GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
"GREAT UPSET OF '48" - PT8 . A look at the 1948 Presidential campaign of Harry S. Truman. A preponderance of this documentary is comprised of archival B&W footage, with color contemporary interviews intermixed and duly noted as such.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: MS police patrol wagon in the street. MS group white males Southerners heckling persons in a car. MCU rope marking off "white" section of sidewalk (Jim Crow). MS African American men standing inside the "colored" section of sidewalk (Jim Crow).
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: MSs of HENRY WALLACE getting into his car, riding off after nighttime rally.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
COLOR: shot of Wallace Press Sec'ty STEPHEN FISCHER recalls eggs being thrown at Wallace and his car in the South.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
DO NOT USE: Still of car with States Rights Party / Thurmond for President banner.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: MCUs of STROM THURMOND campaigning, waving, shaking hands, speaking, denouncing Truman for "stabbing the South in the back".
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: Sept 23, 1948, Los Angeles, California. GV HARRY S. TRUMAN riding into rally waving from convertible car. LS Truman supporters seated in bleachers. GV HARRY S. TRUMAN riding into rally waving from convertible car. Great TLS/MSs of President HARRY S. TRUMAN giving a speech in Hollywood; behind him on the platform is RONALD REAGAN and HUMPHREY BOGART. This is the hour for the liberal forces of America to unite.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
DO NOT USE: Still of Mr. Reagan speaking to endorse Truman [in the old days he was a proud New Deal Democrat].
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: Angled TLS of Radio Transmitter tower. Audio of Ronald Reagan's speech, This is Ronald Reagan speaking to you from Hollywood. You know me as a motion picture actor
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
DO NOT USE: Still of Mr. Reagan speaking to endorse Truman [in the old days he was a proud New Deal Democrat].
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL: Radio Listening Montage as audio of Truman campaign radio ad that portrays Dewey as callous to the problems of running a household budget plays: MCU radio, pan to MS of young woman in oversized shirt & legging pants bopping around (dancing) while ironing in the kitchen. MS woman lounging on living room couch, flipping through magazine. MS young couple in their living room, seated in chairs arranged around cabinet radio set for listening. MS woman lying on the floor, propped up by large cushion, writing a letter, smiling while listening to the radio beside her. MS housewife in kitchen stirring pot on the stove. CU Philco radio on nightstand. MCU young woman peeling potatoes at kitchen table, stands up & walks over to radio with a look of concern on her face. MCU woman & child seated in front of cabinet radio, listening intently. MS man & woman seated in living room listening to radio. MS young woman seated in arm chair listening to cabinet style radio. MS man standing while woman is sitting, listening to the radio, they look at each other in a monument of concern.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT8
B&W ARCHIVAL:MSs newspaper reporters working in crammed press car.