- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a party with elderly people dancing and footage of broken jail bars after a Cherokee County jailbreak, 1960, June 15
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1960-06-15
- Subject:
- Older people
Dance
Prisons
Escapes
Music
African American women - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, 34.24393, -84.4762
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this series of WSB newsfilm clips from June 15, 1960, a party with elderly people dancing is shown, in addition to footage of broken jail bars after a Cherokee County jailbreak. The clips begin with rolling hills in the country. It then cuts to the exterior of a building, then to an elderly man sitting with a younger gentleman. The older man is going through some folders and papers. This is followed by an elderly couple dancing at a party. A man is playing the guitar as they continue to dance. Other elderly people look on as the couple dances. This is followed by footage of an elderly man dancing alone at the party.
The next footage shows the exterior wall of a jail and the damaged bars that are the result of a jailbreak. There are several different shots of the damage at the jail. The clips end with another elderly couple dancing at the party while other elderly people and and a group of young African American women watch on.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn42839
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn42839
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn42839
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn42839/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn42839, Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of a party with elderly people dancing and footage of broken jail bars after a Cherokee County jailbreak, 1960, June 15, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0952, 51:13/53:09, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 56 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
