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PRE-PRESIDENCY
220435 00:15:53
- 00:22:52 1918 Si b/w
INCLUDING:
00:16:23 President Wilson leaves
the White House, FDR beside car - rides down
Pennsylvania Ave. Shows parade
units and crowds in Washington DC - floats, Wilson and wife watching. Parade with mock coffin of Kaiser. Black man in beret leads marching
band. Crowd on lawn outside White
House.
00:18:46
220915 22:01:46
- 22:06:52 193? SIL B/W
French titles
Statue of Liberty from various angles. Liner passing. Brief
shot FDR addressing Congress.
22:03:04
220215 11:42:50
- 11:48:00 1926
? SIL B/W
Interior of horticulture building. Horse racing - trotting. Car Parking areas
at site of fair - split screen - AVs car-parks. Richard Byrd just before his
Antarctic journey.
Roosevelt (FDR) visits State Fair
100 mile championship auto / car race featuring the world’s greatest drivers
Open air night show - chorus girls on stage - firework display
221539 00:20:50
- 00:23:19 1928;
1920 (?); SIL B/W
Roosevelt on
crutches posing w/ others including Al Smith.
00:21:02 Int. pan across large
1928 Democratic Convention w/ placards & demonstrators.
00:21:50 CU Al Smith tipping hat
to camera. FDR & three others in front of
large Alfred Smith poster & bunting.
00:22:05 View to Capitol building
in Albany, New York. FDR at desk. Posing seated w/ family.
00:22:36 Pre-polio standing w/ others
on railroad platform smiling. Sitting in backseat of large open car wearing straw hat. Up steps from car & kissing Eleanor
(?) on large porch w/ palms in pots.
00:22:58 Speaking to crowd. Shaking hands w/ suffragettes. Posing w/ Eleanor.
NOTE: Probably campaigning as Vice-President candidate, 1920.
Large crowd listening to FDR speaking. Roosevelt in straw hat beside horse. Rides off in car shaking hands.
220945 12:11:25
- 12:20:50 1930’s
- 1959 SD COL
INCLUDING:
12:15:48 30Sep35 FDR dedicates Hoover dam. Reservoir filling.
12:16:37
22:15:16 FDR signs National Social Security
Act w/ VIPs watching. Montage deprived & unemployed;
children.
22:15:31 Capitol dome framed w/
tree branches.
22:15:39 Coal miners into tunnel,
superimposed titles: Social Security Act; Wage and Hour Act.
Car manufacturing, welding. Hooverville
w/ rural poor family in makeshift house, beds outside/ superimposed title:
Unemployment compensation.
22:16:04 Laborers, superimposed
title: 8 Hour day. Dirty working
children group photo & superimposed title; Outlaw Child Labor. Exterior factory w/ smoking chimneys
& title; Wagner Act. Men in
street with ‘Strike” signs around neck picketing.
22:16:31 Staged: Businessmen meeting around table.
NOTE: Brief shots useful for
montages.
220606 03:20:10
- 03:25:38 1930s
? SIL B/W
Man with strange hat says T.N.T., M.O.C. Bald man in CU. LS of crowd
in grandstand standing as US flags carried in. Flags also hanging between pillars. Bandstand with flags & ?? Man talking to crowd seen from
behind. Soldiers with Gen Pershing
standing. Others at
attention. FDR at Tomb of Unknown Soldier, along with other
dignitaries. Military
saluting. Roosevelt (FDR) walks. VFW colour guard. Wreath placing by man alongside women in white (Gold Star Mothers of
WWI?).
220855 18:00:10
- 18:02:22 1930s? SIL B/W
President Roosevelt on USS Potomac with Ickes, Hopkins & James Roosevelt. On way to Miami? Good shot newsreel cameramen. FDR standing.
220461 07:37:44
- 07:38:47 1933 Si b/w
Crowd of foresters out of tents in field, running to greet Roosevelt and shake hands.
Eating outdoors, FDR at head of table. Talking at end of meal, smiling, men gathered around
him.
220462 08:57:58
- 09:00:55 1933 Sd b/w
Congress in session - unidentified man making speech from podium re re-opening
of banks. Man at petrol station bartering with crate of apples. Woman getting
groceries - sign in shop window - Never Mind the Holidays - We will trust you.
Another sign You don’t need money. What Have you got. We will take anything.
Man bartering guitar for vegetables. Flashback - Banks closed - bank armoured car taking away money. Police
control queue / line of women waiting to enter store - women rushing through
department store - buying - out of doors with bags.
Depression
Three-stack liner Berringeria in NYC harbor. Litvinov on board speaks in English on arrival to visit FDR.(GOOD). From ship by government boat to New Jersey &
station. Good NYC skyline. Litvinov on rear of train carriage,
waves to crowds & shakes hands. Litvinov poses for cameras with Cordell Hull. Motorcade w/ motorcycle escort to White House.
221089 17:49:58
- 17:50:40 1933 SIL B/W
Cordell Hull reports to FDR at Hyde Park on London Economic Conference - pose for
cameras on terrace.
221541 03:25:32
- 03:27:06 1933 SIL B/W
03:25:40 Motorcade accompanied by
motorcycle police & mounted cops thru street lined w/ spectators; FDR waving from open car. POV from camera car.
03:26:04 MOS President FDR & mother talking w/ son (?).
03:26:16 MS raising sails on sailboat, Amberjack
II. FDR seated watching. Son gets up & onto stern deck.
03:26:41 CU bow thru water. MS of boat, accompanied by navy small
boat. Sons on board, FDR waves.
03:27:00 LS under sail, pulling
dinghy.
200263 01:04:31
- 01:06:45 1933 sd B/W
President Roosevelt speaks to the population re economic policies March 1933. Shows FDR at mike and people listening to
radios
220646 09:40:50
- 09:41:49 1934 SD B/W
FDRs mother on
80th birthday and enjoyment of her home. Talks about how proud she is of her son's 'home beautification program'.
221297 06:13:49
- 06:14:15 1934 SIL B/W
High angle of United States Department of Justice building. Entrance w/ President Roosevelt arriving in open car w/ car &
body guards following past camera. FDR waves hat. Large interior
courtyard w/ crowd. FDR on arm of man waving. High angle of seted guests; MCU of Roosevelt seated while being
introduced. Two men talking; MCU
of Chief Justice Holmes (?) seated. Department of Justice logo on flag.
LS motorcade
over heads of crowd. FDR posing for cameras.
Congress, FDR reads speech.
Various families listens to speech on radio, incl. men in home or hospital
gathered round table. Capitol. FDR off in car.
Huey Long on Bonus Army Veto.
Speaking from desk - says “ These three million soldiers their wives and
their children had already figured
what each of them would do with the few hundred dollars that each one of them
were to get ... pay debts .. buy food .. educate children .. “ Says how cruel it was of FDR to make such an event of Vetoing
their bonus. Short shot of Congress from dais.
Father Coughlin on Bonus Army Veto.
Coughlin in front of microphones addressing large meeting. “ May I remind the
President ( FDR ) that not one of these soldiers cast a ballot in 1917 to force a peace loving
nation like ours to take up arms for the profiteers and the exploiters of
mankind “ Crowd cheering.
220461 07:48:13
- 07:49:48 1935 Sd b/w
FDR drives on
country road past house in car.
Farmer feeds chicken, in cabbage patch. Cattle. Arrival FDR and Eleanor in car. CU farmers
watching. FDR speech in car. drives off (FDR driving himself).
Tenement buildings, laundry hanging out. Eleanor Roosevelt cuts ribbon for opening. Old women
look on, man holding baby. Small crowd wave flags.
220757 22:24:25
- 22:33:31 1935 SD B/W
22:31:26
Intermittent sound
220804 06:21:41
- 06:22:14 1935 SD B/W
White House - President Roosevelt (FDR). Flashback
end of prohibition - brewers dray with barrels - Al Capone at races (poor
quality shot). Criminal behind
bars - FBI agent firing guns - Dillinger on slab - Hauptmann.
All very short montage shots
220870 04:23:10
- 04:23:54 1935 Sd B/W
White House across south lawn. President Teddy Roosevelt speaking; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; FDR; Newspaper headline of prohibition repeal.
04:23;22 Draft horses & beer
wagon at loading dock w/ barrels. Int. w/ bootlegger Al Capone.
04:23;32
220295 16:12:43
- 16:13:27 1936 Si B/W
Crowds at outdoor
ceremony at military cemetery -
close shots various VIPs including Roosevelt (FDR), General Pershing and old soldiers - colour party lay wreath on war grave.
220461 07:49:55
- 07:51:17 1936 SoF b/w
Crowd waving as FDR car and motorcade drives through city streets.
Big enthusiastic crowd in front of White House. Cheering.
Roosevelt speech thanking people who have written to him.
2ND CAMPAIGN & PRESIDENTIAL TERM
220461 07:51:10
- 07:54:51 1936 SoF b/w
Voters queuing outside laundry shop. Man gets out of voting booth. Old bearded
elector registers. FDR in car to Town Hall in small town. Stands with son? in polling
station, goes in polling booth. Photographers. Stands out of booth. Car drives
off.
republican candidate Alfred Landon casts vote.
Roosevelt speech after voting.
Huge crowds in streets celebrating victory. Women with fancy hats in carriage
pulled by man in top hat, sign on carriage “we bet on Roosevelt”, man pulling cart has sign on
back ‘Landon also ran”, woman
whips him.
Roosevelt at
desk with his mother looks through large pile of papers.
Elections
FDR arrives in
car & people cheer. US flag unveiled from Jefferson’s face.
Republican convention, cheering. Herbert Hoover on platform, waving & cheering. Hoover speaks keynote address. Equates Democrats & Roosevelt (FDR ) with Fascism.
FDR at podium
makes speech - re he has seen war and its horrors. “I hate War” bid for peace.
FDR on executive
yacht Potomac in British West Indies
Aerial Yacht in bay. FDR on deck chatting with small group.
Landon arriving in car and walking into stately building with crowds cheering. Landon & FDR posing together. Landon exits building. FDR motorcade.
After the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace in Buenos Aires,
Tug boats escorting President’s ship. FDR waving from deck. Press. Unid. man kisses FDR in welcome. FDR rides in open top car - FBI on
running boards. Crowds running to
keep up with car.
Ship to shore, guard of honour lined up on dock. Roosevelt surrounded by reporters. FDR with Governor Sir Arthur George
Murchison Fletcher in open top car. Roosevelt with unidentified man in car rides through crowd lined streets.
Ship & two small whale boats from ship, w/ sailors & FDR & several other men
fishing. Island in background;
boat moving past seen from another boat.
President Roosevelt cheered by joint session of Congress; FDR introduced & speaks standing
up re 04Mar33. Also about “This
policy of the Good Neighbor...is effective [in US]” - “The rest of the world,
now there's the rub” - “Law of the Sword” - “We have sought...to limit
armament...exert our moral influence...in favor of freedom of
expression...religious tolerance” - “The United States and the rest of the Americas can do one
thing...neutrality...to persuade other nations to return to the days of peace
and goodwill” - “They engage in...propaganda...to gang up against the people's
liberties” - “Let action to be positive and not negative” - talks about
Congress, voting & economics.
Various shots military parade - troops march down avenue. Roosevelt on review stand.
FDR in fishing
boat with sons? 0n holiday in Texas - fishing - catch large tarpon. CU FDR jokingly making hand sign for
”tiny size”.
FDR holidays in
Texas. Aboard ship with sons? Guard salutes. FDR in standing position holding deck
rails.
Military parade. FDR in stands watches in standing
position.
05:30:10 President Roosevelt saluting from car. Boy Scouts waving in MS. FDR in car down Pennsylvania Avenue w/
Capitol in background; overhead shot w/ Boy Scouts lining curb as motorcade
passes.
05:30:29 MCU Scouts w/ scout flags
waving. Motorcade.
