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PRESIDENT THEODORE (TEDDY) ROOSEVELT

(See also shotlists of other US Presidents)

 

 

220576          05:55:50 - 05:56:18            1898?                        b/w     Si         Philippines / Cuba / USA

President Roosevelt And The Rough Riders
copyrighted 22Jan1903
US Army cavalry horse training area.  A group of men on horseback approach camera, dismount & walk away.  One of the riders is Theodore Roosevelt
.
Spanish - American War

220851          14:31:46 - 14:32:46            1899               b/w     Si         USA     

Governor Roosevelt and Staff
Land parade honouring Admiral Dewey, NYC
Theodore Roosevelt
leads military parade on horseback, buildings visible in BG.  All officers and military on horses.
Spanish - American War.  Dewey Homecoming

221303          15:12:21 - 15:17:55            1900s - 1910s                      B/W    SIL       USA     

INCLUDING:

People cheering arrival of Theodore Roosevelt for first plane ride.  Military standing on field and cars entering.
15:12:28  Biplane in flight, dipping and rising.  MS of VIPs watching from open cars w/ US flag, military along side.  Roosevelt
in back seat holding hat up.  Shot of plane dipping towards camera.  Other VIPs talking to men in car. 
15:13:03  Roosevelt
climbing into plane, turning & sitting.
15:13:19 

 

220909          11:30:20 - 11:32:07            1901               b/w     Si         USA     

President Roosevelt At The Canton Station
Copyright 26Sep01
Theodore Roosevelt
wi/ other mourners holding hats over hearts at station.  Walk past camera & into carriage.  Man walks into street lined w/ military & crowd watching & gestures for carriage.  Pan over crowd gathered to watch procession, soldiers & carriages past Canton Hardware Co. Wholesale sign on warehouse.  Marchers & carriages down street as camera pans back.
President McKinley’s Funeral Trip; Presidential Assassination Aftermath;

 

220601          09:15:35 - 09:17:56            1902               b/w     Si         USA     

President Roosevelt Reviewing Troops At Charleston Exposition, SC
April 1902
Theodore Roosevelt
in top hat and wife in elegant pale dress on steps w/ parade seen in front of him, military VIPs alongside him.
 

220867          13:22:54 - 13:26:08            1903               b/w     Si         USA     

Over Route of Roosevelt Parade in an Automobile
Track down wide street decorated with garlands and bunting for President Theodore Roosevelt
’s parade, hurtling down at great speed.  Streets mostly empty or emptying out, crowds contained on sides behind fences.
Pedestrians clear the way as the camera approaches. Some turns round bends to streets and avenues of various widths. Streetcars, horse-drawn carriages, some policemen. Good views of buildings.

220867          13:26:24 - 13:27:57            1903               b/w     Si         USA     

President’s Carriage, The
President Theodore Roosevelt
standing in an open horse-drawn vehicle with escorts on horses, filmed from side of wide avenue, panning. Other horse-drawn carriages follow.

220867          13:28:14 - 13:30:34            1903               b/w     Si         USA     

TR In San Francisco
No copyright date
Shot from side of wide avenue decorated with bunting, policeman guarding crowd on side, marching band followed by horsemen. Crowds on pavement and front steps of houses waving small  US flags enthusiastically as President Theodore Roosevelt
passes in open horse-drawn carriage. Good view of buildings.
Several camera positions and pans.

 

 

220867          13:30:50 - 13:33:52            1903               b/w     Si         USA     

Panorama, Union Square, San Francisco
On day of Theodore Roosevelt
Parade.
Shot from about 3rd floor of building overlooking Union Square. 180 degree Pan left showing people walking, probably towards presidential parade, under bunting decorations. Building with painted advert for linoleum, carpets, draperies. Pan back right over same view, following crowd movements.

220632          10:08:01 - 10:10:05 1903             b/w     Si         USA     

President Reviewing School Children
Copyrighted 26May03.
LS wide street, marching units towards camera. Policeman controlling crowd on edge of frame, flags in crowd.  Pan to follow carriage with Theodore Roosevelt
standing waving at children on porches, back to camera.
Shot same street, parade going in other direction, Roosevelt
’s face clear at end of shot.

220632          10:10:11 - 10:13:04            1903               b/w     Si         USA     

President Roosevelt’s Fourth of July Oration
Covered speaker’s platform, Theodore Roosevelt
arrives, people cheer and wave, all sit as TR makes speech, gesturing. Applause. Shot over crowd’s hats, TR gets into carriage and departs. 

 

 

220648          12:57:06 - 12:59:35            1906               b/w     Si         USA     

Theodore Roosevelt Speaking in Panama, November 1906
With Manuel Amador Guerrero, first president of Panama on steps of Cathedral in Panama City. Out of carriage and standing on steps, with mounted troops (Rough Riders?) in front of camera. Women arrive and sit out of frame. TR
welcomed, speaks.

 

220601          09:41:21 - 09:52:25            1908               b/w     Si         USA     

Sculptor’s Nightmare, The
18 - 20 April 1908
Cast: DW Griffith & Mack Sennett.
In political club with members at table arguing on whose bust will replace Theodore Roosevelt
’s, seen in BG under flags.  Men hold signs for Taft, Bryan over statue, fight  and leave.
Men arrive in sculptor’s studio where he works w/ model at sculpture of Liberty, each tries to bribe the artist and cause havoc in studio.
Sculptor and model arrive in fancy restaurant.  Sculptor is drunk, drinks more.  Model’s mother fetches daughter and hits sculptor w/ umbrella, policeman arrest him. Police put sculptor in jail. Sculptor falls asleep in cell, three mounds of clay on pedestals appear and take shape as animated busts of Bryan, Fairbanks and Taft, all smoking cigars. 
Sculptor wakes up and drinks wine.  Statues disappear.  New mound of clay on pedestal appears and sculpts itself into an animated teddy bear, then turns into Theodore Roosevelt
, lips moving. Artist wakes and bust disappears.
political satire
Stop action photography.

