| IKE V. TAFT Coverage of Republican National Convention - Eisenhower becomes Presidential Candidate. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5736 |
| Catalog #: | 218749 | |
| Clip Number: | 218749-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 52/57 | |
| Timecode: | 01:32:25 - 01:35:17 | |
| Location: | Chicago, Illinois, United States of America | |
| Year Shot: | 1952 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Conventions LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Illinois, Chicago PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) PERSONALITIES: Macarthur, Douglas POLITICS: Political Party, USA, Republican | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 312793. See also catalog # 223869. IKE V. TAFT. Republican National Convention. Chicago, Illinois, United States of America SV. Banners and crowd around picture of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike). SCU. Pan, Senator Robert Taft riding past waving to crowd from open top car. SV. Harold Stassen, Governor of Minnesota left, and Ike conferring in a hotel room. SV. Ike leaving with Stassen. CU Eisenhower conferring in hotel room with Governor Earl Warren of California. MS Eisenhower and Warren shaking hands. CU. Angle shot, Republican National Convention sign outside the Convention Hall. GV., Pan crowded convention hall. GV. Pan, crowded convention hall, newsreel cameramen in the foreground. . STV. Crowded hall, American voiceover begins. ("On the crowded floor delegations are grouped together like troops drawn up for battle, etc., etc".) CU. Illinois, sign. CU. Delegate (Everett Dirksen) from Illinois. MS Senator Leverett Saltonsall (formerly the Governor of Massachusetts) heading the Massachusetts delegation. SV. Pan down from New York sign to Governor Thomas Dewey. CU. Dewey. CU. Pennsylvania sign. CU. Governor John Fine pan to Senator James Duff. GV. Crowded convention hall. SCU. Party Chairman Guy G. Gabrielson opening convention by banging gravel on podium. GV. Crowded convention hall. SV. Delegation signs. SV. Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie proposing rule change to help Eisenhower; Senators waving and cheering. CU. Taft supporter Clarence Brown proposing amendment. SV. Newsreel cameramen. MV. Delegates voting. SCU. delegates counting votes. SV. Delegates listening as Chairman announces vote. SCU. Delegates listening as chairman announces vote. A.S. Newsreel cameras. GV. Delegates applauding. CU. Chairman Gabrielson announcing defeat of amendment (this helped Eisenhower). GV. Cheering convention. SV. General Douglas MacArthur arriving. SV. Delegates cheering. CU. MacArthur shaking hands with the Chairman. GV. Convention cheering. SV. MacArthur addressing convention. Natural Sound of speech ("Perhaps it is unnecessary here to indict the present administration for all of its tragic blunders. For that indictment has already found full expression in the resentments which have poured from the hearts of the American people from north to south, east to west with no distinction of race, creed, color or political affiliation.") GV. Crowd in convention hall. MS Eisenhower walking out of a building and is surrounded by a crowd of supporters. CU. Ike stepping into car and waving. Top View. Ike waving from car. | |