05:30:38 Marching units of scouts
filling Pennsylvania Avenue. Various shots. CUs.
Crowds cheering. Roosevelt on stand. Flags pull back to reveal monument, band plays
Stars and Stripes. CU statue.
Motorcade with FDR in rural area, stop by modern looking farm. Roosevelt pats cow and jokes. Family of wealthy looking farmers
posing. FDR shakes hands with baby held by father.
FDR at pulpit,
young women in graduate costume sit and listen. FDR speech re new tax bill.
Middle-aged couples including Mrs Roosevelt dancing to Dixie music, small
orchestra with banjo, guitar, violin or fiddle.
Exterior Capitol with flag flying. Interior congress in session. President Roosevelt (FDR) seated surrounded by men and
women as he signs. Map of USA with moving pix superimposed. Members of Social
Security Board.
03:01:29 Louisiana - Baton Rouge, pan down building. Governor Richard W. Lesh ?
with State Labour Commissioner in office. 03:01;58 Dock scenes - industry - offices. Wages office, men clocking
off. “Steve” who has just lost his job - he goes to Department of Labor State
employment office. Steve with
woman clerk,
Steve interviewed by male clerk re benefit payments for unemployment. On screen
display of jobs which do not cover / insure against unemployment. Steve leaves office. Dates on calendar falling March
1938. Steve reports back to unemployment office after a week. Pages of calendar falling. Steve
reports again to unemployment office. Steve opening his mail box and getting unemployment cheque. Steve and wife in grocery store. Steve and family at home, gets letter
telling him employment office have found him a job. Map of US superimposed with
workers. Declaration of
Independence.
220624 01:06:02
- 01:06:35 1938 Si b/w
Motor magnates
come to Capital for conferences with FDR in an effort to place restrictions on “time” sale
of cars and a view to stabilizing labour conditions in the auto industry.
Group of men outside White House pose for cameras. Shot of two getting into
car. Press photographers.
220668 19:07:30
- 19:19:36 1937-1939 SD B/W
19:14:57 Newspaper re Poland Invaded - brief battle scenes. Warsaw, civilians
read posters - air-raid sirens. Warsaw bombed. Battle scenes. New born baby cries. Bodies laid on
ground.
19:15:44 Men round pot-bellied
stove in general store listen to radio broadcast. Chamberlain broadcast over
shots war preparations in England - Downing Street - crowds - gas masks fitted
- barrage balloons - soldiers
marching down street and in lorries. Couple in bed listen to radio re fall of France. French artillery on the Maginot Line
fires.
19:17:06 Gallup Poll re who caused the war. Pres. Roosevelt requests Congress to amend
neutrality laws.
Senators Gerald P. Nye and Elbert D. Thomas voice opposing views. The Gallup
poll finds citizens united to amend the laws. Arms embargo lifted. Japan at war with China - battle scenes
- execution - dead children.
Gallup poll re sympathy for China.
People stand in street; auto with bullet holes and cut wires &
barricades. Blown up car. CU people & faces. London city scenes &
Chamberlain. People going into
church & into shelters. Airplantes & search lights with artillery practice. Europe awaits outcome of Munich peace
conference; refugees across Sudeten border into Germany; Londoners pray for
peace while preparing for air attack; FDR (Roosevelt) summons cabinet to meet; German ships called home. St
Louis in dock. Sailors board ship
& supplies loaded. Aerials of
ships at sea.
President Roosevelt seated at desk - shots broken windows. Herbert Hoover speaks against Jewish persecution in Germany.
Rev. R.I. Gannon of Fordham University speaks against Nazis. Methodist Bishop Edwin H. Hughes
in New York condemns brutalities in Germany.
antisemitism
FDR & Gen.
Pershing lead ceremony at Arlington Cemetery;
220855 18:11:39
- 18:12:58 1938 SD B/W
President Roosevelt (FDR) address
at Gainesville, Georgia
“... Most men and women (...) in
this area get wages that are far too low (...) and when you come down to it,
there is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist
system. If you believe
in the one, you lean to the other (...) and I am opposed to Fascism as I am opposed to Communism
Note: We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
INCLUDING:
09:14:56
INCLUDING:
12:33:39 Navy medical exam. Sailors arriving at camp, takes photograph of wife
/ sweetheart and hangs in locker - making up bed, washing. Medical examination
- eyesight tested, hearing tested, reflexes, height and weight. Doctor listens
through stethoscope. Blood pressure tested. Smiling sailor puts on hat.
FDR arrives,
views from car as sculptor talks to him. Flag over Lincoln's face dropped. Only George Washington & Lincoln are partially done. CU of rigging. LS of cliff & men working on
top. More flag dropping. CU showing ladders, cable car lowered. Beginning of right hand face. FDR arrival & waves hat from car,
applause. View from behind car,
view of cliff, Borglum says what will happen. Woman waves flag, to signal blast at base of Jefferson.
Small explosion, several others. Light plane over. FDR speaks. '..will last through thousands & thousands of years'
'Let's hope they will give us the benefit of the doubt..that we've left the
land to live in...we don't want formalities where nature is concerned... cooperation with nature & not
fighting with nature.'
09:18:47 Washington DC. Don Fernando de los Rios, Loyalist Ambassador to the US
is a man without a country as he leaves the White House after conferring with
President Roosevelt(FDR) .
Arrives by car and enters Poses for camera - press photographers.
09:19:14 Prince Ascanio Colonna, new Ambassador from Italy visits the White
House to present credentials. Close ups as Ambassador poses with another unid.
man outside White House.
Crowd of black children and teenagers waving flags, repeated takes.
06:14:06 Black police ? on parade. Black girl students.
06:15:20 Choir sing negro
spiritual / gospel singers. Presidents
cortege arrives. Roosevelt arrives in open top car. FDR seated in car holds hat to chest as national anthem
played. Various shots FDR. Black male quartet sing,
cuts. Choir sing, cuts. Good shots FDR listening.
06:18:34 FDR speaking from rear seat of car. Says he had put off his visit for years. Says he is proud of the students and university at Tuskegee. Talks of States integrating,
co-operation between communities and States. Wishes students good luck and hopes to return. Crowds around car as leaves - good
shots special service men on
running board. Crowds milling about on street.
220579 04:27:47
- 04:31:22 1939 Si
INCLUDING:
Arrival of King George and Queen Elizabeth at Union Station by special
train. King George in full
ceremonial uniform. Queen and Mrs Roosevelt enter car for drive to the White
House
Their Majesties and the Presidential party board the USS Potomac for the river
voyage to Mount Vernon. NB Shows clearly FDR walking using handrail for
support. Crowds waving from
dockside. Queen Elizabeth and FDR on board talking. Photographers - cameramen take pictures of Royals at Mt. Vernon. King George lays wreath on the tomb of
George Washington. King and Queen in gardens at Mt. Vernon - Queen carrying
parasol and King in tails.
04:30:55
221516 02:19:22
- 02:29:01 1939 SD B/W
INCLUDING:
Motorcade led by cavalry troops through Washington DC - open-top car w/ King
George in uniform & Roosevelt in top hat - Queen Elizabeth & Eleanor Roosevelt in car behind. L-R Eleanor Roosevelt, King George, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth & FDR seated on White House terrace?
[NB Only partial narration.]
Pan over Fair site with crowds - World of
Tomorrow type architecture - structures - FDR (Roosevelt on stand) as opens fair (mos) Crowds looking round fair -
fountains - King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, visitors to fair. Statues. Amusement area - roller coaster. Night - fountains. 1964 Fair - night shots, floats. 1939 Fair - Fireworks and cheering crowds as fair ends.
X221281 13:05:03
- 13:15:48 [1940] Sd B/W
RCA
INCLUDING:
13:09:39 Film (not television) of FDR at World’s Fair, King & Queen of England
touring pavilion & in front of crowds. Baseball, 1940 political conventions.
13:10:28
221107 16:10:35
- 16:14:43 1939 Sd/Sil B/W
INCLUDING:
16:13:07
221304 17:47:11
- 17:48:18 1939 SD B/W
Ca. 20Feb39
Roosevelt arrives at Key West Naval Base in convertible w/ secret service. Opening Tamp De Soto Exposition. Applause as Admiral shakes his
hand. Officers in dress whites on
dock.
17:47:27 CU FDR speaking into mic. “We seek no territorial expansion, we
are not coveteous of our neighbors goods. We shall cooperate w/ every proposal honestly put forward to limit
armorments....but we say to all the world...in the three Americas...
17:48:11 Leaves & waves from
whale boat w/ sailors.
Title: This film is restricted to
the workers of America who are responsible for the production of aviation
gasoline so vital to victory.
Large explosion. Montage: Pinning medals on men, reading out
names over pictures superimposed on sailors in ranks. FDR giving medal. CU various medals
01:52:01
220295 16:33:45
- 16:34:03 1940 si B/W
Roosevelt arriving by boat? In open topped car with others.
220295 16:34:04
- 16:34:23 1940 si B/W
Roosevelt (FDR) standing with others outside
church where service held for 7th anniversary.
FDR’s (President Roosevelt) draft message and registration.
White men in line wearing suits, smiling. Signing registration certificate.
Entering registry building. Besuited Hispanic or black draftee shakes hand with
monocled man who squashes his hand, laughs. Unid. boxer
Men in cowboy hats sign registration. Gene Autry
Street sign indicating draft registration?
Southeast Asian men in line and signing registration. Black men outside
registry wave, ushered in by guards. Huge line outside building all the way
down street. Black men sign registration.
07:16:49 White House exterior. FDR speech (mute).
220771 06:35:47
- 06:36:13 1940 SIL B/W
Huge cake shown with figurine of polio boy in crutches on top. President Roosevelt given cake and cuts it.
President Roosevelt’s Radio Address for the Drawing Under the Selective Service Act of
1940.
Washington DC. Entire speech.
Dept. of Labour auditorium - draft drawing. FDR speech (sd) “... this is a most solemn ceremony... The young men of America today have thought this
through... To these spokesmen for
the churches of America - to all my fellow countrymen of all races and creeds
and ages give this solemn assurance: Your Government is mindful of its profound responsibility to and for all
the young men who will be called to train for our national service.... They
must profit as men by this one year of experience as soldiers. They must return
to civilian life strong, and healthy, and self-respecting, and decent and free.
“
Drawing of numbers by blindfolded
Secretary of War Stimson and other Cabinet members and VIPs. Writing numbers on blackboard.
Draft lottery
We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
President Roosevelt’s requests to Congress for defense funds.
“These are ominous days... Motorised armies can sweep through enemy
territories... We have seen the
treacherous use of the "fifth column" by which persons supposed to be
peaceful visitors were actually a part of an enemy unit of occupation... Our
own vital interests are widespread. More than ever the protection of the whole
American hemisphere against invasion or control or domination by non-American
nations has the united support of the twenty-one American Republics, including
the United States.... But the new
element - air navigation - steps up the speed of possible attack to two
hundred, to three hundred miles an hour... Surely, the developments of the past few weeks have made it
clear to all of our citizens that the possibility of attack on vital American
zones ought to make it essential that we have the physical, the ready ability
to meet those attacks and to prevent them from reaching their objectives.... An
effective defense by its very nature requires the equipment to attack the
aggressor on his route before he can establish strong bases within the
territory of American vital interests.”
We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
President Roosevelt’s requests to Congress for defense funds.
“Many of the planes of the belligerent powers are at this moment not of the
latest models.... But one belligerent power (...) also appears to have a weekly
production capacity at the moment that is far greater than that of all its
opponents.... great additional production capacity is our principal air
requisite... I ask the Congress
not to take any action which would in any way hamper or delay the delivery of
American-made planes to foreign nations which have ordered them... Our
immediate problem is to superimpose on [our] production capacity a greatly
increased additional production capacity... this nation should plan at this time a program that would
provide us with 50,000 military and naval planes.
The ground forces of the Army require the immediate speeding up of last
winter's program to procure more equipment of all kinds...
