Motion Picture MP72-3
Harry S. Truman’s Movie Memory Album
Administrative Information
Footage
324 feet
Running Time
9 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Paramount News
Restrictions
Restricted
Description
Newsreel coverage of Harry Truman, focusing on the end of World War II in Europe.
Date(s)
May 8, 1945
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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture
Shot List
- Reel 1
| 0:00 | Victory, “Unconditional Surrender” from London, Washington, and Moscow. The long-awaited and long rumored news. | |
| 0:20 | Truman announcing end of war in Europe. | |
| 1:30 | Scenes in America – at church celebrations. | |
| 2:15 | End of European war scenes (with shots of Hitler). | |
| 3:00 | Raising of the U.S. flag in Nuremberg – then blowing up of swastika. | |
| 3:50 | “Victory in Europe” miscellaneous shots of Europe – needy. | |
| 4:30 | United Nations meeting in San Francisco, California. | |
| 5:00 | Nimitz and MacArthur meet, also some Pacific war scenes (announcer talks about continuing war in Pacific). | |
| 6:00 | “V-E – The Man Behind the Victory” Churchill, Royal Air Force, British armies, Stalin, Russian people, DeGaulle, U.S. workers and soldiers, U.S.Army Air Corps dropping bombs, U.S. paratroopers jumping, Omar Bradley. | |
| 9:00 | War scenes with these generals: General Hodges, General Patton, General Clark, General Patch, General Simpson, General Eisenhower. | |