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The Presidency in the Postwar World: The Truman Years: Truman and the Korean War

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
623 feet
Running Time
16 minutes 28 seconds
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Learning Corporation of America
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

A short educational film, utilizing footage from the television series Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman. Dealing with the subject of the Korean War. This film includes segments of former President Truman talking about his decision to enter the war.

Date(s)
1969

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
1:00   Scenes in Korea.
1:30   Soviet troops in.
1:40   North Korea.
1:50   South Korea and election of 1948.
2:10   U.S. Troops withdraw.
    U.S. Advisors.
2:38   Communists on move - demonstrating.
2:58   Secretary of State Dean Acheson speaks; scenes of riots.
3:25   Battle scenes - invasion.
3:50   Harry S. Truman in Independence.
4:00   Flies back to Washington D.C. Plane in flight.
4:25   Harry S. Truman arrives.
4:45   Harry S. Truman signs.
4:50   Dean Acheson speaks on United Nations Charter and Korea.
5:15   U.N. Headquarters and meeting of Security Council.
6:40   Vote of Security Council.
6:55   Battle scenes and refugees.
7:25   General Douglas MacArthur.
7:37   U.S. Seventh Fleet.
7:50   U.N. troops from various countries; Harry S. Truman narrates.
8:25   U.S. troops - in action.
9:22   Inchon landing and advance.
10:15   38th Parallel.
10:35   USSR and Mao Tse-Tung pictured.
11:00   Wake Island Conference, Truman reminisces about.
11:55   Battle scenes - retreat.
12:14   Harry S. Truman speaks and uses map.
12:30   Retreat of U.N. forces.
13:00   Harry S. Truman speaks on limiting war south of Yalu and avoiding World War III.