1910s; 1940s; 1950s; 1980s 220345 220345 220345 COL&B/W SD 09:20:18 - 09:29:51 [Air Force Now - Birth and History of the Air Force - Part One]
Fast Montage USAF from pre WWII early flight to Vietnam through to NASA Space Program, rockets launched. Incl. NY Times Headline: Senators Oppose the League of Nations.
09:21:14 - 18Sept47 Truman signs re creation separate air force. First Air Force Chief of Staff Carl Spaatz 1970s and still 1940s.
June 82 Maxwell AFB gathering for Walk Through History (re military aviation)
WWI Sopwith camel fighter planes on ground. WWI planes out of hangar and takeoff. Squadron in flight. 1970s interview with pilot re Sopwith Camel.
1941: US pilots, explosions.
WWII Colour footage 305th Bomb Group over Scotland. 1970s interview with commander Curtis E. Lemay. Bombing mission (B/W). Cu propellors. Bombs dropped. Firefighters putting out fire.
Pacific fighter operations. Commander in Chief Japanese Navy Isoroku Yamamoto (who suggested attack on Pearl Harbor). P-38 being modified by ground crew. Japanese Air Force pilots. Interview with Commander who planned ambush on Yamamoto. Footage of ambush 18Apr43.
Paul Tibbets re dropping nuclear bomb on Hiroshima - 1940s and 1970s interviews. Hiroshima atomic bomb explosion. Enola Gay. Tibbets and others by Enola Gay B-29. Plane's bomb hatch opening seen from inside then below and bomb dropped. Atomic blast.
1945? Test pilot Frank Everest re speed of sound and Jaeger. Jaeger in X-1 plane (breaking altitude record).

1920s - 1945 LN 501-131 LN 501-131 LN 501-131 b/w Sd 03:26:24 - 03:33:53 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Obit
White House with people standing looking, sorrowful. Truman taking office from Harlan Fiske Stone; kisses bible.
03:27:34 Early footage of FDR before polio - walking - shaking hands, with Eleanor. Sailing with pipe. Sitting in yard with Eleanor & kids. Swimming with kids in Georgia. By car tipping hat; with family as Governor & at 1932 convention. Taking oath. Photos year by year. With Churchill in Aug41 off Newfoundland at Atlantic Charter. Signing declaration of war on 11 Dec41. In North Africa reviewing troops. Cairo & Tehran conferences. President with Chiang Kai-Shek and Churchill in Cairo - In Tehran with Churchill and Stalin. Guests at 1944 inaugural looking tired as he waves to crowds. Yalta with Stalin and Churchill - report to Congress his last public appearance. Roosevelt speaking re his hopes for peace in the World for his children and grandchildren.

1920s-1964 LN 501-092 220516 LN 501-092 b/w Sd 01:47:37 - 01:50:23 World Mourns Nehru - obituary
LS Taj Mahal
Jawaharlal Nerhu with ??. Giving speech to huge crowd (no sound). Last pictures taken one month before death with Sheik Abdullah re Kashmir dispute.
CU younger Nehru. Walking with group. Mohandas Gandhi talking to small crowd. Gandhi lying in bed, Nehru sitting in room.
Nehru with Mountbatten.
Parade for Indian independence August 1947, vast crowds. Nehru gives speech.
Nehru out of plane with wife for first visit to United States in 1949, with Truman. Motorcade through New York, Nehru standing in open topped car waving. Shakes hands Truman.
1960: With Eisenhower during his visit to India, shake hands.
Nehru in Washington with President Kennedy walking in White House grounds.
Crowd outside Nehru's gates and residence to pay tribute. Indian flag. Nehru corpse guarded, wreath brought in.

1929 ? LN 501-133 LN 501-133 LN 501-133 b/w SIL 05:37:00 - 05:38:05 [Logan Faces Life]
Aerial of Detroit, General Motors & Fisher Buildings. Harry Truman in crowd. Lady Godiva on horse being led thru town by nun; spectators at parade. Men in courtroom. Workers talking and eating. Aerial of Detroit. Man (Logan) seated at desk. Reverse action of crushing car.

1930-1950 220592 220592 220592 Footage Farm b/w Sd 01:01:00 - 01:09:25 The Story of Television - part one
1923 TV iconscope tube. Orthocon tube & picture tubes. Diagram on how tv works, transmitting, receiving. Empire State Bldg antenna & early transmitter run by NBC & RCA / outside broadcast. Street scenes in 1937 w/ mobile vans. Setting up camera; World's fair. RCA exhibit building w/ Sarnoff before camera in still. FDR officially opening World of Tomorrow & King & Queen of England shown. First Baseball; 1st Convention televised in 1940 for both Democrats & Republican. Stage set televised. TV in war with research scientists working on war projects: radar, sonar, sniperscope. End of war & celebration in times square. Picture tube manufacturing. NBC Studios & control room shooting music show. Truman sworn in 1949 & 16 city network shown. Manufacturing & shipping sets. Installation of antennas. Tower.

1939 - 1945 SN 501-053 SN 501-053 SN 501-053 B/W SD 13:11:04 - 13:18:26 Title: Germany Gives Up.
Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender.
Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape. Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
13:12:14 Heavy devastation in Europe. Bodies; German prisoners.
13:12:40 Hitler & marching Nazis in various situations. Goose-stepping. Siegfried Line tank traps. Hitler with Mussolini and Goering at treaty signing. Hitler & troops into Austria?? Anschluss.
Hitler speaking to huge crowd. Hitler at planning meeting in railway carriage.
13:13:51 POV along road of ruined equipment. Germans into Poland. Field of Polish prisoners. Women queue for food.
13:14:08 Hitler and Goering at military march past - goose-step. Map
13:14:23 Dunkirk, building burning, classic shot Dunkirk landings.
13:14:36 Hitler at French surrender in railway carriage at Compiegne.
German bombers. Blitz, London in flames, classic shot with crucifix.
13:15:01 Roosevelt signing lease lend bill. Lend-lease act. England & freight trains of supplies.
Headlines, Japan at War with US.
13:15:28 Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day. D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside.
13:16:00 Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc de Triomphe. Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfield & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing Film damage at 13:16:28 Narrations runs out of synch from here on.
13:16:56 GIs crossing Rhine. Dead in concentration camps. Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning.
Picture ends 13:17:55 Sound runs to 13:18:30
Celebrations; VE day; WWII compilation. Europe.

1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1971 220371 220371 220371 COL SD 23:29:46 - 23:33:37 [Air Force Now - USAF 30th Birthday]
(1940s footage intercuts with XCUs decorating cake.)
26Jul47 - Truman signs re creation separate air force.
1948 - Berlin Airlift: loading supplies. Landing. Children eating.
27Jun50 - announces Armed Forces to aid Korea (no sound)
20May51 - Captain James Jabara, first American Jet Ace shoots down enemy plane
15Aug57 - Nathan F. Twining sworn in by Eisenhower as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
17Dec57 - Atlas ICBM launched (Intercontinental ballistic missile)
06Feb59 - Titan ICBM launch.
03Jun59 - graduation USAF Academy
14Oct62 - USA reconnaissance aircraft finds proof of Russian missiles in Cuba. Man inspects photo with magnifying glass. Headlines re Khrushchev ordering missiles removal.
01Jul65 - USAF crews down two MIG-17 over North Vietnam
20Mar69 Apollo 11 launch
16Jul71 Jeanne M. Holme first USAF woman general officer
Finished 30th birthday cake.

1940s ? LN 501-189 220657 220657 B/W SIL 01:23:24 - 01:24:26 [Truman & Marshall Talk By Globe in White House]
Truman & George Marshall walking thru White House & stand by globe & point at countries. Look at each other & talk in front of fireplace with several planes on mantle. Newsreel cameramen taking pictures around them.

1940s ? LN 501-189 220657 220657 B/W SIL 01:24:30 - 01:25:31 [Truman & Sec. Marshall at Airport Leaving for London]
Marshall & Truman walk toward plane, stand at mics in front of planes as newsreel cameras roll. Shaking hands. Marshall in doorway of plane waves for cameramen. Plane taxiis away.

1940s ? LN 501-189 220657 220657 B/W SIL 01:25:34 0 01:27:03 [Truman & Sec. Marshall at Airport Leaving for London]
CU of Presidential seal. Cars onto airport & Truman & Marshall to mics in front of plane seen from high angle. CU of Marshall & wife, Truman & shaking hands goodbye. Waving from plane doorway. Propellor starting. Plane takes off & past camera.

1940s LN 501-269
LN 501-269 LN 501-269 B/W SIL 16:09:47 - 16:13:01 [Instantaneos Internacionais - Truman at National Airport & Savings Bond Drive]
Truman W/ Acheson. Motorcade from airfield.
Flower wreath sign 'Make Today your D-Day: Buy United States Defense Bonds. Truman at mic. All-female audience.

1940s? LN 501-322 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 B/W SIL 07:18:08 - 07:19:05 [Truman & Eric Johnston]
Truman and Johnston round desk with others - chatting and laughing together.

1941 - 1945 LN 501-334 220472 LN 501-334 LN 501-334 B/W SD 04:25:29 - 04:34:10 War Ends
Recap of Pacific war since 1941
VJ Day Night and day on Times Square w/ jubilant crowd. Japanese warships and bombers take off from Japanese carrier to attack Pearl Harbor. US ships bombed. FDR declares war on Japan.
Animated map shows Japanese conquests in Pacific.
Title: "Doolittle's Tokyo Raid". Aircraft carrier Hornet. Jimmy Doolittle and other crew in front of plane. Admiral Halsey. Bombers on carrier and takeoff. Aerial of bombed Tokyo. Animated map shows conquest East Indies - Borneo, Sumatra, Celebes, Philippines. Wainwright surrendering. Death March of Bataan. Animated map shows Jap conquest New Guinea and Solomon Islands.
04:28:04 USA: workers or crowd marching; plane factory; ship launched into water.
04:29:00 Title; "The Road Back - Guadalcanal" - American landing and hoisting flag. Animated map shows US conquest from Solomon Islands to New Guinea.
Paratroopers drop. MacArthur in plane with machine-gunner. Animated map shows 'amphibious hops' along new Guinea coast.
Tarawa in the Gilberts. Naval battle, explosions and fierce ground battle. Naval battle and US flag hoisted on Guam. Nimitz on Guam.
MacArthur return to the Philippines in Leyte with Philippines President Osmena. Battle of Leyte. Manila burning and street fighting. Corregidor invaded by air - paratroopers jump. MacArthur at Corregidor raising of US flag.
04:31:50Iwo Jima: High aerial showing naval forces along coast. Land invasion. Troops in hills. Flag raising (frames of black at end). Excellent suicide air attacks / kamikaze. Aerial explosion. Flame throwers seen from a distance. Devastation and fire on Iwo Jima. Animated map shows final encirclement of Japan.
04:33:36 Truman. Troops march. Plane in flight. warships. Plane lands. Stars and Stripes.

