credenza, hands pick up plate and cup then set them down again02:21:08:11 - 02:21:20:05VS glassware factory interior: CU assembly line parts move hot glassware through (dark), VS glassware assemblyline (dark)02:21:36:23 - 02:21:48:00LS glowing golden hot rods or streams of molten glass or lead are manipulated in long strands by unseen figures. Image is black except for glowing rods curling and moving around (good)02:22:03:26 - 02:22:15:24VS ""Rosie the Riveter"" shots: VS women in aircraft factories wielding drills and other hand-held equipment assembling airplane frames (frames are nondescript but voice-over narration identifies them as airplanes). (good!!)02:22:15:26 - 02:22:28:27VS Airstream trailers: LS looking down into interior Airstream warehouse, (good) CU Airstream exterior with logo visible: Spartan Imperial Windsor, LS dirt yard full of Airstream trailers, one large one is attached to a vintage 1930s pickup and pulled out of the yard (good!)02:23:16:13 - 02:23:24:03CU paint can mechanically filled with black paint, lidded and moved by human hands, a second can is placed for filling02:23:24:05 - 02:23:33:07VS fast moving belts spinning on factory wheels of different kinds and sizes, low angle shots, oblique shots (good)02:23:43:20 - 02:23:52:10CU black cab of vintage early 1950s GMC Diesel truck rolls Right to Left through frame. Logo visible on side of truck; "GMC Diesel"". Driver leans out cab window and addresses camera directly, saying: ""Transportation? You bet we have transportation.""02:23:59:23 - 02:24:26:22VS delivery trucks in motion (all good!) LS Orange delivery truck approaches camera driving up two-lane road lined with orchards. Logo visible on truck: ""Jenkins Music Co."" LS / MS large black-cabbed delivery truck with wood-frame cargo bed hauls load, drives Left to Right toward camera, behind it follows vintage 1920s (??) delivery truck with yellow and brown cab, aluminum cargo trailer labeled with brand name ""Viking"" in large yellow letters, as truck passes brand is visible on door of c Description: ""Viking Freight Co., St. Louis, MO."" MS / LS Similar truck with yellow and brown cab with aluminum cargo trailer passes camera and drives away from it down two-lane rural road. LS Truck with shiny brown cab and open bed cargo trailer approaches camera, passes, and recedes down two-lane road.LS Truck with bright shiny yellow and black cab hauls load of new 1953 cars, logo on door of c Description: ""Contel Transport"", shot becomes CU as beautiful cargo trailer passes camera and recedes down two-lane road.02:25:02:29CU jet propeller engines on shiny silver airplane, airplane moves across field, logo visible on side of plane: ""Braniff International Airways"" (good)02:25:11:01 - 02:25:17:17MS airplane interior, passengers being served drinks in paper cups by stewardess (good)02:25:28:22 - 02:25:38:21MS lawmakers enter Senate Chamber (dark)02:25:55:04MS low angle shot of couple exchanging marriage vows in front of minister with stained glass window in church wall visible behind them featuring nativity scene. Husband places ring on wife's finger.02:26:02:14LS funeral. Dozens of people, including four white-clad nurses with backs to camera, cluster under and around yellow awning in middle of cemetery. Gravestones and freshly turned dirt visible in foreground.02:26:05:25CU / MS plough blade turns earth to create firebreak, camera p
Complete Record: Script: Dwight V. Swain. Producer/director: D.N. Hockman. A-roll pix and sound have been shotlisted. B-roll pix not shotlisted but contains similar images.02:00:57:09The Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board PresentsA University of Oklahoma Production Extension Division Photographic Service02:02:05:11pan left from field of corn to other produce field02:02:23:19montage of various Oklahoma rural landscapes02:02:37:25LS wheat field with clouds02:02:45:00static LS of Red River02:03:11:23 - 02:03:32:24MS two men in suits and hats talking on crowded street corner, passers by walk between them and cameraVS other shots of pedestrians in crowded downtown streets (good)02:03:32:24 - 02:03:45:18MS man in suit walks into frame on busy city street and directly addresses camera: ""We are Oklahoman and we are proud of it. We live, work and play in this great state of ours, all kinds of folk."" 02:03:45:18LS 1930s vintage car leaving small house in trees coming toward camera down muddy road02:03:59:12LS tractor w/ plough attachment ploughing up field going