Motion pictures

Distance view of former President Harry S. Truman posing at site of future Harry S. Truman Library, with Mayor Robert Weatherford (at right). The location is Slover Park in Independence, Missouri. This was taken during the filming of the "Man From Independence." Cameramen are in the foreground.

Former President Harry S. Truman on his morning walk, photographed during filming of "Man from Independence." He is in front of his home at 219 N. Delaware in Independence, Missouri. They are filming "The Man from Independence," a fund raising film for the Harry S. Truman Library.

A crowd of unidentified people are watching the dedication ceremony of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. A bank of film and television cameras stands behind the people.

Stanton Griffis, center, with pipe, stands with unidentified Paramount Pictures executives at the train station.

Left to Right: Three unidentified men, Stanton Griffis, another unidentified man in Sweden. Mt. Griffis, an executive with Paramount Pictures, was negotiating with the Swedes to cease shipping ball bearings to Germany and ship them to the Allies instead.

Stanton Griffis, second from left, with unidentified men in Sweden. Mr. Griffis was in Sweden as a Paramount Pictures executive to aid the Allies in stopping shipments of ball bearings to Germany.

Stanton Griffis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Paramount Pictures, Inc., seated at table third from the left, with unidentified others.

Stanton Griffis, second from left, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Paramount Pictures, apparently with others from Paramount.

Left to Right: Unidentified Paramount Pictures executive, Stanton Griffis, and two unidentified Paramount executives meet at a train station.

Paramount Pictures' east coast executives meet Paramount's west coast executives at the train station. Stanton Griffis stands at the left of the photo smoking a pipe.