Motion Picture MP72-3.
Harry S. Truman’s Movie Memory Album.
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Date: May 8, 1945
Formats: 16mm.
Sound: Yes.
Color: No.
Running Time: 9 min.
Footage: 324 feet.
Produced by: Paramount News.
Copyright Restrictions: Sarnoff, Paramount, and Pathe Newsreel Images, Inc.
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SHOT LIST
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| 0:00 | | Victory, “Unconditional Surrender” from London, Washington, and Moscow.
The long-awaited and long rumored news.
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| 0:20 | |
Truman announcing end of war in Europe. |
| 1:30 | |
Scenes in America – at church celebrations. |
| 2:15 | |
End of European war scenes (with shots of Hitler). |
| 3:00 | |
Raising of the U.S. flag in Nuremberg – then blowing up of swastika. |
| 3:50 | |
“Victory in Europe” miscellaneous shots of Europe – needy. |
| 4:30 | |
United Nations meeting in San Francisco, California. |
| 5:00 | |
Nimitz and MacArthur meet, also some Pacific war scenes (announcer talks about continuing war in Pacific).
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| 6:00 | |
“V-E – The Man Behind the Victory”
Churchill, Royal Air Force, British armies, Stalin, Russian people, DeGaulle, U.S. workers and
soldiers, U.S.Army Air Corps dropping bombs, U.S. paratroopers jumping, Omar
Bradley.
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| 9:00 | |
War scenes with these generals: General Hodges, General Patton, General Clark,
General Patch, General Simpson, General Eisenhower.
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