Preparations for 1956 Democratic Convention
Title card: "Paramount News Issue No 104" / title "Convention - Democrats in Chicago" superimposed over CU donkey sculpture / aerial pan Chicago / pan down Conrad Hilton Hotel to busy streets / awning reading The Conrad Hilton, people underneath on sidewalk / CU sign "Democratic National Convention Headquarters" in hallway / various shots switchboard operators working / CU sign out from door "Transportation Rene Painter" / CU sign "Committee on Rules and Order of Business" / sign "Parliamentarian Rep. Clarence Cannon" / sign "Materials Distribution Paul G. Willis Director" / men working mimeograph machine / CU machine spitting out pages / women maybe counting Adlai Stevenson posters / picture of Stevenson with words "Stevenson For President" / people walking by flags and Stevenson picture / awning over entrance "Sheraton Blackstone," cars pass in fg / CU sign "Democratic Platform and Resolutions Committee In Session" / committee meeting / MS Chairman Rep. John McCormack pounding gavel calling meeting to order, others on sides and behind him / meeting members / pan members / exterior entrance International Amphitheatre, cars in front / Wide Angle Pan interior empty hall except for workers setting up / men working, ladder on floor / worker using saw / worker using hammer / men working on lights / men working on spotlight / working on telephones / man working on air conditioning unit under speaker's stand / CU unit built into stand / WS hall / various shots state signs on poles / traveling shot past policemen in silhouette up in balcony to convention underway with wall to wall people
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Editorial #:
1424064045
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
August 07, 1956
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:24:07
Location:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr005218_01_01
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