Motion Picture MP2005-12
Administrative Information
This footage was donated by John H. Tolan in 1982. Senator James M. Mead, now chairman of the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, formerly known as the Truman Committee, leads committee members on a trip to Paris, France, Florence, Italy, Antwerp, Belgium, and Burtonwood, England. Senator James M. Tunnell of Delaware can be seen in this film, as well as Senator Hugh B. Mitchell of Washington, Senator Harley M. Kilgore, and Col. Miles H. Knowles.
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Shot List
- Reel 1
| 00:00 | Senator James M. Mead was a successive chairman of what was originally known as the Truman Committee, established the U.S. Senate in 1941 as the Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, meant to investigate "excessive profits, fraud, corruption, waste, extravagance, mismanagement, incompetence, and inefficiency in expenditures, connected with the prosecution of the national defense program for World War II." As the film starts, Sen. James M. Tunnell of Delaware stands in the foreground. Behind him people walk through elaborate arches in front of the Louvre in Paris. | |
| 00:12 | The camera pans across the exterior of the Louvre. It focuses on several points of architectural interest on the building. | |
| 00:45 | Scenes of people walking in Paris, including gendarmes and nuns. | |
| 00:57 | Cars drive down the street. | |
| 01:08 | Scenes from the Eiffel Tower. | |
| 01:20 | Committee personnel stand in front of a monument. | |
| 01:24 | Scenes of a church. | |
| 01:28 | Staff sit in a jeep marked “Lucky 13.” L to R: Lt. Cmdr. John H. Tolan; George Meader, Executive Assistant to Chief Counsel; Francis D. Flanagan, Chief Investigator. | |
| 01:44 | A series of scenes from Florence, Italy begin, including a statue, shots from a place overlooking water and old buildings. | |
| 02:09 | Close-up on a sign that reads, “Piazza D’ognissanti.” | |
| 02:11 | Florence scenes continue with a large wagon loaded with flagons of wine in baskets, a man in a canoe and another statue of men wrestling, as well as other statues in front of a church. | |
| 02:41 | Aerial shots of Antwerp. | |
| 03:30 | A series of scenes from Burtonwood, England begins with committee personnel standing in front of a warehouse. They enter the warehouse; one man carries a camera. | |
| 03:38 | Scenes from a muddy motor yard. Sen. Hugh B. Mitchell of Washington and Sen. Harley M. Kilgore (chairman) have a conversation and inspect the facilities. | |
| 03:56 | The camera show point-of-view from a moving vehicle on a military base. | |
| 04:05 | Committee personnel tour in a group and speak with men serving in the armed forces. | |
| 04:45 | Col. Miles H. Knowles, C.S.C, deplanes with others. Scenes from the airport tarmac. |