First, to procure the essential equipment of all kinds for a larger and
thoroughly rounded-out Army;
Second, to replace or modernize all old Army and Navy equipment with the latest
type of equipment;
Third, to increase production facilities for everything needed for the Army and
Navy for national defense. For it is clear that we require the ability to turn
out quickly infinitely greater supplies;
Fourth, to speed up to a twenty-four hour basis all existing Army and Navy
contracts, and all new contracts to be awarded....”
“There are some who say that democracy cannot cope with the new techniques of
Government developed in recent years by some countries... That I reject.... I
know that to cope with present dangers we must be strong ... in our faith - strong in the faith
in our way of living.... Our
defenses must be invulnerable, our security absolute... Defense cannot be
static. Defense must grow and change from day to day. Defense must be dynamic
and flexible... For these reasons (...) I will not hesitate to call the
Congress into special session if at any time the situation of the national
defense requires it.”
“we stand ready not only to spend millions for defense but to give our service
and even our lives for the maintenance of our American liberties.”
We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
Sound statement re FDR (Roosevelt) providing 50 destroyers in exchange for use of bases. Against it as it was a dictatorial act
that bypassed Congress, etc.
Anti-war
221241 16:45:59
- 16:56:33 1940 SD B/W
San Francisco Mint under construction; Denver, Colorado mint.
16:46:32 Philadelphia mint
exteriior. Tilt down & people
thru large doors. Exhibition space
& people viewing; machine to make coins; scales; Director of Mint Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman director of Mint. Men working on clay model of FDR, stages reducing to medal
shown. Galvano single faced coins.
16:49:05
221345 01:57:17
- 02:03:46 1940 Sd B/W
MCU of FDR: “Thinking in terms of today &
tomorrow, I make the direct statement to the American people that there’s far
less chance of the United States getting into war, if we do all we can now to
support the nations defending themselves against attack by the Axis than if we
acquiese in the defeat of those nations...they ask us for the implements of
war...
01:59:03 “Tomorrow will be later
than today”. re Great Britain as
the spearhead of resistance to world conquest. There is no demand to send an American expeditionary
force...
02:00:08 2nd take of some
lines.
02:00:29 MS “This nation is making
a great effort to produce...requires great sacrifice...expects Management &
workers to reconcile their differences...” Speaks of increasing production. We must be the geat arsenal of
Democracy. There will be no
bottlenecks in our determination to aid Great Britain. We have no excuse for defeatism... MS of FDR in front of window & reading
w/ mic on desk.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt Fireside Chat, 29Dec40;
02:27:13 FDR standing in front of New Hyde Park
church w/ various clergy & guests. His mother is present. Motorcade arrives or leaves w/ secret service running alongside.
02:27:28
221195 09:34:17
- 09:43:19 1940
- 1941 SD B/W
INCLUDING:
09:38:32 Roosevelt / FDR signs Lend Lease Act. US factories - car plant turned into armaments factory -
Montage showing US industry turning out material of war, and military
developments are increased in total war campaign. Pacific fleets. New recruits & army training. South American assistance for Allies - Pan-American Nations declare war
on Axis. Troops of conquered
nations fighting for Allies - CUs soldiers of many nationalities marching -
Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Czech, Filippino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French,
plus Australians, New Zealanders, South Africans.
09:41:58
220301 02:13:42
- 02:19:06 1940s Sd B/W
Kennedy at podium w/ CBS mic. 'This evening I am going to tell you what I think of the world situation
as it affects America.' In place
of negotiation...unbridled terrorism...reason has fled...diplomacy has almost
become the lost art.' '..not a war
of men...a war of industry...' 'I
believe Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) should be re-elected President of the
United States.'
220316 20:20:15
- 20:20:42 1940s
? Sd B/W
FDR behind NBC
and CBS microphones says “ These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, on my wife and on
my son - they now include my little dog Fala “ Incomplete
INCLUDING:
17:09:40 President Roosevelt (FDR) and Churchill meeting on British Battleship Prince of
Wales - British preparing for action in Singapore - unloading military
equipment from ships - Indian troops - British troops and artillery on parade
ground
220664 14:28:14
- 14:35:26 1941 Si B/W
Various high
ranking British and American naval officers. Churchill on board VIPs milling about FDR waiting for Churchill 14.31.37 Camera fault from here to
end. See next item
220664 14:35:36
- 14:46:01 1941 Sd B/W
High ranking army and navy officers on board American Warship in North
Atlantic. General Arnold - Admirals King and Star. Also present Sumner Welles and Harry Hopkins. FDR Roosevelt and his son Franklin Jnr greet
British VIPs including Lord Beaverbrook. 14:36:24 Churchill wearing
Naval pea coat and cap shakes hands with President. British and American
sailors fraternise. Church service
on board British Battleship Prince of Wales. Churchill and FDR seated on deck. Shots of crew attending service. 14:37:28 Item repeated without commentary - more shots of service, some
out of rack.
14:41:45 Various deck activity -
shots of officers and Churchill. Gangplank between two ships removed.
14:43:08 Various shots British
VIPs greeted by American officers. Roosevelt greeting VIPs and Churchill.
220287 09:27:30
- 09:29:58 1941 sd B/W
Training for Ploesti. Planes over
oil derricks & refineries. Germans at oil fields. Rommel looking at map & mass of POWs walking across
desert. German fighter planes
low. Mussolini riding on small
cart on rails in N. Africa. Various bombers taking off. FDR speech
'Nazis & Fascists are going to get it.' Oil
refineries on fire
220668 19:19:56
- 19:30:51 1939
- 1941 SD B/W
19:21:17 1940 Hitler with officers
at map table. Animated map shows
invasion of Europe. People listening to radio. French refugees being bombed by German planes. Group of men listening to car
radio. Others listening to
broadcast re Dunkirk. Brief battle
scenes. More radio listening. FDR 10Jun1940 denounces Italy's
entry into the war.
19:22:30
19:28:01 National guard call-up - leaving on train. Congress passes Collective Service Act. Conscription done by draw. Drafted men leaving homes - medical
examinations - camp - training.
19:29:39 Nazi planes take off to blitz Britain.
19:29:49 Ed Murrow broadcasts during air-raid. Daylight raid - German aircraft in flight - Ack Ack guns
firing - barrage balloons. People
in public air-raid shelter. Firemen fighting flames.
19:30:09 Sign Main St. men looking at reports in window of War in England. Brief shot Royal Navy battleship. US
port where old destroyers from World War One were harboured. These will go to England.
05:20:42 USA draft begins, FDR at lectern, numbers written on
blackboard. Men in street w/
banners “Good bye Philly Hello Ft.
Meade” Conscription & new
recruits trained. Target practice
w/ beer cans, wooden guns. Planes
drop bomb - visual of bomb falling on camera. Pearl Harbor & FDR declares war on Japan (very brief cut, no sound). Troops
march.
05:21:32
221195 09:00:01
- 09:08:32 1939
- 1941 SD B/W
US Office of War Information
Rolling title stating that all film material is authentic and unstaged
09:00:50 Bombers in flight -
Japanese flag flying. Pearl Harbor
scenes w/ planes on field, ships in harbor, sun thru clouds, bombers
overhead. Aftermath &
smoke. Ships thru harbour. Wreckage seen from water. Hull, wreckage.
09:02:45 FDR (Roosevelt) before Congress - declaration
of War - “Day of Infamy” speech. Cutaway to
Japanese Ambassador; men & crowd listening to radio in streets.
09:05:04 CUs Senator & ?? men
opposing war. Wendell Wilkie,
others pro-war. Interiors of
Congress. Outdoor meeting of
fascists w/ American flag. Brown
Shirts at 1939 German-American Bund rally in Madison Square Garden with
marching members beneath George Washington banner - dissenter disrupts Fritz
Kuhn speech.
09:04:43 Pearl Harbor ships on
fire. People at docks boarding
ships, MCU of docks. Manchurian
army marching past camera 1931. Regiment at attention. CU
officer. Hirohio Chin Hsie station, train moving
past camera. Army men on
horseback. Aerial view of train
station. Men collecting hay. Army marching, past camera - Invasion
of Mukden. Mounted regiment,
riding across screen. MCU of
mounted regiment with Japanese flag.
220355 16:01:01
- 16:14:21 [1941] SD COL&B/W
16:02:50
Roller stating that all film material is authentic and unstaged
Bombers, Pearl Harbor scenes w/ planes on field, ships in harbour, sun through
clouds, bombers overhead. Aftermath & smoke. Ships through harbour. Wreckage from water. Hull,
wreckage, FDR (Roosevelt) before Congress declaration of
War - Day of Infamy speech. Japanese ambassador; men
& crowd listening to radio in streets. CUs opposing war. Wilkie, others against war. Interiors of congress. Students picketing White House. Others picketing pickets. Women demonstrate against war. Brown Shirts at 1939 German-American
Bund rally in Madison Square Garden with marching members beneath George
Washington banner - dissenter disrupts Fritz Kuhn speech. Labour picketing and fighting
outside factories. Strikers hosed
down. Idle plants.
09:26:05 Ships on fire. People at docks boarding ships, MCU of
docks. Manchurian army marching
past camera. Regiment at
attention. CU of officer. Chin Hsie station, train moving past
camera. Army men on horseback. Aerial view of train station. Men collecting hay. Army marching on top of hay, past
camera. Mounted regiment, riding across screen. MCU of mounted regiment with Japanese flag. Regiment
marching.
Japanese titles - December 7th 1941 - Japanese planes taking off from aircraft
carrier. Japanese planes in flight formation. Aerial Views Pearl Harbor - bombs dropping. Ships burning. Japanese aerial photographs of destruction at Pearl
Harbor. Aftermath of attack -
wrecked aircraft. Roosevelt (FDR) infamy speech over shots of destruction. Frogman - salvage work - sunken ships. Tojo and his ministers in
Tokyo. Animated map showing Japanese plans for invasion of Pacific Islands.
Berchtesgaden - planning meeting with Hitler and Mussolini. Animated map showing German plans for Europe and Asia and how convoy supply lines must be
cut. German submarine pens in
Norway. American navy personnel on
small civilian boats off coast of America forming Corsair defence fleet. Dropping depth charge off back of small
boat - explosion in water. Dirigible - LTA - Balloon - US Navy blimp protecting convoys off US
coast. Air shot merchant ship. Interior blimp - crew.
10.45.51
220463 09:24:30
- 09:34:41 1941 Sd b/w
Produced by General Electric.
On the need for rapid production of defence material.
Grandfather clock chiming & special effects of shadow of pendulum over
spinning globe, moving in to map of Europe & covered w/ flames. “Time, there’s none to spare.”
09:25:24 Montage: two men in office; family at dinner
table; radio studio; outdoor speaker & audience; FDR standing before Congress. Clock pendulum swinging & ticking.
09:25:58 Industry montage: pouring steel, welding, power lines,
overview of large GE factory, superimposed w/ crowd of workers arriving or
leaving. Low angle shot of heroic
worker against clouds. CU lathe
& man’s hands. Time clock
& men. Factory shots w/ large
machinery. Clock ticking. “His enemy: Time!”
09:27:04
220897 18:04:28
- 18:04:59 1941 Si b/w
FDR / Roosevelt Jnr. Salutes as he comes aboard USS Mayrant - Shakes hands. Press / Photographers taking pictures.
220897 18:16:53
- 18:18:22 1941 Sd b/w
FDR in car
around stadium. Players lined up
with hats off for anthem. FDR throws out first baseball. Hits w/ natural sound. good CU of Roosevelt. Yankees win 3-0 over Washington.
220624 00:57:32
- 01:00:47 1941 Sd b/w
77th Congress
convenes. Congressmen arrive and shake hands with ? Shot of floor applause -
sound starts from here. President Roosevelt addresses congress and says most useful role is to act as an
arsenal for the (allies) as well as for America. Talks of need for weapons of defence - introduces lend-lease
/ lease-lend - promises aid for
allies to maintain democracy.
