- Title: VM-279
- Summary: TRUMAN & THE COLD WAR: PRESIDENT TRUMAN POST-WWII: WESTERN EUROPE'S RECOVERY FROM WARTIME DESTRUCTION; COLD-WAR RIVALRY; MARSHALL PLAN & TRUMAN DOCTRINE; CONFRONTATION OVER BERLIN; NATO FORMED TO PREVENT FURTHER COMMUNIST EXPANSION.
- Description:00:59:54 - CU BOY RINGING HUGE BELL ON VE DAY (5/8/45) 00:59:58 - MONTAGE CROWDS IN STREETS MARCHING, CHEERING, CELEBRATING 01:00:15 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN SOLDIER HUGS & KISSES, SHAKES HANDS WITH GIS 01:00:26 - TRUMAN ON WARSHIP TO MEET WITH CHURCHILL & STALIN 01:00:31 - MONTAGE TRUMAN ON WARSHIP 01:00:59 - TRUMAN & SECRETARY BYRNE DEBARK WARSHIP 01:01:08 - MONTAGE TRUMAN IN OPEN CAR WAVES TO CROWD 01:01:17 - MONTAGE TRUMAN PASSES BOMBED-OUT BUILDINGS IN BERLIN 01:01:25 - INDIGENT MAN WALKS PAST BOMBED-OUT STORES 01:01:29 - MAN WITH CHISEL & HAMMER CHOPS SWASTIKA FROM BUILDING 01:01:33 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN TROOPS MARCHING IN BERLIN 01:01:55 - RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RIDE ATOP TANK 01:01:58 - MONTAGE TRUMAN, RIDING ATOP ARMY TRUCK, REVIEW US TROOPS & TANKS 01:02:21 - AERIAL PALACE AT POTSDAM SITE OF MEETING 01:02:31 - STALIN MEETS & SHAKES HANDS WITH CHURCHILL 01:02:39 - TRUMAN & BYRNE AT CONFERENCE TABLE 01:02:45 - CU STALIN & MOLOTOV AT TABLE 01:02:58 - CU TRUMAN & STALIN POSE FOR CAMERA 01:03:09 - MONTAGE TRUMAN & STALIN SHOTS 01:03:21 - MONTAGE STREET RIOTS THRUOUT WESTERN EUROPE 01:03:41 - HOMELESS REFUGEES WITH BELONGINGS WALK DOWN ROADS 01:04:04 - SHEEP WITH HERDERS IN GREECE 01:04:08 - GREEK PEASANTS PLAY CARDS OUTDOORS 01:04:13 - CU BEARDED OLD GREEK MAN SEATED ON GROUND 01:04:19 - GREEK KING IN MOTORCADE CHEERED BY SUBJECTS 01:04:25 - CU GREEK KING IN UNIFORM 01:04:31 - MONTAGE COMMUNIST-SUPPORTED CROWDS DEMONSTRATE 01:04:38 - CU MAN WAVING HAND AT CAMERA & SHOUTING 01:04:43 - MONTAGE PARTISAN TROOPS MARCH AGAINST GREEK GOVERNMENT 01:04:49 - PARTISANS ON HORSEBACK CROSS BRIDGE 01:05:03 - PARTISAN FIRES RIFLE 01:05:03 - MONTAGE PARTISANS FIRING MORTORS, MACHINES GUNS & CANNONS 01:05:22 - MONTAGE PARTISAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING THRU FIELDS 01:05:54 - MOTORCADE PASSES CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON D.C. 01:06:02 - TRUMAN ADDRESSES CONGRESS ON GREEK CRISIS 01:06:22 - AERIAL CONGRESSMAN LISTEN TO SPEECH 01:06:40 - CU TRUMAN SIGNS TRUMAN DOCTRINE (TO SEND ARMS & ECONOMIC HELP TO GREECE) 01:06:46 - CU TRUMAN WITH BEARDED GREEK ORTHODOX PRIEST 01:06:50 - CU GREEK BOY PLAYING FLUTE 01:06:52 - GREEK PEOPLE DANCE AS MUSICIANS PLAY 01:07:08 - AERIAL BOMBED-OUT BUILDINGS IN TOWNS & CITIES OF POST-WAR EUROPE 01:07:21 - OLD WOMAN IN BLACK WALKS DOWN ISOLATED