Description

This film contain two stories. Reel 1 is "They're in the Army Now" and features Army recruitment and training. Reel 2 is "The Truman Story." Footage includes Chief Justice Stone swearing in President Truman as James Forrestal, Edward R. Stettinius as others look on and shows Truman's birthplace in Lamar, Mo., still pictures of him in his WWI uniform, and WWI battle scenes. Truman campaigns, reviews a military parade, poses with President Roosevelt at the 1944 Demo. convention, addresses Congress, poses aboard the cruiser Augusta bound for Potsdam, shakes hands with neighbors in Independence, enters his house, poses with his wife and daughter, takes a walk, visits the owner of a men's store, kisses his mother, poses with a March of Dimes poster girl, marches in a parade with his WWI friends, shakes hands with veterans on the White House lawn, shakes hands with Negroes, receives a gift from Israeli President Weizmann, poses with Gen. Marshall, and signs the NATO treaty. President Roosevelt's funeral cortege proceeds down Pa. Ave., the U.S. flag flies at half-mast, Japanese soldiers surrender, citizens celebrate V-J day in Times Square, the first A-bomb explodes in N.M., Japanese officials surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, houses are constructed, house trailers crowd a trailer camp, higher price marks are placed on food items, demonstrators protest the Taft-Hartley Act, and grain and other supplies are loaded aboard European bound ships. Also shown are the Capitol, White House, and Washington Monument.

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National Archives and Records Administration

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