Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2: Rise of economic inflation, SALT II & d tente talks, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the cooling of US-USSR relations, United States agrees to pass power of Panama Canal to Panama.
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
MS gas pump, numbers rolling. MS white man wearing green & white jogging suit at grocery store checkout, African-American woman placing groceries in bag, CU man fiddling w/ cash in wallet. MSs employees ordering at McDonald's restaurant, employees taking orders, pushing large stryofoam containers of food through pass window, shoveling french fries into containers. MS President Carter speaking at press conference, 1979, saying that there are no easy answers to surmount inflation, that it affects every nation on earth. Low angle TLS metal derrick horse pumping oil in oil field. MS tractor shovel hauling coal in open pit coal mine.
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
Nice LS Capitol Building at sunset, diss to interior floor of House of Representatives during vote. Jimmy Carter delivers national address regarding energy crisis & conservation, Apr 5, 1979: "Each of us will have to use less oil and pay more for it."
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
1979 Oil/Gas Shortage: LS gas station on a rainy day, people move about; MS group of men standing around w/gas cans waiting to fill up; TLS people pushing car that ran out of gas; MS/GV lines of cars waiting at station; MSs employee turning people away after running out of gas.
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
MS President Jimmy Carter signing legislation at White House, staff applauding as he sheaths pen, stands. TLS uniformed Soviet soldiers marching in tight formation. MS Soviet Secretary-General LEONID BREZHNEV & staff. High angle LS floor of House of Representatives during vote. Air to air shot of B-1 bomber in flight. Tilting LS MX Missile being fired. MSs President Carter speaking at naval commencement exercises at Annapolis, June 7, 1978: "Detente is essential to world peace."
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
MS President Jimmy Carter shaking hands w/ Leonid Brezhnev at the SALT II talks, Leonid kissing each cheek of Jimmy, June 18, 1979 (Vienna). Nice LS Capitol Dome, day, American flags flying from building in midground. MS several Muslim rebels standing & praying in bunker in Afghanistan, their assault rifles resting before them. Dec 31, 1979 TV address: CU President Carter saying his opinion of the USSR has changed following the invasion of Afghanistan. Scenic LS of Washington DC w/capitol building in BG.
Focus on the 70s - The Carter Years - PT2
1980 State of the Union Address: h/a LS Joint Session of Congress standing, applauding; CU Jimmy Carter saying the Soviet Union must pay for their aggression. Panama Canal 1977: MSs U.S. President JIMMY CARTER & Panama President OMAR TORRIJOS signing the Panama Canal transfer treaties, hugging afterwards, Sept 7, 1977.