Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have his career
and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture companies
(even though his predecessors, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley,
were the first to be filmed). This presentation features films
which record events in Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American
War in 1898 to his death in 1919. Besides containing scenes of
Roosevelt, these films include views of world figures, politicians,
monarchs, and friends and family members of Roosevelt who influenced
his life and the era in which he lived. Commemorative events up
to 1921 are also included. All in all, it gives a fascinating
look at the life of a president in the early 20th century. The
films are silent as they were all shot before sound films were
made.
Below you will find sample stil clips from four
of the films on this CD
Below you will find a description of each film
on this CD
Arrival of Prince Henry [of Prussia] and President
Roosevelt at Shooter's Island
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Mfg. Co.,
1902.
SUMMARY Prince Henry and President Roosevelt walk together
up the ganway on Shooters Island to the stand where
Miss Alice Rooseevelt christens the German Emperor's
yacht Meteor. Following Henry and Roosevelt are Wallace
Downy, owner of the ship building firm of Townsend &
Downey, the sailors and marines from the Hohensollern,
officers from the United States Army and Navy, and invited
guests of the President.
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Cartoon of TR's reception by crowned heads of Europe
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], [1910?]
SUMMARY Animated cartoon of TR's reception in Europe
during his Apr.-June, 1910 tour. Sequences of crowned
heads of Europe sitting in an open automobile, labeled
Europe, located on a pier. TR, carrying a big stick, is
in the bow of a ship that approaches the pier as the crowned
heads wave. Caricatured are: TR; Victor Emanuel III of
Italy; Manuel II of Portugal; Franz Joseph I of Austria;
Alfonso XIII of Spain; Nicholas II of Russia; Edward VII
of Great Britain; Clément Fallières of France; and Wilhelm
II of Germany.
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Cartoon--TR's arrival in Africa
CREATED/PUBLISHED [United States : s.n., 1909?] SUMMARY
Animated caricature of the animals' attitude towards TR's
arrival in Africa. Views of a huge tree filled with frightened
animals, as a monkey on the ground peers over a cliff;
he begins jumping up and down, pointing and climbing the
tree as TR appears over the rim of the cliff with gun
in his hand.
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Charles E. Hughes speaking during campaign, Duquesne,
Pa., 1916
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Universal Film Manufacturing
Co., 1916.
SUMMARY Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes campaigns
in Pittsburgh vicinity on Sept. 27, 1916. Hughes was on
a strenuous tour in an attempt to knit together various
Republican factions. In Pittsburgh area he was joined
by Republican notables, some of whom had been at odds
with him: Senator Boies Penrose, Philander Knox, William
Flinn. Hughes spoke in opposition to the eight-hour day
and was silent on female suffrage. In film Hughes is attended
by an official who appears, according to newspaper accounts
and photos, to be William H. Coleman, Republican County
Chairman. There are three different sequences: Hughes
shaking hands with official, both apparently on a flag-draped
platform, with young girls in background; Hughes addressing
crowd of men in front of stone building; and Hughes speaking
to group of workers in street, with background view of
row houses. Women and children are visible on house porches.
Interior title lists location as Duquesne, Pa.
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Chauncey Depew, Senator Perkins, and Governor Whitman
of New York, at GOP Convention, 1916, Chicago, Ill.
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Pathe News, 1916.
SUMMARY Scenes from the 16th Republican National Convention
held in Chicago, June 7-10, 1916. Long shot of delegates
outside the Congress Hotel. Medium shots, from left to
right, of Mrs. Olive H. Whitman; Governor Charles S. Whitman
of New York (1915-1918); Francis Hendricks, former New
York State Senator (1886-1891); George W. Perkins, a leader
in the Progressive movement (1912-1916); Chauncey M. Depew,
former New York State Senator (1899-1911); and a medium
shot of the Coliseum where the convention was in session.
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Close-up of TR's grave, 1920
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1920?]
SUMMARY Close shot of TR's gravestone, Youngs Memorial
Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Birth and death dates of TR
and birth date of his wife, Edith, are visible.
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Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's
plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910
CREATED/PUBLISHED [United States : s.n.], 1910.
SUMMARY While participating in the Missouri State Republican
Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, TR is invited to
fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied
by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri (1909-1913)
and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St.
Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, TR arrives in motorcade
at Kinloch aviation field; man, who appears to be Hoxsey,
inspects plane; medium shot of TR as he enters passenger
seat of biplane; long shot of plane flying; TR alights
from plane, joins waiting crowd, enters automobile and
drives away in motorcade.
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Count von Bernstorff of Germany
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], [191-?]
SUMMARY Medium close shot of Count Johann von Bernstorff,
German Ambassador to the U.S. (1908-1917), sitting and
talking with an unidentified man in a car.
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Czar Nicholas of Russia
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 191-?]
SUMMARY Long shots of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra
leaving what may be a church located in Russia and passing
between two lines of men who appear to be Cossack Escort
of the Imperial Guard; Alexandra walks toward a carriage
and the Czar mounts a horse and rides away.
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Dr. William Gorgas
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 190-?]
