Motion Picture MP72-67
Truman Album
Administrative Information
Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
317 feet
Running Time
8 minutes 50 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
silent
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Movietone News
Restrictions
Restricted
Description
Newsreel clips of President Truman speaking, visiting the Virgin Islands and Cuba, and greeting visitors.
Date(s)
1948
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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture
Shot List
- Reel 1
0:00 | “Carnival Time” (pre-Lenten festivities), New Orleans (Margaret Truman dancing, brief), other cities. | |
1:30 | “California – Truman says Russia Bars Free World” (Truman speaks after getting Honorary LLD), June 12, 1948. | |
3:00 | “President Decries Reactionaries as ‘Floogie Birds” (At a banquet) Jefferson-Jackson Banquet, February 19, 1948. | |
4:30 | “President Tours Nation - Speaks at Chicago” (Truman speaking to a large crowd), June 4, 1948. | |
5:25 | Truman in a parade with Battery D, June 5, 1948. | |
5:45 | “President Truman’s Caribbean Trip” (Truman visiting Caribbean island including Virgin Islands with Governor William Hastie), February 1948. | |
6:30 | “President Truman Pays Visit to Cuba.” | |
7:00 | “President Observes Memorial Day” (lays wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier and speaks.) | |
8:00 | “President Sees Flood area in Oregon” May 30, 1948. | |
8:30 | “President Welcomes Cross-Country Cowboys” February 11, 1948. | |
8:50 | “Truman Becomes President of Boy Scouts.” |