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Motion Picture MP82-4

The Presidency in the Postwar World: The Truman Years: Truman and the Atomic Bomb

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
531 feet
Running Time
14 minutes 54 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Learning Corporation of America
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

A short educational film utilizing footage from the television series Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman, about the decision to drop the atomic bomb. This film includes segments of former President Truman speaking about his decision.

Date(s)
1969

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
1:00   World War II combat scenes: concentration camp scenes; refugees.
1:43   Franklin D. Roosevelt's death; swearing in of Harry S. Truman.
2:03   Oak Ridge Tennessee Plant; Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic Bomb experiments.
2:32   July 16, 1945 - Alamagordo test explosion.
3:10   Truman speaks of decision to use bomb on Japan.
3:26   Fighting in Pacific; Kamikaze raids. Truman speaks of Japanese tenacity in fighting to their death.
5:27   Emperor Hirohito; comments on Japanese culture.
5:46   Truman speaks of fears of losses in taking the main island of Japan.
6:01   Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes in Oval Office.
6:13   Combat scenes; sea burials.
7:01   Conventional bombing of Japan.
7:42   Truman speaks of bomb.
8:40   Bombing sense; ultimatum to Tokyo to surrender.
9:30   Wendover Field - practicing for dropping Atomic bomb; B-29s.
10:42   Enola Gay scenes; Aug. 6, 1945 - pilot describes flight and dropping bomb on Hiroshima.
11:48   Hiroshima after bomb.
12:33   Emperor reads proclamation; September 7, 1945 - surrender of Japan.
13:03   Victims of bomb; destruction scenes; October 1952 - scene of first Hydrogen bomb test at island that was destroyed.
14:21   Japan destruction scenes.