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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE US
VTM-78AM Beta SP
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Newsreel
1910s, 1920s, 1930s
B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s Teddy Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, FDR. 01:11:21:00 B W 1908 cu Teddy Roosevelt in 1908. 01:11:34:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Teddy Roosevelt examining gun on safari in Africa. 01:11:37:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ws Roosevelt on horseback crossing river while on Safari 01:11:43:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms African bearers carrying equipment for safari on heads wade across river. 01:11:58:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s cu,ms William Taft at summer home at Murray Bay, Canada with family 01:12:24:00 B W 1910s ms Woodrow Wilson signing document placing United States into WWI. 01:12:27:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Wilson sitting in chair. 01:12:38:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Wilson and wife in back seat of car with naval officer 01:12:53:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Warren G. Harding "at the stone" of his newspaper in Marion, Ohio setting type. 01:13:13:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Old bearded man setting type at paper. 01:13:30:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Women talking to Harding about suffrage cause. 01:13:55:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Calvin Coolidge pitching hay, at his farm. 01:14:01:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Hay wagon man with pitch fork standing in hay, Coolidge on ground next to wagon. 01:14:10:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Coolidge sitting on hay wagon as it moves away. 01:14:28:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms,cu Herbert Hoover standing in river fly fishing - various scenes 01:14:46:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Hoover at desk handling papers given him by people standing next to desk. 01:15:07:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) at podium speaking into microphone. 01:15:45:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s ms Boys choir - in church - with woman soprano singing silent night. 01:16:28:00 B W 1910s, 1920s, 1930s cu Soprano stops singing - makes little speech.
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