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PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER - Royalty free footage in our collection

(See also shotlists of other US Presidents)

 

220309          13:06:12 - 13:17:37            1910s - 1940s          Sd        b/w    

The Road to the Wall  [Part 2 of 3]
Narration by James Cagney
Anti-Communist propaganda film.  Gives brief history of Communism.

INCLUDING:
13:06:12  Russian Civil war fight in snow. Troops on horses.  Still Tzars family w/ hammer and sickle superimposed.  Secret police searching suspects.  Firing squad.  Lenin with cat, dubbed in English.  Dora Kaplan, newspaper headlines re assassination attempt.  Red army parade?
Map of world,
Kronstadt 1921, people dragging corpses out of mass grave.  CU corpses w/ hammer& sickle superimposed.  Military.  Lenin, Trotsky. Stalin.  Farmers w/ machines in field, wheat, buying food at shop, weighing grain.  Herbert
Hoover re aid to Russia.  Children eating.  Headlines re Lenin stroke.  Lenin dead. Lenin funeral in snow.
Stalin.  Five year plan.  Men at work on railway line, lugging wood, heavy industry, quarry, factories and smoke, machinery.  Agriculture, building houses, factory work, train (narrator says to Siberia), factory boss congratulating workers.  Dignitaries in line.
Trials, courtroom scenes re mass executions.  Still Stalin former allies w/ hammer & sickle superimposed.  Trials, still of executed man.
13:12:45 

 

221409          16:54:33 - 17:09:15            1962                          

The Road to the Wall  Pt. 1 of 2
Anti-Communist propaganda film. Gives brief history of Communism.   Footage from 1905 to 1960s
INCLUDING:
18:05:58  People w/ corpses.  Trotsky in uniform on steps.  still of corpse w/ hammer & sickle superimposed.  Lenin & Trotsky intercut.  Stalin, Peoples Commissar of Workers & Peasants Inspection Group, walking w/ others.  Stalin at various times.  Families beside railroad car.  Wheat harvest w/ combines filling trucks.  Woman buying bread.  Weighing grain & US aid to Russia.  Herbert
Hoover.  Food to veterans, children eat. 

01;07:37
NOTE: Lesser quality, but DIFFERENT version w/ Cagney narration on 220309.

 

            221504          02:10:41 - 02:16:32            1917; 1918;  SIL       B/W   

[WWI Personalities, card 1 of 2]
INCLUDING:

02:14:00  Flash title:  Herbert Hoover, Food Dictator, inspects the first corn of new harvest to arrive in Washington.  Truck loaded w/ bags pulls up; Hoover & ?? pull out ear.
02:14:06 

 

            221241          16:29:39 - 16:45:44            1920s;            SIL       B/W   

A Day With The President Of The United States And His Cabinet
INCLUDING:
16:37:48  Department of Commerce building.  Sec. Herbert
Hoover & male secretary at desk. 
16:39:13 

 

 

- AS PRESIDENT

 

            220945          12:01:04 - 12:11:25            1928 - 1930s           SD        COL     

The Story of Hoover Dam  Pt. 1 of 3 
Unveiling of plaque to A Modern Engineering Wonder of the United States - One of the seven selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers 1955.  Titles.
12:01:36  Completed dam w/ tourists.  Traffic across.  Man / Department of Interior guide w/ megaphone bull horn speaking to group of tourists.
12:02:50  Graphic showing Colorado river.
12:03:13  Beauty shots of snow, mountains & spring thaw.  Muddy churning water.  Salton Sea - inland sea.  Windmill, drought conditions.  Deserted shack.  POV shots of river from floating on river.
12:04:36  Capitol - Interior Congress 1928 ?. (sepia)   White House - interior  Herbert
Hoover signing at desk.
12:05:05  Construction crews & surveyors.  Mountain blasted.  River; tunnels for diversion of river.  Tunnel construction.  Excavation of rock & dumping.  Lining tunnels w/ concrete.  Explosion.  Highscalers preparing canyon walls - hang from rope drilling holes & loading w/ dynamite.
12:07:23  Diverting Colorado river, 1932 -  earth and rock dam - excavations - bedrock.  Upstream excavations - train taking sand & gravel to aggregate plant where it is processed & stockpiled.  Concrete mixing plant.  Aerial cableways carry concrete.  Workmen compacting concrete.  Men moved in large boxes.  Dam after one year construction.

