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President, The Main title missing Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221705-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1800s,1920s,1940s,1950s,1955

Country: USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 18:45:08

TC Ends: 18:53:14

Duration: 00:08:06

Main title missing Pt. 1 of 2 Man voting at ballot box. Truman sworn in; Eisenhower inaugural ceremonies. Ike waving from motorcade. Portraits of US Presidents superimposed over shot of White House. 18:45:46 Costumed historical re-enactment of George Washington being sworn in; emerging from first Senate meeting looking bewildered. Meeting of new Cabinet w/ Jefferson, Hamilton & Knox - arguing about whiskey tax. Washington making farewell address from White House. Thomas Jefferson signing Louisiana Purchase. Montage of paintings illustrating progress of democracy & American Civil War. 18:48:52 Re-enactment of Abraham Lincoln being sworn in - brief montage cannons firing over newspaper headlines - Lincoln at desk signing enlistment order - Lincoln reading statement to Cabinet. 18:50:27 Montage of early 20th Century US development: industrialisation - battleships at sea - Theodore Roosevelt making speech MOS - Woodrow Wilson behind desk, posing w/ Congressmen & making speech to large crowd MOS. WWI montage: German soldiers - heavy artillery - superimposed newspaper headline ‘US At War: Wilson’ - troops marching through city street - heavy guns firing - troops over the top of trenches w/ more headlines re Armistice. Post-WWI peace talks. 18:51:46 1950s ? US city street scene w/ busy traffic & pedestrians. 18:51:52 Depression - Black woman seen in candlelight thru window of shack w/ broken shutter. President Franklin Roosevelt sworn in Mar33. Workers on construction site w/ sign ‘USA Work Program’ - workers at shipyard. WWII montage - newspaper headline ‘War! Bomb Warsaw!’ - tank & field artillery troops running - FDR addressing congress MOS after new executive powers granted - tanks off production line. Enlistment Battleships firing; invasion; FDR & Winston Churchill. Continued... 1950s; US History; Politics; American Government; Democracy; Montages; Educational Films; NOTE: One continuous minute sold at per reel rate.

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