DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY AUDIOVISUAL DEPARTMENT 8 Mm, 16 Mm, and 35 Mm MOTION PICTURE FILM
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DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY AUDIOVISUAL DEPARTMENT 8 mm, 16 mm, and 35 mm MOTION PICTURE FILM EL-MP16-1 THE PRESIDENT VISITS THE NAVY 1957 Copyright: US Navy Public Domain 1 reel 900' @26 minutes sound color (same as EL-MP16-238) March 15-19: Eisenhower aboard the USS Canberra from Norfolk, VA en route to the Bermuda Conference. Accompanying Eisenhower are: James Hagerty, Gen. Howard Snyder, and Captain Evan P. Aurand. Eisenhower is greeted in Bermuda by Governor Alexander Hood. June 6: Eisenhower boards the USS Saratoga at Mayport, FL for two days of observing maneuvers off the coast of Florida. Accompanying Eisenhower are: John Foster Dulles, George Humphrey, Lewis Strauss, Arthur Larson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Gabriel Hauge, John Eisenhower, Thomas S. Gates, Charles E. Wilson, Percival Brundage, Gordon Gray, Andrew Goodpaster, Wilton B. Persons. September 4-30: Eisenhower and Mamie vacation at Newport, RI. Film footage includes the presidential yacht "Barbara Anne", Eisenhower greeted by Rhode Island Governor Dennis J. Wright, Sen. Theodore F. Green and Sen. John 0. Pastore. Eisenhower plays golf at the Newport Country Club with James Hagerty, Howard Cushing and Norman Palmer. Eisenhower boards the atomic submarine Sea Wolf. EL-MP16-2 SECON: SECRETARIES CONFERENCE AT QUANTICO, VA July 23-26, 1953 Copyright: unknown 1 reel 500' @14 minutes silent/sound B&W Conference for civilian and military leaders of the Department of Defense. Those attending: George M. Humphrey, Charles E. Wilson, Arthur S. Fleming, Harold E. Stassen, Roger M. Kyes, Walter Bedell Smith, Robert T. Stevens, Robert B. Anderson, Harold E. Talbott, Joseph M. Dodge, Robert T. Cutler, Clifton B. Cates, Omar N. Bradley, J. Lawton Collins, W. M. Fechteler, Robert B. Carney, Nathan F. Twining, Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr., Edward L. Beach, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Candid shots of the meetings and activities. Most of the film is silent with a short portion of Charles Wilson speaking. EL-MP16-3 AMERICA REVIEW Ralston-Purina Company presentation 4-H Ambassadors 26th National Camp June 19, 1956 Copyright: unknown 1 reel 400' @11 minutes sound color Secretary Ezra Taft Benson addresses 4-H Club members. They tour Washington landmarks; Chevy Chase, MD; Mt. Vernon, VA; Arlington, VA. They are greeted on the White House lawn by Sherman Adams. EL-MP16-4 CAMPAIGN 1952: PRE-ELECTION SPEECH Boston, Massachusetts November 3, 1952 Copyright: Republican National Committee 2 reels 2200' 59 minutes sound black and white A Citizens for Eisenhower-Nixon presentation, aired on CBS. Dwight D. Eisenhower(speech), Mamie, Richard and Pat Nixon, in Boston, on election eve. Topics: inflation, corruption in government, communism, Eisenhower's 10 points. Also included is an Eisenhower biographical sketch covering Abilene, Kansas; West Point, New York, and World War II. Also cross referenced to: San Francisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA; Seattle, WA; Baltimore, MD; Pittsburgh, PA; Cleveland, OH; New York City, NY; Earl Warren, William Knowland, John Roosevelt, John Wayne, Darryl Zanuck, Oveta Culp Hobby, Sarah Roosevelt, Mrs. John Warner (daughter of Al Smith), Richard Nixon(speech). EL-MP16-5 CAMPAIGN 1956: DECISION FOR TOMORROW 1956 Copyright: Republican National Committee 1 reel 800' 22 minutes sound B&W A National Citizens for Eisenhower presentation. A history of the first four years of the Eisenhower Administration. Topics: Korean War end, inflation halted, farm program improved, federal highway plan, end to school segregation, civil rights. EL-MP16-6 AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS May 9, 1957 Copyright: NBC/Education Television & Radio Center 1 reel 1600' @45 minutes sound B&W A NBC presentation in cooperation with the Educational Television and Radio Center. Ray Shearer gives a brief introductory statement on the function of the Executive Office of the President. Interview with White House Executive Officer, Sherman Adams and president of the American Political Science Association, E. E. Schattschneider discussing the Executive Office, the highway program, the presidency, foreign policy, and the reorganization act of 1939. EL-MP16-7 A WHITE HOUSE STORY, 1790-1961 circa 1961 Produced by: Howard C. Jensen Copyright: unknown 1 reel 2000' @56 minutes sound color A history of the White House and its occupants including: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Dolly Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Narrator: Phil Tonken Author: Amy La Follette Jensen. EL-MP16-8 