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
President McKinley inauguration, 1901
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1901.
SUMMARY The first ca. 49 ft., views of President William
McKinley speaking, may be unrelated footage. Views of
crowds on Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in front of the old
Willard Hotel during the March 4, l90l inaugural festivities.
A mounted military unit rides through what is probably
the court of honor, the area on Pennsylvania Ave., NW,
from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Sts.; the President and
his party reviewed the inaugural parade from a stand
in this area. McKinley doffs his hat to the crowd as
his carriage passes the Willard Hotel. Sen. Marcus A.
Hanna of Ohio (1897-1904) sits beside McKinley in the
carriage. Several members of the President's special
escort, Troop A of the Ohio National Guard, are visible
along with aides and guards. The man riding alone in
the second carriage may be TR. The last sequence, of
McKinley in a carriage in the court of honor, is repeated.
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President McKinley's funeral, 1901 [1] (in 3 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED [United States : s.n.], 1901.
SUMMARY Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held
for President William McKinley:
1) McKinley's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the
Capitol, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 1901; views of
officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark
headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery
and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets),
battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may
be the diplomatic corps), other civilians, guard of honor,
pallbearers, and the horsedrawn hearse all turning the
corner off what may be Pennsylvania Avenue on their way
to the Capitol; camera pans the hearse, as a procession
of carriages turns the corner.
2) McKinley's body first lay in state for public viewing
in Buffalo, N.Y. on Sept. 15-16; views of carriages, the
horsedrawn hearse, and marchers stopping in front of the
Buffalo City Hall; medium close shots of the casket being
unloaded from hearse and carried up stairs of City Hall;
crowds of mourners lining up to view the body as group
of soldiers enters City Hall; camera pans crowd gathered
outside as mourners enter and leave City Hall. Unrelated
sequence of Washington ceremonies follows; camera pans
from different angles of crowds gathered at the east front
of the Capitol.
3) McKinley's body was conveyed to its final resting
place at Canton, Ohio on Sept. 18-19; views of mounted
military units, marching civilians, carriages, and the
horsedrawn hearse turning and entering what is probably
Westlawn Cemetery where McKinley is buried; military units
marching down a street as gathered crowds watch; final
pans of mourners, crowds, and soldiers outside the McKinley
home in Canton.
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President reviewing school children
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company; 1903.
SUMMARY From the side of a broad avenue, a crowd of people
await the arrival of President Theodore Roosevelt. The
marching military that precedes his carriage can be seen
at a distance of a quarter of a mile away. Four other
camera positions along the march include the escort, the
dignitaries, and at the conclusion, Roosevelt in his carriage.
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President Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, [1898]
SUMMARY From the Biograph picture catalogue: 29 feet.
This picture shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut.
Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders,
galloping up to his headquarters, where he dismounts and
walks into his tent. This view was taken in the camp with
the Rough Riders, and is an excellent picture of Col.
Roosevelt in the environment he loves so well.
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President Roosevelt at the Canton station
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
1901.
SUMMARY The film begins by showing Theodore Roosevelt
arriving with other mourners at Canton, Ohio. Mr. Roosevelt
is shown leaving the station and getting into his carriage.
The remainder of the film was photographed by panning
the camera over the large crowd gathered in the area to
watch the arrival of celebrities attending the funeral
of President McKinley.
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Pres. Roosevelt at the dedication ceremonies, St.
Louis Exposition
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Selig Polyscope Co.,
1903.
SUMMARY At the speaker's platform, President Theodore
Roosevelt prepares to enter a carriage.
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President Roosevelt at the Army-Navy game
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company; 1902.
SUMMARY President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary
of War Root, Secretary of the Navy Long, and a number
of others, crosses the football field during the half-time
of the game.
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President Roosevelt reviewing the troops at Charleston
Exposition
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Mfg. Co., 1902.
SUMMARY President Roosevelt is standing on a platform
in front of an Auditorium, photographed from across the
street. At his left is Mrs. Roosevelt, holding carnations.
They review the army, navy, and marine corps foot soldiers
at the opening of the Charleston Exposition. Other prominent
individiuals shown are Captain F.W. Wagener, Mayor Smyth
of Charleston, Governor McSweeney of South Carolina, and
Governor Avcock.