uphill away from camera toward blue sky w/ clouds02:04:03:07WS cattle running through grasslandsAerial of cattle running through grasslands with trees and cowboys02:04:09:04LS double decker tour boat (name Cherokee Queen partially visible) crowded with people on blue shimmery water against blue sky, people waving, moving L to R02:04:14:20High angle looking down on busy city street lined by tall (10 - story) office buildings. Sign Atlas Life partially visible.02:04:17:23various pedestrians and car traffic on busy city street, men in suits and hats, street railway tracks, African-American or Indian or Native American man in leather jacket on blue motorcycle enters frame L to R02:04:19:29LS of wide tree-lined street with large possibly civic buildings towering in the background02:04:23:36 - 02:04:27:09various oblique shots of tall office buildings or residential towers 02:04:27:10VS downtown Tulsa streets and buildings, including 1st of Tulsa, including MS of ""1st of Tulsa"" logo on building02:04:37:21WS LS of small town downtown street, sparse traffic, lots of 2- and 3- story brick buildings and vintage 1930s cars02:04:41:00LS of group of men in work shirts, dungarees, and hats, some sitting, some standing, outside Dry Goods Co. on small town street with wooden wagon in background and contemporary electircal poles and wiring. 02:04:44:43LS looking down sloping main street onto small town commercial neighborhood. H-C gas sign visible.VS small town streets with stores, people, and cars: includes signs of Royal Crown Cola, Thorpe's Food Store, 02:05:00:19LS with beautiful silver car, late 1940s vintage in foreground, oil wells in foreground and background and a few utility buildings02:05:03:12high angle WS of wooded small town landscape with railway yard02:05:05:25low angle shot of woman in farmwife dress and 19th-century style sunbonnet walking down sidewalk toward camera, men in background are watching the camera.02:05:08:12high angle shot of verdant small town with dirt roads02:05:12:14LS of hundreds of cars parked in a field, all vintage 1930s and 1940s, some with people standing and sitting around them.02:05:15:23CU, backlit and silhouetted, of policeman watching traffic on country road. shot from within police car. Policeman slowly turns head to reveal upturned (piglike) profile of face and nose. Vintage 1940s car with airplane propeller-like hood design drives past.02:05:15:21Vintage 1940s black Chevrolet drives left to right down two-lane country road.02:05:27:00LS white well manicured carpenter gothic farmouse with two peaked eaves at right angles to one another with a square multistory turret rising between them. 02:05:29:08 - 02:05:49:00VS Oklahoma homes: single-story planned unit development homes, one postmodern Wright-style home, one large white multistory tudor-style home, one brick cottage for the poor with children in front, a middle-class well manicured multi-plan street.02:05:56:07 - 02:06:05:29VS Well-dressed churchgoers emerge from services. Women are wearing hats and pearls, men are in suits and ties. The brick church building is partially shown, including a cathedral window. Women shake each other's hands. One oblique shot gives us a better view of the church building, including a larger arched window and a multistory turret.02:06:43:18 - 02:06:55:18Pan rolling green hills dotted with trees crowned by blue sky dotted with cumulus clouds.02:06:55:19VS rural landscapes: a river lined with tall trees, a farmer's field with yellow blooming wildflowers with blue sky above filled with cumulus clouds.02:07:04:16 - 02:07:08:27MS coal miners shoveling coal onto moving machinery, wearing dungarees and head lamps, faces smudged with coal dust. (more shots at 02:09:24:06)02:07:08:28LS low-to-the-water level bridge span across a wide lake02:07:11:06MS brown whitewater sloshes and charges furiously out a water gate02:07:14:02VS oblique shots of electrical towers against blue skies02:07:18:20MS man of industry in hard-hat and leather jacket poses in front of a dam and adjusts his hat, then begins speaking directly to camera: ""I'll tell the world we have resources. This is just one of the many dams we have in Oklahoma."" 02:07:27:09VS damsVoice over narration continues: ""We have plenty of others: Grand, Tenkiller, Texoma, Fort Gibson, and more to come. They give us power, more power than the folks who first settled here even dreamed of. And at the same time they cut down erosion, stop floods, and help us save our soil. But flood control and power aren't even half the story....""02:07:53:05 - 02:08:10:29VS CU, MS, LS, field being ploughed, Narration continues: ""...Oklahoma's a big state! 