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1952 - New Jersey Turnpike; Austrian Bird Refuge; Louis Braille & Helen Keller Honored

Reel Number: 280104-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1952,1950s

Country: Australia,France,USA

Location: Coupvray,New Jersey,New South Wales,Paris

TC Begins: 07:39:50

TC Ends: 07:46:41

Duration: 00:06:51

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1952 - New Jersey Turnpike; Austrian Bird Refuge; Louis Braille & Helen Keller Honored Intertitle: Transportation - ...New Jersey Turnpike...super highwasy.... LS George Washington Bridge from West Side Highway in New York City. Road signs: Turnpike, NTPJ turnpike. Toll booths, cars to booths, MS woman receive travel ticket. High angle / HA across Meadowlands area, passenger train alongside. POV over elevated section; from middle, pan to Turnpike Authority Building. 07:40:47 Interior & state police at telephones & radio console, MCU. State police on road. POV shots. Aerial w/ large cloverleafs. Low level & higher over turnpike. 07:41:30 Intertitle: Natural History - ...Australia’s vast bird sanctuary... 07:41:42 LS across Macquarie Marshes / swamp w/ trees growing out of water; two horsemen riding thru. Large bird / swan flies past; flocks rise distrubed by riders. ?? w / long bills sitting on tree limbs; others nesting on ground rising in large numbers. Horsemen looking down at birds nest, CU Diver chicks. Mutton birds sitting on branch & nest w/ speckled eggs. MLS Lizard at base of tree, up trunk. Large water snake & fleeing Ibis into flight filling sky. 07:43:45 Intertitle: A Personal History - ...Louis Braille... Bust of Braille, tools used beside machine run by blind woman to automatically raise printing while a sighted person dictates. Two blind girls reading braille, CU of page & fingers across. LS across orchard to small French village of Coupvray, France. Church & monument to Braille. Crowd on 100th anniversary of his death as body removed from grave & carried towards Paris. 07:45:25 Interior, memorial services at Sorbonne w/ Helen Keller acompanied by secretary Polly Thomson is given French Legion of Honor Medal of Chevalier, pinned on & kissed. Cortege of blind w/ coffin to Pantheon & carried inside & laying in state. Travel; Highways; Wetlands; Recreation; Outoors; Bird Watching; Handicapped; Honors; 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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