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Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July oration
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company : Kleine Optical Co., 1903.
SUMMARY President Theodore Roosevelt eats and then speaks
to a crowd who have gathered to hear him. From another
camera position, the crowd bids him farewell as Roosevelt
and his party enter a horse-drawn carriage and leave the
vicinity.
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President Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth
Liberty Loan parade [1918]
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1918].
SUMMARY Views of fourth Liberty Loan ceremonies in New
York City and Washington, Sept. 1918. Inaugurating a national
drive for the sale of liberty bonds, President Wilson,
his wife Edith, and mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Bolling,
arrive in New York on Sept. 27, 1918. At Pennsylvania
Railroad Station they are greeted by crowds and joined
by the President's two daughters, Margaret Wilson and
Eleanor McAdoo, as they enter a touring car en route to
the Waldorf-Astoria. Views of flag-lined Fifth Avenue
on the following day, with flags of the twenty-two Allied
nations and banners supporting liberty bonds filling the
Avenue. Emile Cartier, Belgian Minister to the United
States, speaks at the dedication of the Altar of Liberty,
an open-air structure in Madison Square designed by Thomas
Hastings in support of the Liberty Loan effort; marching
soldiers and band. On the south portico of the U.S. Treasury
Building in Washington, D.C., Geraldine Farrar, member
of the Metropolitan opera company, ceremonially sells
bond to Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo
as Leo S. Rowe, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, watches.
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The president's carriage
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, 1903.
SUMMARY This film shows President Roosevelt in San Francisco,
passing in the arrival parade on Market Street on Tuesday,
May 12, 1903. The camera view is from the north side of
Market Street, just east of Grant Avenue. After leaving
the Southern Pacific train station at Third and Townsend
streets, the parade proceeded up Third Street and wound
through downtown San Francisco before continuing up Market
Street to a ceremony at the Native Sons Hall on Mason
Street. The film was taken a few minutes after 3:00pm,
when the extensive military portion of the parade had
already passed. Some of the store signs seen in the film
along the south side of Market Street include Townsend's
California Glace Fruits, Swan the Painter, Charles Lyons
(merchant tailor), Morley Billiards, and Spreckles Market.
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The Prince of Wales visits TR's grave
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1919.
SUMMARY In the summer of 1919, Edward, the Prince of
Wales, later King Edward VIII, embarked on a tour of the
Dominions. After touring Canada for several months, the
Prince decided to spend several days in the United States.
His visit was the first visit of a Prince of Wales to
the United States since that of his grandfather, Edward
VII, fifty years earlier. On his last day in New York,
Nov. 21, 1919, the Prince made a semiprivate journey to
Oyster Bay. Film shows the Prince placing a laurel wreath
on TR's grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery; the Prince,
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., wearing a mourning band, a man
who is probably Joseph M. Nye, Chief of Special Agents,
Dept. of State, and a group of men return down the path
from the gravesite. Behind the Prince, the man wearing
dark glasses is probably Viscount Grey, British Ambassador
to the United States. A man wearing an ascot and walking
in the rear of the group may be Rodman Wanamaker, Chairman
of the Mayor's Committee on Reception to Distinguished
Guests. The Prince tips his hat to people gathered alongside
the path.
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Clemenceau and Foch, 1917-1919
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1918?]
SUMMARY Film appears to have been photographed in France
during WWI. Medium close shot of Quentin Roosevelt with
a small building in background; brief shot of French and
American officers, including Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacker
at immediate right, talking; view of a troop train moving
through a European town as people line the tracks waving
to soldiers. Final sequence is medium close panning shots,
from left to right, of: John J. Pershing, commander in
chief of American forces; André Tardieu, French diplomat;
Premier Georges Clemenceau of France; Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, commander in chief of French forces; an unidentified
French officer; General Maxime Weygand, staff officer
to Foch; and Major General James W. McAndrews, general
chief of staff of American forces, posing as they leave
a building.
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RMA flag service on the steps of New York Public Library,
1919
CREATED/PUBLISHED [Kinogram Pub. Corp.] 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. Views of Samuel Abbott, originator of
the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on TR's grave.
