Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE - Opening Sequence
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills rural farming communities & farming life, early 1900s. Stills isolated frontier communities. Stills logging camps, Pacific Northwest. Stills cowboys.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
TLS horse-mounted cattle ranchers herding cattle into pen on desolate plain. TLS stunt cowboy on spinning horse in pen; horse bumps man off, falls to ground.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
CU poster for Buffalo Bill's traveling circus. CU illustration of Buffalo Bill.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Jittery wide MS BUFFALO BILL (WILLIAM F. CODY) & compatriots riding horses in parade through NYC.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE ECU montage advertised products in Sears & Roebuck and Montgomery Ward mail order catalogs, early 1900s.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Shaky (but excellent) TLS driver of horse-drawn carriage dropping off a package at a rural stop (delivering mail order goods; a child holds the package as the driver pulls off). MS driver pulling carriage alongside a railroad car. Jittery MSs men sorting mail in post office. TLS mailman delivering mail.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Excellent shot of street traffic in New York City, early 1900s (pedestrians, trolleys, horse-drawn carriages, etc, even an early steam or electric car monitored by what appears to be a police officer; busy intersection, here, four or more streets converging).
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills of the Vanderbilts and their high society friends/lifestyle.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Quick wide MS unspecified Vanderbilt (William K.?) walking from building w/ associate, press photographers scrambling to get a picture.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills of luxury hotel, well-to-do going about their well-to-do ways. Stills of Evalyn Walsh McLean, one-time owner of the Hope Diamond.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Black Life in America, early 1900s. MS several male & female black Americans (African American) dressed in post-Civil War costume. They dancing past the camera, armed w/ canes & umbrellas & doffing their hats, behaving in an animated manner best described as Vaudevillian. Excellent MS black woman washing a black infant in a tub, the child all soapy & wet & crying.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Still of black children eating watermelon (stereotypes, propaganda, racism). Still of BOOKER T. WASHINGTON sitting in office. Still of GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. Hampton Institute montage (all stills): blacks learning industrial labor, agricultural labor, sitting in classroom, etc. Stills of Tuskegee Institute, students learning, working. Zoom in still of Booker T. Washington sitting next to Andrew Carnegie.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Still of Ellis Island. Stills immigrants arriving at Ellis Island.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Wide MS immigrants walking with belongings along boardwalk at Ellis Island. Cut to traveling MS Lower East Side ghetto, New York City, children running and waving at camera passing by street vendors. Excellent MS Lower East Side street scene (vendors, pedestrians, horse & carriages, policeman twirling baton). TLS NYC street scene (hose and carriages, trolleys, pedestrians, etc).
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Still photos
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
Panning LS fire destruction in Baltimore business district, 1902.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
DO NOT USE Stills of destruction in San Francisco caused by earthquake and fire.
Focus on 1900-1909 - How We Lived
MS & TLS mounted army cavalry passing by camera, bringing supplies into San Francisco.