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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220454-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1929,1920s
Country: France,USA
Location: Washington, DC
TC Begins: 00:29:51
TC Ends: 00:45:58
Duration: 00:16:07
1929 - USA President Hoover: Inauguration As 31st President. 04-06Mar29; Kellogg - Briand Pact. 24Jul29 Title. 00:30:04 04Mar29 President-elect Hoover & wife, w/ party, along carpet into White House; leaving W.H. for Capitol w/ military in formal uniforms w/ wives in furs, 00:30:36 Flash title. Pres. Coolidge & Hoover exit together, pose; members of Cabinet (?) follow. 00:31:14 Flash title. Presidential motorcade & cavalry on way to Capitol past spectators. 00:31:41 Tilt down CU of Capitol dome past people on roof to bunting. Crowd & newsreel cameramen wait w/ Library of Congress behind. VIPs into stand, MLS. 00:33:14 Pan crowd w/ umbrellas filling parking lot. 00:33:23 Flash title. MLS Supreme Court Chief Justice Taft & Associates Justices of the Supreme Court; members of Diplomatic Corps, Chief of Staff General Summerall, Chief of Naval Operations & Commander of Marine Corps enter. LS of inaugural stand. 00:34:22 Flash title. Taft administers oath to Hoover. Congratulatory handshakes. Hoover at microphones. 00:35:11 Pan crowd in rain. Inaugural stand. 00:35:40 Flash title. Cavalry leading motorcade to White House along Pennsylvania Avenue w/ Grand Marshall General Charles Summerall leading on horseback, dirigibles above avenue. 00:36:40 Presidential party onto Parade reviewing stand in front of White House. MLS passing limousines, military units & marching bands & VIPs w/ umbrellas. Flash intertitles. 00:39:17 Biplanes in formation overhead (brief). MLS continuing parade units & flash intertitles. 00:41:35 06Mar29 Night fireworks (delayed by rain) w/ illuminations of Vice-president Curtis & Hoover & US flag. GOOD. 00:43:23 Intertitles: Kellogg Pact for the Renunciation of War Proclaimed To The World... 00:43:28 Ca 24Jul29. President Hoover led by military aides in formal uniforms into East Room, guests introduced by Colonel Campbell Hodges: Ex-President Coolidge; Idaho Senator Borah, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman; Secretary of State Stimson & former Sec. Kellogg w/ French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand; British Ambassador Esme Howard; unidentified representatives of 15 original signatory countries & others involved shake hands w/ Hoover. 00:44:59 Intertitles. Seated representatives of 45 countries at table w/ Hoover reading (MOS) Peace Covenant. MSs & intertitles. Ceremony; Patriotism; Patriotic; Peace Pact / Agreement; Diplomacy; Weather; 1920s; Depression; NOTE: Partial or entire reel sold at per reel rate.