1944 220471 220471 220471 B/W SD 07:29:59 - 07:31:48 Sixth War Loan Drive needs Your Help For Victory
Wallace, Morgenthau and Vice-president Truman at desk promote loan drive jokingly. President Roosevelt (FDR) speech re cost of war encouraging sacrifice to support troops and buy war bonds "... in the name of our wounded, of our dead, and of future generations...".
Title: Help end the war: back 6th war loan

1944 LN 501-340 220469 LN 501-340 LN 501-340 B/W SD 10:09:27 - 10:16:42 General "Ike" Comes Home - Victor Over Nazis Hailed In Three Allied Capitals
Eisenhower parades through London in horse carriage and receives sword of Duke of Wellington from Lord Mayor at Guild Hall. Churchill clapping. Ike farewell and thanks you speech to England with Churchill standing behind. Churchill speech lauding Ike as great commander and leader. MCU Ike and Churchill.
10:12:11 Paris - military ceremony at Arc de Triomphe honouring Eisenhower. De Gaulle kissing Ike. Wreath on tomb of eternal soldier. De Gaulle and Ike motorcade - French crowds cheering.
10:13:36 Washington - Ike out of plane and greeted by wife Mamie. Motorcade through streets. Crowds cheering. Ike waves. Address to congress. Truman awards Ike Oak Leaf cluster.

1945 LN 501-038 220312 220312 Col SIL 01:21:02 Truman
1945 & 1967 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 LN 501-201 COL&B/W SD 13:21:50 - 13:32:12 Pursuit of Peace Reel 1 part 3
Autumn trees - home of professor Tom Shelling - Prof. raking leaves with son. Family walking with dogs on heath. Prof. working at night - speaking into dictaphone. Smokes pipe - dog watches. Open reel tape recorder. Grandfather clock shows midnight - cu second hand moving.
13:24;42 Switzerland - Control tower at Geneva airport - Swissair plane landing - delegates arriving for disarmament conference. Crowds watching. William C. Foster, director of US arms control and disarmament agency arrives to head American delegation. Foster at press conference - says the most important point of conference should be the achievement of a nonproliferation treaty.
13:25:57 Lake Geneva, pan round to Palais des Nations - dedication stone to Woodrow Wilson. Exteriors new League of Nations building - European HQ of United Nations. Soviet / Russian mission which is a secluded house surrounded by trees. In centre of town is American mission - glass and aluminium building. Interior US delegation meeting. William Foster at desk working.
13:27:59 Top shot Lake Geneva and UN building. Interiors empty conference chamber.
13:28:19 US flag on front of car. Foster in car as traveling to UN building. Good shots Palais des Nations. Interiors - reporters and cameramen crowd round delegates. Foster arrives and out of car. Peacock on steps. Various delegates arrive - interiors as delegates meet and greet.
13:30:02 B/W Montage pivotal points - Meeting on the Elbe - destruction of Nazi sign at Nuremberg - German surrender - VE day celebrations. San Francisco conference to sign charter for United Nations. President Truman speaking at conference. Troopships coming home to US. Russian soldiers going home. Brief shot casualty being transported home.
Cold War

1945 200036 180021 / B/W SIL 10:17:33 - 10:19:50 Potsdam
Truman and Byrnes in open car amid Berlin rubble
Truman and Churchill
Truman and Stalin
Conference room - all shaking including Stalin and Gromyko
Stalin lights cigarette

1945 220267 182749 + 181544 / B/W sd 14:00:00 Pres. Opens Management Labor Parley
Arrival outside DC building thru pickets against labor-management conference. Portraits of major leaders. Speech by Truman saying he wants to give up war-time controls. Need vast production soon to expand the economy.

1945 220073 220073 180297 / B/W si 01:48:40 - 01:58:16 Jewish Orphans
Weimar - Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye - train pulls out as children wave from windows. Signs on side of train. 01:51:45 Polish Hungarian Czech and Jewish orphans board train - CUs individual children. Children looking out of window of train - Jewish flag hangs beneath window - signs hanging from train Vive Truman Stalin Churchill and in French Our beginning of a new life in liberty

1945 220271 220271 182752 / B/W sd 01:03:18 - 01:09:13 Peace Its Wonderful
Truman speaks and says he received a reply from Japan which is unconditional surrender. Washington, Chicago celebrating. Sailor dancing. San Francisco & throwing paper & firecrackers in Chinatown. Seattle & sailors. High angle of Times Square and 2 million with ticker-tape thrown about & drifting down. Girl on shoulders, carrying guy. Drunken soldiers; kissing. Battleship Missouri into Tokyo Bay with Nimitz greeted by Bull Halsey. MacArthur w/ Wainwright, Stilwell. Allied Generals. Shigemitsu w/ wooden leg & others arrive. VJ Day

1945 220274 220274 182739 / B/W Sd/Si 04:44:26 - 04:51:16 Title: Germany Gives Up. Truman at desk speaks announcing German surrender.
04:45:11 Crowds in streets cheering; Wall street & ticker-tape. Packed Times Square & people waving flags.
04:45:39 Heavy devastation in Europe. Bodies; Prisoners. Prison camp. 04:46:02 Hitler & marching Naziis in various situation. 04:46:16 Goosestepping. Tank traps. Hitler & troops into ?? Hitler speaking to huge crowd. German troops advancing. Siegried (?) lne w/ anti-tank stones. Hitler planning, into Austria or Czech. Troops greeted. Hitler speaking & more advancing.
04:47:12 POV along road of ruined equipment. Field of German prisoners. 04:47:5? Hitler at French surrender. German bombers. Aerial of burning London.
04:48:22 FDR signing bill. England & trains of supplies. Blacks moving boxes from ships. Planes & supplies for D-Day. D-Day montage & beachhead; Dead German by roadside.
04:49:20 Tanks into Paris; crowds & aerials over Arc de Triomphe. Heavy bombing raids, strafing airfiled & RR w/ explosions. Artillery firing;
04:50:20 GIs crossing Rhine. Dead in concentration camps. Germans running to surrender; young boy crying. Swastika burning. Celebrations; VE day; WWII compilation. Europe.
World War II compilation

1945 220461 220461 220461 b/w Sd 07:16:52 - 07:22:27 Funeral of President Roosevelt
FDR's home at Warm Springs. Family mourning. Hearse past military standing to attention. FDR's dog on leash. Train leaves station.
Military standing around coffin draped with US flag aboard train. Track past crowds of mourners next to train tracks. Train slows down near Union Station awaited by Guard of Honour. Family members, Justice Burns, Secretary Wallace, President Truman. Coffin pulled by horse on open carriage. Black mourners, Black woman waves handkerchief.
War planes fly past. Armed forces marching, aerial view.
Lafayette Park, CU mourners crying. Procession, various views.
Casket in White House East Room.
Burial in family home at Hyde Park, NY. Coffin lowered. Firing rifles. Priest. Planes past. Eleanor Roosevelt.

1945 220468 220468 220468 B/W SD 01:16:03 - 01:17::21 Churchill Beaten; Britain Goes Left in Labour Landslide
Churchill in motorcade saluting crowd and speech (no sound). Clement Attlee. Herbert Morrison. Ernest Bevin. Potsdam Conference. Attlee with Stalin. Stalin. Truman. Attlee. Potsdam conference table.

1945 220468 220468 220468 B/W SD 02:29:31 - 02:31:54 Japan's Doom - Russia Enters War Against the Japs
Russia agrees to declare war on Japan to end war in Pacific after ultimatum from China, USA and British rejected by Japanese.
Conference table. Byrnes. Truman. Stalin. Truman, Byrnes, Molotov and Stalin together posing. Soviet troops parade.
02:30:50 - 26Jul45 Byrnes warning speech to Japan "resistance... will be absolutely futile... There is still time, but little time for the Japanese to save themselves from the destruction that threatens them". Ultimatum.
02:31:19 President Truman Visits King George VI aboard warship on way back from Big Three Potsdam Conference. Reviews troops. At Plymouth with Byrnes. Handshake.

1945 220468 220468 220468 B/W SD 02:31:55 - 02:36:49 President Truman - Atomic Bomb
Truman speech announcing atomic bomb blast on Hiroshima. Refers to 26Jul45 ultimatum to Japanese at Potsdam. Threatens more destruction "the like of which has never been seen on this earth".
Early electrical experiment to smash the atom conducted in Britain.
Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence and his cyclotron. Dr. Harold Urey. Italian physicist Enrico Fermi. Dr. Arthur Compton. FDR and Churchill talking.
02:34:54 Aerials Oak Ridge Atomic plant. Workers going into work.
General Leslie Groves with Vannevar Bush and Dr. Richard Tolman. Groves speech describes 16Jul45 first atomic bomb explosion "... it is a universal hope of all present that no American citizen will ever witness it on United States soil again".
Aerials Hiroshima before the bomb. Bombers in formation
Titles: Buy That Extra War Bond Today.
Manhattan Project

1945 220469 220469 220469 B/W SD 03:08:05 - 03:09:21 President Truman - Unconditional Surrender of Germany
Truman speech about the task ahead to defeat Japan.

1945 220469 220469 220469 B/W SD 03:25:18 - 03:33: 08 Roosevelt Dies Suddenly
Headlines
FDR as young State Senator; Asst. Secretary in the Navy; swimming and playing ball in pool with polio kids. By fireplace with Eleanor and sons. First inauguration as president incl. speech. Headlines re FDR's actions against depression: incl. closing of banks. FDR signing New Deal reform (foundation social security?)
FDR starts operation of ?? Dam.
03:27:05 "Fear is vanishing" speech.
FDR in car with family and dog Fala on holiday. On fishing trip.
03:27:41 "I have seen war... I hate war" anti-war speech. FDR with his mother before Pearl Harbor. Queen Elizabeth and George VI with FDR. FDR reviews fleet. Speech in Canada promising help if Canada is threatened. Signing lend-lease agreement. Atlantic Charter meeting on Battleship Prince of Wales with Churchill. FDR and Eleanor outside church with priest. Speech after Pearl Harbor declaring war on Japan. Reviewing troops in North Africa - Casablanca. Tehran Conference with Stalin and Churchill. FDR & MacArthur. FDR & Nimitz. Roosevelt sworn in for fourth terms. Yalta conference, FDR looking ill shaking hands with Russians?. Churchill walks by FDR's car. With King Farouk of Egypt (aboard ship?). With Ibn Saud aboard ship. Last public appearance reporting to Congress and speech. With American delegation to San Francisco United Nations conference. Headlines re allies approaching Berlin and Elbe. Truman sworn in. Good CU FDR.
Titles: Join 7th War Loan Victory Drive

1945 220470 220470 220470 B/W SD 05:01:03 - 05:04:44 Rest In Peace - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Obituary
Warm Springs: Funeral procession. Polio kids in wheelchairs watch. Funeral train & POV from train of people on roadside.
Washington: Truman, Sec. of Commerce Wallace and White House adviser Burns pay homage. Stimson, Leahy. FDR family members. Coffin draped with US flag pulled by horse cart. Aerials cortege.
Kids watch. Truman sobs. People crying. Coffin carried in White House followed by family and members of Congress. Harry Hopkins. Casket in White House. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Anthony Eden. Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court George Evans Hughes. Adviser Bernard Baruch. Dewey.
Burial at Hyde Park. Truman Gen. Marshall; Adm. King; James farley; Stimson; Canadian PM Mackenzie King. Stettinius; Former Governor Lehman; Morgenthau. Fire guns and horn sounded.

1945 220470 220470 220470 B/W SD 05:04:45 - 05:08:24 President Truman In First Address Before Congress
Truman speech - re continuing war aims after FDR's death: unconditional surrender from Japan and Germany - San Francisco Conference to proceed.
Titles: Join 7th War Loan Victory Drive

1945 220470 220470 220470 B/W SD 05:11:17 - 05:12:05 Press Photographers Exhibit Prize News pictures in New York
Forrestal looks at photos. Various stills; Eisenhower, Charlie the Chimp, triplets, Truman and child, little boy crying over dead dog etc. Forrestal presents awards.

