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    TR's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918. [No. 1]
    Theodore Roosevelt's sons' regiments during war, 1917-1918
    Soldiers walk in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Because of the soldiers' heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt's regiment. Following sequence is of biplanes flying in formation; third sequence is shot at a hangar where men appear to be preparing a plane for flight. The second and third sequences...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - United States. Army. Signal Corps - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1918
  • Film, Video
    Luis Martinetti
    Variant title from Edison films 1890-1900: Louis Martinetti | Erroneous title from Edison films 1890-1900: Louis Martinelli | Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Louis Martinetti, contortionist
    "Gymnast and contortionist, performing on flying rings"--Raff & Gammon price list.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Martinetti, Luis - Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie) - Hendricks (Gordon) Collection (Library of Congress) - Heise, William
    • Date: 1894
  • Film, Video
    RMA flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
    Roosevelt Memorial Association flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
    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...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Toto Brothers
    Unidentified Peters No 3: Vaudeville acts
    Opening title identifies this as a "balancing and iron jaw novelty act." Cuts to a long shot of a stage with a carpet and dark curtains as a backdrop, in front of which stand four chairs and a table. From stage left enters a man wearing dark leotards with a single-shouldered top, a waist belt, and dark high-top shoes with a white border. From...
    • Contributor: Toto Brothers - Spanuth, Hans A. - Afi/Peters (S.E.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    Roosevelt scenes [1917-1918] 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...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    Funeral of Hiram Cronk The film shows a city thoroughfare lined with crowds of people watching a military parade. The first group to come into view is a marching band, then a large formation of soldiers in the uniform of Rough Riders. Following them is a hearse drawn by four black horses, escorted by veterans of the Civil War, and horse-drawn open carriages. The camera position shifts and...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1905-01-01
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    Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1917 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...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    [Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919]
    Flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919 | Children visit TR's grave, 1920
    On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. View of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots from different angles of...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    [Mary Pickford and the Coquette contest winners]
    Mary Pickford and beauty contest winners
    A film featuring the 25 "Coquette girls", winners of a contest conducted as a sales promotion for Mary Pickford's first sound film, Coquette. Newspapers such as the Washington evening star, the New Haven register, and the Louisville courier-journal held a contest in January, 1929. The contestents appear to have been chosen on the basis of "letters of nomination" written by, or for, the girls....
    • Contributor: Pickford Corp
    • Date: 1929
  • Film, Video
    Tom Tinker's pony patter
    Inventory title: Spanuth's vodvil - Zouary no. 149 | Zouary can no 149
    Camera iris opens to six ponies with decorated harnesses and plumed halters, standing in the center of a stage with a painted backdrop of mountains. Cuts to two ponies on a seesaw, with a moustached man in a white uniform with dark piping and a white cap holding their leads. A second trainer in a dark suit can also be seen occasionally with the...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Afi/Zouary (Maurice) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    Kruger and Ward
    Title from Film & Television catalog card: Unidentified Peters No 3: Vaudeville acts
    Opening title introduces "Kruger and Ward, the tall and short of it." The camera iris opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a canyon and waterfall. Two clowns walk across the stage: a dwarf with a fake bald pate dressed in evening clothes and a top hat, and a tall, thin clown dressed as a woman. The dwarf follows the "woman" with...
    • Contributor: Spanuth, Hans A. - Afi/Peters (S.E.) Collection (Library of Congress) - Commonwealth Pictures Corporation - Kruger and Ward
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    What demoralized the barber shop
    Variant title: What demoralized the barbershop
    Shows several men in a basement barbership who become excited by women walking past the window. The ankles and knees of the passersby are visible to the men below, causing pandemonium among the barbershop customers.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906. [No. 2]
    Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Panama, November 1906
    TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama City there are views of the processional, including a marching band and escorts on horseback, as spectators gather; long shot of TR, accompanied by Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men standing on...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1906
  • Film, Video
    Cake walk
    Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue, Nov. 1902 [MI], p. 12: Coon cake walk | Title in Biograph photo catalog, v. 1 [MI]: Darkey cake walk | Cakewalk
    Five African Americans--three men and two women--perform a cakewalk, a dance featuring fancy strutting that was named after the prize awarded in the original contests. The dancers wear rather formal attire, with the men in dark suits and black tie and the women in full-length, high-collared dark dresses; one woman carries a small American flag. As they step in place against a light background,...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
  • Article
    A corner in wheat A greedy tycoon decides, on a whim, to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing the grain's producers into charity lines and further into poverty. Shows the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.
