The Fighting President Part 1 continued

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Fighting President (Part I)
10 mins. (368 ft), composite, b & w, 35mm
Audio track - except for 1st shot (oath of office) sound is
Narration by Edwin C. Hill with music underneath.
Continuation of film showing events leading to FDR's election.
Post war era: men in employment lines, bread lines
prohibition agents destroying barrels of beer
Communists demonstrating at New York City Hall
Early views of Roosevelt family; Sara D. Roosevelt as a young
woman; childhood pictures of FDR.
1900: Harvard when FDR attended, graduation picture
1905: Columbia Law School
1912: Picture of Wilson campaigning; FDR lends support
1913: Taft and Wilson on White House steps
1914: German troops in Belgium; preparedness parades in US
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Fighting President (Part I V)
9 mins. (354 ft), composite, b & w, 35mm
Audio track - except for 1st shot (oath of office) sound is
Narration by Edwin C. Hill with music underneath.
Continuation of film showing events leading to FDR's
election.
1932: Campaigning for Presidency: Seattle - whistle stop;
Chicago - shown at banquet with Mayor Cermak,
throwing out ball at base ball game; Atlanta -
addressing crowd (s o f 30sec.), view of FDR on
porch at Warm Springs, GA. Election Day: Mr. and
Mrs. Al Smith entering polls. (Smith speaks in NJ
- 10secs s o f); election celebration - New York
City.
1933: March 4 - excerpts from Inaugural address (does not
include "fear" statement (s o f 1:25).
Archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library

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