220996          09:07:26 - 09:20:25            1909               b/w     Si         Kenya ? British East Africa ?           

TR In Africa [1909, 2]
According to the TR collection, fragments of Theodore Roosevelt in Africa were released on 18Apr1910.  All probably filmed in British East Africa (Kenya) in 1909.
TR
in colonial hat looks at box brought by Black man as others watch and photographer takes picture.
TITLE: “Native amusements in Mombassa”: small Ferris wheel and carousel spinning; Swahili crowds.
TITLE: “Railway trip from Kiu to Nakuro made by Col. Roosevelt
”: POV from train with people on and around track & cattle grazing.  Past station in desert then small station with people on platform.
TITLE: “Zulu Women at Spring”: Masai (?) women and children with gourds.
TITLE: “Dance of the Rainmaker”: Man in grass skirt dances with four drummers and other Africans watching.
TITLE: “Natives Drawing Water from a Well”: Three men in village pulling bucket from well.
TITLE “Scenes in the Kraal”: Masai herder with families sitting, herding goats into enclosure. TR
on mound  watches people underneath.
09:13:03  TITLE “Col. Roosevelt
and his party reviewing Manoeuvres”: Men in colonial clothes and hats from back amidst Africans watching Kikuyu and / or Masai men with spears and shields dancing.  Child with head dress dancing w/ crowd watching.  Group dancing.  TR and other men in colonial hats watching dance.  Some painted faces and masks.
TITLE: “Zulu Belles”: Probably Masai women walking across field in double file.  Masai women crowd in a bustle.
TITLE: “ Col. Roosevelt
examining gun before presenting it to Chief Okawahki”: Brief shot TR w/ 3 others looking at gun.
TITLE: “Camp Roosevelt
- Making Camp At Bondoni”: Tents with US flag flying, two Africans warriors walk twds camera and pose. Natives rolling up tents; US flag over one; white men in background.  Africans sitting by campfire as others break camp.
TITLE: “Preparing Breakfast”: Canteen tent with cooking fire in front; natives.
TITLE “Zulu War Dance and ceremony in Honor of Col. Roosevelt
’s Visit to Africa”: Kikuyu and / or Masai warriors dancing in line towards camera with shields and spears. Other dancers in large group.
TITLE: “The Roosevelt
Party Crossing A Stream”: natives carry safari members across river on shoulders, others carry packs on head.

220997          10:13:46 - 10:22:07            1909               b/w     Si         British East Africa (Kenya)  

TR in Africa, 1909 (either [1] or [4])
Kikuyu and / or Masai tribesmen dancing w/ shields and spears, some masks.  TR’s party watches, many with Colonial hats.
10:14:21  Dancers pose behind shields.
10:14:34  Theodore Roosevelt
and party planting tree in front of Boma Trading Company, maybe in Mombassa, then TR receives gift box.
10:15:37  TR
rides past camera.  Hunting camp with US flag on tent, African warriors w/ spear walk to camera.
10:16:09  TR
& others on horseback in distance. Pan over camp as natives covered with blankets pack camp.
10:17:40 TR
rides to camera. TR and party through low brush twds camera and stream where horse drinks.
10:18:47  Probably Kikuyu dance performed in TR
’s honour at Nyeri in August with a small number of Masai participating.
10:19:14  Large group of women (Masai?) forming circle and men (Kikuyu?) pass through.  Men raise spears and shields.  Posing in masks with spears and shields.  Pan over group as TR
and party watch.
10:21:51  TR
and other Whites inspecting shotgun.
10:21:57  African boy dances with head dress. 
1900s.  Early Travel / Tourism.  British Empire.
[Many shots identical to those in LN 050-020 but without intertitles.]

 

220632          10:00:00 - 10:00:20 1909 ?                      b/w     Si        

Africa  Theodore Roosevelt’s Arrival in Africa Cartoon
Animation
TITLE:” Today’s Arrival caused some commotion in the jungle...”
Animals in tree as monkey jumps up and down.  Theodore Roosevelt
arrives with gun.
May be based on Homer Davenport’s cartoon “The Frightened Animals; Hist! See Who’s Coming”  originally published in the Evening Mail, New York, 23Mar1909.  Theodore Roosevelt
Association Collection.

220632          10:02:21 - 10:05:55 1910             b/w     Si         USA     

Colonel Roosevelt Is Invited to Fly In Arch Hoxsey’s Plane at St Louis, MO.
copyrighted 11Oct1910
Theodore Roosevelt
campaigning for Missouri State republican Party w/ Missouri Governor Herbert S. Hadley and probably Henry W. Kiel, mayor of St Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, arrive in cars at Kinloch Aviation field amidst crowd, man in uniform w/ megaphone.  Men in cars pointing and applauding. Twin propeller plane turned, Roosevelt climbs on board with difficulty. Man with megaphone. Hoxsey explains controls to TR. Plane in flight dips and dives. TR gets off plane, shakes hands. Cars leaving airfield past camera.