            220257 & 170038   16:46:39 - 16:52:15            1928 / 1929 Si         B/W   

[Greenfield Village & Dismantling Old Sawmill]
Man mounts high wheel bicycle; Greenfield Museum dedication; various buildings.  Horses & wagon; carriages.  Foggy rain; blimp past; Wagons & horses; Herbert
Hoover & others off train with Ford & Edison; station platform; VIPs; Hoover in laboratory with Edison & assistant. slug; Sawmill & large beams; dismantling decaying mill.

 

            220454          00:29:51 - 00:45:59            1928 1929    Si         b/w    

President Herbert Hoover
Inauguration at White House, Hoover
enters with party.  Leaving White House for Capitol with decorated military and wives in furs, Coolidge and Hoover exit together and pose. members of the Cabinet. Presidential party and cavalry on way to Capitol. Pan down  decorated Capitol.  Crowd and photographers. Taking place in stand for inaugural ceremony. Crowds with umbrellas. Chief Justice Taft and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, members of Diplomatic Corps, Chief of Staff, general Summerall, Chief of Naval Operations and Commander of the Marine Corps, walk down stand. Chief justice Taft administers oath of office to Hoover, 31st US president. Hoover inaugural address. Pan on crowds in rain. Hoover and wife on way to White House, procession incl., cavalry. Grand Marshall General  Charles p. Summerall heads procession on horseback. Dirigibles in sky above city. presidential party taking place in reviewing stand in front of White House for inaugural  parade of cars and marching bands: Delaware ; Pennsylvania. World War Colours with escort of National guardsmen from Pennsylvania; New jersey marching band and men in top hats with open umbrellas; Georgia; Connecticut;  Massachusetts; Virginia Veterans Organisation band; Texas cowboys; American Indians on horses and on cars. Fireworks, illuminations portraits of Curtis and Hoover & US flag.
00:43:23: 24Jul29 - Kellogg-Briand Pact for the Renunciation of War. Hoover
into East Room with aides greets nations representatives: Calvin Coolidge, Sen. Borah of Idaho, Chairman of the Foreign relations Committee; Sec. of State Stimson and former Sec. Kellogg & French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand; British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard. Representatives of original signatory countries & others involved shake hands with Hoover. Hoover reads Peace Covenant.

 

            220461          07:00:38 - 07:02:50            1929? - 1933?        Si         b/w    

Herbert Hoover in car with wife, crowds lined up. Crowd in rain with umbrellas wait for speech.
Steam train into station, crowded platform with journalists. Hoover
out of train with ?? Stand for photograph.
Hoover
shown factory or distillery.
Passengers out of train, over bridge. Picketing, demonstration, riot. Fight with police along railway lines.
PARTIAL

 

            221223          06:20:49 - 06:21:27            1930   SIL       B/W   

President Receives!, The  Mr & Mrs Hoover Keep Cool A Their Fishing Retreat In the... Mountains
Rapidan, Virginia
Herbert
Hoover & wife walk across deck of log cabin in trees; past camera followed by dog.  Posing above waterfall and sitting on deck in shade.
 

            221498          13:01:07 - 13:02:06            1930   SIL       B/W   

Title:  First Lady Presides As Mountain School Closes For Summer
13:01:16  Int. w/ Mrs. Herbert
Hoover watching girl at blackboard doing mathematics, talks to her & she erases her answer.  With teacher & other students..  Children out & pose on steps of school w/ teacher & Mrs. Lou Hoover.
NOTE:  Lou Hoover
was first woman to receive a geology degree in America.  She had previously received a teaching degree.

