Motion Picture MP72-58
Answer to Stalin – March of Time
Administrative Information
Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
330 feet
342 feet
Running Time
9 minutes 10 seconds
9 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
20th Century Fox
Restrictions
Restricted
Description
A "March of Time" film, about Communist expansion and the efforts of the Economic Cooperation Administration in fighting this expansion.
Date(s)
1949
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
| 0:30 | Family talking about Russians and listening to others. | |
| 2:00 | Russian leaders and soldiers in Red Square. | |
| 2:30 | Map of Russian expansion. | |
| 3:00 | North Korea scenes. | |
| 3:30 | South Korea scenes. | |
| 3:50 | China scenes. | |
| 4:20 | South East Asia scenes. | |
| 5:00 | Middle East scenes. | |
| 5:45 | Greece scenes. | |
| 6:00 | Poland scenes. | |
| 6:40 | Czechoslovakia scenes. | |
| 7:00 | Danube countries. | |
| 7:40 | East Germany and airlift. | |
| 8:15 | Europe scenes. | |
| 8:40 | French strikers. |
- Reel 2
| 0:00 | Security Council meeting (briefly Warren Austin shown). | |
| 0:45 | Churchill talks on Atomic bomb to a meeting. | |
| 1:30 | Citizens talking about bombing enemy. | |
| 2:00 | B-35 plant and Army Troops. | |
| 2:20 | Truman and George C. Marshall in Oval Office. | |
| 2:40 | Paul Hoffman and Economic Cooperation Administration. scenes (Averell Harriman shown) in Paris. | |
| 4:00 | French scenes. | |
| 4:45 | Italy scenes. | |
| 5:00 | West Germany scenes. | |
| 5:30 | England scenes. | |
| 6:45 | Hoffman speaks to ECA staff in United States. | |
| 7:30 | Chinese ECA efforts. | |
| 8:45 | Inaugural scenes, January 1949. | |
| 9:05 | U.S. Industrial scenes. |