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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220487-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1968
Country: USA
Location: Columbia University, NYC, NY
TC Begins: 03:20:44
TC Ends: 03:30:28
Duration: 00:09:44
Columbia Revolt - Part 3 of 5 The Newsreel - Radical Documentary 03:20:44 Locked-in students dancing in office. It gets dark, they burn pieces of paper. Playing drums. Dancing under s pole. Turns into a big party with people cheering and clapping on staircase. 03:22:07 Girl and boy get married in lock-in, she in makeshift wedding dress and white veil, they say vows and other students cheer. 03:23:06 Riot police with helmets surround university at night. Police chief (?) telling students to leave building through loudspeaker (not sync). Riot police enters building screaming. Stills and moving images show riot police evicting demonstrators, violently. Students dragged down steps. Bleeding students stills. Injured and wounded on floor. Ambulance. 03:26:55 Students march out of university building chanting “We want peace’, making V peace sign, escorted by police. Still bloody-faced student. Shouting ‘We have nothing against the cops”. Demonstrators climb in police van. 03:28:14: still of three hands stick out of police van, nice shot. 03:28:18 Hospital, nurse’s medicine tray. Nurse bandages student’s eye. Bandaged student holds sign ‘Up against the wall m-f”. Still wounded protesters. 03:29:15 Entrance Mathematics building (sign). Police boots and truncheon walk up looted stairs. Destroyed offices, paint on wall, litter on floor. Voice over says damage was caused by police. Police outside university building, voice over talks of inconsistencies in press coverage revealing police interference. Policemen check students I.D. on campus entrance. Voice over runs throughout the film: made up of interviews of radical students and militants.