Motion Picture MP72-64
Truman Album
Administrative Information
Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
396 feet
336 feet
Running Time
10 minutes 30 seconds
9 minutes 20 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Warner Pathe News
Restrictions
Restricted
Description
A series of short newsreel stories on such events as the Japanese peace conference in San Francisco, the 1952 Democratic convention, and the beginning of the 1952 presidential campaign.
Date(s)
1951 - 1952
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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture
Shot List
- Reel 1
| 0:00 | “San Francisco Peace Conference” Japanese delegates to San Francisco to sign peace Treaty; Gromyko arrives, Truman arrives. Conference – Truman speaks (part of speech) Conference meeting. Problems of Russians disruption. September 4, 1951. | |
| 4:45 | “Truman Answers MacArthur” – Address to Civil Defense (partial), May 7, 1951. | |
| 6:50 | “Truman Opens Chapel to Four Chaplains." | |
| 7:50 | “Truman Signs New Draft and UMT Bill.” | |
| 8:00 | “Truman Flies over Midwest Flood Area.” | |
| 9:45 | “Truman Celebrates 67th Anniversary – gets United Nations piano” at White House, May 8, 1951. | |
| 10:30 | End of reel 1. |
- Reel 2
| 0:00 | “It’s Stevenson” 1952 Democratic Convention scenes in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1:50 | Truman comes to convention via aircraft. | |
| 2:00 | More scenes of convention. | |
| 3:00 | Truman and Stevenson arrive. | |
| 3:20 | “The campaign Begins” Ike campaigns (speaks briefly), Stevenson campaigns (speaks briefly). | |
| 5:30 | “Truman Whistlestop scenes (speaks briefly) in Milwaukee, September 1, 1952. | |
| 6:30 | “Truman Warns of Enemies” “character assassins." | |
| 7:45 | “Capitol Greets President of Ecuador,” June 20, 1951. | |
| 8:50 | Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner, March 29, 1952. | |
| 9:10 | President signs West German Peace Pact.” |