1945 220471 220471 220471 B/W SD 07:09:31 - 07:10:18 President Truman Gets report From Hopkins And Davies
Joseph E. Davies and Harry Hopkins around Truman at desk - just back from mission in London and Moscow re arranging Truman-Stalin-Churchill meeting and negotiations re Poland and Soviet veto at San Francisco conference.

1945 220471 220471 220471 B/W SD 07:21:39 - 07:22:23 News Reports From Washington
Herbert Hoover Confers With president Truman - re food relief for postwar Europe
07:22:07 Tom C. Clark New Attorney general: Clark at desk.
07:22:16 Clinton P. Anderson Secretary of Agriculture

1945 220471 220471 220471 B/W SD 07:42:05 - 07:43:20 Names In The News (Byrnes - Morgenthau - Aleman - Halsey)
Secretary Byrnes Flies to Moscow Conference (foreign ministers meeting for Big Three): with wife; shakes hands with Eisenhower; boards plane
07:42:22 Ex-Secretary Morgenthau Honoured By President Truman: Medal of Merit awarded for services as wartime Sec. of Treasury
07:42:35 Miguel Aleman - Mexican presidential Candidate: at Tijuana - with crowd; in front of microphone; men on horseback wearing Mexican hats; CU Aleman smiling.
07:42:54 Admiral Halsey Receives Fifth Star: Forrestal awarded by Forrestal. Nimitz shakes hands w/ Halsey.

1945 220471 220471 220471 B/W SD 08:02:51 - 08:03:19 President Truman Takes Advice From "Mom" On Visit Home
Truman poses with wife, mother and daughter. Kisses mother. Boards plane. Wife, mother and daughter wave goodbye.

1945 220473 220473 220473 B/W SD 11:09:55 - 11:11:00 News Flashes
General De Gaulle Hailed in New York - motorcade. Presents Legion of Honour to Mayor La Guardia
Mme Chiang Kai-Shek Visits Capital on Way Home. Mme out of car; talking with Truman at White House; with George Marshall.

1945 220474 220474 220474 B/W SD 13:09:27 - 13:11:18
Personalities In The News
Chiang Kai-Shek Hailed in Shanghai - with Mme Chiang Kai-Shek. Speech (no Sd) from balcony to crowd below.
Mrs EleanorRoosevelt Confers With President Truman. FDR re UNO London meeting
Winston Churchill receives Degree in Miami: Churchill speech (Sd) wearing graduate's robes, jokes about being bad at exams when a schoolboy.

1945 220474 220474 220474 B/W SD 13:22:17 - 13:23:05 President Returns To Washington For His Fourth Term
Motorcade with headlights glowing in rain.
FDR & Truman & Wallace in car. Roosevelt speech (Sd) re making Washington his permanent home.

1945 220474 220474 220474 B/W SD 13:24:41 - 13:26:54 General Wainwright Home At Last
Wainwright out of plane in San Francisco and greets sister. Motorcade and military parade through city.
Out of plane and greets wife in Washington. Speech at Washington Monument (Sd) "... I pray that this nation will never again neglect its defences".
Motorcade through Washington. Wainwright acclaimed by Congress and speech (Sd)
Truman awards Wainwright at White House.

1945 220474 220474 220474 B/W SD 14:04:32 - 14:05:58 President Truman Appeals To Public On Reconversion
Truman speech (sd) re problems of reconversion - objectives not met; urges citizens to tell public servants about problems. "We cannot face 1946 in a spirit of drift and irresolution."

1945 220475 220475 220475
B/W SD 16:00:15 - 16:00:57 President Leads nation In Paying Honour to 'Mother'
Truman and his 92 year-old mother Martha out of plane
Eight-star Mother Honoured in NY.
American Mother of 1945 holds medal.

1945 220479 220479 220479
B/W SD 01:00:57 - 01:02:34 President Truman Talks To Nation On Increase in Wages
Truman speech to camera re cut of 1/4 or more on wartime pay ; wage increases needed to stimulate production but must be reasonable. Asks both sides (labour and bosses) not to be greedy and selfish.

1945 220479 220479 220479
B/W SD 01:03:25 - 01:04:12 Victory Loan Drive Off To Good Start Throughout Nation
Gathering for Franklin Roosevelt Victory Bond sales at Hyde Park with Eleanor Roosevelt, Morgenthau & Colonel Devereau?. War Activities Committee of Motion Pictures Industry participates. Film star Merle Oberon sells bonds with Colonel Devereau.
Truman buying victory bond. CU Roosevelt Victory bond.

1945 220480 220480 220480
B/W SD 03:02:35 - 03:04:14 Names In The news - Stimson - Regent of Greece in England - Mme Chiang Kai-shek
Secretary Stimson Honored by president Truman
Walking together in White House garden. Truman pins medal on Stimson outside White House. Marshall and Arnold escort Stimson at Washington Airport. Stimson waves from plane.
03:03:14 Regent of Greece On Visit To England
Archbishop Damaskinos out of plane. Exterior Cathedral of Canterbury. Damaskinos with Archbishop of Canterbury.
03:03:36 Madame Chiang Kai-shek Returns To China.
Madame greeted by Chiang Kai-shek wearing traditional Chinese costume. Madame presents Chinese decoration to American airmen who flew her. Madame and Chiang Kai-shek at banquet given given for Americans.

1945 220481 220481 220481
B/W SD 04:09:15 - 04:10:03 President Truman Crossing the Atlantic For Big Three Parley
re Yalta
Truman & Byrnes on ship's deck during journey on Augusta. British warship escorting. Truman confers with Byrnes and Leahy. Truman eats with sailors.

1945 LN 500-001 220306 LN 500-001 B/W Sd 01:00:00 - 01:04:49 Review of the Year 1945 (part)
FDR Roosevelt inauguration - swearing in ceremony - Yalta conference, seated in garden with Churchill and Stalin. Roosevelt state funeral - mourning - fly past - flowers. Harry Truman sworn in in Cabinet room of White House. 07:01:33 Germany surrenders - signing in Reims, France Gen. Jodl arrives. Into room with bright lights, army photographers. Gen Walter B. Smith & Russian Generals. Smith signs. CU of document. German Generals turn to leave. Ike (Eisenhower) & other delegates laughing. 07:02:14 Pacific war - Kamikaze planes (good). US forces assault on Okinawa on Easter Sunday - good shots ships firing. AV landing craft - landing craft on beaches - troops - US flag raised in July 45. Atomic explosion - mushroom. USS Missouri, Sunday September 2nd 1945 Japan surrenders Battleship Missouri. 3rd fleet. Sailors aboard ship. Japanese foreign minister Shigamitsu signs for Japan - Douglas MacArthur signs - Chinese General Chang? signs.

1945 LN 500-001 220306 LN 500-001 B/W Sd 01:08:08 - 01:18:20 Peace It's Wonderful
Truman speaks and says he received a reply from Japan which is unconditional surrender. Washington, Chicago celebrating. Sailor dancing. San Francisco & throwing paper & firecrackers in Chinatown. Seattle & sailors. High angle of Times Square and 2 million with ticker-tape thrown about & drifting down. Girl on shoulders, carrying guy. Drunken soldiers; kissing. Celebrations. Battleship Missouri into Tokyo Bay with Nimitz greeted by Bull Halsey. MacArthur w/ Wainwright, Stilwell. Allied Generals. Shigamitsu w/ wooden leg & others arrive. MacArthur speaks, terms of surrender. Shigamitsu at surrender table. MacArthur observes. MacArthur signs - gives pens. Nimitz signs. Chinese General Chang? signs. UK Admiral Sir Bruce Frasier signs - Soviet Union signs - Australia General Sir Thomas Blaney? signs For Canada General Lawrence Cosgrove - France Gen. Jaques LeClerc- Netherlands Admiral ? - New Zealand Air Marshal L.M. Issac. Japanese VIPs watching and handed their copy of surrender by Lt. Gen. Sutherland. Percival, Arthur Gen. Adm. Nimitz, Halsey and Sherman. LS of Japanese. Signatures. Fly Past. VJ Day.

1945 LN 501-016 LN 501-016 LN 501-016 B/W sd 23:13:42 - 23:15:20 Truman En Route to Potsdam
President Truman on deck of USS Augusta with Captain and Secretary of State Byrnes. Going through English Channel British. Destroyer HMS Birmingham passes in escort. Truman thanks crew for safe trip. White House mail brought on board. Truman with Byrnes and Admiral Leahy. Truman eats with crew.

1945 LN 501-016 LN 501-016 LN 501-016 B/W sd 23:26:46 - 23:28:00 28 Heroes get Medal of Honour (honor)
East Room, White House, President Truman in a unique ceremony pins Congressional Medals of Honour on 28 heroes in the presence of their relatives and high ranking military leaders. One of recipients Private Sylvester Herera ? in wheelchair, kept fighting after losing both feet. VIPs present include Generals Marshall and Arnold and Admiral King.

1945 LN 501-061 LN 501-061 LN 501-061 B/W SIL 04:36:09 - 04:46:02 Potsdam
Flags in Berlin of USSR, England & USA. Various VIPs at airport saying farewell. Clement Atlee with army officer getting into C-54 (4 motor) plane. Take off. Truman walks out and shakes hands with soldiers. Boards plane. Honour guard putting US flag on pole & running it up. More shots Atlee and Truman saying goodbyes. British man & Truman talking; Truman waves from plane entrance. Potsdam conference round table from above as Molotov comes in others sit down. Shots Stalin and Truman at round table.
04:44:55 Montgomery; Churchill arrival in military uniform down steps of aircraft shakes hands with Monty - other military officers, nice shot Churchill's female aide smiling excitedly. Top shot as Churchill inspects troops. Sailors at attention.

1945 LN 501-074 LN 501-074 LN 501-074 B/W Sd 22:10:51 - 22:13:09 Prime Minister Attlee Addresses US Congress
Clement Attlee gets standing ovation from Congress as takes stand. Attlee makes speech praising America and saying that she will never use her power for selfish aims or territorial gain. Talks of Atomic bomb and the need for all men to feel secure. President Truman meets with Attlee and Mackenzie King. Talks have been about atomic energy being used for industrial and humanitarian purposes.

1945 LN 501-160 220608 220608 b/w Sd 06:13:46 - 06:15:38 Nations Meet to Map World Security Plan
Exterior conference hall. Delegates entering through crowds - including Anthony Eden - Jan Smuts - McKenzie King - Molotov - French delegation - King Ibn Saud and entourage from Saudi Arabia. Senator Connally and Commander Stasson ?. Interior, delegates register. Top shot convention hall. Stage - Edward R. Stettinius applauded as he opens meeting. SOF "The conference of the United Nations ...". Shots of audience as they listen to recorded speech from President Truman. Brief shot Truman speaking.
San Francisco Conference - United Nations.

