Motion Picture MP76-67

Newsreel

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
738 feet
Running Time
20 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
NBC News, Warner Pathe News
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Newsreel footage showing President Truman vacationing in Key West, Florida and meeting Dean Acheson at an airport.

Date(s)
March 1952 - June 1952

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
     
0:15   “Havana: Batista Takes Over” (President Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar.)
1:30   “Washington: Morris Denies Profits in Tankers”, (Newbold Morris speaks in his own defense about selling surplus tankers; Joseph McCarthy appears.)
3:00   “New York: Makil Here for U.N. Session” (Jacob Malik arrives by boat.)
3:35   “New York: Action Promised in Schuster Killing” (D.A. talks about plans to arrest Killer of Arnold Schuster.)
4:40   “Rome: Love at First Sight” (Engagement of two movie stars.)
5:20   “ Philadelphia: Plastic Car Previewed.”
6:00   “London: Haystack Needle Found” (sewing machine contest.)
7:00  

No title – Robert Taft with women, Eisenhower campaign car, Ike campaign sign;

(no sound from 7 to  9  minutes)

7:30   Harold Stassen greets people, other political campaign shots (including Estes Kefauver.)
8:30   Factory scenes
9:00   “Washington: Wage Board Sets Steel Pay” (Chairman announces recommendations.)
10:00   “Pasadena: Bradley Defends Korean Stand” (Omar Bradley.)
12:15   “Kane, Illinois: Tornado Rips Midwest.”
13:00   “Key West: Truman Calls Ike “Free Agent’” (Press conference voice-over sound.)
13:50   “Norfolk, Virginia: NATO Navy Chief Returns” (From European “Fact-finding Tour,” Adm. Lynde McCormick.)
14:40   “Come, Italy: Foil Overalls Flame Tested.”
15:25   “New York: Israel Beauty Tours Nation” (Miss Israel of 1952.)
16:00   (U.S. Fighters bag MIG’s in Korea.)
16:30   (Sports events – tennis, swimming, diving, Olympics, speed boat.)
19:20   “Acheson Returns” (from Europe), (Dean Acheson met by Truman.)
19:40   Fire in Warner Brothers Studios in California.