News Footage: 1980 Food Strike; Walnut Creek Bicentennial; Immigrants

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: Grocery Market/ Food Workers Strike (1980): EXT Safeway. Man with picket sign standing chatting with woman by parking lot. Backs of women grocery shopping inside. Grocery aisle, shopping carts. Cashiers at check-out lines. CU well-coifed women nodding and listening, man with picket sign walks by in background. Picket sign “On Strike, please do not patronize Safeway”. Row of check-out counters and cashiers. Fruit and vegetable section, women picking out oranges. Female picketers outside grocery store, zoom into picket sign “On Strike! Please do not patronize this store” from Retail Clerks Union. Male strikers standing around at depot, Safeway truck in background. INT grocery store. Cashiers standing around, not very busy. Three seniors shopping in grocery aisle. Safeway trucks parked in lot. Milk cartons in grocery fridge. Cans of Town House Fancy Golden Sweet Corn. Picketer gives comment to off screen reporter. EXT grocery depot. Safeway trailer. CU picket sign, picketers outside grocery store. Striker sitting watching portable TV outside grocery store. Woman walks down bread aisle with her shopping cart. A couple loaves of bread on the floor. Young Asian women stocking pharmacy section shelves. Grocery check-out counters, cashiers working. Deli and meat sections, man stocking meat, woman feeding meat on Styrofoam trays into machine (for plastic wrapping). Three senior citizens shopping in aisle. Senior woman with flip-up sunglasses pushing shopping cart looks at her grocery list. Woman with feathered hair pushes her grocery cart. Young female clerks bag groceries. Young geeky-looking male cashier rings in groceries. Female cashier rings in groceries. Young guy bags groceries while talking to camera. Asian woman with fur coat examines oranges. Sign posted in grocery store window looking for temporary help in case of labor dispute “no experience necessary”, automatic door opens, clerk wheels in row of shopping carts. Strikers standing around on street corner. Black woman with bandana on head holds picket sign. White woman stands with sign. Male strikers talk to man in van, zoom into “On Strike” sign. Young female strikers milling around. Shoppers exiting store with groceries. Men, not in clerk uniforms, stocking paper towels on shelf. Cashiers and baggers working and smiling. Man paying for groceries. Sign posted on window “if you are interested in earning extra cash during the current labor dispute, apply within”. Picketers outside store. CU Asian female striker. Walnut Creek Bicentennial (06/21/1975): Two men driving motorcycles on Golden Gate Bridge, woman with afro in thrift store smiles for camera and turns around so that we can see her behind with racks of clothes in background, sign on parking garage reads "The WC Bicentennial Presents The Garage Affair, June 21, 1975", still black and white of hundreds of (Eastern European?) women with shawls covering their heads, CU on cloth banner made by children with their names printed in paint, children stand around waving American flags, CU on pamphlet for the "Garage Affair" sponsored by local service organizations in Walnut Creek, exterior shots of the garage where the event will take place, reporter talking to official looking man with Buddy Holly glasses, more shots of kids with American flags and homemade banner, man and woman drive vintage car down main street, man and woman dressed up in Revolutionary clothes (woman wears bonnet and dress and man wears Revolution coat and hat), another couple dressed in period clothes (woman with lace on her head and man dressed like Ben Franklin), (soundtrack follows), woman being interviewed by reporter (soundtrack follows), woman with BIG red hair straight out of HeeHaw being interviewed (clearly a long lost Judd sister), both women are wearing red, white and blue clothes (soundtrack follows) Immigrants (06/09/1975): Airplane shown at night with older white woman and Asian boy exiting the plane, CU on beautiful little girl wearing long dangling earrings, woman carries baby in her arms while group of young boys carrying their belongings walk between military men, appears that kids are staying at the Presidio in housing, older woman with shock of white hair stands by as kids file into the barracks, makeshift tents are set up, nurse wearing full habit and sporting large crucifix around her neck helps young boy put on a warm coat, shot inside large holding area where the floors are covered in beds, nurses walk around tending children who are sitting around on the floor, shot of whole area looking like a state of chaos with people everywhere, handicapped girl with leg braces walking using crutches, girl smiles as she walks by, kids board a bus, woman with young boy looking through boxes of clothes, group of tents (looking very MASH), woman with really long hair (think Crystal Gale) brushing her hair in the tent compound, looks like Diane Feinstein sitting with group of refugees in tent compound, CU on Asian baby drinking from bottle, (soundtrack follows), black and white stills of immigrants on boat, CU b&w still of old woman with wrinkles and lines on her face, distance b&w still of Statue of Liberty seen at a distance, b&w still of advertisement that reads "California the cornucopia of the world, room for millions of immigrants, acres of government lands", b&w still of young immigrant students pledging allegiance to the flag, CU b&w still of immigrant man with rotten teeth, color still of couple dancing (man is wearing traditional clothes (German?), great b&w still of soldiers and Asian men and children in the back of a military truck, b&w still of Asian boys hanging out a window (sign in background reads "Mon Lee Laundry" (with Chinese characters above English), b&w still of two Japanese women and three children sitting on the front stoop of a house, sign on stairs mentions something about Japanese, b&w still of Klu Klux Klan marching down the street, color footage of Asian woman with two children walking on airstrip, footage of older Asian men and women exiting airplanes, CU on various children, boy strumming a guitar, kids carrying blankets and supplies to tents, b&w still of two white men holding signs that read "Only Ford Wants Them", footage of Asian woman in tent compound carrying clothes while young boys wearing paper hats push each other down the grassy hill in empty boxes, b&w still of man, woman and children, man is carrying huge load on his shoulders, image appears to be from the 1910s or 1920's, b&w still of market scene with men and women looking directly into the camera, one woman in center of image is seated in a cart full of contents, she looks distracted or unhappy, b&w still of men and women exiting a ship carrying all their worldly belongings, man and woman hold tickets between their teeth because their hands are full of goods, CU b&w on beautiful man wearing hat with full beard, b&w still CU on young freckle-faced girl, b&w still of Chinese woman carrying baby in one hand and holding a young boy's hand in other, women is wearing traditional clothes, background of city street, awesome b&w still of gorgeous Asian woman saluting the American flag, various b&w stills of Asians wearing graduation mortars and gowns, b&w still of young boy with his name pinned to coat, his huge trunk lays before him and it has a Polish name and an address in Los Angeles, color illustration from a magazine where official looking Americans are holding up their hands to stop an immigrant unboarding from a ship carrying all his belongings, b&w still of young men and women smiling into the camera as they watch two men being hanged (gruesome), more footage of refugees exiting airplanes, refugees living in the tent community, man wearing only a towel is shadow boxing in front of a tent, man carrying baby from plane as Red Cross workers stand by and watch,