African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.
Newsreel quote saying, “Lusty and glamorous was the Theater of Yesterday, when every actor worth his salt was a hardened trouper”. Dramatization of a late 19th century vaudeville group disembark from a train. Train porters unload a huge luggage. A 1894 poster of Bessie Bonehill, an English vaudeville singer who toured widely in the United States, saying, “Bessie Bonehill: And they never came back Playmates”. Actors sitting together near a ticketing booth in a New York train station. Close up view of an elderly vaudeville actor. Vaudeville actors talking with each other. “Haines & Vidocqs Metropolitan stars!!”. Curtains rise inside a theater. Poster of vaudeville stars, Jimmy and Florence Plunket, saying, “The Plunkets Jimmy Florence Broadway to you”. Vaudeville stars Jimmy and Florence Plunket, the former wears a top hat and the latter in a sequined A-line dress, perform a tap dance onstage.
Newsreel quote saying, “As 30,000 destitute show people clamor for work, a new firm, biggest and richest in the world, enters the theatrical business”. Office lady talking on the phone in her desk. American theatrical producer and director, Hallie Flanagan, discussing about the Federal Theater Project, a theater program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal economic program by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A US Works Progress Administration Portable Theater truck drives in New York. Actors in blackface perform a Minstrel dance onstage. Posters for Federal Theater Project Minstrel shows. An audience watch a performance inside a theater. An actor stands up from a chair onstage. A man reads a Program. Federal Theater Project staff work inside their office. Federal Theater Project Backstage staff arrange stage design. Touring actors enter backstage. Wooden sign says “”The CCC Murder Mystery” by Miss Grace Hayward Presented by Federal Theater Project W.P.A. C.CC. co #5434 Wilderness VA. Wed. Night 7.30 All Welcome”. Actors perform “The CCC Murder Mystery” onstage. The audience, all young men, laugh at the scene where an actress offered a cigarette to the judge.
A line of parents with their children entering the Marionettes: Theater of the Magic Strings in Los Angeles, California. Marionettes depicting characters such as a chef, an old lady, and some clowns, onstage. Work Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Theater Project puppeteers control their strings from above the stage. A kangaroo king marionette, wearing a crown and a cape, hops onstage. Children watching the marionette play. Marionettes dance onstage as confetti fall. (Great Depression period)
View of Paramount Pictures movie studio entrance. Hollywood film executives such as Paramount Picture’s Adolph Zukor in a meeting. View of Motion Picture Daily with news saying “Federal- NBC Units to Use Film Houses”. Two men buy theater tickets for a vaudeville show by the Federal Theater Project of the Great Depression organization called the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Works Progress Administration staff under the Federal Theater Project create props and stage design. A Works Progress Administration carpenter uses a Delta woodworking machinery. Works Progress Administration costume designer shows a design for a dress. Close up shot of Works Progress Administration costume designer. WPA technicians work on stage set design. A Works Progress Administration tailor measures a portly actor’s waistline. Seamstresses working in the costume department of the Federal Theater Project. Artist painting a background for a stage play. A seamstress adjusts a high slit dress of an actress. A milliner arranges a Fascinator, with tulle and pom-poms, on an actress’ head. Two actors and an actress practice a dance number together. Men and women dancers practice a dance. A pair of dancers perform a no-touch tango. Theater marquee saying, “Oh say can you sing WPA Music Comedy”. Newspaperman announcing show business news on newspaper. Orchestra plays inside a theater. Actors and actresses, in different period costumes, perform “Oh Say Can You Sing” as an ensemble after the curtains opened. View of faces of audience members as they clap and smile after watching the performance.
Two wrestlers competing in a wrestling ring in Miami Beach, Florida. A wrestler, wearing black trunks, loses his balance and falls after his opponent lifted his foot. The wrestlers attempt to pull or throw each other to the ground. A wrestler, wearing lighter trunks, jumps and catch his opponent’s head with his legs to make him fall to the ground with him. The referee, wearing a white singlet tucked in khaki pants, watches the match closely. The wrestler, wearing black trunks, crosses the wrestling ropes and mockingly smiles. The opponent holds on to the rope, jumps, and grabs his opponent back to the ring. The wrestler, in black trunks, grabs his opponent to pinch his ears. The referee intervenes to stop the foul move. Wrestler, wearing lighter trunks, jump kicks his opponent. The wrestler proceeds to throw his opponent into the pool surrounding the wrestling ring.
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