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1960 - Color, Cold War: Daily Enemy, The

Reel Number: 221745-10

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 02:27:47

TC Ends: 02:41:07

Duration: 00:13:20

Fade in man sitting reading magazine on park bench beneath suspension bridge pier, man w/ newspaper approaches, CU man watching him pass; men in suits & hats walk up, show badge & has him put up hands while they search him & walk him away, superimpose headlines: FBI Captures Spy... 02:29:02 Man on railroad platform buying, reading newspaper, CU headline & article, face. 02:29:27 Couple at breakfast table, man puts down newspaper & shocked looks. CUs. 02:29:54 MS blonde woman / secretary reading newspaper at bus stop - shocked CU; MS & CU man in car & radio out & across parking lot. Man thru plant security gate past guard. 02:30:42 Titles. 02:30:53 Businessman at desk on phone, secretary folding paper & sealing envelope marked secret; man signs for documents & puts into briefcase. CU closing, locking. Secretary logs documents, log dated 1959. Man signs out w/ plant guard. 02:33:15 Secretary typing at desk w/ locked bright red Classified Waste Only trash can. Tears out notes & puts into trash can. 02:33:55 Man washing up in factory washroom; asked by another : “I’m new around here...I wonder what’s going on in there, they sure do keep it hush hush? I heard it was some new Air Force contract, something to do w/ jet tankers; am I right? Man refuses to answer him & leaves, other keeps washing up. 02:34:57 Airliner w/o markings in flight. 02:35:01 Men sitting talking & drinking at table on plane; CUs: “I still say it sends shivers up my spine, when you think what they’ve gotten in the way of rockets.” “The US isn’t exactly a babe in the woods, you know!” “That’s just it, I don’t know; I’m an attorney & this technical stuff throws me.” “Well, its more or less in my line.” (shows him business card) “With that outfit I can understand what you mean.” “Take my word for it, what you read in the papers & see on TV gives the wrong slant; we’re right in the middle of the rocket picture. Why in our Detroit plant right now on the production line we have a new (narrator comes on: Score one...) 02:35:54 Secretary typing, another calls her to party & she doesn’t lock up work, covers up instead. 02:36:25 Machinist at machine on factory floor next to box for Classified Rejects, sticks faulty part into pocket. Businessman checks briefcase. Secretary typing hurrying, CU clock 4:55pm, CU face looking upset w/ mistake throws classified document in wastebasket by mistake. 02:38:10 Secretary w/ man laying on beach, CU Emerson portable radio. Broadcast interrupted by news of the spy ring by FBI re missile secrets...”Turn it off, will you Bill?” “What’s the matter hon, afraid they’ll arrest you?” “It’s not funny, it’s disgusting; Americans who would do a dirty trick like that!” They get up & race to water. 02:39:15 Montage scenes re not keeping secret information secret. “...all compromised security today...carelessness...agents seeking to destroy us & our way of life.” The End. Cold War; Russian Agents; Americana; Workers; 1950s; 1960s; Espionage; Spies; Spying; Industrial Secrets; Military Secrets;

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