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OF PERFECT LOYALTY - WENDELL WILLKIE

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Title: OF PERFECT LOYALTY - WENDELL WILLKIE
File Number: AFP-152B 35mm; VTM-152B Beta SP; NET-273 DigiBeta (at 01:00:00:00); Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 1952
Subjects: Aerials
Description: B W 1952 OF PERFECT LOYALTY - WENDELL WILLKIE The people's Republican candidate for President... Gained esteem though his approach to national and international affairs... He planted the seed of the United Nations. 00:11:58:00 B W 1940 ms Candidate Wendell Willkie in open car limousine, with wife and mother, ride and wave to crowds in Ellwood Indiana during the presidential campaign of 1940. 00:12:14:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie makes his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. 00:12:40:00 B W 1952 ms Sign "Elwood city limit". Large barn, cows, rural homestead, photograph of father, Indiana University campus (in 1950s), "Maxwell Hall" (built in 1890). 00:13:24:00 B W 1918 ms "1918"-VS WWI artillery firing, shell blasts. 00:13:33:00 B W 1924, 1940s ws av "1924"-AV of Akron, Ohio. KKK white robed meeting and burning cross at Stone Mountain Georgia, late 1940s. 00:14:02:00 B W 1933 ms "1933"-Skyscrapers, HA people on way to work in New York City financial district. New York Stock Exchange ext. 00:14:23:00 B W 1952 cu Wendell Willkie. 00:14:27:00 B W 1952 ms TVA dam construction. 00:14:39:00 B W 1952 cu Newspaper headlines "Willkie asks private distribution of TVA power". "Willkie testifies before congress". "Willkie takes his case to supreme court". "Willkie sells company to TVA". David Lilienthal accepts check from Willkie. 00:15:18:00 B W 1952 ms Railroad tracks and speeding train passing. 00:15:22:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie at podium cross cut to locomotive engineer at the throttle of a train. And Willkie, wearing straw hat, shakes hands with crowd as he leans from train caboose. 00:15:31:00 B W 1940 ws Republican delegates seated on floor of the 1940 Republican National Convention. 00:15:32:00 B W 1952 cu Willkie waves , speaks, joined by wife, 00:15:40:00 B W 1940 ws HA 1940 Republican Convention, 00:15:49:00 B W 1952 ms,cu Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. 00:16:03:00 B W 1952 ws The convention floor filled with chanting and shouting delegates, Willkie speaks to the delegates, 00:16:37:00 B W 1952 ms,cu Willkie and wife. 00:16:45:00 B W 1952 ms,cu FDR. 00:16:53:00 B W 1952 ms,cu Nazi symbolic eagle, Adolf Hitler, Nazi storm troop parade, Speeding train and smoke, engineer at the controls, 00:17:09:00 B W 1940 ms "Chicago"-Willkie rides by and waves to large mass crowd. Speaks to crowds, "Los Angeles" Willkie faces cheering crowds with his arms upraised. "Pontiac, Michigan" HA vast mass crowd during the presidential campaign of 1940. "New York" Wendell Willkie speaks into stage microphone, applauding crowds, 00:18:01:00 B W 1941 ms,cu Headline "Roosevelt re-elected". Willkie seated in front of radio microphones speaks in defeat for the presidency. Willkie on vacation retreat. Again, Willkie speaks into radio microphones, crowd reaction, Willkie emerges from airplane, scene of blitz of London, Willkie alongside King George Vl., alongside Winston Churchill, alongside Secy. of State, Cordell Hull, CU Willkie after his return from England in 1941. 00:19:41:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie on African front with Winston Churchill, Montgomery, Italian POWs, inspects heavy tank, 00:20:01:00 B W 1952 ms AV of Moscow, emerges from plane, the Kremlin, Red Star, Cu of Joseph Stalin, smiling with pipe in mouth. Stalin seen in the reviewing stand. 00:20:22:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie rides open limousine in China, Shakes hands with General Stilwell, then a clip of hand shaking with Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang. 00:20:52:00 B W 1944 ms "1944"-the White House , cu of Willkie, Willkie in Wisconsin at building of the "Birthplace of the Republican Party". Headline "Wisconsin turns thumbs down on Willkie". "Willkie quits race". 00:21:36:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie and Indiana farmers, inspects harvest crop, 00:21:50:00 B W 1952 ms AV of New York City Skyscrapers as seen from airplane flying overhead, Street level of Lenox Hill Hospital. Mourning crowds outside the Saint Patrick's Cathedral, funeral procession from the church. 00:22:57:00 B W 1952 ms Willkie funeral in Rushville, Indiana.
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