1945 LN 501-160 220608 220608 b/w Sd 06:28:50 - 06:34:16 President Truman Closes World Peace Parley
Stettinius greets Truman off plane. Motorcade through cheering crowds for Truman enroute to Hotel. Nimitz meets with Truman. Halifax speaks & standing unanimous vote. China signs charter , followed by USSR, etc. Truman speaking to conference, standing applause (slighly out of sync). Truman returns to Independence, MO & parade. Arrives at summer White House there & waves from porch.
San Francisco United Nations Conference

1945 LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:00:15 - 07:10:56 San Francisco 1945 - United Nations Conference
4 motor plane over SF harbor with many ships. Views of Golden Gate Bridge; street scenes - traffic - cable cars; pedestrians; military; boy scouts. Chinatown; airport arrival. Delegates arrival including Jan Smuts - Molotov - Stettinius - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek with T.V. Soong. Delegates at RR / railway station. Airport Control tower. Wounded returning vets collected from planes by line of ambulances. Int. of meeting & delegates. A message from dead President Roosevelt is played to conference who are standing in silence. Exterior people including children of different nationalities looking up at flag. Roosevelt in his speech says we cannot fail and expect the World to survive again.
President Truman reading speech to over radio to conference. Loudspeakers - filmed recording of speech. Truman says conference is to set up organisation to keep World peace. Top shot delegates applaud. Delegates talk & leave. Registration.
07:06:20 Committee meetings both small and large.
07:07:27 Graphic showing proposed system of UN. General Assembly - Security Council - International Court of Justice - Economic and Social Council - Trusteeship Council - Secretariat. Conference in session. Delegates milling about. Smaller meeting.
07:09:28 Delegates on tour of San Francisco. Unloading ships at docks. Molotov with workers. Housing projects; art museum interior; paintings of Benton & Rockwell.

1945 LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:11:15 - 07:17:20 San Francisco 1945 Part Two
Exterior Movie Theater / cinema with boards stating that it is exclusively for the delegates of the World Security conference. Interior cinema, people waching newsreel of German Surrender. Screen seen over tops of heads in audience. Surrender document signed. Brief shot projection room. Almost full screen end of war - devastation and death. Survivors cry - children - bomb damaged buildings.
07:12:26 Conference in session - delegates debate.
07:13;30 Lord Halifax makes speech to conference - calls for a vote for approval on charter for United Nations. Count taken - conference applauding.
07:14:48 Crowds outside waiting for result. Interiors delegates signing charter. Press photographers - Stettinius signs and shakes hands with President Truman. Wounded veterans arrive by bus and enter conference hall, some on crutches.
07:16:19 President Truman addresses conference re success " ... to find a way to end wars". Flags of all nations flying.
United Nations

1945 LN 501-161 220609 220609 b/w Sd 07:17:42 - 07:26:16 World Charter Signed
President Truman Speaks at San Francisco.
Lord Halifax addresses San Francisco Conference. Stettinius presented with scroll in recognition of his efforts during conference. Halifax calls for standing vote on World charter. President Trumans plane lands - he is met by Mr Stettinius and other delegates including Jan Smuts, McKenzie King. Truman in open top car - parade through streets of San Francisco - crowds line route to watch motorcade. FBI men ride bumpers of car. Interior - signing of United Nations charter. Chinese - Dr Wellington Koo ? - Russian - Mr Gromyko - Britain - Lord Halifax - France - Joseph Paul-Boncour - USA - Stettinius signs and speaks to press. Says re importance of occasion. Senator Connelly signs for US. Senator Arthur Vandenburg signs. Commander Stasson ? Last meeting of conference is addressed by President Truman who congratulates delegates and talks re peace
07:25:21 Interior US Congress. Film of dead President Roosevelt asking congress to accept the result of conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of Peace (sound poor on FDR speech)

1945 LN 501-192 220643 220643 B/W SD 05:27:37 - 05:31:09 President Truman Tells the World About Hiroshima
President Truman aboard ship sits at table with microphone. He says a short time ago an American plane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. Talks of the power of the atomic bomb. Says he is prepared to destroy any enterprise the Japanese have in any city. Will completely destroy Japan's ability to make war. Says Japans leaders rejected the Potsdam ultimatum. Says US has spent more than 2 billion dollars on the greatest scientific gamble in history. Praises scientific brains - industry and labour in the manufacture of the Atom bomb.
Nuclear and atomic

1945 LN 501-192 220643 220643 COL SIL 05:00:20
05:09:15 Antwerp to Potsdam Part One (AKA The Presidents trip to Berlin)
July / August 1945
Pan City of Antwerp. President Truman & Sec. of State Byrnes aboard USS Augusta, the President waves to spectators on dock at Antwerp. Leaving Antwerp for the Evere Airport at Brussels - shots from jeep as it passes down street (jumpy).
05:01:22 Brussels airport showing the 135th Infantry at attention / honour guard. Air Transport Command planes on airfield.
05:01:43 AV Berlin, showing railroad yards, Olympic Stadium, etc. Aircraft lands on airfield. Allied flags flying
Pres. Truman surrounded by secret service men exits plane. Travel shot along autobahn (jumpy) passing refugees. Road sign re leaving US Berlin District.
05:04:38 16th July 1945 Devastation in Berlin - buildings destoryed. Ruins of Reich Chancellery showing U.S. soldiers stand in front of bldg. Interior shots showing damage.
05:06:28 Russian / Soviet tank on plinth which has been made into monument. Tracking shot bombed out buildings
Two GIs walk down street with German girls - fraternisation. More exterior Reichs Chancellery. Russian soldiers on the move through Berlin, wheeling carts with belongings. Russian banners and flags.

This film has amateurish quality

1945 LN 501-192 220643 220643 COL SIL 05:09:16 - 05:16:50 Antwerp to Potsdam Part One (AKA The Presidents trip to Berlin)
July / August 1945
05:09:16 Sign - HQ Berlin area - tracking shot down Unter Den Linden - Victory monument - Brandenberg Gate. Very jumpy. German girls pose before camera.
Pres. Truman reviews the 2nd Armoured "Hell on Wheels Division" which is currently occupying Berlin.
Pan Band plays .
GV Street scene, men & women pull carts through streets (soft). Sign "Entering US Berlin District.
05:12:32 Babelsberg, Berlin suburb where the American conference delegates lived.
05:13:22 No.2 Kaiser Strasse (The Little White House) - exteriors and gardens and lake.
05:14:57 Winston Churchill leaving Little White House. Churchill, in civilian clothes and President Truman walk down steps smiling. Lord Louis Mountbatten ? and army officers down steps
05:15:39 Ceremony attended by Pres. Truman, Secretary Stimson and Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Patton, Clay and Parks - American flag raised over Berlin. Gen. Patton & Pres. Truman.
This film has an amateurish quality

1945 LN 501-194 220645 220645 B/W SD 08:01:13 - 08:06:09 Atom Bomb and Reds Doom Japs
Potsdam conference. Official portrait. Bombers, aircraft carriers, fighter bombers & Japan harbor. Diagram with atomic bomb compared to huge bombs, diagrams of explosions, Dr. Ernest Lawrence & cyclotron, Gen. Groves, Vannevar Bush, Dr. Richard Tolman. Mining uranium ore. Bags moved while soldiers guard. Richland Washington plant & workers coming off bus & into plant. Col Mathias head of Hanford. Oak Ridge workers look at newspaper headline. Pre-fabricated homes & trailers with women hanging wash. Shopping mall of merchants. May Day Parade in Moscow. Truman speaks: 'We are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely...their docks, their factories, their communications... it was to spare the Japanese people from utter destruction... behind this air attack...

1945 LN 501-194 220645 220645 B/W SD 08:06:39 - 08:16:56 President Truman after Potsdam
Makes report re his trip to Berlin and the conditions there. Thanks God that America has been spared - re maintaining military presence for World peace - talks re United Nations Charter. Tells of decisions made at Potsdam re the future government of Germany. Talks of Soviet Union declaring war on Japan. Says the allies had given Japan adequate warning of what was in store for them - warnings unheeded - atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Says he realises the tragic significance of the atomic bomb - says will continue to use the bomb until Japans power to make war is destroyed. "Atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless World... awful responsibility... thanks God bomb not in hands of enemies". Talks re Victory in Europe.

1945 LN 501-194 220645 220645 COL SIL 07:09:17 - 07:24:54 Potsdam Conference - Very soft in parts
Exterior shots Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam - former summer palace of Crown Prince Wilhelm and scene of the Berlin conference. Press outside. Flower bed in shape of Red star. Russians in evening suits standing on doorstep.
07:11:04 25Jul45 Big three at Potsdam, last meeting attended by Winston Churchill. Truman Stalin and Churchill walking to seats for photocall. Three seated. Mass of press cameras.
07:12:08 26Jul45 - en route to Frankfurt - Aerial views over countryside and towns. American guard of honour at Frankfurt airport - Presidents plane taxiing. Truman down steps. President inspects the 508th Parachute, the Third Armoured and 84th Infantry divisions. (very soft)
07:14:46 Exterior of I.G. Farbin building, now used by General Eisenhower as his headquarters. Pan round bomb damaged buildings in Frankfurt. President Truman awards DSMs to four foreign officers.
07:15:47 Flying over Tempelhof airdrome at Berlin (very soft). AVs bomb damaged buildings.
07:16:48 1Aug45 Potsdam - Cameramen - The "Big Three" pose with their principal advisors,
The three heads of government are (seated, left to right): British Prime Minister Clement Atlee;
US President Harry S. Truman; Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
Standing behind them are (left to right): Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, Truman's Chief of Staff;
British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin; US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. People milling around.
07:18:25 2Aug45 Harrowbeer airport, near Plymough, England. President Truman off plane and poses with British service girs. Very jumpy tracking shots through town. Plymouth harbour.
07:20:17 President Truman and Secretary Byrnes with Admiral Leahy leaving the Augusta for HMS Renown to lunch with King George VI. HMS Renown at anchor. Signalling from bridge. Launch carrying President returns to Augusta.
07:22:16 King George visits Augusta. - Royal launch - King on board and inspects crew. Flags, British White Ensign, flown to show the King is on board and the Presidents flag fly together , believed to be for the first time. King leaves - top shots of departure.

1945 LN 501-194 220645 220645 COL SIL 07:50:35 - 08:00:38 The President's Trip to Berlin (Potsdam)
Homeward bound - scenes on board Augusta - return trip from Berlin. Two observation seaplanes catapaulted from deck. Seaplanes land in sea - taxis up on sled, hooks on & is hoisted aboard.
07:55:30 President Truman dressed in sailors dungarees & shirt & white cap strolls down deck, with secret service men.
Men practice firing 5" guns. Fleet underway, good shots showing heavy wake from ship. Shipboard entertainment - man dressed up as girl dances with Black man; men boxing, spectators watch. Ship's band playing.) MS Pres. Truman, Sec. of State Byrnes & party aboard USS Augusta.
07:59:17 August 7th 1945 Return to Hampton Roads - docking a Newport News MCU Ship's mascot dog on USS Augusta.

