Salisbury (N.C.), 1940 (Reel 1)
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- Title:
- Salisbury (N.C.), 1940 (Reel 1)
- Date:
- 1940
- Creator:
- Waters, H. Lee
- Description:
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This film is part of a series of films taken by H. Lee Waters titled Movies of Local People. The series captures residents of small towns across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia between 1936 and 1942.
00:00:32--Students and teachers arriving at school building, school marching band parades in uniform in front of school building, students and teachers leaving school
00:03:17--“Kepley's Cleaners” sign, employees working front counter of cleaners, African American men cleaning clothes, white employees steam-cleaning clothes, African American men and women ironing clothes, woman mending clothes with sewing machine
00:04:52--“WSTP Offices Studio” sign, interior of radio station, signs for different departments with interior shots of office, man playing organ, women playing music and singing in studio, young men and women playing in orchestra, children playing in schoolyard, girls playing baseball, boys playing football
00:09:47--Boys raising flag, sped up footage of downtown sidewalk with pedestrians, African American pedestrians mixed into crowd, reversed sped up footage of pedestrians on sidewalk, children on stage in costume
00:10:21--Interior of furniture showroom, group of children and adults in costume
00:11:59--Group of men siting on porch at gas station, men and women leaving warehouse
00:13:22--Downtown street with cars and pedestrians, sped up footage of pedestrians crossing street, sped-up footage (forward and reversed) of street with cars and pedestrians
00:14:17--Man looking out window, man in overalls carrying fish down the street.
00:14:24--Children crossing street with crossing guard; teachers, children, and staff, including African American woman, gathered on the school ground, in groups and individually; raising the American flag; panning shot of school; crossing guards; children playing on playground, boys and girls playing baseball and softball, boys playing football.
00:21:24--Men sitting around in front of brick wall, men eating outside, men and women approaching factory, men and women leaving factory
00:24:21--Men horsing around, group of boys sitting on bleachers, men playing football, football team posing on bleachers with coaches
00:26:33--“Montgomery Ward” sign, interior of store, employees helping patrons try on clothing, patrons shopping, employees demonstrating radios
00:28:19--Reversed low frame rate footage of pedestrians walking on downtown sidewalk, police officer walking down city sidewalk, line of school children in playground, children playing in schoolyard, girls playing soccer, children playing dodgeball, children filing into school in lines, group of children posing in costume on staircase
00:31:41--Horizontal split screen, top and bottom are both downtown sidewalk with pedestrians, “Singer” sign
00:31:55--Pedestrians crossing busy downtown street, pedestrians on sidewalk, close up shots of boy playing in parked car, African American pedestrians on sidewalk, “L.T. Holshouser Jeweler” sign, men and women standing on sidewalk, “BC” sign, “Drink Cheerwine” sign, “Purcell's Cut-Rate Drug Store” sign, “Family Shoe Store” sign, men in cowboy outfits walking down sidewalk, African American couple walking on sidewalk
00:34:21--Close-up of man smoking cigar, pedestrians crossing street, “Home Building & Loan Asso.” sign, women carrying packages, pedestrians walking on sidewalk, group shot of family on city sidewalk, “Belk-Harry Co.” sign
00:36:00--Rooftop shot of city street, sped-up footage of cars and busses, “Hotel Salisbury” sign, sped-up shots of pedestrians at crosswalk
00:36:19--“Doctor G.W. Choate” sign, young woman reading magazine, “Southern Radio Service” sign, “Rulane Gas Service” sign, “Bendix” sign, “Evanoil” sign, “Crosley Glamor Tone Radio” sign, “Tappan Gas Range” sign, “Philco” sign, employees showing radios to patron
00:37:58--Young women playing field hockey, team posing as group with sticks, boys playing football, group shot of football team, students leaving school building
00:42:01--Students posing at school entrance, young women eating potato chips, students leaving school grounds, boys eating apples, couples dancing in front of record store, “Obelisk Flour” sign, “Esso” sign, children posing on sidewalk
00:43:33--Man standing outside ice cream shop, “Holsum Ice Cream” sign, young men riding bicycles, shots of young people outside of school shot from moving vehicle, stationary shots of students leaving school building
00:45:26--Salisbury Fire Chief standing beside his car, firefighters in uniform load ladders on to fire truck, African American men stand in nearby yard watching, individual shots of men in firefighter uniforms, fire truck leaving house, women and children in yard.
- Location:
- Format:
- Extent:
- TRT 01:02:59
- Digital Collection:
- H. Lee Waters Film Collection
- Source Collection:
- H. Lee Waters Film collection, 1936-2005, bulk 1936-1942
- Series:
- Movies of Local People, 1936-1942
- Provenance:
- The H. Lee Waters Film Collection was received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a series of gifts and purchases beginning in 1988
- Rights:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Rights Note:
- The publication status of this item is uncertain, making public domain determination difficult. To the extent these materials are protected by copyright, Duke has been granted permission to make digital reproductions and make them available to the public as part of a digital collection. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library: https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/citations-and-permissions.
- Identifier:
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- rl10075dvd0021010
- 3f5ec1a92ef9bf870e8c05e279b2b4d2
- watershlee
- duke:611484
- RL10075-DBCAM-0023_01
- ark:/87924/r4mg7kq31
- df0c9ba8-8d12-4167-9531-960292ba649c
- Permalink:
- https://idn.duke.edu/ark:/87924/r4mg7kq31
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