220996          09:28:52 - 09:44:10            1910               b/w     Si         Sudan ?; Egypt ?; France; Denmark; Norway; Germany; England    TR’s Return From Africa, 1910 [Part 1 of 2]
Compilation by Roosevelt
Library, 1925 [Intertitles throughout]
Theodore Roosevelt
down gangplank and into horse-drawn carriage, waving to crowd on pier.  Newspaper with animated caricature of TR on front page.  Riverboat Dal (permission needed) on upper Nile loaded with specimen of fauna (none seen).
09:31:10  Animation of TR
shaking hands with King.  France with Ambassador Bacon, French govt officials and delegation of French sportsmen welcoming TR in top hat.  Outside American embassy, man cranking limousine, TR down stairs into car.
09:32:34  Aeroplane show at Issy les Moulineaux: VIPs and TR
arriving.  TR signing autograph amidst ladies with extravagant hats.  Getting into car.  Mr Jusserand accompanies Mr Roosevelt and Mr Bacon to Vincennes for a review of French troops: getting out of car.  TR shaking hands with Jusserand (?); rides horse with French military men. 
09:35:40  TR
on horseback reviews the Paris garrison in mimic war operations.  TR leaving Paris university after address, cars drive out.
09:37:30  Copenhagen: Crown Prince and TR
get into horse-drawn carriage, drive off through large square w/ crowd watching.  Arrive at Palace of Christian VII in automobile, out of car.  TR w/ Danish crowd; through seaside town of Helsingor to old castle of Kronborg w/ escort.
09:39:05  Norway: At Christiania (Oslo) King Haakon and Queen Maud with representatives of Nobel Prize Committee.  He had received Nobel Peace Prize for 1906.  TR
through streets in open carriage past Norwegian flag; Nobel Peace Prize medals.
09:42:14  Berlin: Brandenburg gate w/ traffic.  POV from car through street, past Zielka Cafe.  Reichstag (?).  Kaiserin leaving University with military in pith helmets and other dignitaries past crowd, TR
last.
09:43:43  London: TR
welcomed as special American Ambassador to the funeral of King Edward VII; cars and crowds outside Buckingham Palace.  
1910s.
[Permission to use this film must be applied for in writing to the Theodore Roosevelt
Association.]

 

220996          09:44:15 - 09:57:30            1910               b/w     Si         England; USA  

TR’s Return From Africa, 1910 [Part 2 of 2]
Compilation by Roosevelt
Library, 1925  [Intertitles throughout]
20May1910:  MCU dignitaries slow march.  LS Edward VII funeral cortege, gun carriage passes by. Pallbearers on horseback:  King Haakon of Norway, King George of Greece, King Alfonso of Spain, King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, King Frederick of Denmark, King Manuel of Portugal, King Albert of Belgium, Archduke Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian crown. 
09:47:57  King George V marches in procession to Windsor Castle with his sons.  Lord Kitchener and Lord Roberts behind closed carriage.
09:49:38  TR
embarking on ship’s gangway.  NY Times newspaper cuttings of TR’s visit 09 & 19Jun10.
09:50:38  Animated title “Bang! Bang! TR
Comes Back” w/ TR hugging Uncle Sam.  Two-stack liner and tug boats in NYC harbour.  Flags raised on yacht as liner passes in BG.  Large tug boat, maybe press boat.  Skyscraper near dock. 
09:52:25  Mayor Gaynor welcoming TR
at the Battery, photographers running.  Many VIPs past camera w/ top hats.  Large stand draped with bunting and US flags, TR and Gaynor climb steps, then in MCU on stand before speech.  Multiple shots TR speech with text titles. 
09:56:27  NYC buildings, confetti thrown, TR
passes by.  Seen in carriage then arriving at City Hall.
1910s.
[Permission to use this film must be applied for in writing to the Theodore Roosevelt
Association.]

 

220686          02:05:16 - 02:06:17            1910               b/w     Si         Austria           

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary Greeted by His People
April 1910
Emperor and other officials in feather helmets pass villagers. Emperor twds camera, to meet Theodore Roosevelt
(not seen).


220997          10:24:17 - 10:32:02            1910               b/w     Si         Norway; Denmark      

TR in Norway and Denmark, 1910 [1]
Carriage pulled by two horses, Theodore Roosevelt
gets in with Crown Prince (?) out of railway Station in Christiania (Oslo).  Still photographers take pictures.  Two women, one w/ bouquet, out of railway station into carriage, carriage leaves.  Third carriage arrives and collects two women and one man in top hat.  Fourth carriage arrives to pick up two men and one woman.  [The group included King Haakon, Edith Roosevelt, Queen Maud, Ethel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt and others.]  LS of 3 or 4 carriages in front of station.
Carriage through street lined with people watching.  Sign ‘Tobak’ (tobacco) on building.
10:26:20  Carriage from left w/ TR
, trees in BG, stop in front of large stone building; National Theatre where TR is to deliver his acceptance speech for the 1906 Nobel Peace prize?  TR and Kermit (?) exit and into building as carriage leaves.  Others follow.
10:27:20  Large, more modern stone building in town centre, slow pan across very large crowd.
10:27:45  COPENHAGEN: TR
and others out of brick building and into carriage, leave through crowd (train station?) Others from same party follow.  Carriage through large plaza.  Arrive at palace of Christian VII in automobile and exit car.  Handshakes.  Danish crowd outside palace.  Copenhagen: Crown Prince and TR get into horse-drawn carriage, drive off through large square w/ crowd watching. Arrive at Palace of Christian VII (Frederiksborg Castle?) in automobile, out of car. TR w/ Danish crowd.  People look at camera - faces.
10:29:28  Through seaside town of Helsingor to old castle of Kronborg w/ troops escort.  TR
walks through large wooden door past camera leaving Kronborg Castle, Denmark.  TR on car park getting into car.
10:30:09  TR
out of car up gangway to board steamer Queen Maud with Dr and Mrs Egan, shot from onboard ship, and from dock.  Ship leaving.  Past large stone castle (Kronborg) and point of rock.
10:31:13  Ship with single stack puffing black smoke.  Shots from aboard return to Copenhagen.  Past naval ship low in water w/ Danish flag.
10:31:40  TR
down gangway to carriage w/ other man, crowd on dock.

