Motion Picture MP2013-18
Administrative Information
Begins as black and white Warner-Pathe Newsreel with sound; then spliced in with silent color home movie at 0:48. The newsreel portion is copyrighted material; the home movie portion is in the public domain.
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Shot List
0:00 Title: Truman and Landry. President Harry S. Truman advances his Air Force Aide, Robert Landry, to Brigadier General.
0:20 Title: U.S. & Italian Army Chiefs. General Omar Bradley receives the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Italy from General Efisio Marras, Chief of Italy’s General Staff at the Italian Embassy in Washington. General Marras was in the Capitol seeking modern arms to replace Italy’s obsolete equipment.
0:42 Title: Einaudi Visits Vatican. Starts out with limo arriving, then the film is spliced into with color home movie footage from this point forward.
0:48 Color silent home movie begins with young boy tossing and bouncing a ball.
1:28 Footage cuts to scenes on board a large craft, “Tennessean Lady” with unidentified men standing around. Cruising footage follows.
2:11 Several men sitting on the boat deck, one of which appears to be Robert Landry. Lots of cruising scenery.
4:42 Large group of people on board the craft. More filming from boat.
5:09 Group of military personnel and dignitaries standing on tarmac next to the “Independence” airplane.
5:20 Scenes at a possible military airport installation.
5:34 Troops lined up in a formation.
5:36 Planes fly overhead.
5:42 Robert Landry watches the planes flying over.
5:50 Footage from the air over land and water.
6:19 Robert Landry and other officers on a veranda overlooking a horseracing track.
6:52 Horse race footage.
7:20 Very dark footage showing a group of people, then panning up and down of a building.
7:42 People at golf course (dark)
7:57 Possibly Bob Hope swinging a club then turning around, followed by lots of golf tournament footage.
9:09 Swimming pool with lots of people.
9:22 Some sort of graduation ceremony concentrating primarily on a female graduate in cap and gown.