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A man addresses an audience in a building which is probably Faneuil Hall in Boston. An American flag is draped across the lectern and men are taking notes at tables below the speaker’s platform. The man may be Theodore Roosevelt, but distance and camera angle make positive identification impossible.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Unknown
This film appears to have been photographed in France during WWI. There is a medium close shot of Quentin Roosevelt with a small building in background, followed by a brief shot of French and American officers, including Lieutenant Edward V. Rickenbacker at immediate right, talking. There is a view of a troop train moving through a European town as people line the tracks waving to soldiers. The final sequence is medium close panning shots, from left to right, of: John J. Pershing, commander in chief of American forces; Andre 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.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917-1918
Film consists of three sequences: 1) Theodore Roosevelt poses on the deck of the ship Guiana in New York Harbor prior to sailing to the West Indies on February 11, 1916. 2) Roosevelt and members of his party stand on the deck of the Vandyck some time after picking up Kermit Roosevelt at Bahia, Brazil, on October 17, 1913. This is filmed during Roosevelt’s journey to South America to combine a lecture tour with a scientific expedition to the Amazon Valley of Brazil in October 1913. Left to right are: Anthony Fiala, former Arctic explorer; George Kruck Cherrie, ornithologist; Father J. A. Zahm, scientist; Theodore Roosevelt; Kermit Roosevelt; Frank Harper, Roosevelt’s secretary; and at the edge of the picture, Leo E. Miller, mammalogist. 3) A side view of Roosevelt with American and Brazilian officials on the steps of the Guanabara Palace in Rio de Janeiro. To Roosevelt’s right is Edwin V. Morgan, American Ambassador to Brazil; man who may be Anthony Fiala and Father Zahm stand behind Roosevelt; on Roosevelt’s left is Dr. Lauro Müller, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Müller was the person who encouraged Roosevelt’s exploration of the River of Doubt.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1916-02-11; 1913-10
At what may be the beginning of a parade, Theodore Roosevelt and other men crowd into an open touring car. Roosevelt removes a newspaper from the back seat, acknowledges the camera, sits, talks with men in a car, and shakes hands with a man outside the car. Several sailors crowd around the car as well, and Roosevelt shakes hands with one of them. A brick building or wall fills the immediate background.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Unknown
View of Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by members of his safari party, planting a tree in front of a trading post building. The sign on the building says “BOMA TRADING C L / SAFARI OUTFITTERS.” The interior title identifies the location as Mombasa, Kenya.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1909-1910
Theodore Roosevelt speaks to a small group of people, mainly men and boys, from the porch at Sagamore Hill. The season appears to be either spring or fall.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1916-1918
On March 4, 1905, President Roosevelt is inaugurated in Washington, D.C., with much celebration and fanfare. Roosevelt rides in an open landau on Fifteenth St. NW, escorted by mounted Rough Riders. Secret Service men and detectives walk on either side of the carriage. Roosevelt tips his hat to the crowd. Sitting beside him is Senator John C. Spooner of Wisconsin, Chairman of the joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. Opposite, but not clearly visible, are Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts and Representative John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, members of the committee. Second sequence consists of long shots of Roosevelt taking the oath of office on a platform erected on the east front of the Capitol. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller administers the Presidential oath of office, and Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court James Hall McKenney holds the Bible. The platform is decorated with plants and garlands and a large banner with the American eagle on it hangs from the center of the railing. West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen are assembled below the platform.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1905-03-04
Admiral Dewey returns to New York City on September 27, 1899, following his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War. He paces the deck of his flagship, the Olympia, anchored at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Dewey and three of his officers await the arrival of visitors. A group of dignitaries, including several naval officers, board. The first person to step on deck may be Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron. Dewey greets the visitors. These visitors may be members of the Washington or New York City reception committee.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1899-09-27
New York gives Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, a lavish welcome September 27-30, 1899, and one of the highlights of that welcome is the land parade of September 30. Cheering crowds waving flags line the street as a battalion of sailors from the cruiser Olympia, Dewey’s flagship, march by. Included in battalion are a color guard carrying the American flag and what is probably the battalion flag, men pulling a piece of artillery, and medical personnel. After the marching sailors, a long line of carriages follow. In the first carriage, drawn by four horses, ride Admiral Dewey and Robert A. Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (1898-1902). Additional carriages containing dignitaries and naval officers follow. At ca. 53 ft. a carriage appears in which a hatless naval officer, who is probably Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron, rides; the man wearing a top hat on the far side of the carriage is probably Thomas F. Woods, President of the Board of Aldermen of New York City.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1899-09-30
The opening scene is of men, who may be Bolshevik prisoners, standing behind barbed wire as a group of soldiers march past in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Russia. The second sequence begins with an interior title that reads “In far off China, Mr. Rainey had the distinction and pleasure of photographing the President of China reviewing detachments of the Allied Armies.” The sequence consists of views of dignitaries reviewing detachments from the allied armies in Peking (Beijing), China. The camera pans past the soldiers from various nations as they stand in formation. A group of dignitaries reviews them. The film ends with scenes of soldiers marching and carrying flags.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917-1918
This film consists of views of the childhood home of Theodore Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, in Roswell, Georgia, and of the last remaining bridesmaid in Martha’s wedding, Catherine Evelyn King Baker. There is a long shot of Bulloch Hall, which was a stately Greek Revival home, designed, as were many other classic homes in the Roswell area, by Willis Ball. A medium-close shot of unidentified men sitting and standing on the front porch follows. Next, a closer view of the columned porch, followed by views of the side of the house, with a grape arbor visible, the barn and outbuildings, the skyline, and a well. Then there is a view from inside the house of men approaching a doorway, followed by a medium-close shot of Baker, wearing a long dark dress, seated in a chair outdoors.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923