70,000 square miles of some of the finest land in the country. Most of it's tops for farming. Wheat, cotton, alfalfa, broomcorn, all kinds of crops.""02:08:29:14 - 02:08:57:11VS CU, MS, low angle shots of oil wells pumping, low angle shot of pump bearing directly down on camera, camera looking straight up interior infrastructure of well.02:09:01:19 - 02:09:06:24LS coal processing plant (good). Camera looks up a path between sparkling piles of coal toward plant sitting large on the horizon.02:09:06:25 - 02:09:14:00CU, VS miners wearing helmets with head lamps, one with cigarette dangling from mouth.02:09:20:15MS miners wearing head lamps shoveling coal into moving machinery (repeat of shot from 02:07:04:16)02:09:24:06 - 02:09:33:03VS coal moving on conveyor belt on underground machinery, men loading large (two feet diameter) chunks of coal onto conveyor belt (good!), large chunks of coal on conveyor belt heading into dark tunnel with small round light at end of tunnel02:09:33:29 - 02:09:39:01CU pottery wheel, man's hands shaping vase on moving wheel. 02:09:41:04CU forklift with large load of rocks and gravel, pulling load out of quarry and dumping it into bed of dumptruck (?). 02:09:46:25LS Quarry manager hut at base of cliff inside of quarry with moving forklift dumping load of rocks into dumptruck. Man stands at far right of frame for scale. (good)02:09:53:12MS factory with crane in factory yard against blue sky. Crane dumps load of dirt onto pile (pile is off camera).02:09:57:18 - 02:10:09:26LS Quarry wall being sprayed with water hose pressure jet.02:10:32:22 - 02:10:38:00VS silhouetted picnickers at lakeside02:10:55:29 - 02:11:00:15LS fishing hole filled with eleven men with fishing poles standing in a circle. Men wearing overalls, jeans, and fishing hats. Woman in sunbonnet with back to camera in foreground. (Good!)02:11:00:17 - 02:11:10:03CU line of many fish being pulled out of lake onto rocks. Fish are brightly colored, silvery and pink, and wiggling. (good!)02:11:10:04LS 4 men fishing with poles on riverbank, backs to camera02:11:13:06MS man fishing in river with fishing pole with rapids in background, wearing fishing hat outfitted with many fishing flies, struggling with a bite on the line.02:11:16:18LS deep blue still lake with forested hills on far shore and shoreline development distantly visible as small buildings. Tree silhouetted in foreground.02:11:22:00LS Vintage 1940s cars driving out on fishing pier. Camera looks out pier toward water.02:11:24:23MS Four people, three men, one woman, in festive straw hats and dungarees, plaid shirts and overalls clustered on rail of fishing pier, looking away from camera over the rail.02:11:27:17profile of same four people (above), shown each holding a fishing pole looking over rail of fishing pier.02:11:29:18LS Four people (two grandparents, two boys) in fishing boat. Grandfather is holding a long fishing pole.02:11:33:04MS fish being cleaned on rock by shirtless man as two boys look on with disgust and fascination.02:11:38:26CU bird (quail?) being held in hands, hands ruffle its feathers, bird panics and tries to fly away but is held fast by its feet.02:11:41:23LS three mallards floating on lake.02:11:45:09LS two men in hunting gear holding rifles with two German shorthair pointer hunting dog stand in front of vintage 1940s car, viewed through tall weeds, men begin walking toward camera, dogs turn and run forward.02:11:48:20MS English pointer hunting dog wearing leather harness held and petted by man in suit and leather gloves. Man pulls tail upright into field trial pose position.02:11:52:29LS VS, men in suits and hats on horseback milling about a gravel road, waiting for a field trial to begin, three of the men head out into a field.02:12:33:27 - 02:12:43:17LS VS, man on water ski rides behind a boat. Camera looks off back of boat down the line toward the man. Another boat zips past in the background.02:12:46:29 - 02:12:54:07LS VS, young women on horseback ride into view on dirt road through overhanging trees02:12:54:10 - 02:12:56:10LS group of fifteen to twenty youths prepare a campsite for overnight camping02:12:46:11 - 02:13:02:24LS school building, modern one-story architecture with stonework front, parking lot in front of it filled with vintage 1940s cars02:13:02:26LS group of about sixty young