Motion Picture MP2006-2.
KCMO Footage of Truman at Miscellaneous Events from 1956.
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Date: April - November 1956.
Formats: 16 mm.
Sound: mostly silent.
Color: No.
Running Time: 10 min., 43 sec.
Footage: 385.8 ft.
Produced by: KCMO-TV.
Copyright Restrictions: KCTV-5, Kansas City.
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SHOT LIST
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| 00:00 | | 11-29-56, Truman and MU Queen. Harry S. Truman stands in an office with three young women wearing corsages. Truman has been given a small toy tiger.
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| 00:21 | | 10-16-56, Truman’s America-Israel Friendship Award. In an office at Harry S. Truman Library, Harry S. Truman stands holding the award while the three women presenters stand to the side. The women are Ms. F. Deborah Evans, Mrs. Abraham Danzig, and Mrs. Louis Rothstein. Close-up on Mr. Truman and Ms. Evans, and then the camera focuses on the award itself. |
| 00:58 | | 8-23-56, Truman at an IATSE Convention. Harry S. Truman arrives at the convention amidst crowds. A man pins a ribbon to Truman’s suit. Truman makes remarks at a podium in front of a large logo for the organization. The camera focuses on Truman.
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| 01:33 | | 7-24-56, Truman and Frank Clement on convention keynote. Harry S. Truman speaks with Mr. Clement, governor of Tennessee, in a hallway.
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| 02:22 | | Sound: 7-21-56, Truman Memoirs auctioned off by Ray Sims. Ray Sims, a member of the National Auctioneer Association’s Hall of Fame, stands at a podium on a banquet table with other VIPs seated. Podium sign reads, “Hotel President.” Sims describes Harry S. Truman’s reluctance to have an auction before the Missouri Auctioneers’ Association convinced him. They bought the books and will auction them to support the Harry S. Truman Library fund. Each book is autographed. One set is sold, and the camera pans to show Truman seated at the banquet table. Truman congratulates the first purchaser. |
| 05:00 | | 7-9-56, Truman tours library with Chicagoans. The camera focuses on print on the side of an aircraft which reads, “Truman Library Special.” Men deplane and are greeted by a large group. The film cuts to Harry S. Truman with the tour group in front of a conceptual painting of the Harry S. Truman Library, which is still under construction. Then they walk through the construction site. The film cuts back to the plane again to begin a series of similar but not identical footage of the deplaning, the tour group getting off a bus at the library site and touring the site.
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| 07:20 | | 5-7-56, Truman and Vice-President Joao Goulart of Brazil in city. The segment begins with a close-up on Mr. Goulart. Mr. Goulart and Kansas City Mayor H. Roe Bartle stand at a window overlooking Kansas City. Mr. Bartle gives Mr. Goulart some small gifts, including a gold horseshoe and a large, round tin foil package. Harry S. Truman and Goulart speak together with others behind them. Two different versions of this footage of Truman, Goulart and Bartle socializing, sitting at a desk, and looking out over a livestock yard, play in sequence. |
| 09:58 | | 4-21-56, Truman wedding and reception. Wedding guests arrive at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri, followed by Margaret Truman in her bridal gown with Harry S. Truman.
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