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Motion Picture MP2006-32.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Trip to the Crimea and the Middle East.

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Date: January – February, 1945.
Formats: VHS (original film is retained by Georgia Southern University).
Sound: No.
Color: Yes.
Running Time: 17 min. 50 sec.
Footage: 645 ft.
Produced by: United States Navy.
Copyright Restrictions: Copyright belongs to Georgia Southern University.

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SHOT LIST

    Reel 1
00:37 En route to Malta: Escorting men-o’-war keep a watchful eye on the President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cruiser.
01:28Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, the President, and James Byrnes enjoy some fine weather on deck. The President watches deck sports.
02:14They arrive at Grand Harbor, Valetta, Malta.
03:11President Roosevelt and company take a drive about the Island of Malta.
04:23Saki, USSR: Escorted by fighters, the President’s plane arrives from Malta. Honors at Russian Airfield at Saki. Then they travel to Yalta.
06:09Livadia: The American delegation stayed at the former summer palace of the Czars. All Big Three meetings were held here.
08:48Along the Lenin Embankment in Yalta: Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.
10:53Landing at Deversoir: On Great Bitter Lake midway the Suez.
11:32King Farouk of Egypt calls on the President, followed by Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie.
12:23Great Bitter Lake, Egypt: King Ibn Saud arrives from Jidda.
13:03Transiting the Suez, en route to Alexandria. They see Alexandria and Algiers, then pass through the Straits of Gibraltar.

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