220624 01:00:48
- 01:01:10 1941 Si b/w
President Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain Harry Hopkins leaves for
Lisbon? on the Yankee clipper. He
will act as FDR’s liason man for important discussions of US aid to Britain.
Hopkins out of car and boards seaplane.
220683 21:07:31
- 21:15:58 1941 SD B/W
President Roosevelt at desk wearing black arm band. 'In spite of what Hitler's propaganda
bureau has invented...submarine fired first on American Destroyer
Greer...waters of self-defense...four other sunk vessels flew the American
flag...were warships of the American navy.' 'It is the Nazi design to abolish freedom of the
seas...Hitler's...known to the United States.' 'It is clear that Hitler has begun the attempt to control
the seas.' ..an enemy of all
law. 'When you see a rattlesnake
poised, you do not wait...'
21:12:34 'The time for active defence is now, this is the time for prevention
of attack...our patrolling...will protect them from...raiders...from now
on. In spite of...(repeat take).
220683 21:16:12
- 21:26:52 1941 SD B/W
President Roosevelt at podium with
applause. 'Gen. Donovan, ladies
& gentlemen...five months ago tonight I proclaimed to the American People a
state of limited emergency...our Army & Navy are in Iceland...Hitler has
attacked...north & south Atlantic. The shooting has started...and history
has recorded who has fired the first shot, in the long run all that will matter
is who has fired the last...I have a map...of South America & Central
America as Hitler proposes to re-arrange it. '...the goods will be delivered by this nation...damn the
torpedoes, full speed ahead...' ...power to sea as our full duty.' Applause & National Anthem sung.
220855 18:30:09
- 18:38:48 1941 SD B/W
Address before the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, White House, May 27, 1941
re why the Americas should fight the threat of German domination over the seas.
“... what started as a European
war has developed, as the Nazis always intended it should develop, into a world
war for world domination... unless the advance of Hitlerism is forcibly checked
now, the Western Hemisphere will be within range of the Nazi weapons of
destruction... Every dollar of material we send helps to keep the dictators
away from our own hemisphere. Every day that they are held off gives us time to build more guns and
tanks and planes and ships... The supply of these tools will not fail-it will
increase. .. Under those terms Germany would literally parcel out the world,
hoisting the swastika itself over vast territories and populations, and setting
up puppet governments of its own choosing, wholly subject to the will and the
policy of a conqueror... They plan to treat the Latin American nations as they
are now treating the Balkans... The American laborer would have to compete with
slave labor in the rest of the world. Minimum wages, maximum hours?
Nonsense!... We do not accept, and will not permit, this Nazi "shape of
things to come." ... The war is approaching the brink of the Western
Hemisphere itself. It is coming very close to home.... Control or occupation by
Nazi forces of any of the islands of the Atlantic would jeopardize the
immediate safety of portions of North and South America, and of the island
possessions of the United States and of the ultimate safety of the continental
United States itself... The Axis Powers can never achieve their objective of
world domination unless they first obtain control of the seas (...) and to
achieve it, they must capture Great Britain. .... But if the Axis Powers fail
to gain control of the seas, they are certainly defeated... Both they and their
people know this-and they are afraid... Yes; all freedom(...) All of American
history (...) has been inevitably tied up with those words "freedom of the
seas." ... We can answer this peril by two simultaneous measures: First,
by speeding up and increasing our great shipbuilding program; and second, by
helping to cut down the losses on the high seas. Attacks on shipping off the very shores of land which we are
determined
to protect present an actual military danger to the Americas. And that danger has recently been heavily
underlined by the presence in Western Hemisphere waters of Nazi battleships of
great striking power. “
We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
220855 18:49:56
- 18:58:43 1941 SD B/W
“First, we shall actively resist wherever necessary, and with all our
resources, every attempt by Hitler to extend his Nazi domination to the Western
Hemisphere, or to threaten it. We shall actively resist his every attempt to
gain control of the seas.... vital importance of keeping
Hitlerism away from any point in the world which could be used (...) as a base
of attack against the Americas.
Second(...) we shall give every possible assistance to Britain and to all who,
(...) are resisting Hitlerism or its equivalent with force of arms... Your Government has the right
to expect of all citizens that they take loyal part in the common work of our
common defense (...) .
... All of us know that we have made very great social progress in recent
years.... When the Nation is
threatened from without, however, as it is today, the actual production and
transportation of the machinery of defense must not be interrupted by disputes
between capital and capital, labor and labor, or capital and labor.
... We will not accept a Hitler-dominated world... We will accept only a world
consecrated to freedom of speech and expression-freedom of every person to
worship God in his own way-freedom from want-and freedom from terror. “
“We reassert the ancient American doctrine of freedom of the seas.
We reassert the solidarity of the 21 American Republics and the Dominion of
Canada in the preservation of the independence of the hemisphere.
We have pledged material support to the other democracies of the world- and we
will fulfill that pledge.
We in the Americas will decide for ourselves whether, and when, and where, our
American interests are attacked or our security threatened. We are placing our armed forces
in strategic military position. We will not hesitate to use our armed forces to repel attack.
We reassert our abiding faith in the vitality of our constitutional Republic as a perpetual home of
freedom, of tolerance, and of devotion
to the word of God... I have
tonight issued a proclamation that
an unlimited national emergency exists and requires the strengthening of our
defense to the extreme limit of our national power and authority. “
(continues till end of speech)
We can provide a transcript of the entire speech
Dias & formally dressed people including FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt. Chief Justice Hughes at
microphone: “This treasure house,
now formally presented to the Nation, is at once a memorial, a symbol & an
opportunity...taking its place amongs the world’s great galleries...” MCU.
16:01:29 Paul Mellon: “this building which we are dedicating
tonight is the realization of a plan borne by my father many years ago soon
after he came to Washington as Secretary of Treasury...turn it over to you Mr.
President w/ my father’s collection...”
16:02:52 Unid. donor: “...of the most representative
masters of this important school...I love my paintings...now the walls of my
home are bare and I shall miss them.
16:03:56 FDR: “Mr. Chief Justice....I accept for the people of the United
States...stipulating that the Gallery shall be known not by his name but by the
Nation...”
CUs of Chief Justice Hughes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace.
16:06:50 “...and incidentally a
world in which armies are raised, men imprisoned & their work
destroyed. To accept today the
work of German painters such as Holbein & Durer, of Italians like
Botticelli & Raphael...
Grain combines in the field, ship in port, tank cars of train carry oil, oil field, timber in millpond,
various metal mining. Smoke out of
tall chimney, high angle large factory hall w/ punch presses; factory hall,
work w/ various machinery, LS smoking chimneys, new trucks in outdoor storage
field.
13:37:16 People walk across city
bridge, people enter ?, women sort documents at controll boards, offices of
government. U.S, high angle army
parade, CU marching troops, FDR inauguration. British war
ship on the water w/ British ambassador to America Lord Halifax & King George V(?) on board, steel
industry, big sparks, plane construction, CU huge supply delivery box w/ sign
From USA, To Royal Air Force, England, boxes loaded in to truck or lorry, plane manufacture.
13:38:49 FDR & Mackenzie King in open top car past planes on
airfield, photographer, CU President Roosevelt and Mackenzie King in car watch
army parade w/ flags.
13:39:10 Summer of 1940, American
delegation arrive at Ottawa for the 1st conference of Canada & US Joint
Board for Defense, delegates pose for photographers. Animated map shows North America surrounded by world at
war. Shot of army base in French
North Africa w/ general Maxim Wegand shaking hands w/ other officer. CU soldiers w/ binoculars, big guns
pointed into the air.
13:39:55 Animated map of Atlantic,
shots of danger spot - Martinique, various shots of aircraft carrier Bearn at
anchor since fall of France, animated map of North America, officials in office
around meeting table.
13:40:18 Animated map of Atlantic
Ocean, war ships in sea port Union Jack flags pulled up the flag poles, troops
exit the ship, men unload sacks, clean artillery, trucks carry artillery on the
road. Animated map of Pasific
Ocean.
13:40:58 Chinese pilots given
instructions, march from airbase, run to the battle fields. Japanese troops on ship leave port, soldiers thru
bushes. Landscape; maps showing
Pacific.
13:42:03 Sept. 1940 Mussolini
launches invasion of Egypt. Aerial
over village. Bombing, tanks &
destroyed buildings. Mussolini at
Bremer Pass to meet Hitler, greeting on RR platform. Troops at attention. Italians into Greece. Athens & marching troops. Soldiers passing stones by hand. Italian navy w/ large ships. British ships w/ planes taking off & chasing Italians. Sunken Italian ships. Night naval battle.
13:44:36 Convoy thru Mediterranean
& Red Sea. Aerial spotting
submarine & destroyers firing. Anti-aircraft guns on shipboard. Burning ship & rescuing sailors or pilots. Ships unloading in Egypt, uncrating planes, unloading
tanks. General Wavell &
British & Australian troops across desert, firing large guns. Planes bombing. Bombsight. Battle. Fleet
firing onto Tobruk.
WWII North African Campaign; Allied Alliances;
Troops along Suez (?) w/ fires burning on opposite side. Surrender flag on 06Feb at
Bengazi. Thousands of Italian
prisoners sitting. Trucks of
ammunition unload in the desert; fighting against Italy at Ethiopia & other
North African locations. Haile
Selassie returns to Addis Ababa & raising flag.
13:48:48 German vehicles across
floating bridges, planes take off from mountain fields. View of Nazi planes dropping bombs in
Balkan Campaign. German tanks
moving ahead in desert situation. Across North Africa.
13:49:56 Canadian war industries
& heavy machinery. Men &
women building planes. Plane out
of hanger. Small troop carriers
out of factory; ships built & launched; tanks out of factory. 25 lb. field gun. MacKenzie King meets FDR at Hyde Park. Large ships launched. Liberty
ships? Large planes taking off
from factory.
13:52:14 FDR speaking to Congress (MOS)
about aid to British Commonwealth. American
bombers delivered to Britain. Crated planes trucked to ships. Shells in crates. Planes
& tanks loaded onto freighters. Canadian freight trains carrying grain for shipment to Britain. Ingots loaded on shipboard. Canadian sailors, ships w/ planes on
decks. Good convoy shot.
13:55:00 Bismarck launched. Hitler present. Submarines launched. Smaller faster ships thru heavy seas,
many U-boats. Convoys on
Atlantic. German ships firing
& sinking ship. Sailors watch.
WWII Allied Alliances; Battles; Canadian Homefront; American Homefront;
Japanese pilots run to planes on carrier deck; views of Pearl Harbor. B-17s arrival from US & Japanese
attack. Pictures from ground &
air. US pilots into cockpit &
taking off. Dog fighting. CU wing machine guns. firing. Wreckage on airfield.
13:02:19 FDR speaking to Congress: “I ask that the Congress declare...a
state of war has existed between the United States & the Japanese
Empire.” applause.
13:03:00 US flag on pole lowered
by Japanese over New Guinea w/ banzai; raising of Japanese flag.
President Roosevelt (FDR) seated at desk makes speech re
American Motion Picture industry. Says
some governments do not want American films shown in their countries. Talks re lend-lease bill and thanks the newsreels for keeping
the public informed.
Rushes.
Several takes of Master of Ceremonies standing in front of curtain doing pieces
to camera - presents President Roosevelt (FDR) (not seen) - thanks the President. This is being recorded before the event.
08:38:52 Joan Fontaine presenting plaque to to best supprting actress Jane
Darwell for Grapes of Wrath . Joan Fontaine presents Oscar to Ginger Rogers
(best actress) Second take.
08:41:11 General Malvern? Presents Oscar to Colonel Levernson ? for
achievements over the past nine years.
David Selznick presented with award for Rebecca.
Ginger Rogers standing with mother - thank you speech.
Bob Hope gets special award – gags as lines fluffed. Bob Hope and Ginger Rogers stand
together.
