Film

Object/Work🔺

• Catalog Level:🔺 item (value type: controlled list)
• Type:🔺 black-and-white film (value type: authority)

Classification🔺

• Terms:🔺
  film and animation
  American art (value type: controlled list)

Titles or Names🔺

• Text:🔺 TR’s Inauguration, 1905 [No. 1] (value type: free text)
  Preference: preferred (value type: controlled list)
  Type: repository

• Text:🔺 Theodore Roosevelt’s Inauguration, 1905
  Preference: alternate
  Type: alternate title

Creation🔺

• Creator Description:🔺 produced by unknown American production company; preserved by Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (American division, contemporary); formerly owned by Roosevelt Memorial Association (American cultural organization, founded 1919) and Paramount Pictures Corporation (American production company, founded 1912) (value type: free text)

• Identity:🔺 unknown American production company (_value type: authority)
  Role:🔺 production company

• Identity:🔺 Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
  Role:🔺 preservationist

• Identity:🔺 Roosevelt Memorial Association
  Role:🔺 former owner

• Identity:🔺 Paramount Pictures Corporation
  Role:🔺 former owner

• Creation Date:🔺 1905 (value type: free text)
  Earliest:🔺 1905 Latest:🔺 1905 (value type: controlled format)

Measurements🔺

• Dimensions Description:🔺 235 mm, 176.78 m (580 feet); part one: 4 minutes 33 seconds at 16 frames per second; part two: one minute 13 seconds at 16 frames per second (value type: free text)

• Format/Size: 35 mm
  Value: 176.78 Unit: m Type: length

• Extent: part one
  Value: 4:33 Unit: minutes Type: running time
  Value: 16 Unit: fps Type: running time (value type: controlled format and controlled lists)

• Extent: part two
  Value: 1:13 Unit: minutes Type: running time
  Value: 16 Unit: fps Type: running time

Materials and Techniques🔺

• Description:🔺 black-and-white film (value type: free text)

• Material Name: black-and-white film (value type: authority)

Subject Matter🔺

• Indexing Terms:🔺
  history/legend
  presidential inauguration
  Washington, D.C. (United States)
  Theodore Roosevelt (American president, 1858-1919)
  Melville Weston Fuller (American chief justice, 1833-1910)
  John C. Spooner (American lawyer and senator, 1843-1919)
  Henry Cabot Lodge (American lawyer, senator, and historian, 1850-1924)
  John Dalzell (American lawyer and politician, 1845-1927)
  crowd
  Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C., United States)
  ceremony
  band
  parade
  horses
  soliders (value type: authority)

Descriptive Note

• Text: This film reel includes scenes of Theodore Roosevelt’s second inauguration on March 4, 1905 in Washington, D.C. Footage includes panning shots of the crowd gathered at the U.S. Capitol and close-up scenes of mounted officers on horseback, marching soldiers, and civilian bands parading along Pennsylvania Avenue. Additional footage depicst then-chief justice Melville W. Fuller, then-chief clerk James H. McKenney, and Theodore Roosevelt standing on a platform during the inaugural oath. (value type: free text)

• Citation: Library of Congress online (value type: authority)
  Page: accessed 29 July 2024 (value type: free text)

Current Location🔺

• Repository Name/Geographic Location:🔺 Library of Congress, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (Washington, D.C., United States) (value type: authority)
  Repository Numbers:🔺 mp76000047 (value type: free text)

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NOTES:

🔺 indicates a core CDWA category.

Though produced at the same time and currently stewarded by the same repository, the image included at the top of of the page does not directly correspond to the film object described.

Revised 29 July 2024
by Emily Benoff