| 07:00:04 0.03 |
UAW STRIKE AGAINST GENERAL MOTORS. VOTES. MEN
SPEAKING |
| 07:00:06 2.03 |
MS HALL FULL OF SEATED DELEGATES LISTEN TO THE
LEADERSHIP OF UAW UNION |
| 07:00:26 22.03 |
CU DELEGATES SIT & LISTEN ATTENTIVELY
|
| 07:00:40 36.03 |
MS LEADER SPEAKS OVER MIC, 1 HAND IN POCKET & 1
HAND GESTURING |
| 07:00:54 50.03 |
MS SHOT OF BACK OF LEADER SPEAKING AT AUDIENCE
FACING HIM |
| 07:01:07 63.03 |
MS AS 1 LEADER SPEAKS OTHERS SIT BEHIND HIM ON
STAGE |
| 07:01:11 67.03 |
MS WALTER REUTHER SPEAKS READING FROM PREPARED
TEXT |
| 07:01:32 88.03 |
LARGE AUDIENCE OF WELL-DRESSED DELEGATES LISTEN
ATTENTIVELY & SUDDENLY ALL RAISE THEIR HANDS AS THOUGH TO VOTE "AYE" |
| 07:01:42 98.03 |
UNION LEADER SPEAKS DRAMATICALLY, USING HIS HANDS
|
| 07:02:11 127.03 |
LEADER SPEAKS TO DELEGATES FROM STAGE (AS SEEN
FROM AUDIENCE) |
| 07:02:22 138.03 |
TRUMAN IN OFFICE W/ MEN
|
| 07:02:24 140.03 |
PRESIDENT TRUMAN SITS AS HIS OVAL OFFICE DESK &
CHATS WITH VIPS (POSSIBLY GM PRES. & OTHERS ?) |
| 07:02:58 174.03 |
CU TRUMAN CHATS PERSONALLY WITH LEADER WHO BENDS
DOWN TO LISTEN |
| 07:03:22 198.03 |
MEN IN TUXES AT RECEPTION IN WHITE HOUSE
|
| 07:03:24 200.03 |
REP. CLAUDE PEPPER SITS AT DINNER TABLE AT BANQUET
|
| 07:03:37 213.03 |
MONTAGE- OTHER GROUPS OF REPS. & SENATORS SIT
AROUND DINNER TABLE WEARING TUXEDOS |
| 07:03:48 224.03 |
PRES. TRUMAN SITS AT DAIS WITH WIFE BESS
|
| 07:03:58 234.03 |
ATTORNEY GENERAL (?) IS THERE
|
| 07:04:06 242.03 |
MARGARET TRUMAN SMILES FOR CAMERA
|
| 07:04:15 251.03 |
WAITER SERVES OVER SHOULDER OF VIPS ON DAIS
|
| 07:04:21 257.03 |
TRUMAN APPLAUDS AS DOES SAM RAYBURN SITTING NEXT
TO HIM ON DAIS |
| 07:04:30 266.03 |
CROWDED BANQUET HALL WITH VIPs SITTING AT TABLES
IN FRONT OF DAIS, LARGE PHOTO OF TRUMAN ON WALL |
| 07:05:11 307.03 |
CROWD STANDS & GIVES TRUMAN LONG OVATION, TRUMAN
STANDS & ACKNOWLEDGES |
| 07:05:41 337.03 |
FUNERAL PROCESSION. YUGOSLAVIA ?
|
| 07:05:47 343.03 |
MONTAGE- GREEK HONOR GUARD DRESSED IN TRADITIONAL
SKIRTS SLOWLY PARADE DOWN STREET FOLLOWING COFFIN OF LEADER (KING?) |
| 07:05:56 352.03 |
KING IN ADMIRAL'S UNIFORM PARADE DOWN MIDDLE OF
SQUARE BEHIND COFFIN AS GREEK SAILORS STAND AT ATTENTION |
| 07:06:04 360.03 |
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 |
| 07:06:33 389.03 |
WOMAN WITH BLACK VEIL FOLLOWS WITH HANDS ON
SHOULDERS OF 2 YOUNG GIRLS AT EACH SIDE |
| 07:06:41 397.03 |
2 ELDERLY WOMEN EXIT CHURCH WIPING TEARS FROM
THEIR FACES & FOLLOWED BY OTHERS EXITING |
| 07:07:06 422.03 |
SQUAD OF HONOR GUARD IN TRADITIONAL SKIRTS & WHITE
HIGH SOCKS, MARCH INTO CEMETERY FOLLOWED BY ALTAR BOYS CARRYING CROSSES, CRUCIFIX, & GREEK ORTHODOX PRIEST |
| 07:07:22 438.03 |
CAISSON WITH COFFIN W/ KING'S CROWN ATOP
|
| 07:07:53 469.03 |
MAN TALKING ABOUT UAW STRIKE
|
| 07:08:01 477.03 |
(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. |
| 07:08:43 519.03 |
LEADER CONTINUES SPEECH USING HIS HAND IN
DIFFERENT POSITIONS. (POINTING, OPEN HAND & CLENCHED FIST) AS HE SPEAKS ABOUT SOLIDARITY, UNITY & COOPERATION. LABOR UNION |
| 07:10:41 637.03 |
CU HE STOPS & PAUSES THEN STARTS AGAIN
|
| 07:12:10 726.03 |
CU HE STOPS AGAIN & ASKS FOR A RE-TAKE
|
| 07:13:47 823.03 |
MEN UNPACKING BOXES WITH VOTES. TALLYING VOTES.