220997          10:33:44 - 10:37:25            1910               b/w     Si         France

Theodore Roosevelt Reviews French Troops at Vincennes, France
Apr1910  Car arrives, Robert Bacon, US Ambassador to France, TR
, Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to the US, and General Jean B. Dalstein, military governor of Paris, out at the Chateau de Vincennes.  Received by Mr Lepine, Prefect of Police.  General Verand and Colonel Jacquot.  TR in top hat rides down street w/ Bacon, Dalstein and others past camera.  Ride out of arch of chateau.  TR fitted into stirrup in courtyard.
10:35:37  TR
waiting to review troops on horseback on field.  Riding to field.  Reviewing troops galloping past.  TR on ground shakes hands with Jusserand (?), tips hat to other military.

220997          10:39:15 - 10:40:00            1910               b/w     Si         USA     

Theodore Roosevelt Speaking at The Battery, 1910
TR
walking with Cornelius Vanderbilt, chairman of the welcoming committee, though row of still photographers and others. TR w/ Mayor Gaynor on platform decorated w/ Stars and Stripes bunting.
 

220997          10:45:16 - 10:53:00            1910               b/w     Si         USA     

Theodore Roosevelt’s Return to New York, 1910 [1]
LS pan many ships in NYC harbour and tug boats waiting for liner Kaiserin Augusta Victoria.  Naval ships, smoke from gun salute and press boat.  TR
on cutter Androscoggin, going into dock. 
10:47:24  Crowd on dock, photographers as carriages pass.  Policemen with bucket hats.  Photographers gather with all sizes and types of camera as TR
walks by with Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Battery speaking platform decked in Stars and Stripes bunting.  Walks up steps with NYC Mayor Gaynor.  MLS TR speaks facing to left of shot with Gaynor on platform watching.
10:49:54  Tilt up then down Woolworth building. City Hall or Central Park with Red Cross tents visible and pan over to street w/ marching band and procession arriving, past flag-draped reviewing stand.  TR
in carriage waves hat.  Mounted units pass camera.  Good views of 1910s NYC streets and architecture.

 

            220648          12:11:00 - 12:24:59            1898 - 1920?           Si         b/w    

The Story of the Panama Canal (1) of (2)
TR
speech illustrated with maps and various footage.
CU of TR
speaking. Intertitles of speech. Maps. Beach with palm tree. POV tracking forward from moving train with workers alongside tracks, then past rusting machinery in early attempt to build canal. Line of war ships underway.  McKinley speaking
12.15.32 Assistant Secretary of Navy Theodore
Roosevelt walking down steps and past camera.
Battleship “Oregon” past camera (very contrasty).
12.17.52 Revolution in Panama from staged film.
12.18.25 Colonel William C. Gorgas, Medical Dept.  Black men digging drainage ditches to eliminate mosquito breeding, cutting grass, spraying crude oil on water. Views of paved streets and good houses.
12.20.08 Construction of canal, high angle pan. TR
visits Panama, marching band  and procession on horseback into town. President Amador welcomes TR.
12.22.45 Colonel Goethals in MCU. Workers returning home from train walking across railway line. Blasting mountains at great Culebra Cut.
Needs permission from Theodore
Roosevelt Assoc. P.O. Box 719, Oyster Bat, NY 11771 email: tra@sprynet.com

 

 

            220648          12:25:04 - 12:39:04            1904 ?- 1913 ?       Si         b/w    

The Story of the Panama Canal (2) of (2)
Culebra Cut being excavated with dredges. Giant cranes and cableways moving concrete for building walls of locks. Concrete mixing. Pay day at US military railway carriage. Black man in shirt & tie counting money. tracking shot from moving train, workers alongside tracks. Digging, views of shovels moving large rocks onto railway cars. Water used to cut banks. Explosion. Dredges at work, trains of earth & rocks being unloaded with Lidgerwood unloader. Men shifting track. Railway car  unloading rocks  for construction of West Breakwater .
Final opening of dike between Pacific and Atlantic with dynamite. Workers setting and moving dynamite and opening last cut. Gatun Locks filling for first time, Miraflores Locks opened first time, first boats through. Military ships through canal and freighter seen. Calvin Coolidge speaking.
Needs permission from Theodore
Roosevelt Assoc. P.O. Box 719, Oyster Bat, NY 11771
email: tra@sprynet.com

 

            220632          10:06:30 - 10:06:42            1910c - 1920           Si         b/w    

Oscar Strauss
Iris opens to MCU of Strauss, author, US ambassador, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague for six three-year terms beginning in 1902, and had been Secretary of Commerce and Labour in Theodore
Roosevelt’s cabinet (1906 - 1909). Sitting at desk, picks up phone and talks. Iris closes.

            220874          06:00:09 - 06:07:28            1910c - 1920c          SIL       B/W   

Funeral of King Edward VII. Etc.
ca. 1910 - ca. 1920
Edward VII funeral - various scenes of the funeral procession.
06:02:36  Scottish troops parade in field.  Royal family member watching?
06:03:24  Theodore
Roosevelt delivers a speech - big gestures
06:03: 56  William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilson get in carriage.  Black butler?
06:04:05  World War I scenes (good).  Firing gun.  Excellent explosion; troops out of trenches (good);  village shelled.  French cavalry in Napoleonic uniform.  Unid. VIP with elegant women gets into carriage.  A  ship is torpedoed and sinks;.
06:06:15  President Wilson, Italian PM Vittorio Emmanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George attend the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920) - interiors conference and four PMs posing outside.

