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Motion Picture MP2002-261

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")

Administrative Information

Footage
115 feet
Running Time
3 minutes 34 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Mr. Truman discusses a variety of subjects including his love of piano music, meeting pianist Ignace Paderewski, his childhood on the Grandview farm, and the statues of Andrew Jackson. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   Several segments put together of Harry S. Truman talking about different subjects. He is discussing his love of music, particularly piano music. He plays records of great pianists when he is lonesome at home by himself. He tells of meeting the pianist Paderewski, and that his piano teacher, Mrs. White, told Paderewski that her student couldn’t master the turn in the composer’s minuet. Mr. Paderewski showed Harry how to do the turn. It was a wonderful concert, in which Mr. Padarewski played The Blue Danube and Chopin.
1:15   Mr. Truman discusses the 40 acre farm in Grandview, with bluegrass and a spring where he caught tadpoles. He discusses the clothes worn when he was three to five years old. There was a mud hole on the farm, and he got in trouble for turning over a wagon filled with other children in the mud.
2:19   Mr. Truman discusses the statues of Andrew Jackson in front of the Kansas City courthouse, and in front of the Independence courthouse. They were made by Charles Keck, and are the best statues. The Independence statue of one-fourth the size and half as tall as the one in Kansas City. The statues of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park in Washington, D. C., in Nashville, and in New Orleans show an "impossible man on an impossible horse."