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Motion Picture MP2002-114

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

Administrative Information

Footage
145 feet
Running Time
4 minutes 56 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 the subjects of the history of Independence, Missouri and the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails. 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: “Talent Associates, Truman Story, Take 9, Roll 37.” Discussion in background, then “Wildtrack 1,064” This soundtrack is from Talent Associates, the early producers of the television series, and includes questions from Merle Miller to Mr. Truman. Question: Merle Miller asks Mr. Truman to discuss Independence as a town. Mr. Truman replies that Independence is a customary county seat; mentions the two Jackson County courthouses and that he rebuilt each one. The county clerks and the judges ran the county. Mr. Truman knew the county clerks and judges and was president of the County Judges Association. He knew people around the state. He mentions several county seats that have become municipal counties (St. Joseph, Cape Girardeau, Hannibal). Municipal counties are different than the old county seat towns.
3:05   Merle Miller asks a long question about how to place Independence geographically. Mr. Truman replies that Westport was named after Westport Landing and that if Kansas City, Missouri had been named Westport and Kansas City, Kansas had been named Wyandotte, there would have been no confusion.
4:29   Question about the trails. Mr. Truman replies describes the trails and how they split at Gardner, Kansas.