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Here’s a B&W clip from the 1980s that shows the last day of the Café Sabika, which appears to have been a coffee house/restaurant in Seattle, Washington. In short, there are shots of the café’s interiors, exteriors, and the café’s employees working and doing a lot of goofing around. The footage has a rough, grainy, low-grade look and feel.
Clip begins with a woman raising the blind on the café’s front door. The café is empty, filled only with plants and empty tables and chairs.
Outside, several women walk toward the café. There’s an exterior shot of the café with the establishment’s name, "Café Sabika," on its windows.
There are pan shots of the café’s furniture and bottles of wine sitting neatly on a shelf.
A female employee eyes and smiles at the camera, as in a dance with the camera.
A female employee appears to be coating the insides of cookware with olive oil -- in preparation, perhaps, for baking. A large container of Bertolli olive oil sits beside the cookware. The same woman wipes her nose with her wrists.
An espresso machine sits unused. A stainless steel container for steaming milk is nearby. A coffee grinder’s glass casing is filled with coffee beans.
A partly-filled glass of wine, a silver strainer sitting on a plastic container, a coffee cup, and a bowl sit on a table.
A close-up tracking shot shows a woman scratching her head as she walks.
Kitchen staff look busy, walking past each other, opening the refrigerator, and slicing a slab of what appears to be fish with a long, sharp knife.
A woman turns around and stares into the camera.
A drawing shows a woman about to take a spoonful of a white substance -- maybe a spoonful of ice cream or yogurt.
Several individuals are wearing gas masks.
A couple laughs and smiles at the camera. The guy is wearing an apron as well as a bow tie; so he’s probably a café employee. Several wine bottles are sitting beside the woman. Cut to a dinner table that is filled with food; lighted candles sit at the center of the table.
The camera pans quickly over the café’s furniture. In addition to quick shots of a woman breathing and staring at the camera, there’s a pan shot of lights hanging from the café’s ceiling at night.
Employees are seen in close-ups.
Hands squeeze a lemon over a strainer that is sitting over a clear plastic container.
Dishes sit in a strainer -- either ready for a wash or just out of a wash. A person stands next to a sink for cleaning or rinsing off dishes.
A man wearing a bow tie also wears a cowboy hat.
More wine bottles line a shelf.
Someone cuts bread or more fish. These cutting shots are intercut with shots of a Bertolli olive oil container.
A woman sitting in the café waves haltingly at the camera.
Wine bottles again are captured by the camera.
A youngish woman walks through the café. The camera cuts quickly to a shaky shot of the café’s interiors, as if from her point of view.
The sink area is stacked with dirty dishes, containers, and utensils -- suggesting that a lot of work is cut out for whoever is cleaning up this mess.
A man wearing white shorts and low-top Converse sneakers is wiping down a commercial stove.
A little boy runs on the sidewalk outside the Café Sabika; the boy, who is escorting a dog on a leash, is moving screen-left.
A female employee, who is looking down and appears to be deep in though, is walking in the café, heading screen-right.
After a shot of an empty dining table, one of the employees is seen wearing mechanical wings. The wings are strapped to her back, and the straps cross the center of her chest.
The final shot shows the same woman at the beginning of the clip, closing the café’s front door shade.