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Columbia Revolt Pt 3 of 5

Reel Number: 221568-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1968

Country: USA

Location: Columbia University,New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 07:58:05

TC Ends: 08:07:57

Duration: 00:09:52

Columbia Revolt Pt 3 of 5 Continued... Students sitting & dancing in office. Night, dark & they burn pieces of paper. Playing drums; limbo dance under a pole. Turns into a big party w/ people cheering & clapping on staircase in stairwell 07:59:36 Girl in wedding veil w/ bouquet & boy get married, both in necklaces. They say vows, other students cheer. Cut wedding cake. Students holding candles. “Children of the New Age.” 08:00:32 Riot police in helmets arrive & surround University building at night. Students watch from windows. Police officer telling students to leave building thru loudspeaker. VO singing We Shall Overcome. 08:01:49 Riot police enter building, screaming. Stills & moving images show riot police evicting demonstrators violently. Students dragged down steps. Bleeding students stills. CU bruises on back. Injured & wounded on floor. Ambulance. 08:04:30 Students march out of university building chanting “We want peace’, making peace sign, escorted by police. Still bloody-faced student. Shouting “We have nothing against the cops”. Demonstrators climb in police van giving V sign asking to be arrested. 08:05:41 Still photograph of three hands sticking out of police van giving V-sign (GOOD). 08:05:47 Hospital, nurse’s medicine tray. Nurse bandages student’s eye. Bandaged student holds sign ‘Up against the wall M-F”. Photograph of wounded protesters. 08:06:43 Entrance Mathematics building (sign) w/ police in doorway. Police boots w/ truncheon walk up stairs w/ debris. 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. 08:07:33 Policemen check students double-identification I.D.s on campus entrance. Continued... 1960s; 1968; Newsreel Media Collective; Takeover; Riots; Ethnic Community; Americana History; Political Documentary; Columbia University Campus; NOTE: Non-sync w/ voice over throughout film: made up of interviews of radical students & militants. UNKNOWN MUSIC RIGHTS. NOTE: Sold at License Fee. Inquire for price based on production market.

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