MEN VOTING |
| 07:13:55 831.03 |
MONTAGE- BALLOT COUNTERS SIT AT A LONG TABLE &
WAIT AS WORKERS OPEN SEALED BALLOT BOXES & DUMP THE BALLOTS IN FRONT OF THEM |
| 07:14:10 846.03 |
PEOPLE ON BOTH ENDS OF THE LONG TABLES, SOME
STANDING & OTHERS SEATED, START UNFOLDING THE BALLOTS TO COUNT THEM |
| 07:14:21 857.03 |
CU A BALLOT IS PLACED IN SLOT CUT INTO CARDBOARD
BOX |
| 07:14:28 864.03 |
UNION WORKERS FILE IN FRONT OF TABLE & REGISTER
AS DELEGATES REGISTER THEM, HAND THEM A BALLOT. WORKER TAKES BALLOT & ENTERS A CURTAINED CUBICLE & VOTES |
| 07:14:33 869.03 |
CU HANDS UNFOLD BALLOTS & PLACE THEM IN PILES
|
| 07:14:41 877.03 |
WOMEN & MEN WORKERS OPEN BALLOTS IN FRONT OF
SEATED DELEGATES, SOME WITH UAW CAPS, ON OTHER SIDE OF TABLE |
| 07:14:59 895.03 |
MAN WITH ROLLED UP SLEEVES, NO TIE, WEARING
VEST, OPENS BALLOTS |
| 07:15:37 933.03 |
HUNDREDS LOITER AROUND THE HUGE ROOM AS BALLOTS
ARE COUNTED |
| 07:15:46 942.03 |
WORKERS SEATED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE LONG TABLES
WORK FEVERISHLY ON THE BALLOTS |
| 07:16:01 957.03 |
WORKERS SIGN UP AT TABLES & ENTER CURTAINED
VOTING BOOTHS |
| 07:16:15 971.03 |
BURLY WORKER WITH CAP EXITS BOOTH & PLACES BALLOTS
IN BOX THEN WALKS AWAY AS OTHERS FOLLOW SUIT |
| 07:16:37 993.03 |
REGISTRARS SEATED IN FRONT OF VOTING BOOTHS
SEARCH FOR NAME IN BOOK |
| 07:16:57 1013.03 |
BLACK WORKER IN FEDORA EXITS BOOTH, PLACES BALLOT
IN BOX |
| 07:17:56 1072.03 |
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 1111.03 |
CU BURLY BLACK MAN IN WHITE FEDORA HAT EXITS
CURTAIN, CASTS BALLOT IN BOX SLOT |
| 07:18:44 1120.03 |
AERIAL- HUGE FACTORY AREA IS USED FOR THE VOTING
|
| 07:19:25 1161.03 |
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 1172.03 |
WORKERS WALKING OUTSIDE FACTORY BUILDING
|
| 07:19:44 1180.03 |
AERIAL- WORKERS AT THEIR MACHINES IN HUGE FACTORY
|
| 07:20:00 1196.03 |
DELEGATES AT THEIR TABLES REGISTERING VOTERS
NEXT TO CURTAINED BOOTHS |
| 07:20:32 1228.03 |
CU DELEGATE THUMBS THROUGH LONG SHEETS OF NAMES
& POINT TO VOTER'S NAME WAITING TO VOTE |
| 07:21:08 1264.03 |
MONTAGE- VOTERS VOTE THEN GO BACK TO THEIR
MACHINES |
| 07:21:30 1286.03 |
BLACK BURLY WORKER IS HANDED BALLOT, HE ENTERS
VOTING BOOTH AS OTHERS DO THE SAME |
| 07:21:52 1308.03 |
LABOR LEADERS SPEAKING
|
| 07:21:58 1314.03 |
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 1320.03 |
THE 3 MEN SIT STIFFLY WAITING FOR CUT TO START.
AFTER A LONG WAIT, UAW PRESIDENT MARTIN STARTS SPEAKING |
| 07:22:52 1368.03 |
LEWIS VOWS SUPPORT OF UAW BY HIS UNION, CIO
|
| 07:23:03 1379.03 |
JOHN L. LEWIS MAKES HIS SPEECH. VOWS TO FIGHT
TO THE FINISH AGAINST GM. GENERAL MOTORS |
| 07:25:36 1532.03 |
UAW'S MARTIN MAKES HIS SPEECH AS OTHER 2 WATCH.
AFTER SPEECH THE 3 WAIT STIFFLY FOR CUE |
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Year: 1940-1949
Color: Black & White
Genre: 1940s NEWSREELS
Specialty CollectionGenre: 1940s NEWSREELS
Description: Stories mostly about labor union workers and leaders
Keywords: picket line
