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Film, VideoLincoln and the Civil War Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection of four documentaries providing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and significant events that surrounded him. Utilizing interviews with leading Lincoln biographers, Lincoln explores the inner conflicts that plagued and inspired the man who called himself "the loneliest man in the world." In a ploy that was ultimately foiled by the Secret Service, Stealing Lincoln's Body documents the 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's body...
- Contributor: Vixpix Films - Crowley, Phil - Adams, Jonathan - History (Television Network) - New Video Group - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Herrmann, Edward - Arts and Entertainment Network - History Channel (Television Network)
- Date: 2012
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Film, VideoTR at Sagamore Hill [1916]
Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, 1916 On May 27, 1916, shortly before the Republican Party and Progressive Party conventions, the newly formed Roosevelt Non-Partisan League sponsors a demonstration of support for TR at Sagamore Hill. Many prominent men are included in the over 2,000 people who traveled from New York City to Oyster Bay to see TR and hear him speak on "Americanism." Panning shots of crowd gathered around porch;...- Contributor: Hurd, Richard M. (Richard Melancthon) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1915
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Film, VideoMcKinley and party
Title in American Mutoscope & Biograph picture catalogue [MI]: President McKinley's inspection of Camp Wikoff "This picture has been very popular wherever it has been shown on the Biograph. To begin with, the film is unusually fine photographically, and the picture is taken from a point of view which shows the immense distances of Camp Wikoff with its multitude of tents in the background. The President, with Vice-President Hobart and Secretary of War Russell A. Alger, appear in an...- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1898
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Film, VideoTR 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
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Film, VideoTR'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
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Film, VideoRMA 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
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Film, VideoJefferson Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available "Thomas Jefferson is the most researched, most written about, most referenced, and most quoted of our Founding Fathers. And yet, somehow, he remains the most stubbornly inscrutable. His life is a seemingly impenetrable thicket of contradictions: he enshrined the words "All Men are Created Equal," and yet was a lifelong slave-owner; he was simultaneously a "man of the people" and the personification of the...
- Contributor: Koughan, Frank - Oporo, Phillip - Marcoux, Ted - History (Television Network) - Nelson, Trey - New Video Group - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Vargas, Kevin - Druckerman, Ken - Arts and Entertainment Network - Tarver, Banks - Left/Right (Firm)
- Date: 2011
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Film, VideoJudge 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
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Film, VideoTaking President McKinley's body from train at Canton, Ohio
Title from Edison films catalog, no. 135: Body leaving the train at Canton, Ohio | Title from Edison films catalog, no. 225: Body leaving the train, Canton, Ohio "Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life-size view of the casket containing the body of President McKinley as it is slowly and carefully taken from the window of the car which bore it from the Capitol to Canton. The casket is placed upon the shoulders of ten stalwart sailors and soldiers and borne to...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoArrival of McKinley's funeral train at Canton, Ohio
Title in Edison films catalog: Funeral train arriving at Canton Station "It is apparent that the camera was placed on a platform of a train station. A steam locomotive pulling several passenger cars can be seen nearing the camera position and coming to a stop. The remainder of the film is concerned with the people who get off the train and walk off the platform"--Early motion pictures. "In recording this scene the position of our...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoRoosevelt, 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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Film, VideoThe River of Doubt. [No. 2]
Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association film catalog: River of Doubt [2] Part 1: Several members of TR's group pose aboard the Vandyck, the ship on which TR sailed from New York in the fall of 1913. Left to right are: Anthony Fiala, former arctic explorer and photographer for a portion of the journey, George K. Cherrie, ornithologist, Father John A. Zahm, a friend of TR's, Kermit Roosevelt, Frank Harper, TR's secretary, and Leo E. Miller,...- Contributor: Fiala, Anthony - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library - Roosevelt, Theodore
- Date: 1928
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Film, VideoColonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910 While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, TR is invited to fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri (1909-1913) and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, TR arrives in motorcade at Kinloch Aviation Field; man, who appears...
- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1910
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Film, VideoTR 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 shots of gathered crowd, with views of two cameramen on a platform with the sign: Mile High Photo Co., Denver. Views from varying distances of TR speaking with prepared text, from a...- Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1912
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Film, VideoThe mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition "The camera was positioned at such a height behind a large group of people outside an exhibit building that mainly hats are visible"--Early motion pictures. On Friday, September 6th, 1901, we had our cameras in position to photograph the President as he left the Temple of Music, but the deplorable assassination, of course, prevented our getting this picture. We did, however, secure an excellent...
- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoFuneral leaving the President's house and church at Canton, Ohio
Title in Edison films catalog, no. 135: President McKinley's body leaving the house and church "In this picture we show a most perfect view of the front entrance of the McKinley home in the background. The hearse which is to bear the President's body to its last resting place drives into view. President Roosevelt's Cabinet forms in line on either side of the walk. The Admirals of the Navy and the Generals of the Army form lines in their...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoTR 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 and talking, facing camera; TR, seated, poses for photographer, with Wood and an unidentified man standing behind him.- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1917
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Film, VideoPresident 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 officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets), battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoParkland Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
- Contributor: Goetzman, Gary - Welling, Tom - Ackroyd, Barry - Haley, Jackie Earle - Dale, James Badge - Landesman, Peter - Paxton, Bill - Harbour, David - Hanks, Colin - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) ... Goetzman, Gary - Welling, Tom - Ackroyd, Barry - Haley, Jackie Earle - Dale, James Badge - Landesman, Peter - Paxton, Bill - Harbour, David - Hanks, Colin - Copyright Collection (Library of Congress) - Millennium Entertainment, Llc - American Film Company (2008- ) - Bugliosi, Vincent - Howard, James Newton - Sinclair, Nigel - Playtone (Firm) - Trombetta, Leo - Thornton, Billy Bob - Exclusive Media Group - Livingston, Ron - Duplass, Mark - Jackson, Matt - Harden, Marcia Gay - Weaver, Jacki - Strong, Jeremy - Giamatti, Paul - Efron, Zac - Hanks, Tom
- Date: 2013
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Film, VideoTheodore Roosevelt
Copyright title: Theodore Roosevelt leaving the White House | Alternate title: Hon. Theo. Roosevelt, Ass't Sec'y, U.S. Navy leaving White House | Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary, United States Navy leaving White House | Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory title: TR as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897 | Theodore Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy leaving the White House, 1897 TR, in formal dress with hat, walks down the steps of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. and turns and walks toward the stationary camera. The south portico of the White House is visible through trees in background.- Contributor: Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - American Mutoscope Company
- Date: 1898
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Film, VideoMcKinley's funeral entering Westlawn Cemetery, Canton [Ohio]
McKinley's funeral entering West Lawn Cemetery, Canton | Title from Edison films catalog: Funeral cortege entering Westlawn Cemetery at Canton, Ohio "Funeral Cortege Entering Westlawn Cemetary at Canton, Ohio. Another of our cameras is in an excellent position at the entrance to the Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio, and as the funeral procession approaches, it is set in motion. The first to appear in this scene is the Black Horse Cavalry, Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio, followed by the G.A.R. escort, the members of which make...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoThe story of the Panama Canal. [No. 1]
Variant title from Roosevelt Memorial Association: Panama Canal | Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association catalog: The story of the Panama Canal [1] The story of the Panama Canal construction, which TR considered one of his most valuable contributions to foreign affairs. Most prominent views are of the need for building the canal, the early attempts, the actual construction, and finally the canal in operation. [Part 1]: Sequences of stills, mostly maps, showing the need for a shorter way from ocean to ocean; views of the early...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
- Date: 1927
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Film, VideoPresident McKinley's speech at the Pan-American Exposition
Title from Edison films catalog: President's speech at the Pan-American Exposition The film begins by showing the introductory speaker at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. The speaker introduces the incumbent president of the United States, William F. McKinley. The remainder of the film is a straight-on moving photograph of the president during his last public speech. "In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley. He first walks upon the platform,...- Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1901
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Film, VideoThe 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 several days in the United States. His visit was the first visit of a Prince of Wales to the United States since that of his grandfather, Edward VII, fifty years earlier. On...- Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - International Newsreel Corporation
- Date: 1919
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Film, VideoVisitin' 'round at Coolidge Corners
Visitin' round Coolidge Corners Shows scenes of Calvin Coolidge at his summer home in Plymouth, Vermont, including Coolidge helping out on the neighboring farm of cousin Ed Blanchard; in the "summer White House" above the Plymouth post office; attending church with his father John Calvin, wife Grace Goodhue, and son John; and visiting with his future vice-president, General Charles Dawes. May be a compilation of newsreel footage taken...- Contributor: Coolidge, Calvin - Afi/Casselton (Harold)/LARSON (Ted) Collection (Library of Congress) - Blanchard, Edward J. - Coolidge, Grace Goodhue - Coolidge, John - Dawes, Charles Gates
- Date: 1924-01-01