Title:PRESIDENT TRUMAN DELIVERS SPEECH ABOUT THE MSA (MUTUAL SECURITY AGENCY) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 4926
Other titles:WARNER-PATHÉ NEWS FLASH - PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ON FOREIGN AID (Alternative Title)
ECA NEWSREEL STORIES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:President Harry S Truman makes a speech to the nation, explaining the need for the Mutual Security Agency.
Description:(Version A) Unedited version of President Truman's speech. Various versions of parts of the speech, including re-takes, false starts and errors. President Truman does not look directly at the camera, and the film is shot in varying degrees of close-up.
(Version B) Warner Pathé "News Flash" entitled "PRESIDENT SPEAKS ON FOREIGN AID". Truman's speech to the nation: an edited, two-minute newsreel version, using parts of the footage held as Version A. Includes cutaways showing a line of newsreel cameramen and radio reporters with their equipment.
Alternative Title:WARNER-PATHÉ NEWS FLASH - PRESIDENT SPEAKS OUT ON FOREIGN AID (Alternative Title)
ECA NEWSREEL STORIES [Allocated Series Title]