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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...
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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...
British Movietone
PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE GREET WAR HEROES -
Ten British and five American War Heroes were welcomed in New York by Wendell Wilkie and took part in a War Bond Rally. At Washington they were received by President Roosevelt. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection....
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Labor Secretary Frances Perkins at House Labor Committee meeting with Eleanor Roosevelt
Title card: "MADAM SECRETARY FAVORS SHORTER WORKING HOURS" / dissolve to Title card: "Editor's Note: We take you behind the scenes in the capital with Mrs. Roosevelt and Ishbel MacDonald to attend a House Labor Committee hearing. Miss...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt leaves Annapolis, MD, as he starts his vacation
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sitting in back seat of open car shaking hands with man standing beside car, crowd surrounding them including sailors standing in formation and Navy officers / Franklin's son Elliott with his wife Ruth standing...
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Kids and magician at White House Easter egg hunt hosted by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Title card: "News Flashes" / people crowd south lawn, many children, fountain in fg, White House In bg / people on lawn, kids hunt Easter eggs, branches in fg, White House In bg / MS group shot children, girl in center holds basket; they...
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President Franklin Roosevelt with family and group of people at his summer retreat on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada
Close shot of Pres. Franklin Roosevelt sitting on beach talking to someone out of frame / Roosevelt's mother Sara sitting on beach with her grandson John and his wife Ann on her right, grandson James to her left, grandson Franklin, Jr,...
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt tours Tygart Valley Homesteads near Elkins, WV in 1937
Title card: "First Lady Tours Homestead with Richest Girl" / First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt exits house, children and three adults stand outside, she is followed by billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke Cromwell and other people / MS...
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Coolidge final rites in Northampton
Title card: "Nation pay last tribute to Coolidge - Led by President Hoover, thousands attend rites at Northampton" / VS a crowd of thousands with the motorcade slowly inching through; doors to the church with the exterior draped in black...
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First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt rides in cable car over Clinch River at site of construction of Norris Dam in Tennessee
Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, Chairman of Tennessee Valley Authority, talking to Eleanor Roosevelt as they stand with other people on railroad tracks / Eleanor being helped onto cable car / two shots of Eleanor and others riding in car /...