17:01:06 Title: Restricted to the men & women of
America’s shipyards & war plants upon whom in large part...
17:01:14 Titles
Washington, Capitol. FDR press conference announcing
bombing of Japan. Reporters run out to phones &
typewriters. Man at NBC
microphone. Headlines: Japs Murder Doolittle’s Fliers -
F.D.
17:02:03 People listening to radios,
buying newspapers. Headline’
Carrier Hornet was Shangri-La. Workers at shipyard, in factories. Welding, machine shops, CU of
oriental & black workers. Hornet launched. Loading
Hornet w/ goods & sailors up gangway. 20Oct41 dedication, soldiers to attention and Secretary Navy makes
speech. Views of ship moving.
17:05:41 Plane squadrons on board,
flying. Signal officers. Plane falls off carrier, crew to the
rescue, landings on carrier. B25
bombers on deck. 18Apr43 army
planes ready for takeoff to Tokyo. Admiral Halsey. Aerial
views Hornet.
17:08:58 Torpedo Squadron 8 before
Battle of Midway. Planes taking
off for Battle of Midway on 4Jun42. In radio room. Church service for dead. Crew exercising on flight deck. Everyday life on ship, training. 20Oct42 Battle of Santa Cruz. Planes taking off at dawn. Crew lookout on deck. Japanese planes, ship firing, Japanese
planes hit. Hornet burning. Crew abandons ship and aboard rescue
ships.
Ship torpedoed and sunk at night. Wounded transferred to other ship and ashore. New ships launched.
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.
09.04.39 USA: workers or crowd
marching; plane factory; ship launched into water.
09.04.48 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.
09.07.43 Iwo 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.
09.09.18 Truman. Troops
march. Plane in flight.
warships. Plane lands. Stars and
Stripes.
220871 00:07:46
- 00:10:25 1941
? Si B/W
FDR arrives in
open top car with Special Service riding running boards. Interior factory, FDR. Eleanor and Stettinius in car
touring plant. Gun barrels of 8”
railway gun, 5” Navy broadside gun and 155mm Gun. FDR speaking to workers in armament factory.
00:09:19 Memorial sign “Revolutionary Period Block House, Site of Fort Neilson”
; Second sign Site of HQ of General Armold 1777. Brief shots historic building and countryside.
00:09:47 Repeated shots factory tour,
INCLUDING:
12:11:56 Montage shots to signify political freedom - science - hospitals
- young children at school, open
air class. Kids at play . Students. Church. Interior library. FDR making speech. Pilots with
aircraft. Crowd walking down steps
of Capitol.
12:13:17 Montage Nobel winners.
Propaganda WWII Pacific Surrender.
US POWs including army nurses on Corregidor outside tunnel in the sun and
breeze getting fresh air. Posing
w/ CU & smoking.
09:43:42 American flag crumpled on
ground. CUs of POWs. Sign: General Beebe, seen in cell like room. same Colonel Bowler,
Lt. General Wainwright & General Moore. Shown separate & together sitting.
09:45:25 Roosevelt (FDR) speaking - optical effect Japanese feet
marching over American flag. Japanese flag raised.
President Roosevelts Tour of War Plants, 18-30Sep1942
Wounded sailors visited by FDR & naval officers some in wheelchairs. Talking in open top car. FDR past. POV from train. FDR with
officer in car outside train. Beside midget submarine, car surrounded by secret service. Docks & ships in background. FDR with Henry Kaiser in car. FDR's daughter shaking hands with
Kaiser. Car past workers along
dock, FDR waves. Ships under
construction. Motorcade past
camera. FDR talking with ???. FDR in car inside huge building
watching molten metal poured. Shaking hands with sailors. Submarine on RR car. FDR's daughter introducing people to FDR. Talking with Kaiser. Launching large ship which was built in ten days & sliding down
ways. Pan over several ships in
shipyard. Handshaking beside
train.
05:16:03 MS Looking under wing of parked PBY showing bomb. Cockpit of Plane. MS Man in blister of
PBY while in flight. A-A LS Three planes in flight in formation. Roosevelt (FDR) saluting very short
MS PT boats underway flying flags at half mast after burial at sea. PTs in formation going away from
camera.
05:18:04
Polio kid on crutches invited at
White House - enters and posing surrounded with dozens of people; next to him
are Eleanor Roosevelt and actress Dorothy Lamour; little boy punches actress. Eleanor cuts
cake and gives slice to Betty Grable.
FDR birthday
speech.
Diamond Jubilee Ball at Waldorf in New York. Balloons dropped on crowd.
FDR welcomes
Ecuador’s President Carlos
Arroyo del Rio arriving on a DC-3 of Eastern Air Lines Great Silver Fleet at
Washington airport. First greeted
by Sec. of State Hull. Roosevelt standing by car introduces members
of Cabinet to Arroyo.
Allied Nations war council - Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt - FDR - pose for cameras at White
House. US military manoeuvres and
march past; Churchill watching w/ cigar. Churchill meets paratroopers then listens in over field radio as
Commander in plane above gives order to jump - hundreds of troops parachute
from planes - simulating capture of enemy airfield - Churchill looking up w/
fingers round eyes.
221054 07:04:45
- 07:05:56 1942 SD B/W
19 yr old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrives in Washington to seek aid for
Yugoslavian guerrillas - meets with President Roosevelt - FDR - & cabinet members. In Canada Queen Wilhemina of the
Netherlands meets with Princess Juliana and her daughters - first meeting since
Nazi invasion of Holland - children play on see-saw.
INCLUDING:
05:28:32 Quebec Conference: Roosevelt (FDR), Churchill & US & British Chiefs of
Staff, Mountbatten, Stilwell.
05:29:09
INCLUDING:
01:23:21 On board carrier shots of
planes & crew members. Medals
presented on return. Doolittle
w/ President Roosevelt (FDR). Bomber in flight. Air Force officer to camera: “Its been nearly forty years since B-25 bombed Tokyo” & changes that
have happened since then but the need to remember why the Museum at Strategic
Air Command (SAC) Castle AFB is such a good idea.
WWII Pacific Bombing Mission;
Title: This film is restricted to
the workers of America who are responsible for the production of aviation
gasoline so vital to victory.
Large explosion. Montage: Pinning medals on men, reading out
names over pictures superimposed on sailors in ranks. FDR giving medal. CU various medals
02:50:45
Jimmy Doollittle in uniform; in racing pilot cap, congratulated; amphibious
plane taking off & over.
06:46:21 Aircraft carrier USS
Hornet & planes; Doolittle w/ bomb on deck, B-25s on deck. Heavy seas, bombers launched from
aircraft carrier for first time.
06:47:25 Views of Tokyo, Japan
intercut. Planes in flight, B-25
diving thru clouds, dropping bombs, explosions. View out of gunners window.
06:48:11 President Roosevelt,
FDR, pinning Medal of Honor on Doolittle w/ Marshall watching. CU.
INCLUDING:
03.48.39 Capitol - President Roosevelt in office with Winston Churchill. FDR and Churchill seated together at desk. General
George Marshall.
03.49.00 Churchill with cigar. Eisenhower - General Mark Clark.
03.49.12 Convoy at sea - good
shots troops on deck relaxing - great shot young American GI giving V for
Victory sign. Troops playing games. Troops at battle inspection on board ship. Animated map shows fleet
movements from America and Britain. 850 ships in all. Map showing how the fleet was divided - one part to
Algiers and the other off Morocco.
03.50.43 Casablanca - fleet off shore - planes fly overhead. Battle scenes as allied warships fire
on coast of Morocco - firing broadsides. Unfinished French battleship in port goes up in flames after being hit
by US guns. Ship sinking. Wrecked ships in harbour.
At Washington Navy Yard Greek navy take over ship. President Roosevelt (FDR) in car. Stars and Stripes, US
flag replaced with flag of Greece. Greek sailors on deck.
President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Casablanca. Aerial Views Casablanca. US signal corp putting up communication lines. Panning shot
over Casablanca. Military guards
outside Presidential villa. Cars through checkpoint. US troops line route. Roosevelt in jeep inspects allied troops. Troops march on parade ground. Tanks and military vehicles parade.
18:22:48 Anfa Hotel exterior -
guards outside. FDR wearing armband and Winston
Churchill pose with party in gardens.
18:23:38 Planes fly over -
sentry. Allied top brass -
officers meet round conference table. Sir Charles Portal and General Arnold. Sir Alfred Dudley Pound and Admiral King. Sir Alan Brooke with General George
Marshall.
18:24:13 Military cemetery near Rabat. Wreath layed.
18:24:40 FDR with General Giraud.
18:25:17 Roosevelt,
Giraud, De Gaulle and Churchill pose in gardens. Giraud and De Gaulle shake
hands. Churchill and FDR give briefing to press. Brief shot in aircraft cockpit.
18:26:20 FDR inspects black US troops in Liberia
18:26:55 FDR meets President Vargas of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Nice closeups of Roosevelt and Churchill together.
Casablanca - FDR and Churchill seated with Giraud and de Gaulle and group behind all posing for
cameras. FDR wipes sweat off brow. FDR seated alone with Churchill. FDR wears black armband.
Giraud, Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt seated together with FDR talking to Giraud. Giraud and de Gaulle rise and shake
hands. FDR & Churchill talk with press.
Brief shot Churchill in bathrobe? out of plane.
FDR and
Churchill pose with US and British generals behind.
03:33:00 Desert, Casablanca area -
Churchill? and FDR arrive in jeep and review troops and tanks. Military band. Ruined castle with French flag above - US troops guarding castle. Troops parade near tents, FDR watching.
03:37:10 Anfa Hotel exterior (Art
Deco). US troops parade - GV boots
marching.
03:38:15 Roosevelt,
Hopkins, McCrae on boat (faded). FDR in Liberia reviews troops; FDR with Generals Patton &
Marshall & pins medal on Wilbur. Tracking shot of countryside from road. Roosevelt with Hopkins & Vargas of Brazil aboard ship? with naval officers behind -party into
jeep and FDR talking with officer. Jeep
convoy.
Von Paulus at the surrender of Stalingrad. Artillery fired and fireworks in Moscow for celebrations of
the liberation of Stalingrad. Happy Russians.
03:01:22 The Gathering Offensive - Jan 1943 President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in
Casablanca. De Gaulle returns to French soil to
attend conference. Allied top brass - officers meet round conference
table. Sir Charles Portal and
General Arnold. Sir Alfred Dudley
Pound and Admiral King. Sir Alan
Brooke with General George Marshall. FDR and
Churchill pose in gardens.
03:02:11 British and American troops meet in Tunisia - exchange cigarettes and
helmets. General Eisenhower
greeting General Montgomery. British fighting scenes as they continue up the Tunisian coast. AV Allied planes bomb desert area - US
tanks forward towards Bizerta.
03:03:24
On screen credit advises that the commentary on this film is an excerpt from
the President’s broadcast to the armed forces Christmas 1943.
Globe turning over montage of shots.
19:41:24 Moscow - Kremlin. Interiors Pact signed by Molotov - Anthony Eden and
Cordell Hull.
19:41:47 Cairo Conference. Pyramids and Sphinx. Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek seated in
garden. Pan along military
officers standing behind including General Marshall.
19:42:49 Animated map detailing Korea Formosa and Manchuria. Graphic The Tanaka Memorial - Japan’s
Dream of World Empire. Naval ships
firing - US marines landing on Pacific island. Troops in jungle firing artillery. Aircraft drops bombs. Australian firing artillery. British
forces.
19:44:12 Chinese flag. Chiang
Kai-shek with troops. Flying
tigers.
19:44;38 General Marshall visting with General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz.
19:44:54 Aircraft in flight AV Tehran. FDR,
Churchill and Stalin seated in front of conference building.
19:45:36 Russian army firing artillery on Eastern Front. - snow - aircraft -
explosion from bomb. Cossack
troops.