            220462          09:00:57 - 09:08:36            1930s Si         b/w    

Herbert Hoover - selected scenes
Hoover
and wife in gardens meeting with military / naval officers and veterans, many disabled in wheelchairs. Good shot exterior Capitol. Interior - Hoover at desk surrounded by men as he signs ?
Hoover
fly fishing / angling. Hoover and wife sitting in gardens, she knitting.
Convention ? - crowds.  With Lindbergh / Admiral Byrd / Coolidge campaigning. Battleship with sailors at stations on all decks. Hoover
seated on deck. Navy Day ? Parades - banner of Hoover - Iowa welcomes you.
Crowds lining street - ticker-tape parade. Demonstration - Lorry with jobless - sign on side Hoover
s Farm Relief - First Closure then this. Another sign In Hoover we trusted - Now Were Busted. Convention hall, crowds cheering and waving flags. Exterior Capitol. Hoover, wife and group of VIPs down steps and into waiting cars. 
Depression


            200554          01:19:15 - 01:19:42            1931   SIL       B/W   

English Artist Paints Hoover Portrait! - Picture By 31-Year-Old Genius To Hang In White House
Pipe-smoking artist at work on almost complete portrait of Herbert
Hoover; CU portrait.

            220315          19:53:28 - 19:54:40            1933   Sd        B/W   

25 Years Ago - FDR inauguration and Depression
Capitol - Herbert
Hoover leaving White House - in car with Roosevelt in parade down Pennsylvania.  FDR makes inaugural speech.  Street scenes on Bank Holiday after inauguration. Security vans carrying money.
Incomplete

 

            221550          19:06:34 - 19:09:04            1958   SD        B/W   

25 Years Ago Today

INCLUDING:
Tilt down Capitol to inauguration stand.  Herbert
Hoover leaving White House w/ wife & shares open car w/ FDR & wife.  Crowd at Capitol
19:07:11 

 

 

- AFTER HIS PRESIDENCY

 

            220704          00:44:32 - 00:53:22            1936   Si         B/W   

Republican Convention 1936 - Herbert Hoover
Pan over convention floor & Herbert
Hoover walking to podium.  People taking pictures, men waving hats.   Delegates with State placards & California banner.  Demonstration on convention floor.  Press at tables, delegates cheering Hoover speech.  Hoover acknowledging crowd.  Woman delegates waving US flag.
Most shots of Hoover
taken from rear.

 

            220704          00:53:32 - 00:57:51            1936   Si         B/W   

Republican Convention 1936 - Herbert Hoover,
Crowd on convention floor waving.  Hoover
introduced.  Floor demonstration. Hoover at mic. CU spotlights. Pan over crowd in packed hall.

 

            220704          01:03:02 - 01:11:26            1936   Sd        B/W   

[Republican Convention - 1936 - Hoover Keynote Speech]
Republican convention, cheering.  Herbert
Hoover on platform, waving & cheering.  Hoover speaks keynote address.  Equates Democrats &  Roosevelt  (FDR ) with Fascism.

            220770          04:00:05 - 04:02:25            1938   SD        B/W   

FDR Leads Nation In Protest Against Nazi Persecutions
President Roosevelt seated at desk - shots broken windows.  Herbert
Hoover speaks against Jewish persecution in Germany. Rev. R.I. Gannon of Fordham University speaks against Nazis.   Methodist Bishop Edwin H. Hughes in New York condemns brutalities in Germany.
antisemitism

            LN 501-321  09:04:43 - 09:09:07            1940s?           SD        B/W   

[Hoover re overseas relief spending]
Herbert
Hoover to camera re reducing relief spending to other nations emerging from war. 
... 6 billions already spent in relieving civilian populations out of American charity...  problems of the American taxpayer must be considered.  We must bring an end to this enormous drain on American resources as soon as it is possible.  There are certain minimum duties which we have to perform.  We have to support the populations under the American flag.... we shall reduce our commitment to the lowest possible minimum... Our purpose must be to get these nations on a self-supporting basis and off of public charity....
09:07:29  Talks about his recent visits to Germany, Austria and Europe  ...grim picture... winter... famine...  All Europe is cold... the suffering is intense...  We cannot escape our obligation to use our every resource to prevent starvation.   But at the same time, we should not be called upon [for purposes other] than the bare maintenance of human life.