1945 LN 501-204 LN 501-204 LN 501-204 B/W SD 02:18:15 - 02:30:58 Screen Magazine - Navy Edition
Sports - Who's Next - Louis v Conn.
Woman to camera re letter from Guam asking for pictures of Joe Louis in action - last three rounds (cannot supply fight).
02:26:13 Conn speaking after defeat
02:26:25 Potsdam - Berlin Conference. 7Jul1945 Cruiser Augusta at sea - President Truman in lookout tower. Truman wearing cap down stairs. Augusta coming into harbour, Truman seated on deck waves hat. Allied officers board ship and welcome Truman. Truman in open top car through streets. Truman with 35th division. Truman boarding plane - aircraft takes off - air to air shots in flight. Plane landing.
02:29:08 Unter den Linden in Berlin - Brandenburg gate - Monuments with posters Truman, Stalin and Churchill. Flashback - Hitler in open top car through streets. Hitler ranting - german accented translation over.
02:29:56 Truman making open air speech / radio broadcast re raising flag of Victory over Berlin. Speech over shots of radio tower - broadcast technician. Tracking shot pedestrians in US city. Radio listening. Truman addressing troops

1945 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 B/W SD 07:00:06 - 07:02:08 President Truman Urges Wage Adjustment
Truman speech to camera re cutting wartime pay. Wage increases needed to stimulate production but must be reasonable. Says labour and management should come to an agreement.

1945 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 B/W SD 07:04:39 - 07:05:41 Support Your Victory Loan
President Truman & Treasury Secretary Vinson open Victory Bond drive in DC
Gen. Wainwright & Governor Martin do same in Philadelphia, PA - motorcade and crowds.
Bond Rally at FDR home in Hyde Park w/ Merle Oberon.

1945 LN 501-331 LN 501-331 220470 LN 501-331 B/W SD 01:18:49 - 01:21:27 Steel Strike Hits the Nation; Causes Industrial Crisis
re Labour wage dispute between United States Steel Corporation and Steel worker's Union (United Steel Workers of America (USWA).
Factory chimneys, locomotive; steel plant interior with flames and fiery steel. CIO President Philip Murray and company president Benjamin J. Farlace? at White House after Farlace rejected Truman's proposal. Murray speech calls the strike (sound)
LS steel plants. Steel workers leaving factory - sitting outside factory. Strikers with USWA placards "Do Not Cross the Picket Line"; "Aluminium Employees Strike".
Snow blizzard on picketers. Empty factory.
05:42:34 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser (California steel plant). Speech re signing with CIO.

1945 LN 501-331 LN 501-331 220470 LN 501-331 B/W SD 01:23:39 - 01:24:36 President Truman And Selective Service Officials Honoured
Officials given awards by Truman for role in putting together army for WWII
Truman awarded by Hershey for creating a democratic army.

1945 LN 501-332 220468 LN 501-332 LN 501-332 B/W SD 02:26:41 - 02:28:00 President Truman Reports On War Against Japan
Truman speech re American Navy battling around Japan and Okinawa. "... if the Japanese insist on continuing resistance beyond the point of reason, their country will suffer the same destruction as Germany... What has already happened to Tokyo will happen to every Japanese city... We will see the fight through to a complete and victorious finish."

1945 LN 501-332 220468 LN 501-332 LN 501-332 B/W SD 02:36:41 - 02: Names In The News - Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington
Greeted by Secretary of State Byrnes at airport - with President Truman at White House - to discuss disagreements between USA and France.

1945 LN 501-332 220468 LN 501-332 LN 501-332 B/W SD 02:42:04 -02:48:00 Navy Day - President Truman Leads the Nation In Tribute To Our Victorious Fleet
Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated by Truman. Forrestal with Mrs. Truman, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. FDR (Eleanor). Truman speech honouring FDR. Military parade down 5th Ave. with Truman in car. Much ticker-tape.
Truman speech at City hall re foreign policy in front of a one million audience: "We believe in the eventual return of sovereign rights and self-government to all people who have been deprived of them by force... no territorial changes in any part of the world..." and re not recognising any government imposed by force.
Re atomic bomb: "the possession in our hands of this new power of destruction we regard as a sacred trust... that trust will not be violated... we hope... world cooperation for peace will soon reach such a state of perfection that atomic methods of destruction can be outlawed for ever".
Naval review and gun salutes on Hudson River. Truman boards Battleship Missouri (where Japanese surrendered). Truman signs visitor's book. Good aerial view of battleship. Truman on deck with Mrs Truman. Gun salute. Navy planes fly overhead. LS bay with battleships. Battleship New York. Aircraft carrier Enterprise. Renshaw. Carrier Midway. Truman waves. Macon. LS and aerials (shot from blimp) Hudson with fleet lined up and NYC skyline.

1945 LN 501-334 220470 LN 501-334 LN 501-334 B/W SD 04:02:22 - 04:04:22 Roosevelt re-elected to 4th Term
FDR at desk. FDR at 1933 inauguration in car with Hoover. Swimming with polio kids. Yalta with Stalin and Churchill. With Ike reviewing troops in North Africa. MacArthur explains strategy against Japan to FDR (Nimitz present). Dewey out of voting booth. Truman as Senator Times Square at night; people waiting for election results. FDR after hearing of electoral victory.
Dewey defeat speech.
FDR at desk

1945 LN 501-334 220472 LN 501-334 LN 501-334 B/W SD 04:34:42 - 04:39:49 1945 - Year Of Victory
Newsreel Review of Greatest News Year In History.
Street fighting during invasion of Germany.
Yalta with Churchill, FDR and Stalin. FDR burial. Truman sworn in. Berlin in flames. Hitler with Mussolini, Goering and others study map. Mob in Rome and Mussolini's body hung up by heels. Hitler's bunker in Berlin. Gasoline canisters which burned his body; Hitler's coat and Eva Braun's clothes? General Keitel signs Germany's surrender w/ Eisenhower.
Ike parades through London and awarded English honours; motorcade through Paris; with wife Mamie off plane and ticker-tape parade in US.
Pacific naval battle and land fighting. Kamikaze attacks on ships. MacArthur returns to Philippines. Manila burning, Iwo Jim flag hoisting. Churchill loses election to Attlee. Attlee with Truman and Stalin at Potsdam w/ Byrnes and Molotov behind. Atom bomb blast. Nagasaki blast seen from above. Truman at White House announces Japan's surrender. Celebration VJ Day Times Square - man dancing and hopping by himself in Australia?
Surrender of Japan aboard Missouri w/ MacArthur. General Umezu signs. Crowded ship carrying returning troops. Sailor welcomed by families, children and wives.
Truman speech re lasting peace at United Nations Organisation (Sd).

1945 LN 501-334 220472 LN 501-334 LN 501-334 B/W SD 04:42:14 - 04:43:50 Best Newsreel Laughs of 1945
Mrs. Truman tries to christen bomber: fails to break bottle on fuselage. Officer takes over and also fails.
Mayor LaGuardia at microphone during New York newspaper strike reads out Dick Tracy cartoon on WNYC radio.

1945 LN 501-335 220480 LN 501-335 LN 501-335
B/W SD 05:33:29 - 05:33:54 General Arnold Awarded Medal By President Truman
Truman pins Oak Leaf Cluster medal on Arnold. CU medal on Arnold's chest. Admirals Leahy, King, and Nimitz and General Eisenhower present and shake hands with Arnold and Truman.

1945 LN 501-335 220480 LN 501-335 LN 501-335
B/W SD 05:33:54 - 05:34:50 Mrs. Truman Opens March of Dimes Drive At Capital
Workers at table open envelopes full of coins. Mrs. Truman with March of Dimes Committee incl. Roosevelt's son. He makes a statement mentioning his father.

1945 LN 501-335 220480 LN 501-335 LN 501-335
B/W SD 05:42:24 - 05:43:54: Names In The News - Nimitz - Adm. King - Gen. Marshall - Adm. Halsey
Admiral Nimitz Sworn In As new Navy Chief:
Nimitz takes oath and congratulated by Forrestal and predecessor Adm. King.
Adm. King Honored By President Truman:
White House: Adm. King and Leahy; Gen. Marshall and Eisenhower; Nimitz and Spaatz. Truman decorates King.
Gen. Marshall Leaves For China: Marshall seen off by Stark
Adm. Halsey Hailed on New York Visit:
Ticker-tape parade on 5th Avenue. Archbishop Spellman in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

1945 LN 501-335 220480 LN 501-335 LN 501-335
B/W SD 05:44:59 - 05:45:27 Movie Executives Pledge Support To March of Dimes
Representatives of Motion picture industry at White House with Truman. Nicholas Skank? and chairman of Infantile Paralysis Foundation Basil O'Connor give pledge of support.
1945 LN 501-337 220468 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 07:02:01 - 07:03:41 De Gaulle in US Hails America's Victory Effort
De Gaulle decorates Admiral Leahy, Gen. Marshall, Admiral King, Gen. Arnold and Gen. Somerville with Croix de Guerre. De Gaulle receives Order of Merit from Truman.
Lay wreath on Roosevelt's grave with Eleanor.
De Gaulle speech in English. Film breaks off in middle - speech incomplete.

1945 LN 501-337 220468 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 07:05:32 - 07:06:15 Heroes of the Week - President Truman Awards the Medal of Honor to 28 Soldiers
Congressional medal presented at White House ceremony. Veteran in wheelchair awarded. Gens. Marshall, Arnold and Adm. King present. Truman poses with all 28 men.

1945 LN 501-337 220468 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 07:14:05 - 07:16:16 Opening of World Peace Conference at San Francisco - Apr45
Delegates seated. Stettinius opening conference. President Truman speech broadcast from Washington DC. "... just and lasting peace... we must provide the machinery which will make peace not only possible but certain... If we do not want to die together in war, we must learn to live together in peace...".
Stettinius closes first day session with speech.
Title: Join 7th War Loan Victory Drive.

1945 LN 501-337 220473 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 07:58:02 - 08:00:40 Admiral Nimitz Welcomed In Washington
Nimitz out of plane and greeted by wife and family. Motorcade and parade of sailors. Nimitz at Washington Monument. Reviews marines and sailors. Planes fly overhead.
Nimitz speech to Congress (sd): "... I pray that no future war may ever again find us unprepared. Most of all I pray that such a war does not begin and end to our disadvantage before we can even begin to fight. This will not happen to us if we exercise our vigilance, our intelligence and keep our fighting forces ready."
Applause.
Truman awards Nimitz distinguished Service medal.

1945 LN 501-337 220473 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 08:00:41 - 08:01:33 Marine And Navy Heroes Honoured By The President (Truman)
Congressional Medal of Honor presented to 13 veterans.

1945 LN 501-337 220477 LN 501-337 LN 501-337
B/W SD 07:31:07 - 07:32:15 Mercy Planes - Two Hospital Ships (planes) Christened By Mrs. Truman
Bess at launch of hospital plane. Bottle refuses to break. All laugh
Gags. Oddities

1945 LN 501-339 220473 LN 501-339 LN 501-339 B/W SD 09:57:22 - 09:58:50 President Truman Dedicates New TVA Dam In Kentucky (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Truman with Lillienthal at dedication. Crowd.
Truman speech re atomic energy: "...We've just discovered the source of the sun's power: atomic energy... We had to turn it loose in the beginning for a destruction... but that tremendous source of energy can create for us the greatest age in the history of the world...".

1945 LN 501-340 220475 LN 501-340 LN 501-340
B/W SD 10:31:45 - 10:33:00 The San Francisco World Conference Gets Under Way
Truman greets Filipino President Osmena in Washington. Molotov welcomed by Stettinius at airport. Preliminary conference in Washington w/ Anthony Eden, Stettinius and Molotov.
16:22:31 San Francisco arrival of delegates at airport; South African Premier General Smuts says he hopes the world has learnt its lesson and will now be able to preserve peace.

