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Motion Picture MP2002-279

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")

Administrative Information

Footage
36 feet
Running Time
1 minute 16 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

An unidentified narrator reads segments of a script. Harry S. Truman"s voice is not present on this recording; it is all read by a narrator and refers to the atomic bomb .He quotes Secretary of War Henry Stimson and an unidentified scientist about devastation and mega deaths. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   Narrator speaks, reading segments of the script. He declares atom bomb use abnormal in a commentary on ethics of war. Harry S. Truman's voice is not on this recording; it is all read by a narrator and refers to the atomic bomb.
0:33   Narrator states "There is a decadence in using overwhelming force."
0:46   Narrator quotes Secretary of War Stimson and an unidentified scientist about devastation and mega deaths.