Motion picture collection, 1912-1980 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Films of Franklin D. Roosevelt include newsreels produced by Movietone News, Paramount, Pathe, Hearst, and Universal tracing his activities from the 1932 Presidential campaign until his death, with some footage taken while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Governor of New York; color films produced by government agencies such as the National Youth Administration, the Navy Department, and the Signal Corps; amateur films taken by Samuel I. Rosenman showing Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., on an Erie Canal barge trip in 1930, and sailing on the SEQUOIA in 1933 and 1934; films taken by John Boettiger of the 1941 and 1945 inaugurals, Franklin D. Roosevelt's trip to Yellowstone Park in 1937, reviewing the fleet in 1938, and visiting with Churchill at Hyde Park in 1944; and films taken by Nancy Cook showing Roosevelt and family and friends at Campobello, Hyde Park, and Warm Springs in the 1930s and 1940s. Films of Eleanor Roosevelt include newsreels of her career from 1932 until her death in 1962, with some shots of her with Franklin D. Roosevelt and their children during the 1920 campaign; other films of United Nations activities, speeches, interviews, and political activities; and amateur films by John Boettiger, Nancy Cook and Victor Hammer showing her during trips and visiting with family and friends at Campobello and Hyde Park