1945 LN 501-340 220475 LN 501-340 LN 501-340
B/W SD 10:39:44 - 10:41:15 President Truman Hails Dawn Of New World
Truman speech re Japanese surrender, end of war and future of world:
"The Japanese militarists will never forget the USS Missouri. The evil done by the Japanese warlords can never be repaired or forgotten, but their powers to destroy and kill has been taken from them. Their armies and what is left of their navy are now impotent. It was the spirit of liberty which gave us our armed strength ... we now know that that spirit of liberty, the freedom of the individual and the personal dignity of man are the strongest and toughest and most enduring forces in all the world. From this day we move forward towards a new era. of security at home..... of cooperation, of peace, of international goodwill. We salute you of the armed forces of the United States..."

1945 LN 501-343 220476 LN 501-343 LN 501-343
B/W SD 13:32:24 - 13:32:55 News Of The Nation - President Honors Heroes
Congressional Medals of Honour awarded by Truman at White House to veterans of European and Pacific war.

1945 LN 501-343 220477 LN 501-343 LN 501-343
B/W SD 13:07:30 -13:08:27 Mightiest Battleship
USS Missouri launched by Margaret Truman
Pan up hull. Crowd below clapping. Margaret Truman breaks bottle. Ship glides down ramp and into water and Mrs. Truman blows it a kiss. USS Missouri in sea.

1945 LN 501-343 220477 LN 501-343 LN 501-343
B/W SD 13:48:38 - 13:49:15 Secretary of State Byrnes Decorated
Truman presents Distinguished War Medal to Byrnes for role as Director of War Mobilisation - ceremony in White House Gardens. CU medal and CU Byrnes.

1945 LN 501-344 220473 LN 501-344 LN 501-344 B/W SD 14:07:32 - 14:08:44 News Reports From Washington
Japanese Surrender documents presented to Truman by Secretary of War Stimson. Stimson poses with documents.
General Wainwright unveils surrender documents signed at Tokyo Bay and put on display in Library of Congress. CUs surrender documents and signatures.
Harry Hopkins Honored by Truman - medal pinned.
Film Executive Nicholas M. ?? hands over cheque to Truman for March of Dimes.

1945 LN 501-344 220473 LN 501-344 LN 501-344 B/W SD 14:19:27 - 14:20:10 President Truman Asks Your Aid For National War Fund
Truman speech (sd) appealing for donations for servicemen still abroad and foreign aid.

1945 LN 501-344 220474 LN 501-344 LN 501-344 B/W SD 14:34:07 - 14:39:35 Charter Signed For World Peace - Great Conference of United Nations At San Francisco Closes In Triumph
Truman out of plane greets Stettinius. Motorcade through San Francisco. Standing vote at conference re charter.
Signing charter: Wellington Koo signs for China and speech (sd); Gromyko signs for Soviet Russia; Halifax for UK; France; Mexico; Greece; Saudi Arabia; Brazil; Stettinius for USA.
Stettinius speech "... the San Francisco conference has fulfilled its mandate".
Truman speech closing conference (sd) "...you have won a victory against war itself. If we had had this charter a few years ago, and above all the will to use it, millions now dead would be alive. If we shall falter in the future in our will to use it, millions now living will surely die... let us... make [this charter] a living thing".
Mentions ratification by Senate.

1945 LN 501-344 220474 LN 501-344 LN 501-344 B/W SD 14:39:35 - 14:41:20 President Truman Visits The Folks In Home Town
Truman in motorcade through Independence, Missouri. Truman family house - Truman walks to front porch shaking hands.
Rally in auditorium - audience; Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret. President addresses rally (sd), apologises for not shaking hands w/ each person individually.

1945 LN 501-345 220470 LN 501-345 LN 501-345 B/W SD 15:01:07 - 15:02:39 Hero Of The Week: President Presents Medal of Honor to Sgt. Jake Lindsey
Gen. Marshall with war veteran Lindsey at Joint Session Senate and House of Representatives. Awarded by Truman. Truman speech. Lindsey outside Capitol with parents. Kisses girlfriend. Sgt. with lipstick on face.

1945 LN 800-002 220315 220315 B/W Sd 19:54:41 - 19:57:15 Roosevelt Inauguration
Arrivals - Stettinius and wife. Gen. George Marshall and wife. Harry Truman sworn in as Vice president. FDR takes oath of office. President makes inaugural address - crowds listening

1945 LN 890-001 220298 220298 b/w Sd 22:27:30 - 22:29:13 Montage VJ Day Celebrations
Drunken soldiers; kissing. Celebrations. High angle of Times Square and 2 million with ticker-tape thrown about & drifting down. Girl on shoulders, crowds carrying guy. Drunken soldiers; kissing. Celebrations. Night shots celebrations. Short section Truman. Tickertape and crowds in Times Square

1945 SN 501-045 200541 200541 B/W SD 15:11:23 - 15:16:20 Berlin Conference 1945 Reel 2
Brief shots German SS officer attempts to shake hands with ? Pan down bomb damaged Berlin building. Women in bucket brigade clearing rubble. Woman commandant of concentration camp walks past released prisoners.
15:11:52 Potsdam conference - arrivals, Stalin, Churchill and Truman. Conference begins.
15:12:49 Montage of shots to show proposed de-nazification of Germany. Agreement signed by Eisenhower, Zhukov and Montgomery who make up the Allied Control Council. Three pose for cameras.
15:13:53 Montage landmarks, Capitol, China? Big Ben, Arc de Triomphe, Franco on balcony at military march past.
15:14:07 Potsdam conference, brief shots Eisenhower funeral, England, elections, Churchill out, Atlee in, Atlee arrives in Berlin for conference.
15:15:05 Newspaper headlines Russia declares war on the Japanese. New Bomb Frees Atomic Energy, Stalin, Truman and Atlee pose.
15:15:29 Montage United Nations Flags over images of war and peace

1945 SN 501-045 200541 200541 B/W SD 15:00:21 - 15:10:56 Berlin Conference 1945 Reel 1
7th July 1945, Ships at sea. Cruiser Augusta w/ Truman aboard w/ Byrnes. Through streets in Army car to airport, reviews troops of 35th Div. & boards 4-motor plane, taxiing, in -flight. Off plane in Berlin w/ Gen. Marshall, Anthony Eden, Sec. Byrnes. Shakes hands w/ Winston Churchill. Military parade, Troops of various nation march. Military Chiefs of Staff of many nations around table. Parade & firing salute w/ artillery.
15:04:44 Truman & Churchill shaking hands. Devastated Berlin aerial & ground. Truman tours in open top car, Unter den Linden near Brandenburg gate, posters three leaders on monument.
15:05:24 Flashback Hitler in open top car, adoring Germans. Hitler making speech, overlaid with Eng. translation.
15:06:02 Truman at mic speaking; technicians; radio mast, USA, people listening to radio in various situations. Truman says working for peace for the World. Stalin, Truman, Molotov. Potsdam, good exteriors house.
15:08:24 Arrivals for Potsdam conference, Truman, Stalin, Eisenhower, Montgomery. Truman, Stalin and Churchill join hands for posed photo.
15:08:39 Moscow Conference with Molotov, Eden and Hull.
15:08:53 Cairo, Tehran conference, good shots Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, FDR voiceover flashback shots of German military might.
15:09:57 Yalta, exteriors conference building, interiors meeting in progress
15:10:16 San Francisco, signing of UN charter.
15:10:22 Allies meeting - Elbe? lots of handshaking and celebrations. Surrender signed.

1945 SN 501-059 SN 501-059 SN 501-059 B/W SD 18:03:55 - 18:04:45 De Gaulle Arrives
De Gaulle at Washington airport and welcomed by Secretary of State Byrnes. Motorcade. Guard of Honour at White House - Truman with de Gaulle - de Gaulle saluting Guard of Honour.

1945 SN 901-013 220295 SN 901-012-016 B/W Sd 16:47:56 President Dedicates Power Dam.
TVA Dam and reservoir - President Truman and others looking over dam at the Tennessee River.
New Deal

1946 220481 220481 220481
B/W SD 04:20:29 - 04:21:26 President Truman Leads March Of Dimes Tribute to FDR
Truman poses with family and film stars. Mrs. Truman cuts piece of huge cake & serves Ben Johnson, Bill Bendicks, ? Romero. Postmaster General Bob Hannigan presents Truman with new FDR stamps.
Brief Truman speech re fight against infantile paralysis.

1946 628138 220613 220613 / B/W SD 12:00:00 - 12:07:47 Churchill - Fulton Speech. "Iron Curtain on Eastern Europe"
12:06:46 - President Truman and Churchill with cigar driving through streets
12:06:58 - speech continues

1946 LN 501-036 LN 501-036 LN 501-036 B/W Sd 13:00:00 - 13:16:14 Churchill speaking. Poor sd. till 13:02:00. 'However in a great number of countries far from the Russian frontiers and thruout the world Communist 5th columns...' (slug) 13:08:43. Truman introduces Churchill. Audience 'Ladies & Gentlemen it is no times for generalities...' (13:10:23) audience. Truman receives degree; then Churchill. 13:10:42 slug. 'I know you would not wish me to not state the facts as I see them; from in the Baltic to Trieste..and Iron Curtain has descended.' (13:13.26 --13:16.14 out of rack)

1946 LN 501-090 LN 501-090 LN 501-090 b/w Sd 04:21:00 - 04:29:08 Cold War - Churchill Fulton MO 'Iron Curtain' Speech
Churchill "...it is my duty to place before you certain facts about the present state of Europe...Iron Curtain..."
04:28:05 Motorcade w/ Truman waving to crowd. Churchill riding on back of car.
04:28:17 Interior & more of speech talking about "...atom bomb that England, the United States & Canada share...".

1946 LN 501-184 LN 501-184 LN 501-184 B/W SD 02:29:16 - 02:45:16 [Churchill - Fulton, MO Speech - Iron Curtain Segment]
Beginning has sound problems. Brief shot of Truman awarded honorary doctorate in middle of speech. Churchill says he has always had faith in France, even in darkest hour. USSR wants an expansion of its ?? Our difficulties will not be removed by waiting... What is needed is a settlement. 02:36:28 "...From Stettin in the Baltic ...an iron curtain has descended..."
02:37:18 Truman introduces Churchill. Honorary degrees bestowed - urges pact between US and Great Britain.
02:39:24 Speech again slighlty better sound - 02.39.50 From...an iron curtain has descended... speaks of Russians in Berlin and their quasi communist party. Film goes out of focus.

1946 LN 501-337 220473 LN 501-337 LN 501-337 B/W SD 07:52:16 - 07:53:53 Appeal To America To Save Starving Millions Abroad
Truman speech (Sd):
"America is faced with a solemn obligation. Long ago we promised to do our full part. Now we cannot ignore the cry of hungry children... millions are sure to die unless we eat less. Again I strongly urge Americans to save bread and to conserve oil and fats... every ounce of bread... will help keep starving people alive".
Mayor LaGuardia speech (Sd):
"Czechoslovakia, Poland... Greece... will be without bread in a few days unless we rush boatloads of wheat to these countries... I appeal desperately to the American farmer. People are dying. Please help."

1946 LN 501-344 220474 LN 501-344 LN 501-344 B/W SD 14:30:01 - 14:30:47 News Of The Nation - Hero Chaplain Honoured By President Truman
Congressional Medal of Honor presented for commander O'Callaghan of carrier Franklin.
LS Franklin burning (after kamikaze attack); firefighters; helping injured; saying last rites? or prayer over dead? or wounded man.
McKinney, Gary and Lee also decorated.

