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Motion Picture MP81-16

Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman - Where Tillage Begins, Episode No. 26

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
907 feet
Running Time
26 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 26. Where Tillage Begins. This episode concerns the Truman farm program, and especially the Brannan 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
1:17   Harry S. Truman speaks, 1932; farmers poor; problems of farmer - concern for farmers. Speech excerpt at Dexter, Iowa.
2:46   Credits.
3:30   Violence in streets - farmers vs. state troopers.
3:50   Truman speaks - how Communism begins.
4:20   Farm scenes; poor farmers - problems of.
5:37   Truman speaks of life as a farmer. Scenes of Independence.
6:22   Farm scenes; market ups and downs; weather problems.
7:24   Truman speaks of Depression; farmers lost their farms; soup lines.
8:05   Truman speaks - no electricity, modern conveniences for many farms.
9:42   Truman speaks - problems after war.
10:05   Starving people around world; called Herbert Hoover about food problem; Hoover did good job - Sam Rayburn didn't like Hoover being called back.
11:30   Surplus went to needy around world; farm production; surplus.
13:22   Glut in market.
13:33   Truman speaks - fears of farmer; food production scenes.
14:02   Gap in film.
14:19   Farm scene.
14:35   Truman speaks - problems facing him. Federal government had overlooked small farmers, though it helped big farmers. He had plan, worked out with Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan.
16:09   Government had been buying produce at fair prices - parity - stored it; government requested farmer not to grow crops we had in surplus. Farmer received pay for crop he didn't grow.
16:31   Brannan Plan details; farm scenes.
17:16   Truman addresses Congress - State of the Union message, 1948. Congress stopped Brannan Plan, didn't allow government to add to storage bins.
18:26   Campaign scenes; Dexter, Iowa speech excerpt.
20:12   Truman speaks of need for Brannan Plan; opposition - big farmers; Farm Bureau - Allen Kline; National Farmer's Union - James Patton, who saw eye-to-eye with Brannan. Farm Bureau fought Truman.
23:43   Congressional hearing - Brannan Plan attacked; Truman speaks - knew what farmers wanted; vote was no; Truman quotes "where tillage begins all other arts follow…." from 1838 Senator.