            220997          10:40:04 - 10:40:24            1911   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt Speaking at The Dedication of Roosevelt Dam, 1911
Crowd of men flock around and onto Stars and Stripes-draped platform; TR
gestures to men to sit down; TR speaking in MCU.  Very good quality.

            220601          09:39:53 - 09:40:44            1911 ?           Si         b/w    

Scenes of Roosevelt Dam
High angle shot of dam, pan to hillside and water out of bypass spillway.  Car driving on top of dam.

 

            220996          09:00:01 - 09:02:12            1912   Si         b/w    

Scenes of TR at Sagamore Hill
Photographed Oct1912 ?
Theodore
Roosevelt in front of house on horse Sidar shakes hand with William P. Helm, Associated Press Correspondent for New York City & Washington.  Rides away from house towards camera.  Cantering on road, dismounts, feeds horse sugar.  Pets dogs.  Reading mail with son Archie, gives Archie papers and waves him off. Walks down driveway with axe, crosses lawn with dogs.

            220997          10:00:01 - 10:04:57            1912   Si         b/w    

TR at Fargo, N.D., During Progressive Campaign, 1912 [1]
Crowd waving hats, TR
shaking hands from railway carriage and speaking from observation deck.  Some women with large hats. Theodore Roosevelt speaking from bandstand with bunting.  Crowd waving small US flags.
10:01:26  Indians [?] walk towards crowd, men in Mexican hats, women covered in blankets. TR
speaking from rear platform of train stopped in desert (looks like Arizona).
10:02:08  Large crowd listening near large government building with bunting; views across sea of hats.
10:02:32  TR
on rear platform of stopped train, crowd with US flags.
10:03:04  Speaking from platform in midst of large crowd; people wave hats
10:04:41  Speaking outside house.  Crowd watching, looking twds camera.

            220997          10:37:50 - 10:39:13            1912   Si         b/w    

TR Speaking at Pueblo, Colorado, 1912
Theodore
Roosevelt on speaking tour for Progressive Party:  LS of movie camera on top of sign ‘Mile High Photo Co., Denver, CO’, w/ speaking stand in FG, crowd below.  Vars angles of TR speaking from square roofed stand draped in Stars and Stripes bunting - speaking from notes.

            220648          12:00:02 - 12:08:09            1912 (or later)         Si         b/w    

A Visit to Theodore Roosevelt at His Home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., 1912
Pan of house. TR
looking at mail, son Archie acting as his assistant.
William P. Helm, Associated press, with TR
under trees asking for interview. MCU of TR. 
TR
riding horse Sidar in front of house talks to William P. Helm. Rides past camera away from house, dismounts and gives sugar to horse. With three dogs Jack, Mongo and Two Dollars on walk across fields twds camera, plays with dogs. 
TR
chops wood, walks back to house past camera and poses.
Marching band up road to Sagamore, high angle crowd outside house, TR
speaking.  (see LN 050-023, 19:41:05 - 1916?)
Needs permission from Theodore
Roosevelt Assoc. P.O. Box 719, Oyster Bat, NY 11771 email: tra@sprynet.com

 

            220686          02:07:31 - 02:11:37            1913   Si         b/w    

Hopi Indians Dance For Theodore Roosevelt at Walpi, Arizona, 1913
Indians in traditional costume marching in line in a circle in front of spectators in cowboy clothes. Large rock in middle. Dancing in various groups.
Audience sitting on various levels of adobe dwellings with TR
and sons Archie and Quentin and cousin Nicholas Roosevelt comparing suntans.
MCU dancers w/ face paint.

 

            220997          10:37:27 - 10:37:45            1914 ?           Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt Seated At His Desk In the Outlook Offices
MCU TR
at desk.  [TR was a special contributing editor 1909 - 1914.  The Outlook was a small but influential weekly journal of opinion.]

            220997          10:13:13 - 10:13:44            c 1914 - 1918 ??     Si         b/w    

TR in a Rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie Assists with Boat to Shore, 1914
Theodore
Roosevelt in shirtsleeves and crumpled hat alone in rowboat, rowing away from camera.
10:13:28  Archie and other boy hold boat as TR
disembarks, all move out of water.  MS TR on shore.

 

            220996          09:20:29 - 09:20:50            1915   Si         b/w    

TR [In Louisiana], 1915 [4]
Jun1915  Breton Island Reservation or one of the Audubon bird sanctuary islands off the coast of Louisiana.
Birds in flight.  Theodore
Roosevelt in casual clothes and hat walking on beach and standing near bush.

            220997          10:12:39 - 10:13:10            1915   Si         b/w    

TR at San Diego Exposition, 1915
Theodore
Roosevelt arriving at US government building in open touring car with two other men.  Man with ribbons on coat may be George W. Marston, park commissioner.  Gilbert Aubrey Davidson, President of the Exposition and others greet TR, stand under awning on steps.  TR talks to small boy.

            220601          09:54:17 - 09:54:25            1915   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt at the Panama - California Exposition, 1915
TR
and Edith with officials, probably on the United States Government Building.

            220996          09:02:21 - 09:05:24            1916   Si         b/w    

Shall We Prepare? Theodore Roosevelt Delivers A Message To The People.
Shot Feb1916 - Paramount Pictures
TR
walks towards camera on porch of house, takes off hat and talks, gesturing with hat and whip.  Intertitles w/ speech extracts re preparedness.  TR at desk in discussion with Carl Hovey, Editor of Metropolitan Magazine.