19:45:49 Allied armies in Italy. Brief dogfight. General
Eisenhower with Clark being driven in jeep across bridge. Bomb damaged buildings in Italy. Ike with Allied officers. Gen. Spaatz given decoration. Planes
dropping bombs over Germany
19:46:52 Tehran Conference - three leaders seated on porch of building. Anthony Eden and Molotov join
group. Montage German military
might - parade and flypast. German
children at play. Troops marching
- Hitler ranting
19:48;00 Sword of Stalingrad presented to Stalin by Churchill. FDR inspects sword. Roosevelt voice over says he got along just
fine with Stalin and thinks they will get along very well together in the
future - praises Stalin for his determination and good humour.
Montage allies - FDR speech says as long as these four nations stick together there will
never be another World War.
President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill w/ cigar, Madame Chiang Kai Shek seated in front of
line of military officials including General Stilwell; Hap Arnold &
others. Also w/ civilians standing
including Averill Harriman, Dean
Acheson; Anthony Eden & others.
10:51:31 MCU General inside
car. Cameramen waiting. Seated FDR, Churchill, Chiang Kai-Shek
talking in CU & swatting bugs. Civilians in MCU but light flare.
10:56:28 Churchill takes off hat, FDR talking. Group poses but again light flare on bottom. People swatting at bugs.
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
03:12:40 Tehran conference with
Stalin, FDR and Churchill. Planes dropping bombs on
Germany. 03:13:16
FDR seated in
car, Winston Churchill in civilian suit leans against car chatting. Sphinx, pyramid. FDR,
Churchill with Turkey’s President Ismet Inonu pose for cameras following
diplomatic talks. FDR in Jeep with General Eisenhower
reviews troops in Sicily. Nice
shot Ike and FDR laughing. General Mark Clark and
five officers receive medals for Sicily campaign. Army photographer. Troops march past in parade. Ike and FDR have picnic lunch in back of car. FDR poses with two of his sons, one in
naval and the other in army uniform.
INCLUDING:
22:20:30 On reviewing stand w/
Penaranda as cadets performing; saluting as troops pass in review. Pictures of both presidents.
WWII Military Parades; Good Neighbor Policy; South American Tour;
White House w/ large table, FDR at head w/ Churchill next to him. Pan down cloakrack w/ hats w/ insignias
of various military VIPs on top shelf. Allied High Command meeting, CU of Gen. Marshall. Others talking in LS.
11:24:16 White House lawn w/ FDR, Churchill & others posing for
newsreel cameramen. British &
American Generals & Admirals standing behind. CUs Churchill & Roosevelt. MCU of the two together.
Pearl Harbor, 23Oct44. Ext of Navy
Department; communique No 165 in CU. Third fleet underway; Pilots briefed & to deck, POV taking off from
carrier. Montage of strafing
airfields & ships near Philippines. Men on decks of ships. FDR w/ MacArthur & ? on shipboard
briefing. Ships bombarding Leyte.
Rockets. Men off landing craft
onto beach, Mac & Osmena. Japanese ceremonies on land & ship subtitled. Japs cheering. US thru jungle. Pincers shadow over Jap map of
Philippines. Submarine surfacing,
then diving. Periscope view of sinking cruiser. Carrier planes fighting ships. US destroyers in Suragawa Straits firing; night
explosions. Map w/ diagramming of
battle. Moving ammo; communication
room; firing battleship big guns at night. Burning ships in morning. Japanese battleships; US baby carriers.
Queues outside polling station. Interiors civilians in polling booths. Military overseas voting - postal ballot papers put in box .
Thomas Dewey and wife vote in New York. President Roosevelt (FDR) in polling station at Town Hall
in Hyde Park New York. Vote counting. NBC Election chart. Press at typewriters.
Girl filling in wall chart
01:02:09 Times Square at night - crowds. Interior Republican National HQ.
Posters of FDR and Dewey. Board on wall with results. Crowds outside waiting for results.
01.02.41 Governor Dewey and wife pose after conceding defeat. Dewey speaks -
congratulates FDR.
01:03:13 Exterior FDR family home in Hyde Park with crowds outside. President Roosevelt seated laughing - receives
congratulations - waves to crowd. Various shots FDR in close up over the years
INCLUDING:
23.01:31 :Shows President Roosevelt (FDR) , Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, and Churchill
at Teheran.
23:01:52
Vice President Wallace, Morgenthau & VP-Elect Truman at desk promote loan
drive jokingly (SOF). 07:30:28 President Roosevelt (FDR) speech re cost of war
encouraging sacrifice to support troops and buy war bonds. Speaking in November says costing $250,000,000 per day. “... in the name of our wounded,
of our dead, and of future generations...” (GOOD SPEECH).
Title: Help end the war: back 6th
war loan.
FDR speech (Sd)
re humanitarian aid and aid to armed forces.
06?Jul44
FDR greeting
General De Gaulle at White House. De Gaulle
shaking hands with dignitaries.
VS FDR, Nimitz,
Leahy and MacArthur in discussion in lounge area of hotel / HQ w/ map. FDR talk w/ MacArthur [more interested
in Mac. than Leahy or Nimitz]. CU FDR w/ bow tie. EXT official cars w/ CU USN license
plates. INT MS map w/ Nimitz then
Leahy using pointer while others seated. Military personnel inc. sailors visible in BG plus photographer w/
camera.
22:00:13: Presidential motorcade
w/ motorcycle escort passes along road; pan to FDR’s car? pause at Hawaiian
vista. PoV shots of motorcade from
inside moving car, inc. troops saluting along roadside.
04:05:29 Title: Roosevelt Wins! 1944 Election w/ people lined up to vote along sidewalk of city. Camera past voters; Blacks &
whites. Pulling curtain in voting
booth.
04:05:59 GIs voting in field w/
absentee ballots, soldier by tank licking envelope.
04:06:18 Governor & Mrs Dewey
voting. Hyde Park town hall & FDR standing on arms of others.
04:06:36 Counting ballots, men
& women at tabulating machines; National Broadcasting Company Election
chart w/ women changing numbers. Reporters.
04:07:02 High angle of night &
Times Square filled w/ people, intercut w/ scenes. CU Dewey & Wife, SOF Dewey conceding election in speech.
04:08:06 Night ext. of Hyde Park
home, FDR sitting laughing, waves. CUs FDR 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944.
NOTE Issue continues on next card “51 Nations At Aviation Conference”.
04:59:22 Pyramids silhouetted.
04:59:27 General Chiang Kai-Shek,
President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill seated in MLS & MS on lawn w/ arbor behind,
appearing to talk & swatting at bugs.
04:59:50 CU of Chiang, waving hat
at bug, pan to FDR & pan on to Churchill. LS. Pan continues to Madam Chiang
Kai-Shek. All four seen. Military still photographers in bottom
of frame.
05:00:58 Civilian advisors
standing behind including Harriman, Eden & others.
05:02:55 Military advisors
standing behind, including Stilwell.
05:04:14 Civilian advisors again.
05:04:33 Military advisors again.
05:05:49 CU American generals
including George Marshall & ??; pan to British Generals & US &
British Admirals & Chinese & US military.
INCLUDING:
18:29:04 Posters on wall of
FDR, Churchill,
an Italian & boot stomping on Italy. Two women along front of building past barbed wire barricade. City square w/ pedestrians &
traffic (dark). Men towards camera. Large statue on pedestal w/ people
sitting at base, pan around park. Bus stop for Pompei.
18:30:43
Post Italian Liberation; Italy LIberated;
Allied Conference in Quebec: leaders around table. Mountbatten. FDR , Churchill and Mackenzie King pose together. FDR speech defying Hitler at Ottawa:
“surrender would pay them better now than later. . we have been forced to call
out what we call the sheriff’s posse... in order that gangsterism be eliminated
in the community of nations... we are going to be rid of outlaws this time.”
Army transport plane landing at Washington’s National Airport taxiing w/ US
army honor guard at attention. De
Gaulle down plane steps, salutes & shakes hands. Walking w/ VIPs & photographers as guns salute. De Gaulle, Gen. Marshall, Adm. King
& Gen. Arnold salute. De
Gaulle shaking hands. Gen. Watson
& Adm. Brown aides to FDR greet; talking. Generalists behind ropes. Into car & leaving; arriving at White House. Int. & shaking hands w/ FDR, Cordell Hull, Ann Boetticher,
James Forestall, Harold Ickes. Wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington Cemetery Grave of Unknown Soldier.
11:32:32 New York City Hall
arrival w/ crowds cheering & waving as he enters. Leaves & waves. Good shot of cameramen. Into
car. W/ reporters on top of RCA
building & view to skyscrapers. CU.
11:33:20 De Gaulle seated speaks
(SOF) in stilted English: “I’m glad
to be on American soil. And again
to have met President Roosevelt. We have
talked, and I found thus we have a common understanding of the grave problems
facing us. I take this opportunity
to thank the American people for the wonderful effort they have made to win
this war today. As in 1918 your
American boys are fighting side by side w/ the French soldiers. Together we are marching on the road to
Berlin, to Tokyo, to a final victory.”
Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at dock, Mrs Roosevelt with Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King
and general Marshall launch ship. Ernest J. King makes speech. Battleship at
sea. Plane takes off from carrier. Aerial shots Okinawa, rocket attack on industrial area. Japanese war planes under attack, hit
and dive into sea. Battleship
firing broadside. Single large gun
firing off ship. Explosion near
ship. Bombardment, rockets on island. Fleet at sea, rockets fired from ship.
US troops in landing crafts, on beach. Up hill in tanks, soldiers sitting on
top. Burning field and building with US soldier walking through. On jeep.
Wounded carried off, tended, loaded on plane, takes off (grainy).
Battle in jungle. Firing guns. Dead Japanese. Throwing grenades. Surrendered
Japanese soldier. Pulling dead Japanese out of cave.
INCLUDING:
10:51:18 Convoy of jeeps arrive w/
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in cloak & party.
10:51:58 Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill &
?? walking in parking lot. Stalin
out of car & into bldg; saluting guards; Molotov into building.
10:52:29 Interior w/ fire in
fireplace; men talking. Anna & two other women pose. Stalin enters with others;
INCLUDING:
19:12:48 Yalta - Posed shot Churchill, FDR and Stalin.
19:13:07
14:47:48 Black Sea city of Yalta w/ palm trees along street,
pedestrians & bicyclists. Kids
looking at large wall cartoon. Man
pointing & to two panels of cartoons about Hitler & WWII.
14:48:00 Sign pointing to Odessa
& Livadia & Sevastopol. Residential streets & US & Soviet men laying cables & wires
for Yalta Conference. Unloading US
Army trucks. Int. w/ fire in
fireplace.
14:48:40 Churchill out of plane; FDR in car shaking hands w/ ??,
Molotov introducing; jeep w/ Roosevelt past troops at attention. Hammer & scycle on building. Stalin enters, FDR arrives & Churchill into building.
14:49:19:12 - 14:49:19:17 glitch.
14:49:25 Int. Stalin enters w/
delegation. Journalists. FDR & Stettinius, Churchill &
Eden, Stalin & ?? (Gromyko visible). US man at teletype. Harriman, Stalin & Molotov talking. FDR & Churchill at table.
14:49:58 Ext. Churchill puts on hat; Eden &
??. Group posing for pictures seen
from above, FDR seated in middle.
220363 11:17:35
- 11:20:05 1945 Sd b/w
Plane landing at Malta - Averell Harriman & British Field Marshall Wilson
greets George Marshall as he leaves aircraft. Meeting place Montgomery House, Malta. Interior conference in session, Field
Marshall Alexander & Admiral
King.
11:18:17 Yalta - Anthony Eden w/
Molotov & Stettinius await arrival of Winston Churchill. Churchill exits plane. Roosevelt (FDR) looking ill shakes hands w/
Russians. Roosevelt’s daughter Mrs Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill & ?? acting as aides.
