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Motion Picture MP2002-48

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

Administrative Information

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

Mary Jane Truman, Truman's sister, talks about life on the farm in Grandview, Missouri. 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   Voice (probably Ben Gradus) discussing staging with Harry S. Truman (“you are a good play actor”).
0:28   Unidentified voice “12 January, 1962, audio of Mary Jane Truman.”
1:03   Mary Jane Truman begins talking about life on the farm in Grandview, Missouri. She talks about her brother, Vivian, and her father running the farm. Harry came back and helped run it. Vivian got married and moved away. Then Harry and her father ran the farm. She describes details about how Harry plowed straight rows of corn and wheat – quotes her mother. Harry had fine hogs and cattle, and kept the farm books. This was probably used in preparation for MP78-2, “No Greater Burden.”