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Biography: Theodore Roosevelt

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_1
Year Shot: 1900 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:00:00 - 04:05:27

Biography of Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt, TR)

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_2
Year Shot: 1910 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:00:00 - 04:00:55

Opening montage. Theodore Roosevelt speaking to large groups of people at outdoor rallies. Good crowd shots, as well; accompanied by a soundtrack of TR speaking to the Boys Progressive League in 1912: "The principles for which we stand are the principles of fair play and a square deal for every man and every woman in the United States. I wish to see you boys join the body and act in that body in the same way I'd expect any one of you in a football game. In other words, don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard."

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_3
Year Shot: 1960 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:00:55 - 04:02:02

DO NOT USE Opening credits, introduction.

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_4
Year Shot: 1900 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:02:02 - 04:02:35

Theodore Roosevelt walking toward camera, stopping, nodding, exiting. Theodore Roosevelt orating in public, smiling, waving hat. Teddy speaking in public. TR sitting in chair outside home at Sagamore Hill.

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_5
Year Shot: 1900 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:02:35 - 04:04:26

DO NOT USE 1863 Glycerin dissolve to illustrations of NYC housing. Still portraits of Teddy as a boy. Stills of TR's parents, Mittie and Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. Childhood pictures (still photos) of Teddy, followed by pix of him during his Harvard years, mutton chop sideburns. Stills of TR & his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. Illustrations of New York Governor's mansion. Political cartoons depicting TR as some sort of a muckraker.

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_6
Year Shot: 1910 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:04:26 - 04:04:40

Cattle ranch, cowboys on horseback rustling up steers and clouds of dust while maintaining the Old West mythos.

Biography: Theodore Roosevelt
Clip: 541530_1_7
Year Shot: 1910 (Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 909
Original Film: WPA 1599
HD: N/A
Location: Various
Timecode: 04:04:40 - 04:05:27

DO NOT USE Stills of a young Teddy gussied up in cowboy garb. Still of his second wife, Edith Carow Roosevelt. Political cartoons regarding Teddy as a crusading cowboy during appointments in Washington, DC and New York.