Flags of UK, Russia & America. Russian troops reviewed.
11:19:00 Summer Palace of Tsar
Nicholas where conference takes place. Cars arriving. Harry
Hopkins w/ Anthony Eden. Stalin
arrives & enters building. Meeting in progress. Exterior posing for photographers.
Yalta - Anthony Eden w/ Molotov & Stettinius await arrival of Winston
Churchill. Churchill exits
plane. FDR Roosevelt looking ill shakes hands w/ Russians. FDR’s daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill.
Summer Palace of Tsar Nicholas where conference takes place. Cars arriving. Harry Hopkins w/ Anthony Eden. Stalin arrives, enters building. Meeting in progress. Ext. posing for photographers.
11:21:52 FDR addresses Congress - apologises
for making address sitting down & makes reference to his polio / heavy iron
leg braces. This is Roosevelt’s last major public
appearance. FDR gets standing ovation.
USS Murphy pulls
alongside USS Quincy. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia transfers
from one to the other and joins President Roosevelt (FDR) seated on deck.
CU President Roosevelt (FDR)
seated smoking cigarette- Stalin in next seat. Churchill joins - smoking cigar
- photocalls with different groups standing behind the Big Three - first
military officers - then Anthony Eden, Stettinius and Molotov.
21.11.16 Bank of cameramen - good shots movie and still cameras. General
milling around in courtyard. Sarah Churchill and another woman.
On board USS Augusta - King Farouk in naval uniform boards and confers with
President Roosevelt. Sarah Churchill in
attendance.
21:16:48 Haile Selassie boards ship and confers with FDR
Russian soldier standing next to Russian signpost.
21:19:46 Bomb damaged buildings. Street scenes. Shot of building
through wrought iron gates. Sign
re entrance to Canteen, Barber Shop, Sick Bay. Sign re US Army Signal corp - exterior building. Shots of valley. Cars arriving and leaving
building. Shot of Valley and lake
/ sea ? Local woman and child buying tea from shop. Locals looking at caricature of Hitler. Two Russian men talking.
21:23:25 Brief top shot President Roosevelt (FDR) conferring with King Ibn Saud on
board Augusta
King taking oath as Chief of Navy; at desk planning.
Nimitz shaking hands with men; Nimitz and Halsey; surrender of Japan aboard
Missouri, Nimitz signing surrender documents.
Gen. Marshall takes oath as Army Chief of Staff. Marshall with Arnold; Marshall with producer Daryl Zanuck. Top shot army marching. Marshall talking to troops; with FDR and others; at Yalta near Stalin; reviewing troops; with Gen. Clark; with
MacArthur in Pacific; with
Eisenhower.
Eisenhower with staff planning Normandy invasion; Ike in Paris at liberation
with GI parade under Arc de Triomphe; Ike by wrecked building with Nazi sign
and eagle. Ike posing with other Allied Supreme commanders of occupied Germany
Montgomery, Zhukov and De Lattre de Tassigny. Ike welcome parade in New York. Ike awarded American Legion honours at Chicago and ovation.
Title re war bonds
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 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 Jima flag hoisting.
09:13:04
Yalta
Airport: Stettinius out of plane and welcomed by Molotov; Harry Hopkins
greeted. Stettinius, Molotov and Anthony Eden. General Marshall. Adm. King.
Churchill out of plane and with Molotov. FDR w/ Molotov and FDR shakes hands with others. Review Soviet Guard of Honour.
Molotov and Churchill walk alongside FDR’s car.
09.29.08 Former palace of Czar
Nicholas. Stalin arrives and
enters. Churchill enters building. Stalin sits. All seated around table. Famous shot Stalin, FDR, Churchill. Churchill’s daughter
Sarah Oliver with Harriman and Roosevelt’s daughters. Big Three seated.
President Roosevelt wearing cape and smoking cigarette. Stalin looking stony faced sitting next to him. Good shot Churchill FDR and Stalin laughing at
photocall. Officers from all
services assemble behind the three for photos. Foreign ministers Eden, Stettinius and Molotov standing behind big three. Still and movie cameramen.
12:03:39 Stalin, Molotov and other officers standing in group. Big three seated in garden, various
shots having photographs taken. Stalin and others enter building
12:06:07 Sarah Churchill standing with two other women.
Four-motor Army
Air Force plane landing at Malta for preliminary military conference. Ambassador Harriman talking w/ ?? General Marshall off plane,
shakes hands w/ Harriman & Russian Officer. LS Montgomery House as car pulls up where early meeting was
held. CU name plaque.
03:46:42 Military officers around
long table w/ Field Marshall Alexander, Summervell, Adm. King. LS of Yalta from above. Molotov posing w/ Anthony Eden &
Stettinius. Churchill off plane at
Yalta & next to Molotov. Rooslevelt in car looking very thin shaking hands. CU of daughter Anna Boettiger. Flags of nations. FDR in jeep reviewing troops. Palace & arrival of cars. Harry Hopkins.
03:47:48 Arrival of Josef
Stalin. Int. shot of round table
w/ various delegates & aides. Posing for camers seated outside.
WWII Yalta Conference variously called Crimea Conference, codenamed Argonaut
Conference, 04-11Feb45.
INCLUDING:
18:00:44 Boy w/ book fishing in
stream at edge of woods. Thinking,
staring into water. Montage: Steam boat, ocean liner, farmer into
barn, Times Square, Wright Brothers plane, large military plane overhead, hand
picking cotton, military cemetary, WWII army nurses & transfusion, Yalta
w/ Stalin, Churchill & FDR.
18:01:58
LS of Yalta & Crimean Sea from hilltop, pan across. Elaborately carved stone
sarcophagus. Building w/ military
man standing in courtyard. ca
04Feb45 Arrival of Churchill &
Anthony Eden; saluting them as they enter Livadia Palace. Other military as US army jeep
arrives.
08:10:51 FDR sitting on bench between Stalin
& Churchill w/ military attaches around preparing to pose for photographers
(out of focus).
08:11:16 Title: “Along The Lenin Embankment in
Yalta”. Waves breaking, people
walking in distance. Kids pose for
camera. Kids on sidewalk before
sea wall. Church (dark). US sailors walking, horse cart on road,
truck. Local women & kids
posing for camera (out of focus & dark). Ruined building.
08:12:36 Title: “Landing At Deversoir, on Great Bitter
Lake midway the Suez We rejoin....” Aerial over lake & canal. Title: “King Farouk of
Egypt Calls On The President” 13Feb45 Flags shipboard,
woman (Ann Boetticher ?) sitting w/ FDR. Farouk arrives & salutes sailors; talking w/ FDR & other Egyptians & US go
off.
08:13:52 Title: “Late that same afternoon the Ethiopian
Emperor, Haile Selassie, calls” Up
ship walk & sitting w/ FDR (dark), big US flag behind. Title: King Ibn
Saud royal Arabian party embarked
in a U.S. destroyer, arrive. 14Feb45 Seen on deck w/
sailors. Carpets on deck. Party w/ rifles; US military
officers. King Abdul Aziz aka Ibn
Saud boards the cruiser as sailors salute.
08:15:50 Title: The Royal Flock Has Now Been Reduced To
Two” Sailors looking at two sheep
on deck in pen. Shots of groups on
shipboard. Sheik’s bodyguards
posing w/ Adm William D. Leahy & others. Ornate furniture on carpets on deck. Ibn Saud talking & gesturing w/ FDR beside military translator. Leahy talking w/ other members of
party. MCU of body guard kin
brocade robes.
08:17:32 Title: “The ‘ceremonial coffee server’
performs” Pouring coffee to arabs
seated along railing of ship. Small Dhow on water coming alongside; military watching as crates &
chests off-loaded onto Dhow.
View of coastal town from hilltop tunnel. Russian soldier at attention by road sign. Woman & child walking up hill; motorcycle & sidecar
up road. Wrecked buildings.
11:00:49 People walking along
street w/ ornate buildings & iron balconies. People standing about, looking at poster & anti-Nazi
cartoon. Tea stand & woman
drinking from glass; Livadia Palace w/ signs in cyrillic Russian &
English.
11:01:26 USSR troops w/ rifles
& bayonets march. People enter
building. CU sign: Entrance to canteen, barber shop, sick
bay. British or Americans officers
out. Unloading trucks & views
of buildign.
11:02:33 Convoy of jeeps arrive w/
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in cloak & party.
11:03:14 Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill &
?? walking in parking lot. Stalin
out of car & into bldg; saluting guards; Molotov into building.
11:03:43 Interior w/ fire in
fireplace; men talking. Anna & two other women pose. Stalin enters with
others; 11:04:29 Churchill in
military uniform w/ large cigar. Ext. & delegates exiting, CU Churchill w/ cigar & wearing fur
cossack hat, posing w/ Stettinius & army woman. Cars leaving up driveway. Churchill leaving, saluting.
Four-motor Army
Air Force plane landing at Malta for preliminary military conference. Ambassador Harriman talking w/ British
Field Marshall Wilson. General
Marshall off plane, shakes hands w/ Harriman & Russian Officer. LS Montgomery House as car pulls up
where early meeting was held. CU
name plaque.
11:47:50 Military officers around
long table w/ Field Marshall Alexander, Summervell, Adm. King. LS of Yalta from above. Molotov posing w/ Anthony Eden &
Stettinius. Churchill off plane at
Yalta & next to Molotov. Rooslevelt in car looking very thin shaking hands. CU of daughter Anna Boettiger. Flags of nations. FDR in jeep reviewing troops. Palace & arrival of cars. Harry Hopkins.
11:48:57 Arrival of Josef
Stalin. Int. shot of round table
w/ various delegates & aides. Posing for camers seated outside.
WWII Yalta Conference variously called Crimea Conference, codenamed Argonaut
Conference, 04-11Feb45.
Yalta - Anthony Eden w/ Molotov & Stettinius await arrival of Winston
Churchill. Churchill exits
plane. FDR Roosevelt looking ill shakes hands w/ Russians. FDR’s daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger w/ Sarah Churchill.
Summer Palace of Tsar Nicholas where conference takes place. Cars arriving. Harry Hopkins w/ Anthony Eden. Stalin arrives, enters building. Meeting in progress. Ext. posing for photographers.
11:51:34 FDR addresses Congress - apologises
for making address sitting down & makes reference to his polio / heavy iron
leg braces. This is Roosevelt’s last major public
appearance. FDR gets standing ovation.
King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud seated on deck. Arab VIPs seated on deck. Ibn Saud
down steps and shakes hands with FDR, top shot Ibn Saud and FDR in conversation. Not good shots FDR
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 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 Jima flag hoisting.
09:13:04
14Feb45 Color Shots of King Ibn-Saud w/ Col. William
A Eddy (translator & US rep. to Saudi Arabia) on deck of destroyer USS
Murphy (DD-603); coffee served, others of King’s party seen.
18:16:57 USS Murphy seen in Suez
Canal from water & approaching Heavy Cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71).
Shot of USS Quincy w/ sailors lining rail; high shot from USS Murphy as Ibn
Saud walks down gangway onto ship and forward.
18:17:54 Title card: “Transiting the Suez, en route
Alexandria” Shots on board ship in
canal, shadow on bank, sandy banks.
18:18:25 Title card: “Alexandria harbor” View past men at rail. USS Murphy (?) seen passing dhows &
other small boats. President Roosevelt, Stettinius & other civilians
in party posing.
18:19:03 Winston Churchill coming
aboard (in shadow). USS Gleaves
(DD-423) away from ship in harbor.
18:19:30 Title card: “Algiers”.
FDR(?) looking
off ships rail with binoculars. Dock w/ logs, jeep and car. Shots of shoreline from ship (poor focus).
18:20:06 Title card: Westbound - Passing through the Straits
of Gibraltar.”
Rock of Gibraltar behind three men. Other shots of Gibraltar and water w/ white caps and sun on waves. Escort ships.
