- Title: VM-980
- Summary: UNIVERSAL SELECTS: Stories mostly about labor union workers and leaders
- Description:07:00:04 - UAW STRIKE AGAINST GENERAL MOTORS. VOTES. MEN SPEAKING 07:00:06 - MS HALL FULL OF SEATED DELEGATES LISTEN TO THE LEADERSHIP OF UAW UNION 07:00:26 - CU DELEGATES SIT & LISTEN ATTENTIVELY 07:00:40 - MS LEADER SPEAKS OVER MIC, 1 HAND IN POCKET & 1 HAND GESTURING 07:00:54 - MS SHOT OF BACK OF LEADER SPEAKING AT AUDIENCE FACING HIM 07:01:07 - MS AS 1 LEADER SPEAKS OTHERS SIT BEHIND HIM ON STAGE 07:01:11 - MS WALTER REUTHER SPEAKS READING FROM PREPARED TEXT 07:01:32 - LARGE AUDIENCE OF WELL-DRESSED DELEGATES LISTEN ATTENTIVELY & SUDDENLY ALL RAISE THEIR HANDS AS THOUGH TO VOTE "AYE" 07:01:42 - UNION LEADER SPEAKS DRAMATICALLY, USING HIS HANDS 07:02:11 - LEADER SPEAKS TO DELEGATES FROM STAGE (AS SEEN FROM AUDIENCE) 07:02:22 - TRUMAN IN OFFICE W/ MEN 07:02:24 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SITS AS HIS OVAL OFFICE DESK & CHATS WITH VIPS (POSSIBLY GM PRES. & OTHERS ?) 07:02:58 - CU TRUMAN CHATS PERSONALLY WITH LEADER WHO BENDS DOWN TO LISTEN 07:03:22 - MEN IN TUXES AT RECEPTION IN WHITE HOUSE 07:03:24 - REP. CLAUDE PEPPER SITS AT DINNER TABLE AT BANQUET 07:03:37 - MONTAGE- OTHER GROUPS OF REPS. & SENATORS SIT AROUND DINNER TABLE WEARING TUXEDOS 07:03:48 - PRES. TRUMAN SITS AT DAIS WITH WIFE BESS 07:03:58 - ATTORNEY GENERAL (?) IS THERE 07:04:06 - MARGARET TRUMAN SMILES FOR CAMERA 07:04:15 - WAITER SERVES OVER SHOULDER OF VIPS ON DAIS 07:04:21 - TRUMAN APPLAUDS AS DOES SAM RAYBURN SITTING NEXT TO HIM ON DAIS 07:04:30 - CROWDED BANQUET HALL WITH VIPs SITTING AT TABLES IN FRONT OF DAIS, LARGE PHOTO OF TRUMAN ON WALL 07:05:11 - CROWD STANDS & GIVES TRUMAN LONG OVATION, TRUMAN STANDS & ACKNOWLEDGES 07:05:41 - FUNERAL PROCESSION. YUGOSLAVIA ? 07:05:47 - MONTAGE- GREEK HONOR GUARD DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL SKIRTS SLOWLY PARADE DOWN STREET FOLLOWING COFFIN OF LEADER (KING?) 07:05:56 - KING IN ADMIRAL'S UNIFORM PARADE DOWN MIDDLE OF SQUARE BEHIND COFFIN AS GREEK SAILORS STAND AT ATTENTION 07:06:04 - HONOR GUARD PALL BEARERS REMOVE COFFIN FROM CAISSON WAGON & CARRY IT SLOWLY IN TO CHURCH FOLLOWED BY LEADER WITH YOUNG BOY (PRINCE?) AT HIS SIDE 07:06:33 - WOMAN WITH BLACK VEIL FOLLOWS WITH HANDS ON SHOULDERS OF 2 YOUNG GIRLS AT EACH SIDE 07:06:41 - 2 ELDERLY WOMEN EXIT CHURCH WIPING TEARS FROM THEIR FACES & FOLLOWED BY OTHERS EXITING 07:07:06 - SQUAD OF HONOR GUARD IN TRADITIONAL SKIRTS & WHITE HIGH SOCKS, MARCH INTO CEMETERY FOLLOWED BY ALTAR BOYS CARRYING CROSSES, CRUCIFIX, & GREEK ORTHODOX PRIEST 07:07:22 - CAISSON WITH COFFIN W/ KING'S CROWN ATOP 07:07:53 - MAN TALKING ABOUT UAW STRIKE 07:08:01 - (GM STRIKE). UAW LEADER STANDS WITH FIST CLENCHED WAITING FOR CUE TO START SPEECH. HE FINALLY STARTS SPEECH MOVING HIS CLENCHED FISTS AS HE SPEAKS. 