Sequence 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. Final scenes of flag ceremony
sponsored by Roosevelt Memorial Association on the steps
of New York Public Library, Oct. 25; long shots of notables
standing on platform, possible identifications from right
to left are: Henry Cabot Lodge, honorary vice-president
of RMA; the man next to Lodge is probably Henry J. Allen,
Governor of Kansas; William Boyce Thompson, president
of RMA, is holding the flag with the help of a man who
appears to be Henry D. Lindsley, chairman of the event;
William Loeb Jr., vice-president of RMA, is visible in
back of Thompson; next to Loeb is probably William Gibbs
McAdoo; and the man to the far left with hands to his
side may be Elihu Root, an RMA trustee. Sequence of Boy
Scouts and members of the Naval Reserve hoisting flag
up flagpole as an unidentified man leads the crowd in
singing.
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Roosevelt scenes [1917-1918]
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1917?]
SUMMARY Views of TR at various public functions in support
of the war effort: 1) TR stands with Brigadier General
Michael J. Lenihan, fellow-officer in the Spanish-American
War, and speaks to camera during an informal visit to
Camp Mills, near Garden City, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 1917;
2) on the lawn of Sagamore Hill on Aug. 22, 1917, TR and
members of the Belgian mission pose for camera; identified
in group are Capt. Thomas C. Cook, American Army officer;
Hector Carlier, a secretary of the mission; Major Leon
Osterrieth, Belgian Army officer; George T. Wilson and
Frederic Coudert, prominent New Yorkers; Baron Ludovic
Moncheur, former Ambassador to the United States and head
of the mission; General Mathieu Leclercq, Commander of
the Belgian Cavalry; Jean D. Mertens, a secretary of the
mission; T. P. O'Connor, Irish political leader and writer;
and Count Louis d'Ursel, Belgian Army officer and diplomat;
3) at Forest Hills, N.Y., on July 4, 1917, TR reviews
and marches with the Forest Hills Rifle Club; 4) on Sept.
28, 1917, TR speaks at a large pro-war parade in St. Paul,
Minn., with Minnesota Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist
(1915-1921) standing behind him on platform; 5) supporting
the Liberty Loan effort in Billings, Mont., TR parades
through downtown Billings street, preceded by cowboys
on horseback; 6) at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., TR and
Thomas H. Barry, Commander of the camp, address troops
on Sept. 26, 1917; 7) TR speaks to crowds at the launching
of the U.S.S. Newburgh in Newburgh, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1918;
8) from the porch at Sagamore TR addresses volunteer workers
for the third Liberty Loan on April 2, 1918; 9) TR is
in Springfield, Ill. on Aug. 26, 1918 to endorse a rapid
ending of the war; 10) final sequence may be of TR arriving
at the Naval Service Club in Boston on May 2, 1918, in
an open car with man who is probably president of the
club, F. Nathaniel Perkins
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Roosevelt's Rough Riders
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company, [1898]
SUMMARY From the Biograph picture catalogue: 27 feet.
A charge full of cowboy enthusiasm by Troop "I," the famous
regiment, at Tampa, before its departure for the front.
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Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, 1917
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1917.
SUMMARY On July 4, 1917, French actress Sarah Bernhardt
speaks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of
French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing
more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music
platform, Mme. Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open
touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close
shot of Mme. Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man
who may be her personal physician, Dr. Felix Marot, and
woman who is probably her secretary and translator, Miss
Elizabeth Ormsby, seated in car.
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Scenes and incidents, Russo-Japanese peace conference,
Portsmouth, N.H. (in 4 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Mfg. Co., 1905.
SUMMARY Scenes from the 1905 peace conference between
the Russian and Japanese Governments, mediated by the
U.S. Government at the invitation of President Theodore
Roosevelt. Scenes of the dignitaries and celebrities who
are part of the conference include travel between Oyster
Bay and New York and Portsmouth. The Japanese, then the
Russian, delegations, including envoys Count Vitte, Baron
Rosen, and Marquis Jutaro Komura depart, from the foot
of 23rd Street, at the East River, the wharf of the New
York Yacht Club for Oyster Bay, Long Island on August
5. The Japanese delegation boards two U.S. Navy launches.
The Russian delegation is greeted by third assistant secretary
of state Herbert H.D. Pierce. The last two men walking
down the ramp are Witte (the tallest) and Rosen, and other
members of the Russian delegation board another launch.