SUMMARY Film has ca. 2 ft. of views of Dr. William Crawford
Gorgas, chief sanitation officer of the Panama Canal (1904-1913)
and member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, standing
in front of a building; location of this sequence is undetermined.
Remainder of film shows Dr. Gorgas and an unidentified
man riding on a Panama Canal Company train. The two men
are silhouetted against passing scenery of the Canal Zone
as Dr. Gorgas shows the other man points of interest.
The train passes a body of water which is probably a part
of the canal, countryside, buildings probably on Front
Street, Colon, including a YMCA club; final scene of people
walking across tracks after the train passes.
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Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria greeted by his people
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1910?]
SUMMARY Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary,
and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking
down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting
the Emperor. Interior title notes location as Vienna,
Austria and notes TR as being entertained by the Emperor
at the palace. TR visited the Emperor in April, 1910;
there are no views of TR on film.
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Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1919.
SUMMARY On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag,
which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor,
is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery,
Oyster Bay, N.Y. View of two young girls and a boy placing
flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's
grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots
from different angles of memorial flag as it is borne
by young men up the steep pathway to the gravesite; five
girls sew the 48th and final star on flag at what is probably
Cove School in Oyster Bay with group of children and Boy
Scouts visible in background; view of children and adults
on cemetery grounds. Final scene of Samuel Abbott, originator
of memorial flag idea, placing flag on TR's gravesite.
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Governor Roosevelt and staff
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, [1899]
SUMMARY From the Biograph picture catalogue: 65 feet.
Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey,
just before the turn into 72nd Street, with Grant's tomb
and decorated residences in the background. This entire
series of pictures [of the Dewey land parade] has a very
high photographic quality, and the various organizations
appear at their best.
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Hopi Indians dance for TR at [Walpi, Ariz.] 1913
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1913.
SUMMARY On August 20, 1913, TR, numerous visitors, and
Hopi Indians observe the performance of the ritual Hopi
snake-dance at Walpi, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation.
TR was on a journey through the Southwest with his sons
Archie and Quentin, and a young cousin, Nicholas Roosevelt.
Crowds, seated and standing, are scattered over adobe
dwellings watching the ceremony. The snake-dance takes
place around a rough column of rock, with Hopis, in native
dress and carrying snakes in their hands and mouths, circling
the rock. Close shot of TR, seated and apparently awaiting
the beginning of the ritual. Brief shot of Arizona landscape.
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Japanese and Russian peace delegates--leaving New
York City, 1905
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1905.
SUMMARY On Aug. 5, 1905 the Japanese and Russian delegations
to the Portsmouth Peace Conference left New York City
to board ships which would take them first to Oyster Bay
to talk with TR and then to the conference in Portsmouth,
N.H. Views at the wharf of the New York Yacht Club of
the Japanese delegation boarding two U.S. Navy steam launches;
part of the Russian delegation walks down a ramp to the
wharf; the first three men are unidentified; the last
two men are the chief Russian envoys, Sergius Witte and
Baron Roman Rosen; the delegation is greeted by third
Assistant Secretary of State Herbert H. D. Peirce and
others; the Russians board a steam launch; final view
of man walking down the ramp and then boarding another
launch.
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Judge Alton B. Parker & Mayor McClellan at Esopus
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company; 1904.
SUMMARY From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential
candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at
Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other important Democrats.
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Kaiser Wilhelm
CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l. : s.n., 191-?]
SUMMARY Various scenes of Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany,
in different locations: clear view of the Kaiser walking
towards camera, with German officers on his left, and
a postal delivery service building in immediate background;
view of Wilhelm and unidentified man entering carriage,
Kaiser with group of men on horseback, Kaiser greeting
a line of dignitaries, and final long shot of Wilhelm
posing for the camera with a large group.
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King Albert of Belgium visits TR's grave, October,
1919
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Fox Film Corp., 1919.
SUMMARY King Albert visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave
in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, and is accompanied
by his son Prince Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and
several dignitaries. Identified in film are Brand Whitlock,
Ambassador to Belgium, walking in the rear of the group,
and a man who may be Joseph M. Nye walking beside King
Albert. Interior title states that King Albert requested
that no pictures be taken at gravesite. Film contains
only shots of the King's party walking from the grave
and of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., King Albert, and an unidentified
man sitting in an open car ready to depart.
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King Edward's funeral, 1910 (in 2 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l. : s.n., 1910]
SUMMARY Ceremonial funeral procession of King Edward
VII (1901-1910) passing through the streets of London
on May 20, 1910. Views of the moving casket, heads of
state walking behind the casket, the royal carriage, and
various marching military units. Attending the ceremony
were Kaiser Wilhelm II, Stéphen Pichon, Kings of Spain,
Portugal, Denmark, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Theodore
Roosevelt, representing the United States. Roosevelt is
visible at ca. ft. 16-21, 126-129, 168-170.
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Last known home of Czar Nicholas
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1918?]
SUMMARY Camera pans the home of a merchant named Ipatiev,
where Nicholas II, last Russian emperor, and his royal
family were executed in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), July
1918. Second sequence is views of men, identified by interior
title as Bolshevik prisoners, standing behind barbed wire
as guards patrol.