1947 ? LN 501-207 220656 220656 B/W SIL 22:08:39 - 22:13:14 President Truman at Key West
PT boats at speed - carrying President Truman? Truman weighing fishing catch. Truman and others into open top car
22:11:05 Truman and guests at Summer White House - in gardens - relaxing in sun wearing pith helmet. Nice shot sitting under palm tree reading. Press. Presidential car down drive.

1947 ? LN 501-090 LN 501-090 LN 501-090 b/w Sd 04:16:56 - 04:20:50 President Truman Cold War Speech to Congress
Joint session of Congress applauds as President Truman arrives, shakes hands. CU listening (MOS). Newsreel cameramen & reporters in the gallery.
04:18:20 Truman speaking re "totalitarian has been forced on people in Poland, Romania & Bulgaria in violation of Yalta Treaty...nearly every nation must choose way of life...will of majority...or based on will of minority...I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support...free people to work out their own destiny...I am confident Congress will face their responsiblity squarely". This may be March 12, 1947 speech. (heavy hiss throughout tape)

1947 ? LN 501-207 220656 220656 B/W SIL 22:28:16 - 22:29:22 Truman Signs Bill
President Truman at desk signing - surrounded by four others including Sec. Marshall, Attorney General Clarke and others. Shot from behind camera crew as group pose.
Truman smiling and laughing.

1947 LN 501-195 LN 501-195 LN 501-195 B/W SD 02:16:11 - 02:17:12 Marshall Back from Big Meet
Four prop plane taxiing - Capitol in background - Secretary of State George Marshall deplanes and is greeted by President Truman - Truman makes speech congratulating Marshall on his efforts at the Big 4 Moscow conference.

1947 LN 501-241 220715 220715 B/W SD 16:27:16 - 16:30:12 Truman Acts to Halt Red Aggression
Truman Doctrine Speech.
President Truman addresses joint session of congress on changing foreign policy. "The gravity of the situation which confronts the World today ..." . Talks re Greece and Turkey. Greece threatened by communist backed terrorists. Asks Congress for 400 million dollars to provide assistance to Greece and Turkey. Asks for authority to send military and civilian personnel to Greece and Turkey to provide assistance and oversee the spending of monetary aid. "The free peoples of the World look to us in maintaining their freedom, if we falter in our leadership we may endanger the peace of the world and we will surely endanger the welfare of this nation. Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events....". President gets standing ovation.
Cold War

1947 LN 501-241 220715 220715 B/W SD 16:27:16 - 16:30:12 Truman Acts to Halt Red Aggression
Truman Doctrine Speech.
President Truman addresses Joint Session of Congress on changing foreign policy. "The gravity of the situation which confronts the World today ..." talks re Greece and Turkey. Greece threatened by Communist-backed terrorists. Asks Congress for 400 million dollars to provide assistance to Greece and Turkey. Asks for authority to send military and civilian personnel to Greece and Turkey to provide assistance and oversee the spending of monetary aid. "The free peoples of the World look to us in maintaining their freedom, if we falter in our leadership we may endanger the peace of the world and we will surely endanger the welfare of this nation. Great responsibilities have been placed upon us by the swift movement of events...". President gets standing ovation.
Cold War

1947 LN 501-268
220770 220770 B/W SIL 04:54:55 - 05:03:56 [Byrnes Retires - Marshall Sworn In]
Men in uniform in passenger plane fly above Angkor Wat? - aerial of temple, French? cathedral, castle.
04:55:37 Reception for Byrnes' retirement; parade. French military review at airfield. Indochinese children line up road and wave French flags. Byrnes given flowers by people on roadside. Party visits Buddhist temple; Buddhist monks - one wears medals on his robe. Entering temple. Ceremony for Byrnes inside temple, text read by Indochinese official. Aerial Buddhist temple. Byrnes shakes hands with official. Byrnes leaves with French. Byrnes in plane.
04:59:05 Byrnes and De Lattre de Tassigny visit Buddhist temple - Thailand? Official greetings indoors.
Byrnes packs up his office and leaves waving to cameras.
05:00:35 George Marshall and wife off plane. Marshall talks to ABC journalist.
05:01:41 Marshall sworn in as Secretary of State by Justice Vinson. Truman and Byrnes present. Marshall exits.
05:02:41 Row of newsreel cameramen filming. Photographers (good)
05:03:30 MCU George Marshall posing for photographers & cameramen.

1947 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 14:03:55 - 14:04:52 General Marshall Takes Oath
Marshall sworn in to succeed Byrnes as Secretary of State. Chief Justice Vincent swears him in. Marshall shakes hands w/ Truman, then w/ Byrnes. CU photographers. Marshall walks to his new office; at desk

1947 SN 901-015 220296 SN 901-012-016 B/W Sd 18:12:35 - 18:13:11 News in Brief - Washington D.C.
Truman awards Collier trophy to Louis Rodin ? - Trophy is awarded to person who has contributed to aircraft safety - he has invented way of de-icing aircraft.

1947 SN 901-015 220296 SN 901-012-016 B/W Sd 18:15:34 - 18:16:03 News in Brief - Washington. Truman has new puppy.
Spaniel pup with press - kennel for "Feller".

1947? LN 501-322 LN 501-322 LN 501-322 B/W SIL 07:19:08 - 07:21:22 [State Dinner]
Jackson Day? with Truman, Vinson and many VIPs

1948 ? LN 501-213 220670 LN 501-213 B/W SIL 03:02:17 - 03:07:48 Truman at Congress (re Israel)
Washington - Capitol building as Presidential car arrives. Interior Congress. Mass of press cameras. Truman on stand (mos). Truman (wearing white spatz) with George Marshall leaving building. Interior Congress - all stand

1948 LN 501-017 LN 501-017 LN 501-017 B/W Si 00:27:29 - 00:31:38 President Harry S Truman in Puerto Rico
School children and civilians assembled at airport to greet the President. CU little girl holding American flags. Banners from various schools. Crowds applauding. Truman on stand. Cameras - motion picture camera and woman with still camera. President accompanied by Hon. Jesus T. Pinero, Governor getting into open top car.
00:29:35 Plane taxiis - President out of plane and greeted by Governor of Puerto Rico Jesus T. Pinero, the Rt. Hon. Luis Munoz-Marin, President of the Puerto Rican senate, Vice Admiral D. E. Barbey, Lt. General W. D. Crittenberger. Major Gen. Ray E. Porter and others. The President and party visit El Morro Fortress, VG CU of President laughing

1948 LN 501-183 220637 LN 501-183 B/W SIL 01:20:13 - 01:23:34 Truman Wins- Democrats Upset all Forecasts ..
Queues outside polling station as voters wait to cast vote in election. Interiors casting votes. Pan over apartment / tenemant blocks of Harlem. Governor Dewey and wife out of car. Press photographers and cameraman outside building and hanging off balconies to gain vantage point. Interior Dewey signs ?. Harry Truman smiling as he walks up steps and through press. Int. casts vote. Exterior Library of South Salem. Gov. Wallace and wife. Strom Thurmond and wife - voting. Interiors, news cameras and press room. Vote counting. Nice shot group of cameramen and reporters feigning collapse, sleep. Celebration party. Western Union - telegram of congratulations. Truman smiling. Truman at desk with subtitles "All my efforts to the cause of peace in the World and the prosperity ...". White House. Exterior Capitol, men erecting seating stands / inaugural platform.

1948 LN 501-219 220786 220786 B/W SD 01:01:49 - 01:04:12 General Pershing - Nation's Top Soldier Buried at Arlington
Coffin lying in state in the rotunda of the Capitol. Politicians pay respects including Sec. of State George Marshall. Exterior, long line of people queue to pay respects. Interior people including veterans, mothers and children pass coffin. Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, Clark and others stand in salute as coffin is brought out to caisson. Funeral procession through crowd lined streets to Arlington Cemetery. Mourners follow, marching in rain. Funeral cortege arrives at Arlington. President Truman bows his head. Family mourners. Last post played

1948 SN 901-001 220292 220292 B/W Sd 11:29:32 - 11:31:51 Truman Speaks to Congress on State of the Union
Capitol - Truman welcomed by congress. Truman speaks re cost of living and inflation - corporate profits - says he wants $40 tax credit for all and support of the Marshall Plan

1949 200380 200380 200380 / B/W Sd 02:09:41 - 02:19:35 The Reorientation Branch - Central Park Documentary: Guide to recreational facilities in New York City's Central Park.
AVs New York and Central Park area. 59th Street with skyscrapers on one side and Central park on the other - hansom cabs / horse drawn carriages waiting for trade. People sitting on benches in park feeding birds / pigeons. Children in pony and trap. Little boy buys balloon. Zoo - families and children watching monkeys - Tiglon ( half lion half tiger ) in cage. Polar bears. Feeding time for seals.
02:12:50 Traffic in Central park - shots across lake of skyscrapers. Boaters on lake. Boy fishing. Woman fishing while baby sits in pram watching. Fly casting contest. 02:14:28 Bethesda Fountain - Belvedere weather observing station - Cleopatras Needle. 02:15:02 Audience seated in The Mall - President Truman making speech (not heard) Country Square dancing. Tavern on the Green - dancing. Hansom cabs along Albany Post Road - tennis courts - softball played - basketball - kids play american football - Pony trekking / horse back riding.
02:17:03 Winter in the park. Horse drawn skiers and sleigh. Toboganning. Ice skating - building snowmen. Spring, young woman walking dogs. Mothers and children playing - playground, swings - kids on bicycles - old men pitch horseshoes - play chequers / draughts. People sunbathing / relaxing on grass.

1949 LN 501-071 LN 501-071 LN 501-071 B/W SIL 18:45:39 - 18:46:44 Headlines - Reds Explode Atom Bomb
Headline 'Truman Says Reds Exploded Atom Bomb', man reading. Other newspapers with same headline & man with cigar reading re Russian Nuclear blast. Other men reading. Henrich's Homer Ties Count. POV walking past stoop / doorstep.

1949 LN 800-001 220315 220315 B/W Sd 19:39:09 - 19:44:30 Truman Inauguration - incomplete
Capitol - banks of cameramen. Truman arrives for swearing in ceremony. Truman sworn in - makes inaugural speech. Anti communist. Cutaways to crowds. Parade
Cold war

1950 ? LN 501-199 LN 501-199 LN 501-199 B/W SIL 09:28:32 - 09:29:37
[Truman & Cabinet - National Security Council]
Truman & cabinet around table with Acheson & Ball (?) on either side. Bradley in uniform; Marshall in civilian clothes. Harriman. Others unidentified. Cold War; US Government; Military Advisors; Spying.

1950 220271 220271 182752 / B/W 01:21:57 Atom Bomb
Truman at press conference. Atomic explosion seen, night. Narration about use in Korea. Dead & refugees in Korea. Saint Peter's & pilgrims in Rome praying. United Nations as symbol.

1950 220271 220271 182752 / B/W sd 01:09:20 - 01:11:03 No Appeasement - President Puts Nation On All-Out War Footing
Truman at desk speaking into mic & camera. 'Here are the things we will do...uphold & defend the principals of the United Nations...will build up our army & navy...we do not believe that war is inevitable...'