women in uniform raise an American flag up a flagpole in a grassy field surrounded by trees.02:13:44:25 - 02:14:13:11VS, LS, MS, CU, including low-angle oblique shots of farmer ploughing field.02:14:30:16 - 02:14:35:15time lapse shots of cumulus clouds, some dark with rain, moving through a blue-gray sky02:14:35:17 - 02:15:02:21VS: MS man wearing enormous goggles and denim cap sits behind wheel of tractor and turns to look skyward. Farm machinery in background.CU man removes goggles and looks around (good), then replaces them and resumes drivingLS man in goggles drives tractor Right to Left across field, then stops, looks skyward, and dismounts.CU man removes goggles again and looks around with concern and skepticism regarding the sky02:15:02:23 - 02:15:17:15VS: CU stalks of wheat waving against dark and ominous skyLS dark sky parts and lightning bolts shoot downwardCU stalks of wheat wave in face of impending stormLS farm fields darkened by storm.02:15:27:13 - 02:15:35:00MS farm worker lifts bales of hay off hay baler02:16:07:22 - 02:16:29:03LS hay baler plies golden field of wheat, baler moves toward camera and LS becomes CU, baler moves fully across camera's field of vision and then away, showing back of machine. Brand name CocheHutt visible.02:16:42:07LS two ploughs with disc plough attachments working golden field moving away from camera, large concrete multi tower grain tower complex visible beyond end of field02:16:51:23VS: CU top of concrete grain tower complex, pan from top to bottom of grain tower, showing gate / sallyport at center bottom, vintage 1930s farm truck drives toward camera through sally port02:16:59:05low angle shot, CU, farmer holds live turkey and squeezes its throat02:17:02:20MS many full grown live turkeys crowd a farmyard, CU adult turkey with large dangly comb (good)02:17:06:17 - 02:17:11:10low angle shot: several white chickens peck ground of farmyard, behind them a grandmother walks with two small twin boys in matching outfits. (good)02:17:11:11 - 02:17:21:01VS farm pigs: LS pigs in a farmyard, pigs walk toward camera, pigs crowd a feeding trough, CU pigs ears as pigs feed (good)02:17:21:01 - 02:17:29:24VS: low angle beautiful horses, chestnut, white and tan, MS, CU horses enjoying grass and breeze02:17:29:25LS cattle cluster on golden hillside, some under shade trees02:17:35:19VS: MS lambs nuzzle one another in field of short green grass, dirt road partially visible in foreground. LS adult sheep enjoy green grass02:17:40:25VS: LS horsemen rounding up cattle on grassy hillside spotted with trees. LS cattle in field. LS cattle cluster under a windmill.02:17:56:05MS man feeding cattle in farmyard from bales of hay02:18:04:14cattle crowd and push toward camera down muddy path between corrals.02:18:07:19CU cattle heads, red cattle with white heads, crowding together.02:18:10:14calf being pulled by rope tethered around its neck by cowboy on horseback02:18:50:03 - 02:19:06:07VS Oklahoma industry:LS tree-framed view of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. factory including watchtowers on its roof, LS five smokestacks rise from partially seen factory roof, LS tighter view of watchtowers on glass factory roof, oblique angle of three smoke stacks and partially seen water tower, oblique angle of watchtowers and smokestacks, LS factory roof with complex piping infrastructure, watchtower, and smokestacks, 02:19:06:09 - 02:19:12:28MS man in suit and hat reads blueprints with oil rigging in background. Man turns to face camera and begins addressing camera directly: ""Where industry's concerned, Oklahoma has everything.""02:19:12:29 - 02:19:38:02VS pipe factory yard: LS pipe factory yard with large piles of long copper-looking pipe, men standing on top, moving equipment swinging overhead, swinging more pipe onto pile, MS pipe being lowered onto pile, low angle CU man helping pipe settle onto pile02:20:06:00MS wood frame house half built02:20:11:22 - 02:20:29:07VS furniture factory: LS looking down into interior of lumber warehouse, men and women load various sizes of lumber onto wheeled carts, MS woman and man operate power sanders to refine unfinished furniture (good), MS man and woman work next to each other finishing furniture, man puts finishing nails while woman uses router or awl to refine edges (dark), low angle CU of finished chair.02:20:41:15VS: MS woman wearing high heels and satin dress reveals leg by hiking up skirt to adjust stocking, MS woman rubs leg, stands, MS woman standing