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Motion Picture MP2002-458

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

Administrative Information

Footage
405 feet
Running Time
4 minutes 28 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Tape Format
Betacam SP
VHS
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman speaks of his World War I experiences. Film with sound.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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This item does not circulate but reproductions may be purchased.

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Please note that this video belongs to a different video collection than the items available to be borrowed by teachers, from our Education Department.

Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:00   Man with clipboard says "Scene 24, Take 1."
    Harry S. Truman speaks in front of a screen that shows photographs of him in during World War I. He describes joining Battery B when he was 21. He tells the story of his grandmother telling him to not bring a blue uniform into the house. Mr. Truman describes how he became a First Lieutenant in Battery F, 129th Field Artillery, and describes a photograph of he and others in France.
    He was promoted to be the Captain of Battery D. Mr. Truman details his experiences in being fired on by the Germans in the Vosges Mountains. The first barrage was fired by Battery D at the Germans, then the Germans fired on them.
    Next came the Meuse Argonne drive on September 26, where Battery D fired 3,000 rounds from 4:00 to 8:00. The guns were so hot they had to put wet blankets on them to keep them from melting. Between Varennes and Chepy, while in position, he shot out three batteries of Germans. He was firing outside the sector, so a Colonel called and told him to stop firing. He knew the Colonel was way back, so Captain Truman ordered firing again and knocked out the other two German batteries. By doing this, he save two Pennsylvania batteries and that helped him during the 1948 campaign in Pennsylvania. They next moved to Verdun and stayed there until after the war was over.
4:03   Silent footage of Truman speaking until the end.