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Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman The Plea, Episode No. 5

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
907 feet
Running Time
25 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Columbia Pictures - Ben Gradus in association with Screen Gems and David Noyes
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Episode 5. The Plea. The subject of this film is the Marshall Plan. Unfortunately, the Decision series is copyright Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the Truman Library may not reproduce any episodes without their consent.

Date(s)
1964

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
0:28   Harry S. Truman in office.
0:35   Starving Europeans.
0:50   Truman enters - narrates.
1:45   Credits begin.
2:20   European family and child on farm: poverty.
3:50   European devastation - needs capital and fuel.
4:30   Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
4:37   Truman speaks - misery and poverty cause Communism.
4:50   Communist rallies.
5:10   Truman walking in Washington, D.C.
5:30   State Department and George C. Marshall.
5:50   Panel - cabinet and President Truman.
6:15   Truman narrates - background on Marshall's Harvard Speech.
6:50   Marshall speech at Harvard - European scenes and narration.
7:40   Truman speaks - reference to plan for European recovery - self-help.
8:05   More European scenes.
8:20   Ernest Bevin - M. George Bidault -- conference on recovery.
9:05   Vyacheslav Molotov appears at conference.
9:20   Truman narrates - Marshall - Molotov.
9:40   European scenes and narration on need for $17 billion.
10:30   Averell Harriman speaks.
10:40   Bevin speaks.
11:03   Truman speaks and narrates - European scenes.
11:38   Arthur Vandenburg and Robert Taft - Truman comments on.
12:05   Taft speaks - opposed.
12:18   Truman and Vandenburg - latter speaks.
13:20   Wherry speaks.
13:40   Newspaper editorial opinion.
14:15   Views of country life and ordinary Americans - willing to share blessings of America - goods and recreation.
15:20   Hungry people in Europe.
15:40   Truman speaks - had to persuade Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg.
16:00   Marshall and Truman - latter comments on anecdotes on asking Marshall to serve on China mission and appointment as Secretary of State.
17:40   Marshall speaks.
18:40   Scenes of needs in Europe.
19:05   Anti-U.S. parades in Europe.
19:15   Marshall continues.
19:40   Masaryk, Jan - dead; coup in Czechoslovakia.
20:30   American's react.
20:40   Marshall, Vandenberg, and Robert Taft.
20:55   Marshall Plan becomes law.
21:20   Goods going to Europe; European scenes; animal; machines; factories; prime pump.