            220996          09:26:42 - 09:28:50            1916   Si         b/w    

TR’s Reception in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1916
Campaigning for Charles Evans Hughes, Theodore
Roosevelt is greeted in courtyard of Alvarado Hotel.  Walks with other men (including Territorial Governor George Curry in dark suit and light hat ) past Indian woman with baby and gives her coins. Parade on Central Avenue w/ marching band, riders and cars, Theodore Roosevelt and others in car.  Indian man watching.  Small speaking platform outside Alvarado Hotel with Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico (1912 - 1921) seated behind TR [Fall became Secretary of Interior under Harding during the Teapot Dome scandal].  TR standing in car waving hat, walks past camera. Man in beaver coat with other men is TR.

            220997          10:23:07 - 10:24:15            1916   Si         b/w    

TR in New Mexico, 1916
Campaigning for Charles Evans Hughes and assailing Wilson administration.  Woman on horseback leading parade with TR
in open touring car, probably seated next to Senator Albert Fall (later of teapot Dome scandal fame).
10:23:18  Theodore
Roosevelt seated on stone wall in front of Alvarado Hotel talking with group of men standing around him: Senator Fall with cigar, George Curry (former territorial governor of new Mexico and first US representative from new Mexico) tall man in light hat.
10:23:37  Pan over crowd listening to speech. Two women on horseback present TR
with bouquets and he waves.
 

            220997          10:41:08 - 10:42:36            1916   Si         b/w    

TR Speaking to a Group of Men from the Porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916
Group of men and boys with marching band and US flags on road to Sagamore Hill.  MCU Theodore
Roosevelt speaking to men without hats in field.  Men wave hats to cheer.  TR has back to camera but turns towards it at times.  [The Group was organised by the Roosevelt Non - Partisan league of New York City in support for the 1916 presidential nomination.]  Good quality.

            220996          09:23:52 - 09:24:36            1916 - 1918 Si         b/w    

TR Speaking At Sagamore Hill, 1916-1918
Several shots in MCU of Theodore
Roosevelt talking from porch to small crowd on lawn; first two women can be seen in crowd; then three men.

            220997          10:10:42 - 10:12:36            1916 [& 1915]         Si         b/w    

TR at Sagamore Hill [1916]
Slow good quality pan from above crowd, 2000 men from Roosevelt
Non - Partisan League looking up, hats off.
10:11:09  Theodore
Roosevelt shaking hands, perhaps with Richard M. Hurd, chairman, on steps above crowd, then shakes hands with crowd & waves.  TR introduced and pan over men’s heads.  TR speaking in profile on “Americanism”, gesturing, to crowd in park. Oyster Bay, Long Island.
10:12:18  Brief sequence of TR
speaking from podium in Court of the Universe at Pan - Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, 21Jul1915 .
10:12:30  Continuation of speech at Oyster Bay.  Very good quality.

            220651          15:13:11 - 15:20:40            1916-1918   Si         b/w    

WWI -  Recruits off to Camp & Training
Woman watching from behind rope, with tears crying.  Man walks past & shakes hands.  Men returning or going to war.  Recruits putting on boots, measured for uniform & given clothes.  Exercising in field in civilian corps.  Running past camera with officers.  Troops with picks & shovels march off; digging & filling sand bags. Inoculated against Typhus.  Barracks.  Men drill with rifles in field, exercise.  Marching along road.  Rockford, IL speech by Maj Gen Barry w/ Roosevelt
on stand.  Field of men.  Pan over faces at lecture outside barracks. Navy sailors with rifles drill & other formation on field.  Great Lakes training station.  Navy drill.   Naval marching band.

 

            220258  &170042   15:00:00 - 15:11:24            1916c Si         B/W   

[WWI Industry & Training]
Boys do carpentry; work electronic panel & radio, telegraph, lathes.  Race cars past grandstand; Buffalo Bill Wild West Show; Wilson throws out BB;  Will Rogers rope spinning; recreation mountain climbing; people on glacier; logging; girls making hats; working in mailroom; women in laundry; men making spoke wheels; workers on sidewalk; civil war vets encampment; dining; army recruits, pushball, tug of war, writing letters, eating, Wilson speaking; large crowd waving to camera; Wilson into car & thru crowd; Teddy
Roosevelt in car & talking with people; Veterans Parade; WWI soldiers practice bayonet & hand grenade throw.  Women work on engines & welding; trucking shot past ships under construction; tank demonstration & digging out stuck tank. Troops march to war & thru crowd.  CUs.  Women & bandman.

            220996          09:05:51 - 09:06:39            1917   Si         b/w    

TR Attends His Son Archie’s Wedding At Boston, 1917
Apr1917 wedding at Emmanuel Church of Archie Roosevelt
to Grace S. Lockwood.  CUs of Theodore Roosevelt.  Guests out of church.  TR getting in car, woman holds blanket to block view.  TR briefly seen out of car.

            220996          09:06:46 - 09:07:20            1917   Si         b/w    

TR Calls on Neighbours At Christmas, 1917
Man, woman and two children out of car and into house in countryside.  Theodore
Roosevelt arrives behind them with gift and gestures for all to pose for camera.

            220996          09:21:17 - 09:22:08            1917   Si         b/w    

TR Reviewing and Speaking to 13th Regiment At Sagamore Hill, 1917
Theodore
Roosevelt on porch shaking hands and talking, incl. w/ his lookalike.  From behind as speaks to troops in uniform at ease.  Also shot from behind troops, twds TR.

