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Motion Picture MP72-23

Railroad Strike and O.P.A

Administrative Information

Footage
378 feet
Running Time
10 minutes 30 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Paramount
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Newsreel footage about the 1946 railroad strike and the Office of Price Administration.

Date(s)
May 1948

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:00   “Action on the Home Front,” Narrator Maurice Joyce at Gulfport, Mississippi. Pictures of dairy cattle going to Greece.
0:30   Women canning food.
1:00   “Rail Showdown,” Narrator Gregory Abbott, scenes in trains and in stations during strike.
3:00   “Days of Crisis,” 1946 Labor crisis, railroad strike scenes.
4:15   Truman speaks to Congress on rail strikes (parts of speech), May 25, 1946.
6:35   “The People Ask – OPA or no OPA,” Congressmen discussing OPA (voice over).
7:15   People trying to buy things after Office of Price Administration cut off.
7:50   Graphic portrayal of how inflation works.
8:40   Dr. John Steelman talks on OPA.
9:15   People “striking” for lower prices.
10:00   John Steelman at unidentified swearing-in ceremony.