Budget Films

Stock Footage

Candidates & Voters, 1948

Snow lies on the ground at a polling place where voters arrive. Election workers check names as voters sign in. A woman hands her baby to her husband before closing curtains of a voting booth. CUs show names Dewey and Truman on ballot. People drop ballots into boxes. Shot shows Harry Truman voting. Thomas Dewey emerges from voting booth. Hands push levers on voting machines.



IdentifierCLIP-15332
Duration44 sec
GenreDocumentary
DateNovember 2 1948
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