            220997          10:04:58 - 10:10:38            1917   Si         b/w    

TR at Forest Hills, New York, 1917 [2]
Theodore
Roosevelt walks with Rifle Club members in uniform.  Talks with individuals & one officer - perhaps Col. J. A. Delafield.
10:05:27  Introduced by Bishop of Long Island, Frederick Burgess and applauded on stand on steps of Forest Hills Gardens Railroad Station before speaking.  Man on stand leads three cheers for TR
.  Sea of straw hats from above. TR speaking from notes.  Pan over faces of listeners, men and women, most in hats.  MS [from side] TR speaking, gesturing to speech.
10:08:46  TR
standing with officers & reviewing troops; crowd w/ many women in BG.  Marching with officers past colour guard.  Standing reviewing marching band and soldiers.
[Speech was in support of vigorous American war involvement and attacking conscientious objectors.]

            220997          10:32:06 - 10:32:35            1917   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt in St Paul, Minnesota
Large US flag carried through crowd, MCU from behind men on reviewing stand.  MCU from below of TR
and others; Louis W. Hill, parade organiser & civil leader; Joseph A. A. Burnquist, Minnesota Governor; Vivian R. Irvin, Mayor of St Paul.

            220997          10:32:54 - 10:33:02            1917   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917
TR
reviewing a parade of national Guardsmen from the balcony of the Union League Club, NYC.  TR steps fwd between Whitman and Herrick and waves to crowd.  [Herrick was former Governor of Ohio and US ambassador to France.]
 

            220997          10:33:05 - 10:33:40            1917   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt Receiving Belgian Envoys at Sagamore Hill [1917]
Two long slow pans to left with TR
amongst VIPs.  Present are:  Count Louis d’Ursel is the Belgian Officer at the end of the group.  TP O’Connor, the large man with white hair.  A man who is probably Jean D. Mertens.  A man who is probably George T. Wilson. General Leclercq, Commander of the Belgian Cavalry.  TR.  Baron Moncheur, former ambassador to US.  NY lawyer Frederic Coudert, wearing white vest.  Major Osterrieth, the large Belgian officer.  Hector Carlier, with dark beard and light suit.  Large man w/ moustache in US uniform is probably Major General Appleton.  Smaller US officer standing with side to camera & bent knee is Captain Thomas C. Cook.

            220997          10:42:37 - 10:43:06            1917   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt Speaking to a Group of Suffragettes from the Porch at Sagamore Hill, 1917
[Opening of the second New York State Suffragette Campaign.]  TR
from different angles talks to female audience in hats on lawn, some men.  Covers eyes to avert sun.

            220648          12:10:46 - 12:10:56            1917   Si         b/w    

Women Suffragettes Visit Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore
Opening of the Second New York suffrage campaign. TR
talking to Mrs Ogden Mills Reid (dark hat and coat), Mrs Norman. Whitehouse (in furs), State Chairman of NY State Woman Suffrage Party, and Mrs James Lees Laidlaw (tall woman in light hat & jacket). Good quality

 

            220601          09:52:26 - 09:54:15            1917   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood At The New York Flower Show, 1917
Fifth Annual International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace, New York City
MCU standing together posing , then with third man, flowers on each side. Still photographers  visible at bottom of frame.

 

            220997          10:53:02 - 10:55:16            1917 - 1918 Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons’ Regiments During War, 1917 - 1918 [1]
Troops in long coats march towards and past camera on rural road; may be 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt’s regiment.
10:54:00  Formation of biplanes in open skies, tilt down to hangar roofs.  Pushing out biplane from hangar onto field, troops standing around.  May be Quentin Roosevelt’s Ninety-Fifth squadron.
10:54:55  Soldiers loading and firing cannon.  Probably Kermit Roosevelt’s regiment, the Seventh Field Artillery.

            220601          09:22:17 - 09:25:24            1917 - 1918 Si         b/w    

Roosevelt Scenes including WWI rallies
02Sep1917
Theodore
Roosevelt with Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, fellow Officer in Spanish - American War during informal visit to Camp Mills near Garden City, NY
09:22:27
22Aug1917  on lawn of Sagamore Hill, TR
and members of Belgian mission. Roosevelt in animated conversation with Belgian officer.
09;23;00
04Aug1917  Forest Hills, NY, TR
reviews and marches with the Forest Hills Rifle Club
09:23:18
28:09:1917  TR
speaking at pro-war parade in St Paul, Minnesota with Minnesota Governor Joseph Burnquist standing behind him on platform.
09:23:29   Supporting Liberty Loan effort in Billings, Montana. Waving from car through street.
09:24;03
26Sep1917 - Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois - TR
& Thomas H. Barry, camp commander
09:24:29
02Sep1918 - Speaking to crowd on launch of USS Newburgh in Newburgh, NY
09:24:52
02Apr1918   From Sagamore porch TR
speaks to volunteer workers of the Third Liberty Loan
09:25:04
26Aug1918 TR
comes out of car in Springfield, Il. to endorse rapid end of war by overwhelming voctory
09:25:10
02May1903 TR
arriving at Naval Service Club, Boston with F. Nathaniel Perkins, president of club.

            220632          10:57:14 - 10:58:21            1917 -1918  Si         b/w    

Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt and Sons Quentin and Archie
MCU Quentin. Archie on horseback (?) and standing with cane in military uniform. TR gesturing, sitting with flowers smiling, riding in parade amidst US flags. Giving speech from platform with large US flag, gesturing. On doorstep outside building talking with unidentified man.

           

220632          10:05:56 - 10:06:28            1918   Si         b/w    

Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr Attends Women In War Work Congress in Paris
copyrighted Aug 1918
MCU Mrs Roosevelt Jr in uniform talking to women. In garden outside home of her aunt Mrs Alice Green Hoffman where she was hosting the YMCA women workers for whom she’d designed the uniforms.
Shot by Mutual Film Corp.
Not in Official paper print catalogue

 

            220996          09:20:57 - 09:21:13            1918   Si         b/w    

[TR on Fifth Avenue, New York, Near St. Patrick's Cathedral After Attending Mayor Mitchel's Funeral]
Theodore
Roosevelt on 5th Avenue talking with military (Pershing?) with others around.  Walks twds camera with other honorary pallbearers including Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and financier George W. Perkins.

