Cicada
Uses close-up, stop motion photography to portray the life cycle and habits of cicadas in brood 10 of 1936.
Contributor:
Evans, Raymond - Turvey, Carl - Hyslop, James Augustus - American Film Center - United States. Department of Agriculture. Motion Picture Service
Date:1939
Film, Video
American scrapbook
Dramatized incidents show various phases of life in the United States: the use of the centralized traffic control to direct the passing of two trains on a single track; the use of…
Contributor:
Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - General Electric Company
Date:1954
Film, Video
Manchukuo
Alternate title from main titles: Manchuria
Depicts the Japanese occupation of Manchukuo. Describes the mechanization of industry. Includes scenes showing coal and iron mines, steel mills, railroads, government buildings, new housing, native Chinese life, shops and trade, the…
Contributor:
Eastman Kodak Company. Teaching Films Division - Bryan, Julien H. (Julien Hequembourg)
Date:1938
Film, Video
News parade of the year 1945
MP3043 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright: Castle Films, Inc.; 15Nov45; MP3043. Editor, Eugene W. Castle. Contents from MAVIS record. Not viewed. Sources used: M/B/RS Film and Television catalog card; original cataloging record (fi…
Contributor:
Castle Films, Inc - Castle, Eugene W. - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1945
Film, Video
From wheat to bread
Demonstrates primitive methods of making bread; depicts a pioneer grist mill and a modern flour mill with its complex machines such as sifters, and purifiers; and shows the mixing, kneading, steaming, rising,…
Contributor:
George Eastman House Collection (Library of Congress) - Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.) - Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc
Date:1945
Film, Video
Buying a cow
Original French title: Achat embarrassant | English language translation title: Embarrassing purchase
An urban husband and wife, walking in the countryside outside Paris, are so impressed with the delicious taste of a cow's milk that they buy the cow and try to bring it…
The rival brothers' patriotism
French language translation title: Patriotisme des frères rivaux
Two brothers, Jim and Robert, who are rivals for the same woman, Mary, enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War. Six months later at camp, Jim inadvertently reads Mary's letter…
Dud leaves home
Variant title from Library of Congress video collection, v. 3, Origins of American animation insert: Us fellers: "Dud leaves home" | Copyright title: Goldwyn-Bray Pictographs, no. 7009
Dud wants to buy his girlfriend Maime an ice cream cone so he breaks open his mother's bank, and splits their last dime in half in the process. His mother punishes him…
TR in St. Paul, Minn. [1917]
Theodore Roosevelt in St. Paul, Minn. 1917 | TR in Saint Paul, Minn. 1917 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR in St. Paul, Minn., 1918 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at St. Paul, Minn., 1918
Roosevelt views a large pro-war parade assembled in his honor in St. Paul, Minn. on Sept. 28, 1917. Long shot of large American flag as it is carried by women through crowd;…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Hill, Louis Warren - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Burnquist, J. A. A. (Joseph Alfred Arner) - Irvin, Vivian R.
Date:1917
Film, Video
TR speaking in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1918
Theodore Roosevelt speaking in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1918 | TR speaking in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1918
Views of TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son Quentin, delivering a speech from a covered platform to a large crowd gathered in an open area of what appears to be…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1918
Film, Video
TR at San Diego Exposition, 1915
Theodore Roosevelt at San Diego Exposition, 1915 | Theodore Roosevelt attends San Diego Exposition, 1915
Theodore Roosevelt attends the Panama-California Exposition on Roosevelt Day, July 27, 1915. He arrives at the United States Government Building in an open touring car with two men in the rear seat.…
Contributor:
Davidson, Gilbert Aubrey - Roosevelt, Theodore - Stineman, Ralph P. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow - Marston, George W.
Date:1915
Film, Video
[Charles E. Hughes speaking during campaign, Duquesne, Pa., 1916]
Universal animated weekly
Presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes campaigns in Pittsburgh vicinity on Sept. 27, 1916. Hughes was on a strenuous tour in an attempt to knit together various Republican factions. In Pittsburgh area he…
Contributor:
Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1916
Film, Video
King Edward's funeral, 1910 [2]
Ceremonial funeral procession of King Edward VII (1901-1910) passing through the streets of London on May 20, 1910. Views of the moving casket, heads of state walking behind the casket, the royal…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1910
Film, Video
TR speaking at [Pueblo] Colorado, 1912
Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Pueblo, Colorado, 1912
As part of a Western tour, TR addresses crowd in his campaign for the Presidency under the Progressive Party banner in what appears to be Pueblo, Colorado, on September 19, 1912. Long…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1912
Film, Video
Shall we prepare?
Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR in Metropolitan Magazine office, 1916 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore | Theodore Roosevelt in Metropolitan Magazine office, 1916
Two sequences of TR: Sequence 1: views of TR walking onto the porch of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y., facing the camera, and then speaking on military preparedness during WWI; Sequence 2:…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Hovey, Carl - Paramount Pictures Corporation - Bray Studios
Date:1916
Film, Video
TR speaking at the Battery, 1910
Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Battery, 1910
Upon returning to the United States after an extended tour abroad, Theodore Roosevelt is welcomed with elaborate festivities in New York City on June 18, 1910. There are views of Roosevelt and…
Contributor:
Vanderbilt, Cornelius - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Gaynor, William Jay
Date:1910
Film, Video
TR reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.]; TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917 | Theodore Roosevelt reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.] | Theodore Roosevelt riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
Two segments of TR during a midwestern speaking tour in support of military preparedness. On September 27, 1917, TR visited the officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Views of troops marching…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Ryan, James A. - Insull, Samuel - Meeker, Arthur - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Universal Film Manufacturing Company - Bertrand, Georges Etienne
Date:1917
Film, Video
TR's return to New York, 1910. [No. 1]
Theodore Roosevelt's return to New York, 1910
On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked…
Contributor:
Braunstein, Nathan - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1910
Film, Video
President Harding and Calvin Coolidge [1]
Various scenes of the official notification ceremonies held on July 22, 1920 for Warren G. Harding, selected as the Presidential candidate by 17th Republican National Convention and Calvin Coolidge, selected as the…
Contributor:
Republican National Convention - Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Morrow, Edwin P. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel) - Harding, George T. - Coolidge, Calvin - Lodge, Henry Cabot - Harding, Florence Kling - Hays, Will H. (Will Harrison)
Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917]
Women suffragettes visit Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore, 1917
Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was…
Contributor:
Whitehouse, Vira Boarman - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Reid, Helen Rogers - Laidlaw, H. B. (Harriet Burton)
Date:1917
Film, Video
Last known home of Czar Nicholas
Camera pans the home of a merchant named Ipatiev, where Nicholas II, last Russian emperor, and his royal family were executed in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), July 1918. Second sequence is views of men,…
Contributor:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Rainey, Paul James
Date:1918
Film, Video
A visit to Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., 1912
Original U.S. release title: Visit to the illustrious colonel | French language translation title: Visite à l'illustre colonel | Theodore Roosevelt
First film footage taken of Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, summer of 1912. Views of the house and surrounding grounds. Roosevelt reviews his mail, assisted…
President McKinley's funeral, 1901. [No. 1]
Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection catalog: President McKinley's funeral, 1901 [1]
Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held for President William McKinley: Sequence 1: McKinley's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 1901; views of…
Contributor:
Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill [1917]
Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1917
TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of…
Contributor:
International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1917
Film, Video
TR and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
Shots of TR and Leonard Wood on March 20, 1917, at the 5th Annual International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace in New York City. Medium-close view of TR and Wood standing together…
Contributor:
International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1917
Film, Video
Oscar Straus
Close shot of Oscar S. Straus, author, United States ambassador, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague for six three-year terms beginning in 1902, and Secretary of Commerce and…
Contributor:
Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:191?
Film, Video
Americanism wins, Coolidge elected
RMA title: Calvin Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts, 1919 | RMA title: Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and their sons
Views of Calvin Coolidge in the months surrounding his re-election as Massachusetts Governor, autumn 1919. Close shot of Coolidge, his wife Grace, and their sons John and Calvin, Jr., on porch of…
Contributor:
Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1919
Film, Video
Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial celebration on April 26, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day,…
Contributor:
Bitzer, G. W. - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1907
Film, Video
[Quentin Roosevelt]; Clemenceau and Foch, 1917-1919
Clemenceau and Foch, 1917-1919 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: Quentin and Archie Roosevelt's regiments
Film appears to have been photographed in France during WWI. Medium close shot of Quentin Roosevelt with a small building in background; brief shot of French and American officers, including Lieutenant Edward…
The Prince of Wales visits TR's grave
Prince of Wales visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave
In the summer of 1919, Edward, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, embarked on a tour of the Dominions. After touring Canada for several months, the Prince decided to spend…
Contributor:
International Newsreel Corporation - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1919
Film, Video
TR at Fargo, N.D., during Progressive campaign, 1912 [1]
Theodore Roosevelt at Fargo, N.D., during Progressive campaign, 1912, 1
As part of a western campaign tour, TR speaks to crowds and firms up Progressive Party structure in the area of Fargo, North Dakota, September 6, 1912. Several views from varying distances…
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, George E.
Date:1912
Film, Video
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria greeted by his people
Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior title…
Contributor:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Franz Joseph I
Contributor:
International Newsreel Corporation - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Date:1919
Film, Video
TR in a rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914
Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914 | Theodore Roosevelt in a rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914
On Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt rows alone away from shore. In the second sequence, his son Archie and an unidentified boy beach the boat as Theodore Roosevelt looks on.
Contributor:
Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch)
Date:1914
Film, Video
TR speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916
Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916
On May 27, 1916, groups of men, the 7th Regiment Band, and several children march on the road from the Oyster Bay railroad station to Sagamore Hill to demonstrate their support of…
Contributor:
International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1916
Film, Video
[Scenes of the British royal family]
King George and Queen Mary of England
Queen Mary, King George in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet, members of the Royal family, a clergyman, and other unidentified people are walking in procession into St. Margaret's Church,…
Contributor:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Army. Signal Corps - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1918
Film, Video
Cartoon--TR's arrival in Africa
Cartoon--Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Africa | TR's arrival in Africa
Animated caricature of the animals' attitude towards TR's arrival in Africa. Views of a huge tree filled with frightened animals, as a monkey on the ground peers over a cliff; he begins…
Contributor:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association
Date:1909
Film, Video
TR in Norway and Denmark, 1910 [1]
Theodore Roosevelt in Norway and Denmark, 1910 [1]
While returning from Africa in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt visited many European countries, including Denmark, May 2-3, and Norway, May 4-6. Roosevelt, King Haakon, Edith Roosevelt, Queen Maud, Ethel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and…
Contributor:
Christian X - Maud - Roosevelt, Theodore - Haakon VII - Derby, Ethel Roosevelt - Egan, Katharine M. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow - Egan, Maurice Francis - Roosevelt, Kermit