At the State House in Boston, Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for his second term as Governor of Massachusetts on January 8, 1920. The ceremony actually took place in the Chamber of the House of Representatives, but this film is shot in the Council Chamber. Coolidge is sworn in by a man who is probably Edwin T. McKnight, President of the State Senate. The second sequence shows Governor Coolidge, members of his staff, and the Executive Council posing for the camera. Standing in the front are Coolidge and Lieutenant Governor Channing H. Cox. Seated, left to right, are: Councillors James G. Harris, George B. Wason, Matthew J. Whittall, and Harry H. Williams. In the back row, left to right, are: Secretary to the Governor Henry F. Long (visible between Coolidge and Cox), Assistant Secretary Harry S. Fairfield, Councillor Lewis R. Sullivan, Executive Secretary Charles S. Southworth, Councillor Horace A. Carter, Councillor Henry L. Bowles, and Edward Horrigan, the Governor’s body guard.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1920-01-08
Animated cartoon beginning with a character representing Paul James Rainey, explorer and hunter, being washed overboard. He swims to a barrel, climbs in, then grabs hold of a whale’s tail, who tows him toward shore where he lands. A bird resembling an ostrich lays an egg. Rainey sits on the egg which hatches. He rides a bird while being chased by a lion and is saved by a native. The bird chases the lion and throws him out to sea where he is swallowed by whale. A native takes Rainey to a wedding feast at which Rainey is the intended groom. Rainey runs away, jumps into barrel and floats out to sea while natives gather at shore. The interior titles describing the action of the cartoon are written in the form of limericks.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1911
On October 27, 1919, the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in Theodore Roosevelt’s honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York. There are shots from different angles of memorial flag as it is borne by young men up the steep pathway to the grave site. Five girls sew the 48th and final star on the flag at what is probably Cove School in Oyster Bay with a group of children and Boy Scouts visible in the background. There is a view of children and adults on the cemetery grounds. The final scene is of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on Roosevelt’s grave site.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-10-27
Medium close shot of a crowd with Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore in center of film, sitting in chairs outdoors as he listens to Theodore Roosevelt delivering a speech. There are no views of Roosevelt on film.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917
This film opens with exterior views of Theodore Roosevelt’s birthplace, Roosevelt House, on its dedication day. Bought and restored by the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association, the brownstone is officially opened to visitors on October 27, 1923. There are views of street crowds. The Gloria Trumpeters, four young women in Grecian costume herald the event with trumpet music from the balcony of Roosevelt House. There is a view of William T. Manning, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, who is to deliver an opening prayer. The next scene is of Governor Gifford Pinchot and his wife Cornelia Bryce Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Acting Mayor of New York City, Murray Hulbert, and other unidentified guests arriving.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923-10-27
On July 4, 1919, a mountain peak in the Black Hills is renamed and dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. Located near Deadwood, South Dakota, in the region where Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s, Mount Roosevelt is dedicated by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers, of which Roosevelt had been an honorary member. Leonard Wood, a close friend of Roosevelt and principal speaker at the ceremony, and Captain Seth Bullock, Roosevelt’s neighbor in his ranching days, speak informally with crowd members. There are views of the speakers’ platform, with the following men speaking at various points in service: South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck, Wood, and former South Dakota Representative to Congress, Eben W. Martin. Also identified on platform are Bullock, at whose suggestion the mountain is being renamed, and Roosevelt Memorial Association member, Hermann Hagedorn. There are long shots of Roosevelt Monument, a circular tower with a parapet. Wood is seen walking along the narrow ledge of the monument to reach the speakers’ platform, which is erected in front of the monument. A close shot of a bronze plaque set in the side of the monument, shows an inscription that reads “In Memory of Theodore Roosevelt, The American.”
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-07-04
A view of what appears to be downtown Oyster Bay, New York, with what may be a municipal building and stone gazebo visible beside a flag, which is flying at half-mast. The ground is snow-covered. The occasion may be the mourning period following Theodore Roosevelt’s death on January 6, 1919.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-01-06
As part of an inspection tour of military camps in the Midwest, General John J. Pershing visits Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois, on January 5, 1920. Opening scene of Pershing standing with General George Bell, commander of the 6th Division’s Provisional Regiment stationed at Camp Grant. A train with members of Bell’s staff unloads in the background. A long shot of Pershing, with an unidentified man to his left, and Robert Rew, mayor of Rockford, posing outside the Hotel Nelson after attending a luncheon in Pershing’s honor. The mayor is carrying a saddle and bridle which were presented to Pershing by the citizens of Rockford. Views of the 6th Division in formation; long shot of Pershing, Bell, and possibly Regiment-Colonel Mathias Crowley walking toward the camera through lines of soldiers. Views of tractors pulling a cannon along the snow covered streets. The last scene is of Pershing and a man who may be Crowley standing in a flag-draped reviewing stand as Pershing delivers a speech.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1920-01-05
On December 10, 1919, Governor Calvin Coolidge hosts five New England governors in a conference on transportation and fuel conditions. At the State House in Boston the governors pledge support of coal regulation and continuing financial aid for New England’s railroads after their return to private control in peacetime. Attending the conference are Governors Coolidge, Massachusetts; Percival W. Clement, Vermont; Robert Livingston Beeckman, Rhode Island; John H. Bartlett, New Hampshire; Carl E. Milliken, Maine; and Marcus H. Holcomb, Connecticut. Views of governors on upper portico of the state house and posed in Governor Coolidge’s office.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919