Motion Picture MP64-17
A Picture of Unity
Administrative Information
Footage
882 feet
Running Time
24 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Fenton McHugh Productions
Restrictions
Undetermined
Description
The story of the history of credit unions. One scene shows President Truman laying the cornerstone of Filene House in 1950.
Date(s)
1959
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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture
Shot List
- Reel 1
| 00:00 | United Nations General Assembly scenes | |
| 00:35 | War scenes | |
| 00:50 | Titles – Director, Ernest A. Likas; Written, James R. O’Riley; Fenton McHugh Productions | |
| 02:00 | Gary, Indiana steel mill workers form a credit union | |
| 02:30 | Lima, Peru scenes | |
| 02:50 | West Indies scenes | |
| 03:10 | Nova Scotia fishermen | |
| 03:15 | Chet Huntley tells Credit Union story | |
| 03:40 | Gay Nineties scenes to WWI | |
| 05:00 | Worker scenes – industry and farm | |
| 05:30 | Huntley continues story of Credit Unions | |
| 05:40 | German beginnings of Credit Unions | |
| 06:30 | Canadian beginnings | |
| 06:50 | 1909 – Manchester, New Hampshire | |
| 07:10 | Edward A. Filene starts credit union in Boston | |
| 08:20 | 1912 – Taft suggests credit union legislation | |
| 08:50 | Huntley continues with WWI scenes of war | |
| 10:00 | End of war – troops home, cemeteries | |
| 10:20 | Filene’s story again | |
| 11:15 | 1921 – Credit Union extension (Roy Bergingren) continues story through 1920’s. Scenes of 1920’s. | |
| 15:30 | Scenes of Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| 17:00 | 1934 – CUNA formed and grows. 1930’s scenes | |
| 20:00 | WWII | |
| 20:40 | Atomic Bomb flight | |
| 21:20 | CUNA general assembly | |
| 23:00 | 1950 – Truman lays cornerstone of Filene House (45 seconds of speech) 5/14/50 | |
| 24:00 | Credit Union scenes | |
| 24:20 | Ending speech by Huntley |