Motion Picture MP2006-12.
President Truman’s Message to Special Session of 80th Congress.
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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Date: July 27, 1948.
Formats: 16 mm.
Sound: Yes.
Color: No.
Running Time: 26 min. 16 sec.
Footage: 945.6 ft.
Produced by: Telepix News Service.
Copyright Restrictions: Telepix News Service.
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SHOT LIST
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| 00:00 | | Main titles read “Telepix. First on scene. First on the screen.” These are followed by informal narration by journalist of Harry S. Truman’s entrance before congress. |
| 01:29 | | Truman begins his address. A full transcript can be found at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=12967. Truman emphasizes that his main purpose is to urge congress to immediate action regarding both inflation and a shortage of affordable housing. He links the cost of living and overall American economy with his hopes for world peace.
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| 08:54 | | Truman outlines his eight-part anti-inflation program.
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| 12:10 | | Truman addresses the national housing shortage. He urges the Senate to pass Senate Bill 866, known as the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill.
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| 15:05 | | Truman makes brief remarks about other issues he feels require legislative action, including educational funding (Senate Bill 472), minimum wage law (increasing it to 75 cents an hour; Senate Bill 2062), retirement benefits, the Displaced Persons Act, construction of the United Nations Headquarters in New York and the International Wheat Agreement.
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| 20:30 | | Truman calls for attention to three further problems: a shortage of electric power, inequitable federal pay scales, and the lack of passage of several civil rights reforms suggested by Truman. He also makes brief pitches for a comprehensive health program, a labor-management relations law to replace the “unsound” Taft-Harley law, a long-range farm program, stronger reciprocal trade agreements, a universal training program, a national science foundation, strengthened anti-trust laws, and the approval of the St. Lawrence waterway treaty. |
| 24:53 | | Truman concludes his speech. Congress applauds. The journalist’s narration resumes as Truman leaves the assembly. The end titles are the same as the introductory titles. |
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