turns and rubbes her calves, adjusting stockings.02:20:57:09MS boy on hands and knees wearing white t-shirt and blue jeans crawls then begins to stand02:21:03:07CU earthenware pottery displayed on dining room credenza, hands pick up plate and cup then set them down again02:21:08:11 - 02:21:20:05VS glassware factory interior: CU assembly line parts move hot glassware through (dark), VS glassware assemblyline (dark)02:21:36:23 - 02:21:48:00LS glowing golden hot rods or streams of molten glass or lead are manipulated in long strands by unseen figures. Image is black except for glowing rods curling and moving around (good)02:22:03:26 - 02:22:15:24VS ""Rosie the Riveter"" shots: VS women in aircraft factories wielding drills and other hand-held equipment assembling airplane frames (frames are nondescript but voice-over narration identifies them as airplanes). (good!!)02:22:15:26 - 02:22:28:27VS Airstream trailers: LS looking down into interior Airstream warehouse, (good) CU Airstream exterior with logo visible: Spartan Imperial Windsor, LS dirt yard full of Airstream trailers, one large one is attached to a vintage 1930s pickup and pulled out of the yard (good!)02:23:16:13 - 02:23:24:03CU paint can mechanically filled with black paint, lidded and moved by human hands, a second can is placed for filling02:23:24:05 - 02:23:33:07VS fast moving belts spinning on factory wheels of different kinds and sizes, low angle shots, oblique shots (good)02:23:43:20 - 02:23:52:10CU black cab of vintage early 1950s GMC Diesel truck rolls Right to Left through frame. Logo visible on side of truck; "GMC Diesel"". Driver leans out cab window and addresses camera directly, saying: ""Transportation? You bet we have transportation.""02:23:59:23 - 02:24:26:22VS delivery trucks in motion (all good!) LS Orange delivery truck approaches camera driving up two-lane road lined with orchards. Logo visible on truck: ""Jenkins Music Co."" LS / MS large black-cabbed delivery truck with wood-frame cargo bed hauls load, drives Left to Right toward camera, behind it follows vintage 1920s (??) delivery truck with yellow and brown cab, aluminum cargo trailer labeled with brand name ""Viking"" in large yellow letters, as truck passes brand is visible on door of c Description: ""Viking Freight Co., St. Louis, MO."" MS / LS Similar truck with yellow and brown cab with aluminum cargo trailer passes camera and drives away from it down two-lane rural road. LS Truck with shiny brown cab and open bed cargo trailer approaches camera, passes, and recedes down two-lane road.LS Truck with bright shiny yellow and black cab hauls load of new 1953 cars, logo on door of c Description: ""Contel Transport"", shot becomes CU as beautiful cargo trailer passes camera and recedes down two-lane road.02:25:02:29CU jet propeller engines on shiny silver airplane, airplane moves across field, logo visible on side of plane: ""Braniff International Airways"" (good)02:25:11:01 - 02:25:17:17MS airplane interior, passengers being served drinks in paper cups by stewardess (good)02:25:28:22 - 02:25:38:21MS lawmakers enter Senate Chamber (dark)02:25:55:04MS low angle shot of couple exchanging marriage vows in front of minister with stained glass window in church wall visible behind them featuring nativity scene. Husband places ring on wife's finger.02:26:02:14LS funeral. Dozens of people, including four white-clad nurses with backs to camera, cluster under and around yellow awning in middle of cemetery. Gravestones and freshly turned dirt visible in foreground.02:26:05:25CU / MS plough blade turns earth to create firebreak, camera pulls back to show flames licking bases of trees in the near distance02:26:08:16LS low angle, military troops in dress khaki uniforms march in formation (good)02:26:16:25MS low angle, young men flip through pages of books together, in the background are the towers and parapets of the university they are attending02:26:20:02 - 02:26:28:14VS university campus: LS brick tudor-style educational administration building with clocktower (tower partially obscured by trees), MS oblique low angle shot of clocktower (good), LS gothic tan brick university building with prison-like central tower.02:26:29:23LS looking up greensward path through center of large garden filled with multicolor flower beds, looking toward brick arch or sallyport partially visible in background behind trees.02:26:35:12LS gothic (?) tan brick university building with women students walking across grass in