            220997          10:22:10 - 10:23:05            1918   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt in Baltimore During Liberty Loan Drive, 1918
TR
and wife visible in large crowd in Oriole Baseball Park grandstand.  TR walking through crowd and talking to cardinal James Gibbons.
10:22:38  TR
onto speakers platform w/ Gibbons, Maryland Governor Harrington, Mrs Thomas J. Preston, [wife of former president Grover Cleveland], Dr Preston (dark moustache).  VS TR speaking, crowd cheering and waving hats.
 

            220997          10:40:26 - 10:41:05            1918   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt Speaking In St Paul, Minnesota, 1918
High angle shot of large crowd packed around speaking stand.  MS from behind TR
during speech over head of man in FG; MCU TR in front of wall - wears black mourning armband for son Quentin.

            220601          09:54:27 - 09:55:24            1918   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt At Baltimore, 1918;  TR at Sagamore Hill, 1918
28Sep1918:  TR
and perhaps Phillips L. Goldsborough, Libery Loan Committee chairman for Maryland, previously Maryland governor, walk across oriole Field, stop and talk to cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore.
09.54.38
02Apr1918 - TR
speaking at Sagamore Hill.
09.54.56
TR
wearing mourning arm band for son Quentin helps open fourth Libery Loan campaign at Oriole Park, Baltimore.
09.55.02
02Apr1918 - TR
addresses Liberty Loan workers from NY district at Sagamore Hill with reporters behind him.

 

            220601          09:55:26 - 09:55:47            1918   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt At Billings, Montana (WWI)
TR
in car through street decorated with flags, crowd. To speak on behalf of Liberty Loan and to denounce the Non-partisan league of Farmers for its pacifist orientation.

 

            220680          16:00:09 - 16:16:51            1918   SIL       B/W   

INCLUDING:

WWI - Cemeteries in the A.E.F.; Theodore Roosevelt at son Quintin’s Gravesite
St. Nazaire cemetery dedicated w/ troops at attention, priests & military band.
16:00:39

            221135          16:00:08 - 16:09:55            1918 c            Sil       B/W   

[America Goes Over] (ca 1918)  Pt. 1 of ?
“Especially released by the War Department to the Eastman Kodak Company for The Second A.E.F.”
INCUDING:

16:09:38  Teddy Roosevelt watching parade of men up NYC’s Fifth Avenue in straw hats.  
Continued...

X221270        01:00:01 - 01:20:52            1965 [+ 1920s - 1940s ]   SD        B/W   

The Miners’ Story  [Part 1 of 3]
WCAU-TV Philadelphia - Starring Jack Palance
INCLUDING:
01:04:54  Palance to camera re legends of early coal era; cutaways to portraits depicting birth of coal industry & its development.  Palance in front of derelict mine tower - talks re Irish immigrants - early stills of immigrants & miners at work - “Molly Maguires” vigilante gang & early union activity.  Formation of United Mine Workers of America 1890 - founder John Mitchell. 
01:09:58  More early stills of miners - VO re low pay & child labour - strike of 1900.
01:12:01  Palance to camera re militia breaking strikes - negotiations between Theodore
Roosevelt, George Behr & Mitchell.  Palance looks out over blackened valley & recalls what it was like before mining ruined it.
01:13:27 [NB  Slugs left in for commercials.  STILL PHOTOS MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS - USER BEWARE.]

            220686          02:06:19 - 02:07:29            1919   Si         b/w    

[Flag Services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919]
Three children putting flowers and flag on gate near grave and kneeling to pray.
Flag carried twds grave followed by VIPs. Women holding flag on lap, sewing stars on. Schoolchildren watch as flag draped over grave.

            220686          02:23:26 - 02:23:35            1919   Si         b/w    

Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Arrive in New York After the World War (WWI) Theodore Roosevelt Dir returns to Mauritania after being wounded.  In MCU wearing uniform and hat.

 

 

RE ROOSEVELT AFTER HIS DEATH

 

            220997          10:43:09 - 10:45:15            1919   Si         b/w    

Theodore Roosevelt’s Funeral at Oyster Bay, 1919
Mounted police lead slow procession of cars, people watching under trees in snow.  Outside Christian Episcopal Church with flag draped round casket as it’s carried out of church into car.  Title card names
Young’s Memorial Cemetery.
10:44:04  LS pan Rev. Dr. George E. Talmadge in white robe precedes coffin as it is carried up snowy wooded slope to grave site.  MCU of VIPs after mass.  MCU of Major Wood.  MCU of Oscar Strauss.  Good quality.

            220601          09:19:55 - 09:20:16            1919   Si         b/w    

The Prince of Wales Visits Theodore Roosevelt’s Grave
International Film Service Co.
At TR
’s grave in Oyster Bay, NY. Prince of Wales at grave, then walking with military VIPs.
(future Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII)

 

            220601          09:20:22 - 09:22:16            1919   Si         b/w    

To the Memory of Roosevelt
RMA  Flag Service On The Steps of New York Public Library, 1919
Kinogram
27Oct1919
Crowd of flag waving people. Flag being laid across grave by Samuel Abbott.  People walk past iron fence and look in at grave, three children put small flag through fence and kneel to pray.
09:21:06   - 25Oct1919 - Flag raising  in formal situation  by military in front of public library. High angle shot of stage. Children walking with flag up steps. Flag being detached from pole and carried on stage as conductor gestures. 

 

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