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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt speaks at campaign event at Chicago Stadium
President Franklin D. Roosevelt at podium, audience behind him applauding, maybe press people below stage; he waves; man pours glass of water at side of podium / same shot; people take their seats and Roosevelt begins speech saying he...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaks at the Jackson Day dinner in Washington, DC
At the Mayflower Hotel during the Jackson Day dinner, Eleanor Roosevelt chats with Vice President John Nance Garner; Pres. Franklin Roosevelt motions for the attendees to sit / WS SOT Roosevelt, wearing pince nez: "in our nation today we...
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President Franklin Roosevelt and his family on beach at Roosevelt's summer retreat on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's mother Sara Delano Roosevelt sitting on beach with her grandson John and his wife Ann on her right, grandson James to her left, grandson Franklin, Jr., smoking behind his grandmother / two shots of Pres....
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Franklin Roosevelt and members of his administration
Title card: "Blue Eagle wings way over nation" / two-shot Franklin D. Roosevelt, wearing a light-colored hat, with Eleanor Roosevelt; cameras flash, both smile / General Hugh S. Johnson / VS Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, wearing a...
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Eventful 1945 sees the passing of President Roosevelt and unconditional surrender from the Germans
(Washington, DC 1/20/1945) LS White House with a few MPs guarding on snowy lawn / MS side view Pres. Franklin Roosevelt swears in on White House portico / rear WS large crowd / VS Roosevelt waves, son Elliot behind him smiling / MS...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt receives honorary law degree at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland
Title card: "ROOSEVELT SPENDS DAY WITH FRIENDS!" / MLS yacht afloat / MS rear view of men boarding yacht / MS President Franklin D. Roosevelt (standing with hidden brace) shakes hands with man as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Maryland...
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On Mother's Day, Mrs. John Henry Hammond welcomes Eleanor Roosevelt to home of Theodore Roosevelt
CU side view Mrs. John Henry Hammond (Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond) stands near flag and speaks, SOT welcoming First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to Roosevelt House, home of former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt / CU Eleanor; SOT says she is very...
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Scenes from the first Birthday Balls for Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's birthday in Washington, DC and New York City, 1934
Title cards: "Roosevelt's happiest birthday" / Washington, DC: a pyramidal cake featuring the Presidential Seal stands on a table, with former First Lady Edith Wilson, second from Left, and current First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, second...
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Aviatrix Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt board plane for night flight
NIGHT MS aviator Amelia Earhart and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in front of Eastern Air Transport Curtiss Condor airplane, both wearing evening wear; SOT Earhart asks Roosevelt to go for an airplane ride over Washington and SOT...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns in Ohio and New York State
[Dayton, OH, 1936] Eleanor Roosevelt on railcar back platform as she is handed up big bouquet / woman on ground among crowd handing up bouquet to Eleanor Roosevelt who reaches down and shakes hands, men behind her, policeman by car / VS...
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Women participate in war efforts during World Wars I and II in the US and the UK
[GHOC Episode V-02] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Women in War, Too" / [Daly City, CA] VS women at work during World War I: wheeling debris on rail cart, shoveling, throwing things into rail car / VS...
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1936 Easter festivities with Pres. Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Title card: "Roosevelt Goes Back to Work" superimposed over face of President Franklin Roosevelt / Easter, 4/12/1936: WS crowd with umbrellas outside St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Easter / police holding crowd back as car arriving /...
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Canada mourns the death of longtime Prime Minister Mackenzie King
[GHOC Episode H-01] Greatest Headlines of the Century title sequence / Title card: "Canada Mourns Prime Minister" / [1948, Williamsburg, VA] VS Canadian PM Mackenzie King receives honorary degree at the College of William and Mary / VS...
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Winston Churchill attends church on Christmas Day with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during his 1941 visit to Washington, DC
[Probably Christmas Eve, 12/24/41] Lighted Christmas tree on the Ellipse, with White House South Portico in background / crowd on lawn outside South Portico / VS lighted tree at night // 12/25/41: VS photo opportunity under awning,...
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US President Harry Truman gives speech at the United Nations in NY City on the UN's 5th Anniversary
Title: 'Free World Hails UN 5th Year' superimposed over UN flag waving on flagpole / title card: 'Through the United Nations, which has overcome the challenge of Korea, the world has its only chance to overcome the challenge of The Bomb'...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt dedicates George Rogers Clark monument
Pan of a vast crowd in Harrodsburg, KY / SOT Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, "We, pioneers of 1934, are come together today to honor the pioneers of a century and a half ago...mere survival calls for a new pioneering on our part..will give to...
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Pres. Franklin Roosevelt with party at Artist Point, Yellowstone National Park
[Shaky footage] LS President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt viewing waterfall as they sit in car at Artist Point, Yellowstone Park / CU Roosevelt smiling; he is bundled up in an overcoat and brimmed hat / WS...
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt returning from trip to West Indies arrives in Washington, DC
First Lady flies home! Washington – Mrs Roosevelt ends 10-day air trip to West Indies! President greets her at the station on their 29th wedding anniversary” / seaplane carrying Eleanor landing / Eleanor stepping out of hatch of seaplane...
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Adlai Stevenson attends Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in New York
Title: "Adlai Stevenson - First Major Speech Since the Campaign" / A crowded ballroom with scores of round tables and a dais beyond / VS Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-TX), Stevenson, Averell Harriman, and Johnson and Stevenson; Eleanor...
British Movietone
MR BEVIN'S CALL TO RUSSIA
Mr Bevin addresses UNO on the subject of Russia's note to Yugoslavia and of Russia's possession of the Atomic Bomb. He received a great reception from the delegates. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views...
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Franklin Roosevelt carves Thanksgiving turkey at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt confers with aide, then takes seat at banquet table next to Pres. Franklin Roosevelt, who chats with a boy seated next to him during Thanksgiving dinner at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation / the...
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Roosevelts leave for church; Sen. Thomas Walsh's coffin carried
Title card: "Roosevelt's First Days in Office" / Franklin Roosevelt's family in Sunday finery in front of White House: James Roosevelt, his wife Mary, Sara Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Roosevelt, Anna...
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A look at the family lives of POTUS candidates Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alf Landon
Title card: "At home with the candidates" superimposed over circles with candidates faces / VS an elegant car leaves the Roosevelt home 'Springwood' / VS the house / Pres. Franklin Roosevelt reads and then looks at the camera / Eleanor...
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Parade and Pres. Franklin Roosevelt address to boys at the First National Conference of School National Safety Patrols, 1936
Title card: "News Flashes!" / VS 16 state school patrols march in parade in DC past government bldgs / young boy of the Jacksonville Florida patrol salutes / VS marchers / MS President Franklin D Roosevelt standing at podium on balcony...