News Footage: Water Sports and Recreation (Reel 1)

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Guy Morrison

Complete Record: 1. River Rafting: Stanislaus River Run. Shots of groups of people with orange life jackets in rubber rafts racing down river rapids. CU black woman's face as she happily paddles. Shots of rapids. Frontal shot man with yellow life jacket rowing backwards. POV shot from boat of rapids and rocky banks. LS rafters, river, and cliffs. Rafters paddling. CU black woman again. Two groups of rafters stopped at a bank. Rafters in calmer water. Rafters putting their boat in the water. Rafters bailing water out of raft. Rafters chatting and laughing. Rafters on land. Man with swim trunks rides down river on his bum. CU wild flowers. Rafters lounging and relaxing on rocks. Women in bikinis, men in swim trunks. Man rafting by himself with the supplies gets tangled in tree branch. 2. Water-skiing: shot of freeway entrance to the 101. Two shirtless men in Master Craft motorboat. Water-skier maneuvering around pylon. Woman in hot pink bikini and feathered hair looks on. Water-skiers zigzagging through course, a few wipeouts. Small group of spectators observe. Cupertino Pool: LS people swimming and splashing around in pool. CU young boy in pool. Mom sits on deck with a Coke. Kid swims front crawl awkwardly. Mom with young son and daughter in the water. Woman with swim cap doing backstroke. Return water-skiers on lake. Kid on large inner tube wades on his front. Young adults lounging on the beach. 3. Windsurfing (1979): large group of windsurfers with striped sails in the water. Windsurfers on shore, setting up boards. Spectators look on. Row of windsurf boards on shore. Surfer pulls up sail. LS shots windsurfing. 4. Boating: LS sailboats idling in water. Ls cruise boat. Two people row boating past cruise boat. 5. Motor boating: Two topless men in motorboat (with 70s hair, sunglasses, and visor). Water-skier zigzagging through course (same footage as in water-skiing reel). Men start motorboat with water-ski tether attached. Shot of water-skier and boat. Shot of larger motorboat/ yacht.