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Motion Picture MP2002-466

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

Administrative Information

Footage
72 feet
Running Time
48 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Tape Format
Betacam SP
VHS
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman speaks about charges that Communists were working for the federal government, and Senator Joseph McCarthy. Film with sound.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:00   Man with clipboard says "819, take 1."
    Harry Truman, seated at a desk, talks about Communists in government. The only Communists found, a fraction of one percent of government workers, were found by the organization he set up for that purpose, not the McCarthy "outfit." There is no danger of Communism upsetting this government from within. Our enemies are Communists in the great countries that have turned Communist, like Russia. The best thing we can do is educate our children in what they have, and what they have to do to keep it.