The launches are taken to ships and then to Oyster Bay
to confer with President Theodore Roosevelt.
On August 9, first the Russian and then the Japanese
delegations are received by Rear Admiral William W. Mead,
commanding officer of the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and staff
at the Portsmouth Navy Yard. Baron Kogoro Takahira is
the Japanese Ambasador to the United States. On August
8, a street procession follows the arrival of the envoys
Portsmouth. The parade includes the New Hampshire National
Guard, with the Russians in the first carriage, and the
Japanese in the second. The officials arrive at Rockingham
County Court House in Portsmouth. Members of the delegations
depart from the Hotel Wentworth in Newcastle, N.H. by
automobile for the first conference in the negotiations,
with the Japanese in the first car, and the Russians in
the second.
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Scenes of Roosevelt Dam
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1911?]
SUMMARY Panoramic views of the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt
River in Arizona: shots include rocky hill above dam,
water rushing through portions of dam, and a car being
driven on road across dam. Since a flag waves from back
of car, film may have been shot at dedication ceremonies,
March 18, 1911 at which TR delivered the principal address.
The Roosevelt dam, a major irrigation project in the Salt
River Valley near Phoenix, is largely a result of TR's
land reclamation efforts when he was President.
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Scenes of the British royal family
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1918.
SUMMARY Queen Mary, King George in the uniform of an
Admiral of the Fleet, members of the Royal family, a clergyman,
and other unidentified people are walking in procession
into St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. The occasion
is probably "Remembrance Day," Aug. 4, 1918, the fourth
anniversary of World War I. The Royal family, joined by
the two Houses of Parliament and representatives of the
overseas dominions and of the U.S., attend a special service
of remembrance and rededication. Queen Alexandra and the
Duke of Connaught follow Queen Mary and King George; Princess
Mary, wearing a white collar, and Princess Victoria follow.
In the second sequence, the Royal party leaves the church
followed by members of Parliament. Final sequence consists
of brief shots of colonial troops with a British officer.
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Scenes of TR and his sons Quentin and Archie, 1917-1918
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n.], 1917-1918.
SUMMARY Unrelated segments of Quentin, Archie, and TR
at various times and locations. Medium close view of Quentin
wearing a WWI uniform standing by a wooden shed in Mineola,
New York, May 1917; long shot of Archie in uniform astride
a horse possibly in 1917; Archie in uniform, with a cane,
standing by a building possibly in 1918; medium shot of
TR speaking from the porch at Sagamore Hill; close shot
of TR sitting at the 5th Annual International Flower Show
in the Grand Central Palace, New York City on March 20,
1917; long shot of crowds and TR in a motorcade probably
during 1917, location unknown; TR speaking from a flag-decked
platform possibly in 1917; and TR with an unidentified
man standing and talking on outside steps of a house,
identified by interior title as in Washington, D.C.
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Scenes of TR at Sagamore Hill, 1912
CREATED/PUBLISHED [S.l.] : Pathé Frères, 1912.
SUMMARY First film footage taken of TR at Sagamore Hill,
summer of 1912. TR on his horse Sidar shakes hands with
William P. Helm, Associated Press correspondent for New
York City and Washington (1910-1918) and detailed by AP
to Wilson and TR during the 1912 campaign. TR rides his
horse away from Sagamore, returns to Sagamore, dismounts
and feeds the horse from his hand, plays with his three
dogs, and then reviews his mail assisted by his son Archie.
Final scene of TR, with axe in hand, walking down the
driveway.
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The sculptor's nightmare (in 3 parts)
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : American Mutoscope
and Biograph Company; 1908.
SUMMARY At a political club, the members debate whose
bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to
agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him
to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. Instead,
the sculptor spends their fees on a dinner with his model
during which he becomes so inebriated that he is taken
to jail. There hs has a nightmare, wherein three busts
are created and animated from clay (through stop-motion
photography) in the likenesses of Democrat William Jennings
Bryan and Republicans Charles W. Fairbanks and William
Howard Taft. Finally an animated bust of Roosevelt appears.
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