1968: Year in Pictures
1968: Year in Pictures
Documentary focusing on people and events that shaped the pivotal year of 1968. Narrated by John Cameron Swayze. This portion focuses on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; student demonstrations & riots in the United States, Mexico, and France; Gold Crisis; civil war in Nigeria; riots in Panama and a coup in Peru. Also the Pope visits Bogot , Jackie O and Aristotle Onassis get hitched, and Apollo 7 orbits the earth. Just another violent year.
1968: Year in Pictures - Soviet Army Invades Czechoslovakia
Adult Caucasian men and women walking along sidewalk in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Men buying newspapers from street newsstand. First Secretary of Czechoslovakia Alexander Dubcek walking through room, smiling, entering larger adjacent room with men waiting. Soviet Army tank rolling through streets of Prague during Soviet military invasion; zoom in to burning vehicle in BG. Soviet tank rolling, creating smokescreen. VS of male students chasing tank through streets, surrounding burning, incapacitated Soviet tank. Tilting down from façade of palace in Prague. VS of Alexander Dubcek meeting with Soviet officials. Soviet Red Army officers walking through street toward a large stone building with tall, open doors. Heads of men standing together, looking up.
1968: Year in Pictures - Student Demonstrations in the United States
Male and female college students hanging from first floor windows; couple of adult Caucasian male police officers stand on sidewalk below. Male and female student walking along ledge of campus building during student strike at Columbia University. High angle view of police officers walking along street, keeping crowd of protesters in line. Police subduing protester on other side of iron fence; group of protestors on the other side of the fence. VS of police clearing out campus building of striking students during "midnight raid"; students on campus. Police officers wearing helmets, marching with billy clubs. Police officers chasing, subduing, arresting students at San Francisco State University. Police officers hauling away shirtless, young adult Caucasian male student; Police officers hauling away bloody, battered obese young adult African-American male student. Chicago police officers chasing, subduing, arresting protesters in Grant Park during Democratic National Convention, night.
1968: Year in Pictures - Student Demonstrations, Riots in Mexico City and Paris
Young adult Mexican college students carrying banner, protesting in Mexico, City. High angle view of massive demonstration in Mexico City. Mexican Army soldiers wearing riot gear entering public square. Men and women fleeing; climbing over wall, taking shelter or running from tear gas and gun fire. Young adult French male and female college students running through streets, avoiding fire hoses in riots in Paris. Male students throwing rocks, police firing tear gas grenades back. High angle view and ground view of anti-war demonstrators marching through street during general strike; passing Citroen car factory. "Peugeot: Centre de Livraison des Voitures" sign on fence. Young adult Arab men standing on street; posted announcements in BG. Citroen auto plant, cars parallel-parked along street. French President Charles de Gaulle seated, speaking. VS of posted political signs, newspaper headline. French men and women-- including President De Gaulle -- casting ballots into ballot boxes.
1968: Year in Pictures - Gold Standard Crisis
Evening Standard newspapers with headlines regarding gold crisis. High angle views of empty commodities exchange floor; empty New York and Montreal price signs. Street leading up to Paris Bourse (French stock exchange). "Bourse" on exterior façade. High angle views of trading floor. Exterior of the "Banca dei Regolamenti Internazionale"; parked cars and newsstand in FG. Group of adult Caucasian men walking by Banking building; one man smoking. Interior trading floor; men and women on the floor.
1968: Year in Pictures - Civil War in Nigeria
Nigerian Federal Army soldiers firing howitzer; NFA soldiers approaching village, spraying bullets from British-made assault rifles. Men walking in war-torn village; smoke rising in BG. Smokes and flames rising from burning car; zoom in to dead bodies on street. Nigerian men carrying limp body. Nigerian men trying to put out car fire. Malnourished Nigerian male child walking naked toward torso of Nigerian woman holding another child; smaller Nigerian male child drinking out of can. Women holding emaciated, malnourished children. panning MS Nigerian men carrying severely wounded if not dead comrade through streets.
1968: Year in Pictures - Riots in Panama and Coup in Peru
VS of men and women running through streets of Panama, trying to get away from tear gas. Panamanian National Guard soldiers wearing gas masks and carrying rifles while marching through smoky streets; Two adult Panamanian men using wood planks to destroy car parked on street. VS of mob violently beating, kicking, throwing objects at defenseless man on street as he tries to escape. Soldier chasing man through street. Peruvian soldiers wearing riot gear chasing men wearing suits through a park. Adult Peruvian man being patted down, then escorted, pushed, by three soldiers. Soldiers in riot gear running through street. Soldiers carrying wounded comrade. Peruvian soldier, face bloodied, being helped by two fellow soldiers, walking past camera.
1968: Year in Pictures - Pope Paul VI Visits Bogota and Jackie Kennedy Wedding
Crowd gathered in Bogota, Colombia. Pope Paul VI standing on balcony, arms in the air, giving blessing. Traveling shot of crowd gathered along rural roadside. VS of Pope Paul VI riding, standing in open jeep, blessing crowd. Shaky shots of entrepreneur Aristotle Onassis and bride Jacqueline Onassis (Jacqueline Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Jackie Onassis, Jackie O) walking through crowd following wedding.
1968: Year in Pictures - Apollo 7 Mission
Tilting LS of Saturn IB SA-205 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida as Apollo 7 mission takes off from Cape Kennedy LC-34. Adult Caucasian man filming, tilting camera up toward the rocket. VS of astronauts Walter Schirra, R. Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele working in zero-gravity. Apollo 7 flying in low Earth orbit; clouds on Earth below.