 

            220471          07:21:39 - 07:22:23            1945   SD        B/W   

News Reports From Washington
Herbert
Hoover Confers with President  Arrives & poses w/ Truman.  re food relief for postwar Europe
07:22:07  Tom C. Clark New Attorney General Tom C. Clark at desk.
07:22:16  Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Agriculture.

220929          17:56:18 - 17:58:25            c1945 SIL       B/W   

Herbert Hoover at Military VIP Gathering
VS military VIPs talking, groups on airfield. MS Herbert
Hoover and ? Air Transport Command plane on runway. Hoover and vars officials.

 

            221357          22:06:54 - 22:07:58            1946   SD        B/W   

Nation Urged To Eat Less In Food Crisis
President Truman sitting w/ Herbert
Hoover at table in White House.  Full informal committee sitting at table in White House meeting to discuss preventing famine & starvation in Post-War areas.  New York Governor Lehman & Henry Wallace, Henry Luce w/ Eric Johnston.  Secretary Anderson talking w/ Hoover.
22:07:34  Anderson at microphone:  Weve done a magnificent job thus far...but we have not yet seen the job through...we have to strain ourselves a little more...

            221092          17:23:59 - 17:26:25            1947   Sd/Sil  B/W   

Truman Urges Universal Training
Albert Einstein in cap & gown arriving at honorary graduation ceremony at Princeton University.  President Truman & Herbert
Hoover in procession also.  Eisenhower in uniform receives scroll on outdoor platform to applause from large audience.  Truman given doctorate hood & poses for cameras.  Truman speech at podium - asks for military training programme for young people ...in order not to win a war, but in order to prevent one.
[NB Sound intermittent but speech intact.]

            220780          18:51:53 - 18:59:54            1957   SD        COL     

King Saud visits President Eisenhower R2 of 3
INCLUDING:
18:56:35 Exterior  hotel. Interior V.P. Nixon hosts official luncheon for King. Herbert Hoover Jnr
in receiving line.
18:57:00 Saudi Arabian Embassy - interior Richard and Mrs Nixon welcomed.  Foreign diplomats received by King.  Good shot movie cameras.  Mrs John Foster Dulles shakes hands with King. US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, George Wadsworth.  Sam Rayburn ? speaker of House of Representatives.  - Children of Saudi Ambassador meet King.
18:58:55 Washington Islamic Centre / mosque.  King arrives.  Shots architecture.  King leaving surrounded by crowds.

 

            221417          08:01:33 - 08:01:57            1958   SD        B/W   

News In Brief  (Ex-President Herbert Hoover Celebrates 84th Birthday)
Hoover
sitting in chair as microphones set up for press conference in hotel room.  Newsreel cameras.  MCU smiling.

            220293          13:09:10 - 13:10:13            1961   Sd        B/W   

News in Brief: New York - Hoover Birthday
Ex President Herbert
Hoover 87th Birthday - holds press conference - Hoover seated behind desk asked to comment on the Berlin crisis - says Russians no more want nuclear war then we do (America) so solution should be possible - Hoover asked question he replies that he is retired and will not answer political questions.

 

            220919          02:26:02 - 02:32:28            1964   SD        b/w    

News Highlights of 1964
INCLUDING:

02:28:16: State funerals of General Douglas MacArthur and Herbert Hoover
02:28:56:

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