Motion Picture MP76-83
Administrative Information
A documentary about events in the United States after the second World War, featuring celebrities, political leaders, and popular trends. Truman is featured several times. The film ends with the outbreak of the Korean War crisis in 1950.
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Shot List
- Reel 1
| 0:00 | Scenes of war in the Pacific, August 14, 1945 and titles. | |
| 3:00 | Truman reads telegram of surrender by Japanese – VJ Day. | |
| 3:20 | VJ Day celebrations. | |
| 6:00 | General post-war scenes in U.S. of soldiers returning, etc. | |
| 16:15 | Fiorello LaGuardia – reading comics, etc. | |
| 18:30 | Babe Ruth and speech at Yankee Stadium. | |
| 20:35 | Winston Churchill visits Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, excerpt of speech mentions “Iron Curtain.” Truman shown. | |
| 22:00 | Cold War and McCarthy hearing with movie stars: Cooper, Taylor, Bogart, Bacall, R. Reagan speaks. | |
| 27:00 | Alger Hiss trial. | |
| 28:00 | Various movie stars and social events. | |
| 29:40 | Marshall Plan. | |
| 30:00 | Golf scenes with Bob Hope; shows Eisenhower. | |
| 33:00 | Truman shown walking. | |
| 33:40 | 1948 Convention scenes – Truman appears – Whistlestop campaign – Truman and Dewey. | |
| 39:20 | Truman at Electoral College Dinner (Kaltenborn imitation). | |
| 40:30 | Atomic bomb explosions; scientific experiments; UFO’s. | |
| 44:00 | The “television age.” | |
| 45:10 | Albert Einstein. | |
| 45:50 | June 24, 1950 and Korean crisis. | |
| 47:25 | Truman leaves Independence, arrives in Washington re: Korea. | |
| 48:00 | U.N., Korea scenes and troops. |