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1952 - Bread Museum; WW2 Veteran as Homesteader; Lever House Architecture

Reel Number: 280104-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952,1950s

Country: Italy,USA

Location: California,Klamath Falls,New York City,NYC,Oregon,Rome,Tule Lake

TC Begins: 07:14:14

TC Ends: 07:18:47

Duration: 00:04:33

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1952 - Bread Museum; WW2 Veteran as Homesteader; Seagrams Building Intertitle: Handicraft - Rome, Italy a museum dedicated to...bread. Busy bakery w/ three men & a woman selling bread; crowd of customers; sorting & weighing rolls. 07:14:37 People into large house / mansion. Int. w/ large tall display cases & people looking at shelves of breads from around the world. Bread in decorative shapes & surface patterns in crusts. Cookies. Boy lifts very large circular / round loaf. 07:15:26 Intertitle: Modern Living - “...veteran & his family find happiness & prosperity on a ranch won...” 07:15:38 MS Spinning jar & hand pulling out capsule w/ number. LS seated WWII / WW2 veterans & men on stage drawing numbers for land award in Klamath Falls, Oregon. CUs waiting & watching. MS VFW takes paper from capsule; winners jump up; man turning jar. 07:16:02 Homesteader Dale Sprout, wife & two children walk along land they won from recently drained Tule Lake; CU crumbling rich soil / dirt, MS. 07:16:02 High angle of drained, irrigated land, 1952 superimposed. Stopped school bus, kids run across dirt road to farm house. Interior w/ mother & daughter at piano, father working on notebook & boy seated; daughter playing piano. 07:16:36 CU calves; boy w/ lasso roping w/ father; mother hanging out washing. Plowing large field w/ bulldozer & Mt. Shasta behind. High angle pan of newly developed Klamath Reclamation Project farm land. 07:17:25 Intertitle: In New York, a completely air-conditioned skyscraper of glass... 07:17:32 Base & lower floors of Lever House designed by Gordon Bunshaft & Natalie de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill from across corner of East 53rd St & Park Avenue w/ traffic past, tilt up to top. View of building from above & reflection of traffic in glass. Rooftop w/ window-washing platform lowering men down running on tracks on side of building; large rooftop cooling units. Interior of officers & workers at desks seen thru windows from descending platform; descending platform from inside office, men washing windows. Views. Oddities; Post-WWII Food Production; Daily Home Life; Agriculture; Farming; Modern Architecture; Glass Box; NOTE: Dale Sprout & wife on cover of 20Jan47 Life Magazine. Sprout won 80 acres & given permanent water right of 2 1/2 acre feet of water for them & their heirs forever, signed by the President - in exchange for other water going to Klamath River for power. Program was a partial response to post-WW2 food shortage. NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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