[Miscellaneous Newsreel Clips]

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Content warning: includes images of African American stereotypes, harkening back to the minstrel show. Also includes a scene of a young African American boy being bullied by white students at 18:38.

A compilation of selects from newsreels, ordered during the production of the film Atomic Cafe but not used. This film reel was assembled by Petrified films for a stock footage order by ABC Life Magazine. The footage is probably sourced from Universal Newsreels. Includes footage of the General Motors House of Tomorrow with the Frigidaire Kitchen of Tomorrow (1954).

Can states: "PETRIFIED FILMS, Inc. / ABC - Life mag. for transfer / Roll 6 - 16mm Col Pos. - A-wind / DO NOT BREAK DOWN THIS ROLL - MATCHES PET 5036"; "ABC/LIFE MAG. Roll #6 - 16mm C POS. --> OR ROLL #1? / PET 5036 - DO NOT BREAK DOWN"

Note taped to can lid states: "Fallout shelter exhibition transferred to 1" for ABC 'Our World' 1961"

Head leader: "ABC Selects PET 5036 / Hula Hoops"

Tail leader: "FGM / Petrified Films, Inc. / ABC Time Life Order (FADS)"

Leader segments spliced into film, notes in order from beginning to end:

"fat boy hula hoop- pulled from AI / from Comedy Tonite roll- may not belong here / assorted shots from Comedy Tonite roll- includes car stuffing- pulled from ABC Life Mag. roll / Edsel (fads) Pet 5011- may not belong in this spot / A-1 [Rheen] Wheel / A1 paddle ball / A2 underwater beauty contest / A2 [Edgar] hair styles + goggles wiper / pulled from B1- [Educated...fashion...] / House of Tomorrow B1 / from B1 Army Brats Listen to Records / Flag Pole Dancing 4-52 / pulled yo yo's + water skiing from B-7 / Bongo Boards B-7 / 40's dancing from B-7 to here / C1 Hep Cats / C2 pillow fight / C-2 [radiation suit] / D-4 German hula hoop / Vancouver man in fallout shelter / Meridian Prods. Order / Shelter"

Human-made No record of this work says a model made it. What this means.

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English

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