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" the Greatest Drama Tv Show " Profile of Wendell Wilkie (1940)

1940 · Short film · 12 min

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This black and white 1950’s installment of “The Greatest Drama”, an early non-fiction television show, focuses on the political career of 1940 Republican presidential nominee Wendell Willkie, using newsreel footage and impassioned narration to make a case for Willkie’s “victory in defeat” (TRT 12:41). Willkie was an American lawyer and corporate executive who was the 1940 Republican nominee for President. Willkie favored greater U.S. involvement in WWII to support the British and Free World. The New York City Victory Parade of 1946. Title overlay: “The Greatest Drama” (0:07). Wendell Willkie and his wife wave from an open convertible during a 1940 campaign event (0:28). Willkie dons glasses and speaks into radio microphones for NBC, CBS, Mutual, others (0:42). Sign: “Elwood City Limit.” A white barn in rural Indiana. Cows graze (1:11). Willkie’s childhood home (1:24). Still photographs of Willkie’s parents (1:30). Indiana University in Bloomington. Sign: “Campus Entrance” (1:39). Maxwell Hall (1:46). Title: “1918” over a montage of WWI cannonfire (1:53). Title “1924” over Akron Ohio. Ku Klux Klansmen assemble on a hillside in daylight and beneath a flaming cross at night (2:04). Title “1933” over a New York City skyline. Bustling Manhattan crowds (2:34). Willkie in profile and head-on in closeup (2:48). A Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Dam under construction. Headlines flash: “Willkie Asks Private Distribution of TVA Power” and others over newspaper printers (2:59).…

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Running time
12 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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