DINNER WITH IKE January 27, 1960 Copyright: Republican National Committee 2 reels 2200' @60 minutes sound B&W A Republican National Committee closed circuit telecast on NBC/TNT to simultaneous dinners throughout the Nation honoring Dwight D. Eisenhower. Introduction of speakers is made by Thurston B. Morton (New York City, NY). The speakers take a year by year retrospective look at the Eisenhower Administration, 1953-59. They include: Henry Cabot Lodge (Pittsburgh, PA), Clare B. Williams (Miami, FL), Charles H. Percy (Detroit, MI), Nelson Rockefeller (Washington, DC), James C. Worthy (Chicago, IL), Thomas A. Pappas (Boston, MA), Irene Dunn (Los Angeles, CA), reel 2: Gordon McRae and Richard Nixon also appear from Los Angeles. Nixon introduces Eisenhower whose speech is an analysis of Republican Party beliefs, accomplishments, philosophy, etc. EL-MP16-1--8 RECEIVED SEPTEMBER 16, 1968 FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES WHERE THEY HAD BEEN HELD IN COURTESY STORAGE. EL-MP16-9 PRESS CONFERENCE #58 January 19, 1955 Copyright: Public Domain 1 reel @31 minutes sound B&W At this press conference, television, newsreel, and newspaper camera equipment were present for the first time throughout a presidential news conference. Portions of the film and sound track were released for broadcast that night over television and radio, and were available for newsreels. The release of portions of news conferences, for radio, television and newsreel use, was continued until May 18, 1955, when the practice of releasing the entire conference began. The broadcasting and newsreel release of excerpts of the news conferences led to a major change in their treatment in the press. Heretofore it had been customary to state the President's replies in indirect discourse only. Beginning with the January 19 conference, direct quotation was authorized for those portions of the transcript corresponding to the released tape and film. With the May 18 conference direct quotation of the entire transcript began. Written transcripts of press conferences available in the eight volumes, PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, 1953-61. Topics: Communist attacks on Formosa and its defense; release of US airmen by Chinese communists; the upper Delaware River; DDE's appraisal of his first two years in office; coordinating opposing viewpoints among cabinet members and advisors; trade with Communist bloc nations; segregation of US Naval personnel at overseas ports; construction of schools with federal funds. EL-MP16-10 PRESS CONFERENCE #59 February 2, 1955 Copyright: Public Domain 1 reel @31 minutes sound B&W President Eisenhower's fifty-ninth news conference held in the Executive Office Building from 10:33 to 11:01 Wednesday, February 2, 1955. Topics: American States, organization of; appeasement; Armed Forces, US; Marvin L. Arrowsmith; Asia, South Asia & Southeast Asia; Bandung conference; Raymond P. Brandt; California, William F. Knowland; Chiang Kai-shek; China, Republic of; Robert E. Clark; coexistence; Benjamin R. Cole; communism; Government economic controls; May Craig; defense procurement; democratic leaders (consolation on proposed legislation); Dixon-Yates contract; Roscoe Drummond; Dwight D. Eisenhower personal reminiscences (study of wage price controls); Alan S. Emory; Federal Housing.Administration; Nat S. Finney; Edward T. Folliard; Formosa (Taiwan); Harry W. Frantz; Sen. Walter F. George (Georgia); James P. Hagerty; John Marshall Harlan (nomination to Supreme Court); William Randolph Hearst Jr. (interview of Molotov); highways; Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Indonesia (Bandung Conference); Donald Irwin; Joint Chiefs of Staff; Matthew B. Ridgway; Korean War; L.G. Laycook; Matsu; Sarah McClendon; minimum wage; Clark R. Mellonhoff; news conference censorship; Jack Norman; Ethel Payne; price freeze; Quemoy; Paul S. Rankine; Chalmers M. Roberts; A.E. Salpeter; Lloyd M. Schwartz; security program for Government employment; William V. Shannon; Kingsbury Smith; Merriman Smith; Robert G. Spivack; Supreme Court; Tachen Islands; televised news conference, first; trade agreements act; United Nations; Frank VanderLinden; Venezuela; wage freeze; wages; Richard L. Wilson; World War II. EL-MP16-11 PRESS CONFERENCE #60 February 9, 1955 Copyright: Public Domain 2 reels positive deletions No complete press conference available sound B&W President Eisenhower's sixtieth news conference was held in the Executive office Building from 10:31 to 11:01 February 9, 1955. Topics: agriculture; agriculture (Soviet Union); airlines (NW Airlines)(Pan American World Airways); airlines (subsidies); Sen. Lister Hill (Alabama); Army, Secy of (Robert T. Stevens/ resignation/ rumor of); Marvin L. Arrowsmith; Berlin; bombs; Laurence H. Burd; China, (Soviet Union relations with);