STREET 01:07:23 - WOMEN & CHILDREN PICK THRU GARBAGE HEAP 01:07:26 - CU MAN PICKS THRU GARBAGE CAN 01:07:29 - CU BOY EATS FOOD SCRAP 01:07:35 - CU BOY LICKS GARBAGE CAN COVER 01:07:40 - TRUMAN & GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL 01:07:46 - CU GEORGE MARSHALL 01:08:14 - REPRESENTATIVES OF 16 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES MEET IN PARIS 01:08:16 - CU ERNEST BEVAN OF BRITAIN 01:08:22 - MONTAGE EACH DELEGATE SIGNS THE "MARSHALL PLAN" 01:08:33 - CU GENERAL MARSHALL SPEAKS OF MARSHALL PLAN TO HELP EUROPE 01:08:54 - SACKS OF GRAIN LOADED ON SHIP TO EUROPE 01:08:58 - EUROPEAN MAN & WOMAN CARRY FLOUR BAGS DISTRIBUTED BY US 01:09:00 - CU BOY EATS SPOONFUL OF RICE 01:09:08 - MEN WITH PICK-AXES CHOP AWAY AT RUBBLE 01:09:12 - MONTAGE CRANES AT WORK. FACTORIES AS EUROPE REBUILDS 01:09:30 - STALIN AT KREMLIN REVIEWS RUSSIAN TROOPS & ARMS 01:09:41 - ELS RUSSIAN MIGS FLY OVERHEAD 01:09:46 - MONTAGE COMMUNIST CONTROLLED CHZECHOSLAVAKIA & HUNGARIAN TROOPS ON REVIEW 01:10:15 - CU MAP OF WEST BERLIN. RUSSIANS ATTEMPT BLOCKADE 01:10:48 - LONG LINE OF MEN PULL TROLLEY WITH ROPE AS FUEL, FOOD & SUPPLIES WERE CUT OFF 01:10:49 - CU 3 BERLIN BOYS 01:10:54 - PEOPLE MILL AROUND IN STREETS AS SITUATION BECOMES GRAVE 01:11:18 - MONTAGE CHECK POINT SIGNS IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN & FRENCH 01:11:23 - THREE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AT CHECK POINT 01:11:32 - AERIAL RUSSIAN TANK ROLLS INTO BERLIN 01:11:45 - LONG LINE OF TRANSPORT PLANES AT AIRPORT PREPARE FOR BERLIN AIRLIFT 01:12:00 - MONTAGE PLANES FLYING IN AND OUT OF BERLIN 01:12:28 - CU RUSSIAN PILOTS DON EQUIPMENT 01:12:35 - CU US TROOPS WITH CONCERNED LOOKS ARE PREPARED 01:12:40 - MONTAGE FOOD & SUPPLIES LEAVE CARGO PLANES ON CONVEYORS 01:12:47 - MONTAGE CHILDREN PLAY "AIRLIFT GAMES" WITH MODEL PLANES 01:12:48 - MONTAGE PEOPLE & CHILDREN WAVE HANDKERCHIEFS AS PLANE FLIES BY 01:13:02 - MONTAGE TRAINS & TRUCKS GO BY AS BLOCKADE IS LIFTED MAY 12, 1949 01:13:10 - MONTAGE HAPPY PEOPLE IN THE STREETS OF WEST BERLIN 01:13:17 - CU GIS LOOK OUT OF WINDOW OF PASSING TRAIN 01:13:21 - MONTAGE TROOPS & TANKS ON ALERT 01:13:29 - CU TANK TREADS ROLL BY 01:13:42 - CU GENERAL BRADLEY ENTERS MEETING 01:13:45 - MILITARY OF WEST EUROPEAN & US MEET TO FORM NATO 01:13:48 - CU MAP SHOWS NATO DEFENSE 01:13:55 - CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 01:14:02 - TRUMAN ADDRESSES CONGRESS ABOUT NATO 01:14:13 - CU GENERAL EISENHOWER DEBARKS AIRPLANE 01:14:19 - RAILROAD FLATCARS WITH TANKS MOVE THRU COUNTRYSIDE 01:14:23 - AERIAL PARIS FRANCE ARC DE TRIOMPHE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1945
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-279