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Motion Picture MP2002-105

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series “Decision:  The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman”)

Administrative Information

Footage
190 feet
Running Time
5 minutes 44 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman discusses the Truman and Young farms in Missouri, Mr. Truman’s visits with his grandparents, and Mr. Truman’s sister Mary Jane’s commentary on the Truman Corners Shopping Center. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   Unidentified voice: “61F324, Talent Associates, Truman Story, from roll 11, wild” Talent Associates was the first production company that worked on the television series. Discussion between Merle Miller and Harry S. Truman, with easy banter back and forth. Mr. Miller asks Mr. Truman about a book written by Joe Jones, “Fifteen Weeks,” dealing with Greece and Turkey. Mr. Truman replies “It’s substantially accurate but not entirely.”
0:40   Mr. Truman discusses the Truman and Young farms in Missouri. “They were three or four miles apart.” The Young farm was in Grandview, Missouri, and the Truman farm was in Holmes Park.
1:12   Did you go out to visit your grandparents? Mr. Truman replied they visited the grandparents at least every two weeks and called it “going home.” Grandfather Truman sold his property and lived his Mr. Truman’s parents.
1:55   They discuss President Truman’s sister, Mary Jane’s commentary on Truman Corners shopping center and the big Katz sign near the barn. She said, “that’s progress or they say it is.”
2:42   When asked about his earliest memories of his grandparents, Mr. Truman recalls going to the Belton Fair when he was four or five years old and watching the races with his grandfather Young from the judge’s stand. He remembered a big swing in the backyard and a hammock made of barrel staves.
3:45   Mr. Truman tells of visits to his grandparent’s farm after he had moved to Independence. He was there for summer vacation, fourth of July celebrations, and Christmas.
5:00   Mr. Miller tells of his experience filming near Phoenix a program about Indians.