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Motion Picture MP2007-26

Home Movie of President Truman at the Jefferson Memorial

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
13 feet
Running Time
5 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
silent
Color
Color
Produced by
Walter D. Williams (Detroit, Michigan)
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Brief footage of Truman at the Jefferson Memorial with an unidentified man and a U. S. Capitol police officer.

Date(s)
ca.
September 1945 - October 1945

SD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are available for $20, and HD-quality copies of already digitized motion pictures are $50. Copies of motion pictures not already digitized will incur additional costs.

This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.

To request a copy of this item, please contact truman.reference@nara.gov​​​​​​​

Please note that this video belongs to a different video collection than the items available to be borrowed by teachers, from our Education Department.

Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

Reel 1

  • Footage of Truman at the Jefferson Memorial with an unidentified man and a U.S. Capitol Police officer. Further description from donation letter: “This 16mm film was taken by Walter D. Williams of Detroit, Michigan while he and his wife, their two daughters and his mother in law were visiting Washington D. C. shortly after WW II. …… on an early Sunday morning at the Jefferson Memorial. Walter was at first hesitant to take the picture but he was assured by the secret service men it was all right. The President smiled and waved his hat to us. Dad got his picture and we have that memory….”