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Leonard Wood lays cornerstone of Roosevelt House,
1921
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Pathe News, 1921.
SUMMARY On Jan. 6, 1921, the restoration of TR's birthplace
by the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association is officially
begun with the laying of the Roosevelt House cornerstone.
Views of crowds pressing around platform; Major General
Leonard Wood, TR's longtime friend and political associate,
preparing to set stone in place; Corinne Robinson, TR's
sister and a frequent participant in Roosevelt House activities,
speaking to assembled crowd. Woman seated on platform
is Mrs. John Henry Hammond, president of the WRMA.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrives in New
York after the World War
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1919.
SUMMARY Theodore Roosevelt Jr., suffering from a machine
gun wound in the leg, returned as a casual from France
to New York City aboard the Mauretania on March 6, 1919.
Medium close shot of TR Jr., dressed in uniform, aboard
what may be the liner Mauretania, docked at the Cunard
pier, North River, New York City.
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Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. attends Women in War Work
Congress in Paris [1918]
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Mutual Film Corp.,
1918.
SUMMARY During World War I, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt,
Jr. worked for the YMCA in France running canteens, clubs,
and leave centers for soldiers and teaching French. She
also designed the uniforms worn by the women workers in
the YMCA. Views of Mrs. Roosevelt entertaining women YMCA
workers in the garden of the home of her aunt, Mrs. Alice
Green Hoffman, in Paris. There are medium close shots
of Mrs. Roosevelt, the woman not wearing a hat, as she
stands among a group of women.
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Oscar Straus
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 191-?]
SUMMARY Close shot of Oscar S. Straus, author, United
States ambassador, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
at The Hague for six three-year terms beginning in 1902,
and Secretary of Commerce and Labor in TR's Cabinet (1906-1909).
Seated at desk, Straus answers telephone and talks.
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Over route of Roosevelt parade in an automobile
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, 1903.
SUMMARY This film is a review by automobile of the arrival
parade route of President Theodore Roosevelt, on Tuesday,
May 12, 1903. The film was shot from about 2:10pm to 2:15pm
(shortly before the 3pm parade) and shows street and building
decorations and excited crowds. The portion of the route
shown is in the heart of the downtown business district.
The later portion of the route is shown in the film "Market
Street Before Parade" (1903). Passing northwest up Third
Street, the automobile turns northeast onto Market Street,
then north onto Montgomery Street. After a cut, the driver
has made the first left turn from Montgomery Street and
is half a block west on Sutter Street. The driver turns
south from Sutter to Kearny Street, and crosses Post Street
en route to Market Street. Having come "full circle,"
the driver turns right (southwest) onto Market Street
and continues along Market to the Grant/O'Farrell streets
intersection (at right).
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Panama Canal--scenes of the finished Canal (in 5 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1919?]
SUMMARY Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the
natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian
city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through the channel
to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, views of the Gatun
spillway and the Chagres River. From here she passes from
Gaillard Cut (Culebra Cut), into the Pedro Miguel Locks
and into Miraflores Lake. Then through the Miraflores
Locks and into the final portion of the canal, passing
the Canal Zone towns of Ancon, Balboa, and Balboa Heights.
Final views are of the Ancon Hospital (Gorgas Hospital)
and the U.S. Administration Building at Balboa.
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Peace envoys at Portsmouth, N.H.(in 2 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company; 1905.
SUMMARY The Japanese and Russian peace envoys arrive
and depart in automobiles, horse-drawn vehicles, or steam
yachts, with arbitration groups from the United States.
Neutral areas are designated for the conference, and the
docks, and buildings in which the conference is held,
as well as a parade in the streets.
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President Harding and Calvin Coolidge [1] (in 3 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1920.
SUMMARY Various scenes of the official notification ceremonies
held on July 22, 1920 for Warren G. Harding, selected
as the Presidential candidate by 17th Republican National
Convention and Calvin Coolidge, selected as the Vice Presidential
nominee. Opening views of Harding, followed by scenes
of him and his wife, Florence Kling Harding, in Marion,
Ohio; Harding, Coolidge, and Will H. Hays, Republican
National Committee chairman, getting out of auto with
other members of Republican Party; several scenes from
varying distances of Harding and wife greeting large crowds,
Harding delivering a speech from his porch, and standing
in a formal receiving line shaking hands; close shot of
man, identified by interior title as Harding's father,
George T. Harding; views of Hays opening the official
ceremony, with Henry Cabot Lodge and other members of
Notification Committee visible on speakers' platform.
Sequences of Coolidge's notification ceremony held in
Northampton, Mass.; views of Coolidge delivering his acceptance
speech; views of Edwin P. Morrow, Governor of Kentucky,
incorrectly identified by interior title as Edward, delivering
the formal notification speech; medium shot of Coolidge
and Lodge, surrounded by crowd; several sequences of Coolidge
seated at his desk in Boston and performing duties in
the rural setting of his home in Plymouth, Vt. Final scene
of Harding, Coolidge, and Hays conversing outside the
old Senate Office Building in Washington, with the Capitol
visible in the background on June 30.
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