Biography: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower montage. Shots during World War II and after election as President.
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Ike speaks to paratroopers prior to D-Day invasion (no real audio)
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West Point cadets at work and play, in classrooms and on training field and walking through the park with their young lady friends.
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Collegiate football game. Players running at inhuman speed.
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West Point graduation ceremony: wide, panning LS's.
DO NOT USE Stills of Ike and Mamie Dobbs in both casual and formal settings; taken before and just after their wedding.
WWI Army tank training center. Soldiers doing training, and calisthenics.
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1932 march on Washington DC by WWI veterans in protest of a bonus paycheck ( Bonus Army ) the government promised but never delivered. Ike and Macarthur clear them out (a few good shots of the two).
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Ike and Macarthur in the Philippines. Macarthur working at a desk. CU Einsehower
US Army training manoeuvers.
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US Army training manoeuvers, battle scenes.
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CU Eisenhower. MS's of Ike and his chiefs of staff planning in a warroom. Eisenhower in North Africa and the Europena theater.
Four Star General Ike and FDR eat sandwiches in a car while discussing Operation Overlord; FDR is inside the cab while Ike is kneeling just outside it (excellent MS). Ike meets the press. Ike gets promoted to Supreme Commander of European Theater. CU of said title on a plaque on a door. MS of Ike and his chiefs of staff deliberating in a warroom.
Troops and supplies moving into Europe. Ike in the field with US soldiers; inspects the men, their training, their equipment just before initiation of Operation Overlord; MS of Ike smoking a cigarette, soldiers standing around him. D-Day montage: naval armada's big guns firing on the beaches, followed by the ground storming; ends with the successful move inward, happy French villagers.
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Ike on parade in the capital (MS's and LS's from both behind and in front of the open convertible Ike is riding in); he waves and smiles to the exuberant crowds. MS of Ike and Mayor Laguardia standing, talking, smiling, then tight LS of a large crowd; Ike speaks to the happy NYC crowd (includes real audio).
Ike, retired from the armed services, becomes president of Columbia University (tight LS of Ike on the steps of the administrative building. Ike, in CU, speaks to the camera about how and why he is keeping away from partisan politics (includes real audio). Ike in the field with NATO chiefs, 1948, one of the last times he's seen in uniform.
Ike takes up the campaign for the presidency of the US; he addresses an outdoor MidWestern crowd; it's a standard "what I'm going to do is different, once I'm elected" type of speech (includes real audio). Wide LS of a pro-Ike crowd (banners and placards and buttons and so on). MS of Ike and Nixon, jubilant, indoors, at a podium, standing with their wives. Tight LS of Ike meeting outside undisclosed area with Sioux Indians. Montage of Ike at public events (propounding the everyone-likes-Ike vibe); lots of crowd shots at both day and night, at public and rather intimate events; excellent tight LS of several kids happily chasing after the camera which is dollying out at a good rate of speed.
Ike speaks to Congress (includes real audio). Ike goes to the Soviet Union for a conference. (Cold War)
Tight LS of Ike teeing off during a Colorado vacation, the press eagerly snapping away (includes a CU of a smiling Ike, a 3W slung over his shoulder). Ike has a heart attack; montage of a press conference, a jittery press, Ike in a wheelchair on a sunny patio, his announcement for re-election (no real audio). Winning 1956 elections.
Sputnik 1 is launched by the Soviets; montage of the rocket carrying the satellite being launched, newspaper headlines, tight LS of scientists manning computer stations monitoring liftoff. Wide LS of Ike on White House front lawn practicing his driving and putting.
Khrushchev arrives in Washington. Press photos of the two world leaders at the White House.
Various shots of Eisenhower on a goodwill tour around the world.
The U2 spy plane crisis. Shots of plane taking off. Khrushchev speaking. Ike walking on WHite House lawn. CU of Ike.
Eisenhower's retirement from politics. John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower walk through a gathered crowd and into an attending car. Various shots of Ike waving to crowds.
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