foreground02:26:38:18 - 02:26:47:03VS agriculture students observe and evaluate bull in yard with red brick agriculture building in background02:26:54:00LS probably Oklahoma Capitol building (large, greek revival fortress-like structure), cars driving in roundabout in mid-ground.02:26:58:22LS yard of 19th century fortification with cannon visible in center of yard and flag waving high on flagpole02:27:04:07MS greek revival building with name visible: Oklahoma Historical Society.02:27:13:19MS oblique angle low shot of skyscraper02:27:16:08 - 02:27:18:22CU name ""Philbrook Art Center"" mounted on curved wall.02:27:21:16LS four-propeller jet gains speed on runway, approaches and passes camera and begins takeoff flying away from camera02:27:29:18LS large brick library building, partially obscured by trees.02:27:32:22LS factory yard with pylons and smokestacks02:27:34:21LS beauty pageant contestants enter stage by walking out through red and gold curtains. They are uniformly dressed in white swimsuits and high heels with satin ribbons across their chests with their names: Caroline, Wade, Evelyn, Pat, Beverly, when all are on stage they stand together in a row facing the camera and smiling02:27:43:17CU native American bangs drum while wearing traditional dress including feather headdress, pan to CU of feet of another native American dancing in beaded mocassins.02:27:56:07LS herd of horned cattle run across field left to right, herded by cowboy behind them.02:28:00:00CU worn ragged wooden sign hand painted with ""150 mi. Abilene"", sign is cut in classic pointing shape and mounted with string or wire on snag of dead tree (good), cowboys rope cattle in background02:28:01:27CU wooden chuck wagon rolls across prairie. Hatchets and horseshoes hang from the wagon walls and the words ""chuck wagon"" are clearly printed there.02:28:04:19LS log cabin in clearing in woods. No windows, single story in saltbox design, two doors visible.02:28:07:03LS herd of cattle dwarfed by enormous field in extreme long shot cluster under windmill02:28:11:03CU old man with moustache and round-rimmed glasses, short thinning gray hair, wearing layers of work shirts02:28:16:09CU red leather book cover embossed in gilt bearing ""Constitution of the State of Oklahoma 1907"", CU hand lifts cover aside revealing first page of constitution, handwritten in antique manuscript style02:28:23:07LS two-story brick building with domed roof partially visible. Manicured lawn in foreground.02:28:28:20LS buffalo eating grass from green lawn, chain-link fence in foreground.02:28:32:03LS tractor w/ plough attachment ploughing up field going uphill away from camera toward blue sky w/ clouds, (repeat of 02:03:59:12)02:28:34:21LS city skyscape with three or four skyscrapers visible. Low trees in foreground.02:28:37:02CU deeply rutted dirt road, camera is mounted to front of vehicle and shoots the dirt disappearing underneath it as it travels.02:28:40:00CU two-lane asphalt blacktop road with yellow center striping, again camera is mounted to front of vehicle and shoots the road disappearing underneath it as it travels02:28:42:04CU elderly cowboy in plaid shirt, scarf and hat, with moustache and gray sideburns. Monogram above shirt pocket reads ""Tex."" He removes his hat and rubs his hand over his bald head before replacing it.02:28:47:20CU young man clean cut in jacket and tie stands with clocktower of university administration building in background. Turns head right to left.02:28:49:24MS high angle shot of dense crowd of well-dressed people. Ladies are in dresses, pearls and hats, men are in button shirts and hats.02:28:52:22MS low angle shot of copper / verdigris statue of cowboy riding bucking bronco, 02:28:55:04MS low angle shot of copper / verdigris statue of World War I - era soldier with rifle in left hand and right hand raised to the sky.02:28:56:08MS low angle shot of copper / verdisgris statue of Will Rogers (voice-over implies Will Rogers). Wider shot shows three men regarding the statue.02:29:04:22LS probably Oklahoma Capitol building (large, greek revival fortress-like structure), cars driving in roundabout in mid-ground (same building as in 02:26:54:00 but different angle).02:29:40:26LS cowboys herding cattle downhill across grassy slope dotted with low trees.02:29:45:15 - 02:29:49:05LS logs rolling down sloping sloping pier into river02:29:58:23 - 02:30:06:15LS hill rising above a lake backlit by late sunset light (dark)
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