    • Contributor: Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bitzer, G. W. - Kirkwood, James ... Johnson, Arthur V. - Griffith, D. W. (David Wark) - Biograph Company - Bruce, Kate - Quirk, Billy - Sennett, Mack - Hart, Ruth - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Bitzer, G. W. - Kirkwood, James - Macpherson, Jeanie - Moore, Owen - Walthall, Henry B. (Henry Brazeale) - Harron, Robert - Nichols, George - West, Dorothy - Woods, Frank E. - O'Sullivan, Tony - Haldeman, Edith - Powell, Frank E. - Arvidson, Linda - Norris, Frank - Egan, Gladys - Butler, William J. - Dillon, Edward - Craig, Charles B. - Mailes, Charles H. (Charles Hill) - Sweet, Blanche - Henderson, Grace - Robinson, Gertrude - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Miller, W. Christy - Evans, Frank
    • Date: 1909
  • Film, Video
    Charity ball A man in formal dinner clothes and a woman in a white ruffled dress with a flower corsage and white shoes execute various dance steps designed as exhibition dancing. The set is bare, without backdrops or props. The couple's feet are not evident at times in the frame, and the dance appears to have been shot in relatively slow motion.
    • Contributor: Kent, Dorothy - Heise, William - Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Kelley, James T. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1897
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    Cuban volunteers embarking Men carrying rifles and bedrolls boarding ship via gangway.
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Paley, William Daly
    • Date: 1898
  • Film, Video
    Reclaiming American history from paper rolls by the Renovare process
    Variant title: Reclaiming American history from paper prints by the Renovare process
    Describes the project to convert over two million feet of original positive photographic paper rolls in the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress to 16 mm. safety film. Follows the steps in the conversion process used by the Renovare Film Company, including the frame-by-frame photographing of the paper prints. Includes scenes from some of the pre-1912 films reproduced.
    • Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - Ohio State University Collection (Library of Congress) - Niver, Kemp R. - Primrose Productions
    • Date: 1953
  • Film, Video
    TR in New Mexico, 1916
    Theodore Roosevelt in New Mexico, 1916
    On Oct. 23, 1916, Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes and assails the Wilson administration in Albuquerque, N.M. A young woman rides on horseback carrying a bouquet of flowers. There is an auto parade. Roosevelt passes by in an open touring car. Seated next to him is a man who appears to be Albert B. Fall, one of New Mexico's...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    [Chauncey Depew, Senator Perkins, and Governor Whitman of New York, at GOP Convention, 1916, Chicago, Ill.]
    Pathe news
    Scenes from the 16th Republican National Convention held in Chicago, June 7-10, 1916. Long shot of delegates outside the Congress Hotel. Medium shots, from left to right, of Mrs. Olive H. Whitman; Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York (1915-1918); Francis Hendricks, former New York State Senator (1886-1891); George W. Perkins, a leader in the Progressive movement (1912-1916); Chauncey M. Depew, former New York...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
  • Article
    The Italian
    Dago
    Beppo, an Italian gondolier, is in love with Annette, who has another suitor, wealthy but much older. Her father gives Beppo a year to prove himself, so he emigrates to New York City, opens a shoeshine stand, and makes many friends among his neighbors. He meets his ward boss, Corrigan, who, to a friendly, unsophisticated immigrant like Beppo, seems to be a good fellow....
    • Contributor: Beban, George - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Ince, Thomas H. - New York Motion Picture Corp - Williams, Clara - Barker, Reginald - Burke, J. Frank (John Franklin) - Sullivan, C. Gardner - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915
  • Film, Video
    [Buster's revenge on the tramp]
    Title in Early motion pictures catalog: Buster Brown series: Buster's dog to the rescue | Title in Edison films catalog: Buster Brown series, scene I
    "The opening scene shows Bridget asleep at the kitchen-table, and Buster enters on tip-toe. After tying her apron over her head and to the back of the chair, he tries to reach a jar of jam on the top shelf of the pantry. After several futile attempts, he gives up. His attention is now attracted by a tramp at the window. Buster beckons the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Outcault, Richard Felton - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Porter, Edwin S.
    • Date: 1904
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    President Roosevelt at the Canton station
    Title in Edison film company catalog, no. 135: President Roosevelt at Canton station | Variant title from AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: President Roosevelt, Canton station
    "In this picture we show President Roosevelt and Cabinet standing at the station with bare heads, while the casket of President McKinley is being placed in the hearse. As the hearse leaves the station the President and his Cabinet start for their carriages. Our panoramic device is here started and this picture finishes with a circular panorama of the Canton station and Public Square....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Roosevelt, friend of the birds. [No. 1]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association catalog: Roosevelt, friend of the birds [1] | Copyright catalog title: Theodore Roosevelt, friend of the birds
    A narrative of TR's role in bird preservation which includes factual footage taken on his visit under the auspices of the National Audubon Society to bird sanctuary islands off the coast of Louisiana, June 1915. Mating habits and domestic life of snowy egrets and their plunder by hunters are dramatized. Scenes of egrets' nest and the hunt, kill, and plucking of birds serve as...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Job, Herbert Keightley - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1924
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    Judge Alton B. Parker & Mayor McClellan at Esopus
    Judge Alton B. Parker and Mayor McClellan at Esopus | Copyright title: Judge Alton B. Parker and guests | Judge Alton B. Parker & guests
    From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other important Democrats. Judge Parker was nominated at the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, July 6, 1904.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904