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Biography of Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Roosevelt, TR)

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."

DO NOT USE Opening credits, introduction.

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.

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.

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

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.