18:20:48 B/W Ship’s chefs & mess crew display
cakes w/ Happy Birthday FDR written in icing. Sailors hold cakes & pose.
Naval launch pulling alongside ship. Civilians including Stettinius come aboard. President Roosevelt seated on deck with civilians.
18:24:04 Naval launch pulls
alongside - top shot Winston Churchill coming aboard
18:25:03 Launch pulling alongside - USS Murphy crew saluting as King Ibn Saud
of Saudi Arabia comes aboard. Shots unid. arabs. Arabic party sitting on deck drinking coffee. Arabs shown around ship, one
pulls out dagger. Side view
Ibn-Saud in chair. Pan along deck
showing crew and activity.
18:31:00 Airfield - plane coming in to land - unid civilians de-plane. Aircraft
in flight. Sarah Churchill ? FDR in car.
FDR with
Stettinius on shipboard Quincy. Churchill arrives on board. King
Farouk of Egypt arrives; shakes
hands with FDR’s
daughter Anna. Farouk confers with FDR; laughing and Farouk lighting FDR’s cigarette. Haile Sellassie arrives on board and
talks w/ FDR.
Ibn Saud and bodyguards arriving on American destroyer and boards FDR’s ship. Ibn Saud discusses with FDR
FDR speech "... We have made a good start on
the road to world peace. Never
before have the major allies been so closely united, not only in their war aim
but also in their peace aim... the sooner [the Germans] surrender, the sooner
their present agony will be over... We haven't won the wars yet. It's a long,
tough road to Tokyo... We must be prepared for a long and costly struggle in
the Pacific... permanent structure of peace... a world in which... children and grandchildren of the whole
world must live an can live.
4 motor planes over S.F. harbor with many ships. Views of Golden Gate Bridge;
street scenes - traffic - cable cars; pedestrians; military; boy scouts.
Chinatown; airport arrival. 07:01:54 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 (FDR) 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.
INCLUDING:
07.25.21 Interior US Congress. Film of dead President Roosevelt (FDR) asking Congress to accept the
result of conference as the beginning of a permanent structure of Peace (sound poor on FDR speech)
Adm. Richardson, former fleet commander, testifies at Pearl Harbor Inquiry
- re pre-war conversation with FDR re validity of having fleet in
Hawaii - quotes FDR: “We are not stepping backwards”; and re likelihood of USA going into
war depending on which territory the Japanese were going to attack. Richardson quotes FDR: “... sooner or later they [the
Japanese] would make a mistake and we would enter the war.”
Pearl Harbor Hearings
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt 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.
INCLUDING:
09:07:41 Hirohito on white
horse. Stimson into White House,
Forrestal arrives; around cabinet table. Shots of FDR during war.
09:08:31
CU typewritten letter from Einstein to the President, subject of letter is atomic
bomb and nuclear
research.
Exterior of Einstein home, trees, vines. 112 Mercer St. Doorway
& various angles. Einstein
with pipe in study. Looks
around. CU equation. Einstein w/ Leo Szilard on
porch looking at letter as Einstein smokes long-stemmed pipe. Good MCU. (09:14:52) Typing Einstein address on letter. Einstein Letter to FDR (Roosevelt).
CU typewritten letter from Einstein to the President, subject of letter is
atomic bomb and nuclear research.
Exterior of Einstein home, trees, vines. 112 Mercer St. Doorway
& various angles. Einstein
with pipe in study. Looks
around. CU equation.
22:14:21 Einstein w/ Leo Szilard
on porch looking at letter as Einstein smokes long-stemmed pipe. Good MCU. 22:16:42 Typing Einstein address on letter, then to FDR, CU of letter concerning
Atomic Bomb.
INCLUDING:
17:58:56 Shots of public hearing,
& Senate w/ Bill document superimposed; Truman at desk. Coins & banknotes being
produced. CU income tax return
being filled out. Examples of
taxed items - movie admissions, gasoline, luxuries. Passenger ship; customs agents - import tax. Trucks on highway; train past; plane landing. FDR addressing Congress [poor
quality]. Signing United nations charter.
18:02:16
INCLUDING:
22:40:05 Coronation of George VI - coaches - crowds with cardboard periscopes.
Interior Westminster Abbey -
crowning ceremony. Coronation
party on balcony at Buckingham Palace. King and Queen on thrones. Couple on royal tours - brief shots in
Africa and then in Canada - shaking hands. Good shot George VI and President Roosevelt (FDR) in open
top car. Roosevelt family including Mamie and mother
seated with royal couple.
22:41:40
INCLUDING:
03:17:17
INCLUDING:
16:21:18 1920s [?] US city street
scene w/ busy traffic & pedestrians. Depression - Black woman seen in candlelight through window of shack w/
broken shutter - President Franklin Roosevelt sworn in Mar33 - workers on construction site w/
sign ‘USA Work Program’ - workers at shipyard. WWII montage - newspaper headline ‘War! Bomb Warsaw!’ - tank
& field artillery troops running - FDR addressing press conference [MOS] after new
executive powers granted - tanks off production line - employment office? -
warships firing - FDR & Winston Churchill.
US History. Politics. Government. Democracy.
RCA
INCLUDING:
13:09:39 Film (not television) of FDR at World’s Fair, King & Queen of England
touring pavilion & in front of crowds. Baseball, 1940 political conventions.
13:10:28
Tilt down Capitol to inauguration stand. Herbert Hoover leaving White House w/ wife & shares open car w/
FDR & wife. Crowd at Capitol
19:07:11 FDR speaking, SOF: But
first of all let me affirm my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself. MCU.
19:07:31
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INCLUDING:
08:47:29 FDR with Vincent Astor shaking
hands on sailing trip. Roosevelt
with son James, Astor
and unid. man posing on boat,
smiling. Boat leaving dock. He waves hat.
08:48:03
INCLUDING:
23:17:56: President Roosevelt return from holiday by boat, greeted by NRA chief General Hugh
Johnston. Boards special train to
capital to instigate Depression relief programme.
23:18:11: FDR Junior w/ Harvard
rowing crew.
23:18:29:
19:20:39 President Roosevelt
giving State of Union speech (MOS) to 73rd Congress. Standing ovation.
19:21:03
15:10:20 President Roosevelt driving w/ others in car to Pine
Valley Rural Resettlement Project. Arriving past crowd. CU
farmers of depression pilot project to reclaim barren land. Crowd watching, applauding,
15:10:42
15:11:19 Eleanor Roosevelt cutting
ribbon as LaGuardia & ?? watches. MCU of people watching. LS
crowd waiving flags.
15:11:30
Obituary film. Winston Churchill greeting Queen of
Elizabeth & Prince Philip along w/ wife. Walks through London during war & touring by car w/ wife
thru bomb damaged London. Churchill and Clemmie (Clementine) in Plymouth,
Boarding ship w/ FDR on first meeting off Newfoundland on USS Augusta to form Atlantic
Charter - Shakes hands with Roosevelt. Off
Gibraltar - standing at ships rail. Crossing the channel. With
Eisenhower With Royal Family
on VE day. Parade up
Broadway. Addressing
Congress. With Ike outside White
House. Outside 10 Downing Street.
Crowds wave. W/ V-Sign.
1917: US in WWI. Ship sinking
after torpedo. Packed US Navy
transport leaving dock. Young FDR as assistant Navy Sec? Troops unloading. Ship production? VS troops artillery and explosions on
front. Early tank.
01:42:35: Surrendering German
troops.
01:42:49: WWI victory celebrations
NYC, waving hats and flags.
01:43:22: 1919: Woodrow Wilson at
desk. Roosevelt reviews US troops in France w/
General [Hershing?].
01:43:57: US troops boarding
transports in France. Arc de
Triomphe and march past, Paris.
01:45:21: 1920: FDR meeting politicians?
01:45:45: San Francisco Democratic
Convention July 1920, nomination for Vice-President. FDR making speech. Parade in
SF FDR w/
President.
01:46:52: Mrs Roosevelt and four children in Hyde Park
home, NY.
01:47:10: FDR at rally. FDR in open-top car returning home
greeted by Mother. Addressing
home-town crowd.
01:48:20: 1924 NYC Democratic
Convention, FDR nomination of Alfred Smith.
01:49:00: 1928 Houston Democratic
Convention. CU Alfred Smith. FDR Governor of NY and at inaugural
ball.
01:50:11: FDR in motorcade w/ Mother. Outdoor lunch for FDR
.
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
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.
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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
Charles 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.
White House with people standing looking, sorrowful. Truman taking office from Harlan Fiske Stone; Kisses
bible.
17.27.31 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.
Cortege of cars.
LS Crowds waiting at Union Station for arrival of train bearing President Roosevelt’s body - LS Looking down street lined by marine guards. MCU Caisson
/ gun carriage bearing casket leaving Union Station with police outriders.
Funeral procession leaving Union Station. Coffin. Long cortege of cars. Crowds
lining streets. CU dog inside car. Procession towards Capitol down Constitution Avenue - more shots of
crowds lining streets with army and navy guards. Armed forces march in front of
coffin. Shots from behind of movie cameraman - men with cameras on rooftops.
Crowds on balcony / vantage point. Pan over huge crowd.
General de Gaulle reviews marching midshipmen at Annapolis - US Navy
Parade. De Gaulle out of car and
greeted by Eleanor Roosevelt at Hyde Park where he lays wreath on President Roosevelt’s grave - FDR
.
American Legion medal awarded posthumously to FDR. FDR’s son Franklin Roosevelt
Jr. accepts medal on his behalf - short speech.
Fried chicken dinner
served afterwards to legionnaires. CUs eating. Baby eats chicken leg.
Ike and Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park placing wreath.
Carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt baptism in Caribbean sea (on way to Brazil for President’s
inauguration). Planes on
deck. Captain Sucheck?. Plane falls in water. Takeoff POV from plane. Landing on carrier. Aerial carrier.
Lunenberg, Germany to Field Marshall Montgomery
Montgomery reads out surrender documents; German Admiral signs.
German surrender at Reims with Jodl signing. Eisenhower speech re FDR’s & Churchill’s terms of
unconditional surrender at Casablanca now being fulfilled
.
(First anniversary of death)
Exterior FDR home. FDR w/ mother in front of fire. Interior house: living room, desk,
library, bed. Crowd outside house. Eleanor speech (Sd). Truman speech (Sd).
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.
03:34:24 08Jun50 CU Norwegian flag in breeze, pan over
packed dock. Eleanor Roosevelt
walking w/ King (?) & others. Assembled VIPs & others. SOF: “Today we ask you to
step forward & unveil this monument to your husband’s memory, to the memory
of that grreat man...and for the freedom of individuals & peoples all over
the world.”
03:35:01 Eleanor tugs flag
off w/ rope from seated statue of FDR.
03;35:14 LS Eleanor speaking SOF: “The work of one man is important, but
it is more important when it symbolizes the love of a nation for Freedom &
Justice; and the willingness of its people to join w/ other nations whenever
Freedom & Justice are imperil”.
INCLUDING:
02:38:00
INCLUDING:
12:56:02 Aerial of London. Grosvenor Square & FDR statue
w/ Jackie Cooper looking at it & wreath at base. Dusk over Parliament. The End.
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.
INCLUDING:
President FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt waving from White House balcony. Churchill mourning. Eleanor talking
to children at family estate. Obituary
10:31:40
INCLUDING:
10:41:39 Eleanor Roosevelt
obituary. Waving w/ FDR from White House balcony; w/
Churchill at FDR grave; CU talking to children touring home.
10:42:02
Churchill 70th birthday
Churchill ushered into car , girls behind window waving, Churchill in car
drives off. Mrs Churchill with
young woman, young woman kisses British PM, Mrs Churchill stands with Winston.
Eleanor Roosevelt,
Churchill, President Roosevelt (FDR) standing.
Capitol.
Churchill with men walking in street in 1941.
In Congress, ovation, Churchill speech. On doorstep making V-sig
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