The McDonnell Film Pt. 1 of 2
F-15? fighter jets take off, in flight w/ bombs & rockets. POV in cockpit, CU hand on stick to drop bombs; bombs dropping nseen from beneath.
00:51:01 Building w/ windows blown out. Neighborhood w/ houses w/o windows, vacant lots. Fighter jet low.
00:51:14 Title: The McDonnell Film
00:51:18 Man talking about ROTC & going into Army, then talking about being interviewed by Emerson as a junior engineer. Int. of drafting room; man on computer & main frame. Back to man talking about being laid off after 14 years & being told by Emerson that he could go to work for McDonnell on a loan program.
00:52:50 Black man sitting on badly aged front stoop talking about being an utility worker, a construction man in a variety of jobs - 90% are black. Secretary at McDonnell talking about her job.
00:53:32 MCU at Selectric typewriter. Women at main frame computers. Women at electronics assembly benches in factory. Secretary at Selectric. Draftsman talking about being sent back to Emerson & then being laid off.
00:55:04 Secretary: “Our society is so inbred w/ the idea that women can’t do certain things, that blacks can’t do certain things, that Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is inferior to the White male...” Black talking about problem of not being able to upgrade. McDonnell draftsman talking about sending out 1500 letters & 4 interviews, two were cancelled.
00:56:54 Man interviewed in living room sitting next to wife talks about lack of work when war slowed down.
00:57:34 Man sitting on park bench talking about lack of jobs in St. Louis; numerical controlled machining has replaced three out of four people who had run the machines. Man in living room about difficulty getting a job. Wife talks about writing letters to Congressman for help in getting the F-15 contract just before Christmas, then what it meant to them. Pan over furnishings in house. Exterior of suburban home. CU of woman talking about what they bought at Christmas and security of job. Got home to find telegram that husband had been laid off.
01:03:00 Flag pole & kids leaving school. Going into shopping center or department store. Windows & reflections. Woman talking about meaning of Vietnam War & conversion against the war in 1971. Pan over empty shopping center parking lot. Views of strip-mall stores, lines of gasoline stations. CU gas sign 28.9 regular. GOOD.
01:05:04 Housing development of small homes. Tract housing. Weeds beside road.
01:05:30 Vietnamese men & women planting rice.
01:05:48 FIghter bomber overhead. Destroyed church from inside. Fighters overhead; people run from paddies to ditch. Men firing small machine guns from stands in field. Woman ringing alarm chime; people running from wooden open building of school, into trenches. Babies lowered in baskets. Kids into air raid shelters.
Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Capitalism; Military Economics; Racism; Propaganda; 1970s;
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The McDonnell Film Pt. 1 of 2 F-15? fighter jets take off, in flight w/ bombs & rockets. POV in cockpit, CU hand on stick to drop bombs; bombs dropping nseen from beneath. 00:51:01 Building w/ windows blown out. Neighborhood w/ houses w/o windows, vacant lots. Fighter jet low. 00:51:14 Title: The McDonnell Film 00:51:18 Man talking about ROTC & going into Army, then talking about being interviewed by Emerson as a junior engineer. Int. of drafting room; man on computer & main frame. Back to man talking about being laid off after 14 years & being told by Emerson that he could go to work for McDonnell on a loan program. 00:52:50 Black man sitting on badly aged front stoop talking about being an utility worker, a construction man in a variety of jobs - 90% are black. Secretary at McDonnell talking about her job. 00:53:32 MCU at Selectric typewriter. Women at main frame computers. Women at electronics assembly benches in factory. Secretary at Selectric. Draftsman talking about being sent back to Emerson & then being laid off. 00:55:04 Secretary: “Our society is so inbred w/ the idea that women can’t do certain things, that blacks can’t do certain things, that Cubans or Mexicans or Puerto Ricans or any non-white is inferior to the White male...” Black talking about problem of not being able to upgrade. McDonnell draftsman talking about sending out 1500 letters & 4 interviews, two were cancelled. 00:56:54 Man interviewed in living room sitting next to wife talks about lack of work when war slowed down. 00:57:34 Man sitting on park bench talking about lack of jobs in St. Louis; numerical controlled machining has replaced three out of four people who had run the machines. Man in living room about difficulty getting a job. Wife talks about writing letters to Congressman for help in getting the F-15 contract just before Christmas, then what it meant to them. Pan over furnishings in house. Exterior of suburban home. CU of woman talking about what they bought at Christmas and security of job. Got home to find telegram that husband had been laid off. 01:03:00 Flag pole & kids leaving school. Going into shopping center or department store. Windows & reflections. Woman talking about meaning of Vietnam War & conversion against the war in 1971. Pan over empty shopping center parking lot. Views of strip-mall stores, lines of gasoline stations. CU gas sign 28.9 regular. GOOD. 01:05:04 Housing development of small homes. Tract housing. Weeds beside road. 01:05:30 Vietnamese men & women planting rice. 01:05:48 FIghter bomber overhead. Destroyed church from inside. Fighters overhead; people run from paddies to ditch. Men firing small machine guns from stands in field. Woman ringing alarm chime; people running from wooden open building of school, into trenches. Babies lowered in baskets. Kids into air raid shelters. Peace Movement; Anti-Vietnam War; Capitalism; Military Economics; Racism; Propaganda; 1970s;