News Footage: Protests and Demonstrations (reel 2)

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: 1. US Post Office Strike (1978): Strikers on the side of the road on a gray day. Posters: “Sell Out Fight Back “ “No Good Contract No Work”. Male striker speaks through megaphone. Family in car pulls up to picket line, protesters let them pass. Poster “All Permanent Full Time Positions,” various signs calling for better contract, “Implement Affirmative Action”. Shot of black male postal service police officer. Postal police car. Pile of picket signs on the ground, picketers walking in circle. Protesters faces and legs. Bins, bags, and racks in empty loading bay. US Postal Service jeep parked in bay. Postal police officer walking through loading area. Two postal workers in uniform walk through loading area. Postal police station wagon with sirens on top drives down street. Sign for United States Postal Service Bulk Mail Center. Abandoned protest posters lying on the grass. Group of people gathered outside Post Office in RIchmond California. White woman speaks through megaphone to crowd. Black man speaks through megaphone to crowd. Crowd applauds. Small Asian boy sits on the steps listening. Man drawing poster on the grass “To Strike is Right”. Protesters standing about and chatting, walking and clapping. Sign for Bulk Mail Service, pan to strikers in the distance. Lone striker by the side of the road with poster. CU picketers faces as they walk by camera. Protester with cowboy hat holds poster “USPS Workers Have No Human Rights”. 2, USPS Workers Wildcat Strike (1978): Sign for United States Post Office San Jose, California. EXT post office, protesters picketing. Posters read “Jimmy, Stay Out of Our Contract Talks”, “93 Billion Pieces of Mail, 70000 Less Employees”, “Jimmy! Don't Use Postal Workers as Scapegoats” “C.O.L.A. Stays or We Don't”. EXT SF street outside San Francisco Magazine. Protesters picket, man in lumberjack jacket speaks through megaphone. Sign for United States Postal Service San Francisco District HQS., pan to protesters, one in uniform with poster that reads “Amnesty”. CUs protesters faces as they chant. Woman madly chanting with poster “Smash the No-Strike Law”. Interview with one of the strikers. 3. PSA Strike: PSA counter at airport. Woman with feathered blond hair and giant sunglasses checks in with her ticket. CU agent hands handling ticket. Agents behind counter dealing with passenger customers. LS PSA counter. Agent on phone. CU screen announcing that flights canceled due to PSA pilots strike. Shot of PSA gates. EXT airport, striker with poster “Flight Work Conditions Unsafe”. PSA airplane on tarmac. Picketer interviewed outside airport. Strikers outside and inside airport. Screen announcing flight cancellation. 4. Rail Strike Impact: flatbed trailer train. A few strikers on lawnchairs on the side of the road. Posters read “BRAC on strike”. Cargo car yard. Reporter talking to striker next to tracks. Train tracks. Flatbed trailer trains going by. POV from train. 5. Chronicle Strike: men standing around with piles of newspapers. Man in trucker cap in front of delivery truck with logo "The Chronicle: Largest Daily Circulation. Delivery truck for the Examiner. Working-class men standing around parking lot. EXT front of SF Chronicle office on Fifth St. Shot of clock tower. Street corner downtown. Empty Examiner news box. Painted ad with Batman saying "Be a Superhero. Bring home the Examiner and Chronicle Today!" 6. San Bruno Garbage Strike (1978): Two men and a bicycle with a yellow flag on the corner of Montgomery and Tanforan. Small sign posted on pole "Unfair Teamsters Local 350". Front of small house, zoom into garbage can in front. Overflowing dumpster next to a building. Cop talking to woman with car full of garbage in bags. Teamsters Local 350 picketers in front of San Bruno City Hall. Piles of garbage. Man with rake on top of pile of garbage, sweeping dirt out of truck bed, corner of Tanforan and Montgomery Ave. (San Bruno), security guard approaches teamsters, piles of garbage, man with denim vest with patches, mullet and handlebar mustache. with aviator glasses holding teamster sign standing next to friend with teamster/trucker hat, next to pile of garbage, car full of garbage in trunk, car drives off, trunk open, Lake Amir Office Park, Unfair Teamsters Local 350 signage, garbage can with empty water bottles on top, man on street, showing garbage cans lined along the street, POV from moving car, teamsters picketing, CU of teamsters and picket sign Presidio Standoff: (02-15-1978) really dark images of police car,night scenes on street, shots of people around police van, policeman with rifle slung on back, other policemen standing around, police car in front of blue house, man in suit holding shotgun/rifle in one hand and paper bag and briefcase in other, man in black and white checked suit (can't see his face) holding black object over paper bag, puts object in bag, places gun and bag in trunk of car, SF police talking to reporter (chewing gum) with mustache on street. policeman unlocking door to white car.