Motion pictures

President Harry S. Truman (right) uses a movie camera, presented to him by White House newsreel men, to capture three of his advisors on film:(left to right) Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, Admiral William D. Leahy, and Admiral Foskett. They were on vacation with the President in Key West, Florida.

President Harry S. Truman (right) uses a movie camera, presented to him by White House newsreel men, to capture three of his advisors on film:(left to right) Press Secretary Charles G. Ross, Admiral William D. Leahy, and Admiral Foskett. They were on vacation with the President in Key West, Florida.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan (left) and actor James Dunn on the set of the movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

From left to right, actress Dorothy McGuire, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, and actress Joan Blondell on the set of the movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

From left to right, movie producer William Perlberg, actress Dorothy McGuire, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan on the set of the movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Photo is autographed by both Perlberg and McGuire. First autograph: "To my Political Boss Bob - all the Best Bill Perlberg." Second autograph: "For Robert Hannegan Dorothy McGuire."

From left to right, Democratic Party official William M. Boyle, Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, actress Joan Blondell, director Elia Kazan, an unidentified man, and Edwin W. Pauley on the set of the movie "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

Members of the Reparations Mission pose in front of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation building at the movie studio in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

A member of the Reparations Mission party looking at a mannequin in a storefront window at 20th Century Fox Movie Studio in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Unidentified members of the Reparations Mission visit the 20th Century Fox Movie Studio in Beverly Hills, California. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

An unidentified group of women, a still from the film "Seeds of Destiny." The film described the devastation in Europe after the World War II and illustrated the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration to improve conditions.