Rare Footage: Home Movie of FDR’s 1941 Inauguration (In color)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Run time: 05:11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4gFgFvr2Vk   Posted on YouTube: September 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: GeriatricFellow Views on YouTube: 11960   Posted on DU: April 27, 2011 By DU Member: Adenoid_Hynkel Views on DU: 511

 
The vintage video above is an excerpt from a 16 mm home movie showing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 20, 1941, the day of his Third Inauguration. This silent color movie was shot by FDR’s son-in-law (Clarence) John Boettiger, who was then working for the Motion Picture Association of America, and the quality of this rare footage is quite outstanding. Watch the full 14-minute version here.

FDR can first be seen at 2:45, heavily supported by his oldest son James. This is one of the rare moments on film where Roosevelt can actually be seen walking, and it’s obvious how difficult it was for him to walk after polio left him paralyzed from the hips down in 1921. Next, FDR is seen on the presidential platform with his wife Eleanor and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, taking the Oath of Office and giving his Inaugural Address. The full text of the address can be read courtesy of Yale Law School, and a high-resolution scan of the Inauguration Ceremonies Program has been uploaded by The Library of Congress.

more:
http://www.openculture.com/2011/04/rare_footage_home_movie_of_fdrs_1941_inauguration.html

h/t Keith Olbermann

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[Tx4obama]

1. The ol' days when a woman could wear a fur coat without worrying about gettin' it spray painted.....

by some PETA nut.

[99th_Monkey]

2. WOW. Check out all the classic Top Hats! Loving it.

The film also captures something else about the times, some ethos of public trust and easy
acceptance of democratically mandated change, which may be about as good as it gets in the
public sphere.

[monmouth]

3. A rare,wonderful find indeed. At last footage I'm not old enough to remember.....n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. there's audio of the speech

wouldn't it be cool to see it synced up with this footage?