| PRESIDENT HOOVER Hoover Speaks & Scouts put Flags on Veterans' Graves | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7553 |
| Catalog #: | 526085 | |
| Clip Number: | 526085-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 66 A | |
| Timecode: | 01:18:08 - 01:20:35 | |
| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1930 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CEMETERIES: Military CEREMONIES: Memorial LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA MILITARY: Veterans ORGANIZATIONS: Youth, Boy Scouts & Guides PERSONALITIES: Hoover, Herbert | |
| Description: | Tape 7553 B Same as catalog # 492994 Veterans' Day event (?) with Speech by President Hoover and Boy Scouts putting flags on graves. President Hoover gives a speech and Scouts tend to American war graves. United States of America. Shots of group of men including Pres Hoover walking across park & climbing steps of a bandstand with U.S. flags flying. Crowd converging on the bandstand. MSs CUs Hoover makes speech (no audio) from bandstand; in front of lectern several different microphones are set up; can see "NBC" on 2 mikes. During speech sometimes cuts away to crowd. LS pan on a bunch of Boy Scouts in a semicircle, holding a salute; many are holding small American flags; in center a man also in uniform salutes a flag held by a Boy Scout. Various shots of the Scouts putting U.S. flags on the graves of war veterans in a military cemetery. GV of the cemetery with flags on the graves. | |
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