Film Identifier: F.2012-03-0599

Run Time
0h 4m 3s

Format
16mm

Color
B&W

Sound
Silent

Date Produced
July 21 1960

Abstract
Outtakes filmed at various Republican presidential campaign offices in Chicago on July 21, 1960, four days before the GOP convention was held at the International Ampitheatre.

Description
A marquee at the Blackstone Theatre (now the Merle Reskin Theatre) reads "PICK A WINNER - DRAFT ROCKEFELLER." Below hangs a banner for Draft Rockefeller Headquarters. Scenes of workers around the Barry Goldwater campaign headquarters, where women stand in a line wearing sashes that read "Barry Goldwater" and grab fistfulls of buttons that say "Americans for Goldwater." A young woman stuffs envelopes at a table with a sign that says "Barry Goldwater - The Conscience of a Conservative." Exterior of the Americans for Goldwater office. Exterior shot of a young woman handing out pins for the Nixon campaign. Interior shot of a group grabbing "I'M FOR NIXON" buttons off of a table. Women in skirts that spell out "NIXON" down the front carry baskets of pins out of the headquarters.

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