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. |