1950s LN 501-105 220539 LN 501-105 b/w Sd 03:58:31 - 03:59:33 Truman & Petrillo Play Duet at Union Meeting
People in large hall applauding; Truman shaking hands with James Petrillo & Petrillo with trumpet & Truman at piano to play duet of Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here. Much laughing.

1950s 220019 220019 / B/W SD 04:37:40 - 04:41:03 Korea K4
Allies hold tight as Truman alerts the nation B-29 super forts 8 days after alert in action attacking communications - Reinforcements pouring ashore - Marching along road. Walker and Dean together. Delaying action after left Taejon. Says tanks taken out by new bazookas. Howitsers heavy artillery
04:39:54 Truman SOF "Free nations must be on their guard more than ever before... Lameless aggression will be met by fatal force[...]We know that the cost of freedom is high, but we are determined to preserve our freedom no matter what the cost."

1950s 220263 220263 182757 + 181727 & 181728 / B/W si 19:51:04 [Weitzman meets with Truman]
Car past camera & up to side of White House. Weitzman presents Truman with gift in Rose Garden. Many photographers as he is helped out of car. CU. People waving Israel flags. Weitzmann & wife walking past camera & waving. Out of Union Station. Cameramen & soundmen. Motorcade away from station. Out of W.H. & into car. Press conference with reporters taking notes. Sitting in garden at microphone. Speaking (MOS) into mic.

1950s LN 501-064 LN 501-064 LN 501-064 b/w SIL 07:21:24 - 07:24:19 Truman at Wake Forest College
Flags flying, back view Truman on stand addressing huge crowd (mos) top shot crowd. Truman with silver spade performs breaking ground ceremony - press photographers - Truman laughing. Crowds outside building. Presidents plane lands, Truman off aircraft and greeted, escorted to stand - press - crowds. Addresses crowds. Truman waves hat as gets into open top car. Shots repeated / cuts

1950s LN 501-064 LN 501-064 LN 501-064 b/w SIL 07:37:51 - 07:39:26 Truman Leaves on Plane.
President arrives at airport by car and greeted. Good shot smiling for cameras. Leaves with military officer - aircraft takes off.

1950s LN 501-255
LN 501-255 LN 501-255 B/W SIL 22:51:06 - 22:56:21 [Weitzman meets with Truman]
Car past camera & up to side of White House. Weizmann presents Truman with gift in Rose Garden. Many photographers as he is helped out of car. CU. People waving Israel flags. Weizmann & wife walking past camera & waving. Out of Union Station. Cameramen & soundmen. Motorcade away from station. Out of W.H. & into car. Press conference with reporters taking notes. Sitting in garden at microphone. Speaking (MOS) into mic.

1950s LN 501-269
LN 501-269 LN 501-269 B/W Sd/Sil 16: 45:10 - 16:51:50 [Dulles Returns from NATO]
Plane on runway and Dulles out and shaking hands with various VIPs.
Press conference on airfield (Sd) - Dulles mentions going to report to President later same day. Says he feels a great deal has been accomplished.
"... we have seen great events: the entry of Germany into NATO; the actual beginning of Western European union; good talks about China and about Indochina; the signing of the Austrian State treaty; and the agreement of the Western powers upon an invitation to the Soviet Union for a meeting of the four heads of government... I return feeling this has been an eventful week and that much good work has been done."
White House inserts?: Photographs. Clock. Family pictures. Globe. Encyclopedia on shelf. paintings. Pelican sculpture. Portrait beardless Abraham Lincoln. Medals.
Photographers and newsreel cameramen setting up. Nixon, Byrnes & Unid. man.
Dulles reporting to Truman in Oval Office. Many other VIPs present. Exterior White House.

1951 ? LN 501-246 LN 501-246 LN 501-246 B/W SIL 06:32:25 - 06:33:32 [Truman Gives Medals to Military & USO Function]
Motorcade to Union Station, Washington. Truman gives 2 medals to military & USO serving buffet to service people. Sailor & WAC(?) reading on sofa, soldiers eating chips & ??

1951 220272 220272 182756 + 170199 B/W Sd 03:08:14 - 03:08:49 News In Brief (Truman Speaks at Wake Forest)
Newspapers behind title
Narration only.
Wake Forest Ground Breaking sign w/ flag poles. Viewing stand & Truman speaking in LS & from behind. With shovel breaking ground & smiling. He digs for first shovel at ground breaking. MCU of still photographer. Brief shot of large crowd applauding.

1951 230068 220290 220290 / B/W sd 06:03:15 - 06:04:03 News in Brief : Washington D.C.
Washington - American Legion building opened by Truman - President Truman on stand makes opening speech of dedication - audience stand and applaud

1951 LN 501-045 LN 501-045 LN 501-045 B/W SIL 06:43:57 - 06:46:05 David Ben Gurion Meets with Truman in White House.
Ben Gurion and Abba Eban out of limousine and enter White House. Sitting with Truman in office - gives Menorah to Truman.

1951 LN 501-246 LN 501-246 LN 501-246 B/W SIL 06:07:22 - 06:09:34 [Truman at Key West White House Press Conference on Lawn]
Reporters in yard of Key West vacation White House. Edward R. Murrow. Truman & others out. Truman talking, reporters listening & taking notes. A few women. Lots of Hawaiian shirts.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 14:11:42 - 14:12:09 News In Brief - Plevin Arrives in New York re Atlantic Pact
French Premier Plevin off plane; with Ambassador Bonnet and Truman.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 14:16:50 - 14:18:57 President Auriol of France Hailed on Visit to US
Ship Ile de France. Auriol and wife arrive in New York on visit to US and Canada; look at Statue of Liberty . Auriol with French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman.
Auriol arrives in Washington by train; greets Truman. French flag and Stars and Stripes fly alongside. Motorcade under banner "Vive le President Auriol". Crowds wave. Auriol given keys to city.
Auriol speech in English re gratitude to US for helping to defend "peace and liberty".

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 14:39:53 - 14:41:24 Truman - President Asks Strict Curb On Inflation
Truman speech - says Communists have been hoping for collapse of American economy, hence anti-inflation law plays part in fight for peace.

1951 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 14:43:00 - 14:43:43 News In Brief - WWII Amputees Meet Truman
WWII veteran who has both legs amputated demonstrate walking to President Truman - other with amputated hands lights cigarette. Both shake hands with Truman.

1952 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 15:07:50 - 15:10:16 Churchill In US - Confers With Truman and Defense Chiefs
Liner Queen Mary arrives at New York Harbour. Churchill disembarks; brief shot press conference. Churchill boards presidential plane Independent. Landing in Washington DC. Full military honours as Churchill exits plane in DC and Churchill shakes hands with Truman and others. Churchill speech re pursuit of unity between USA and Britain. Truman concludes "Peace on earth is what we're both striving for".
Churchill and Truman board presidential yacht Williamsburgh; Anthony Eden and Dean Acheson on board; other military and government officials posing round Truman and Churchill.

1952 LN 501-292 220795 220795
B/W SD 15:25:56 - 15:26:30 News In Brief - Korea War Heroes Honoured
Truman decorates three Korea veterans icl. Latino.

1952 SN 901-003 220293 220293 B/W Sd 12:00:03 - 12:01:57 Nato Report - President Outlines Foreign Aid Needs
President Truman addresses the nation seated at desk. Says NATO needs not only direct military aid but also financial. Says US cannot afford not to spend on defence - only way to stop communism (cold war) and preserve the American way of life.
1952 SN 901-003 220293 220293 B/W Sd 12:02:32 - 12:03:13 News in Brief - Voice of America Broadcast from Ship
Coast Guard Cutter Courier at dock - President Truman boards for inauguration - radio transmitter room - ship will cruise waters off of communist bloc countries broadcasting (propaganda) (cold war).

1953 SN 501-018 220316 SN 501-018 B/W Sd 21:19:15 - 21:26:05 Eisenhower Inaugurated - Complete
Capitol. Traffic in snow; people off planes & trains. Street scenes. Buttons, balloons. White House & press. Truman greets Ike & Mamie. Motorcade. Capitol grounds. Ike at stand; Nixon taking oath. Ike swearing in & part of inaugural address(w/ sd). Parade.

1954 220272 220272 182756 + 170199 / B/W Sd 03:20:15 - 03:21:43 Truman Is 70 -- Says President `Must Be Master'
Main Title: Universal International Newsreel
03:20:27 Posing beside large cake with Bess & Margaret he cuts cake as Eleanor Roosevelt & Averill Harriman look on.
03:20:55 Truman speaks and says that President must be master in own house, and agencies, including Armed Forces must be responsible to the President in the Constitutional manner.

1954 LN 501-251 220747 220747 B/W SD 09:04:05 - 09:04:30 News in Brief - Washington DC
Statue Trade Unionist Samuel Gompers. William Green and President Truman at dedication ceremonies for Gompers Square.

1956 230068 220290 220290 / B/W sd 06:08:40 - 06:09:08

News in Brief - England President Truman gets honorary doctorate at Oxford University
Procession of dons at University - President Truman in ceremonial robes

1956 LN 501-203 LN 501-203 LN 501-203 B/W SIL 01:00:06 - 01:06:13 1956 Democratic Convention
Kennedy, Lodge, Symington, Truman, Stevenson at 1956 Democratic convention - crowds.
01:02:21 Truman takes stand - standing ovation from crowd. 01:04:38 JFK (Kennedy) on stand with others. Top shot crowds in convention hall.

1956 LN 501-323 220866 220866 B/W SIL 11:07:52 - 11:14:00 [1956 Democratic Convention - JFK, Truman, Kefauver]
Kefauver? at microphone. "Stevenson / Kennedy" banners & crowd. Candidate at mic. John Kennedy (JFK) at mic. Kefauver & wife? at mic. Truman at mic. Group at mic incl. Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver & Kennedy. Photographers with heaving crowd behind. LS convention hall.

1960 LN 501-196 220646 220646 B/W SD 09:48:03 - 09:48:56 News In Brief - Washington D.C. (Democratic Dinner)
Large dining room w/ 2,500 people at tables for $100/plate dinner. Truman, John F Kennedy, Sam Rayburn, Gov. Miner of NJ, Chairman Butler & Hubert Humphrey. LBJ & Sen. Symington all focused on.

1962 SN 803-008 220302 SN 803-008 B/W Sd 10:01:40 - 10:03:34 Final Tribute - Mrs Roosevelt Laid to Rest.
St James Church in the Hudson River hamlet of Hyde Park - crowds - President John F. Kennedy (JFK) and wife Jackie arrive for funeral. Harry S Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Lyndon Johnson (LBJ), Earl Warren and other mourners enter church. Close up of headstone on Franklin Roosevelts (FDR) grave. Ceremony as Eleanor Roosevelt is buried in cemetery.

220258 182607 &170042 / B/W 15:32:10 - 15:38:03 [President Truman Greets Shah of Iran]
Shah of Iran greeted by President Truman at National Airport. Truman reads speech. Shah speaks in English off the cuff. Shake hands. "I bring you a message of warm regard...to work with the United States for peace in Middle East." Arrives on Presidential plane. US color guard.

early 1950s? LN 501-281 LN 501-281 LN 501-281 B/W SD 02:00:09 - 02:05:55 [Truman Greets Pahlevi]
Shah of Iran greeted by President Truman at National Airport. Truman reads speech. Shah speaks in English off the cuff. Shake hands. 'I bring you a message of warm regard...to work with the United States for peace in Middle East.' Arrives on Presidential plane. US colour guard.