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Motion Picture MP2002-111

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

Administrative Information

Footage
280 feet
Running Time
8 minutes 12 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman discussing with interviewer Merle Miller such topics as Abraham Lincoln, poker, and Truman's friendship with Tom Evans. 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: “Wildtrack 1055, Truman Story, Take 12, roll 38” This soundtrack is from Talent Associates, the early producers of the television series, and includes questions from Merle Miller to Mr. Truman. Question: why was Abraham Lincoln great? Mr. Truman replies because he had nerve enough to save the union. We would have been like central America otherwise, but he did the right thing when he had tremendous opposition. He knew the history of his country.
2:41   Mr. Miller talks about passing a school during the walk they took together, and mentions the Baptist Church
3:33   Question about Rufus Burrus referring to a poker game; would Mr. Truman comment. Mr. Truman discusses poker games, that they set limits on the bets; the settlement was 10 cents on the dollar. The poker games were done for fun, not money. Judge Vinson liked wild games. Mr. Truman invites Mr. Miller to get in a game with him.
5:20   Mr. Miller reads Mary Ethel Noland’s comments that Mr. Truman was a man of the 19th century.
6:27   Question about the friendship of Mr. Truman with Tom Evans. Mr. Truman replies that Tom Evans served together in the Democratic party in the 1920’s. Merle Miller asks several questions about Jackson County and Tom Pendergast, but there are no answers.