07:08:43 - LEADER CONTINUES SPEECH USING HIS HAND IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS. (POINTING, OPEN HAND & CLENCHED FIST) AS HE SPEAKS ABOUT SOLIDARITY, UNITY & COOPERATION. LABOR UNION 07:10:41 - CU HE STOPS & PAUSES THEN STARTS AGAIN 07:12:10 - CU HE STOPS AGAIN & ASKS FOR A RE-TAKE 07:13:47 - MEN UNPACKING BOXES WITH VOTES. TALLYING VOTES. MEN VOTING 07:13:55 - MONTAGE- BALLOT COUNTERS SIT AT A LONG TABLE & WAIT AS WORKERS OPEN SEALED BALLOT BOXES & DUMP THE BALLOTS IN FRONT OF THEM 07:14:10 - PEOPLE ON BOTH ENDS OF THE LONG TABLES, SOME STANDING & OTHERS SEATED, START UNFOLDING THE BALLOTS TO COUNT THEM 07:14:21 - CU A BALLOT IS PLACED IN SLOT CUT INTO CARDBOARD BOX 07:14:28 - UNION WORKERS FILE IN FRONT OF TABLE & REGISTER AS DELEGATES REGISTER THEM, HAND THEM A BALLOT. WORKER TAKES BALLOT & ENTERS A CURTAINED CUBICLE & VOTES 07:14:33 - CU HANDS UNFOLD BALLOTS & PLACE THEM IN PILES 07:14:41 - WOMEN & MEN WORKERS OPEN BALLOTS IN FRONT OF SEATED DELEGATES, SOME WITH UAW CAPS, ON OTHER SIDE OF TABLE 07:14:59 - MAN WITH ROLLED UP SLEEVES, NO TIE, WEARING VEST, OPENS BALLOTS 07:15:37 - HUNDREDS LOITER AROUND THE HUGE ROOM AS BALLOTS ARE COUNTED 07:15:46 - WORKERS SEATED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LONG TABLES WORK FEVERISHLY ON THE BALLOTS 07:16:01 - WORKERS SIGN UP AT TABLES & ENTER CURTAINED VOTING BOOTHS 07:16:15 - BURLY WORKER WITH CAP EXITS BOOTH & PLACES BALLOTS IN BOX THEN WALKS AWAY AS OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT 07:16:37 - REGISTRARS SEATED IN FRONT OF VOTING BOOTHS SEARCH FOR NAME IN BOOK 07:16:57 - BLACK WORKER IN FEDORA EXITS BOOTH, PLACES BALLOT IN BOX 07:17:56 - MONTAGE MEN IN VARIOUS FORMS OF WORK CLOTHES CAST THEIR BALLOTS, ONE WITH ENGINEER'S HAT & OVERALLS. OTHERS WALK BEHIND THE CURTAIN 07:18:35 - CU BURLY BLACK MAN IN WHITE FEDORA HAT EXITS CURTAIN, CASTS BALLOT IN BOX SLOT 07:18:44 - AERIAL- HUGE FACTORY AREA IS USED FOR THE VOTING 07:19:25 - CU DELEGATES SEATED AT TABLE SEARCH THROUGH A LONG LIST OF NAMES & CHECK OFF A WAITING WORKER WHO THEN VOTES BEHIND CURTAIN. THEN LEAVES & PLACES BALLOT IN BOX 07:19:36 - WORKERS WALKING OUTSIDE FACTORY BUILDING 07:19:44 - AERIAL- WORKERS AT THEIR MACHINES IN HUGE FACTORY 07:20:00 - DELEGATES AT THEIR TABLES REGISTERING VOTERS NEXT TO CURTAINED BOOTHS 07:20:32 - CU DELEGATE THUMBS THROUGH LONG SHEETS OF NAMES & POINT TO VOTER'S NAME WAITING TO VOTE 07:21:08 - MONTAGE- VOTERS VOTE THEN GO BACK TO THEIR MACHINES 07:21:30 - BLACK BURLY WORKER IS HANDED BALLOT, HE ENTERS VOTING BOOTH AS OTHERS DO THE SAME 07:21:52 - LABOR LEADERS SPEAKING 07:21:58 - CU JOHN L. LEWIS ON UNITED MINE WORKERS, SITS ON A SOFA WITH UAW PRESIDENT & ANOTHER PERSON & START A DIALOG FOR THE CAMERA 07:22:04 - THE 3 MEN SIT STIFFLY WAITING FOR CUT TO START. AFTER A LONG WAIT, UAW PRESIDENT MARTIN STARTS SPEAKING 07:22:52 - LEWIS VOWS SUPPORT OF UAW BY HIS UNION, CIO 07:23:03 - JOHN L. LEWIS MAKES HIS SPEECH. VOWS TO FIGHT TO THE FINISH AGAINST GM. GENERAL MOTORS 07:25:36 - UAW'S MARTIN MAKES HIS SPEECH AS OTHER 2 WATCH. AFTER SPEECH THE 3 WAIT STIFFLY FOR CUE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-980