ID: 700000111 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000111	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

TR's inauguration, 1905 [1] (silent film; unknown American production company; 1905)

Note: viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (580 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm.; Duration: 4:33 (part 1), 3:48 (part 2), 1:13 (part 3) at 16 fps. Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration. Film sequence is repeated and does not follow order of actual events. Scenes of TR's second inauguration on March 4, 1905 in Washington, D.C.: long panning shots of crowds gathered at the Capitol; on a platform erected on the East Front of the Capitol, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller administers the presidential oath of office to TR as Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court James H. McKenney holds the Bible; TR speaks to crowd. Views of the West Point band and cadets, the Naval Academy band and midshipmen, men on horseback, and the Citizens Americus Club of Pittsburgh, carrying umbrellas, marching by and turning the corner off Pennsylvania Ave. onto Fifteenth St., NW. Views of the presidential escort, Squadron A of New York National Guard, mounted Rough Riders, Secret Service, detectives, and TR's carriage moving on their way to the Capitol. Beside TR in the carriage is Sen. John C. Spooner of Wis., chairman of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies; opposite but not visible are Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass. and Rep. John Dalzell of Penn., both members of the committee. On Pennsylvania Ave., two groups of officers on horseback, a civilian band, and cavalry and marching soldiers parade by.

Titles:

TR's inauguration, 1905 [1] (preferred,C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, 1905 [1] (C,U,D,DE,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

silent film [300252071] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, motion pictures (visual works))

newsreel [300263837]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, motion pictures (visual works))

Classifications:

films / videos (preferred)

American art

Creation Date: 1905

Creator Display:

unknown American production company [preferred,VP]

filmmaker unknown American (American cultural designation) [500125216]

Locations:

Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Library of Congress Control Number: mp76000047

Address Note: Call Number/Physical Location: FEA 6695 (viewing print)

Display Materials: black-and-white film

	black-and-white film (film, material) [300127344]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, photographic materials, photographic media, photographic film (photographic materials))

Dimensions: 35 mm, 176.78 m (580 feet); 28 minutes at 16 frames per second

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	inauguration (cultural ceremony) [300069256]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, cultural ceremonies) (AAT)

	president [300025470]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in administration and government>, administrators, executives) (AAT)

	Washington [7013962]
	.....(DC (national district), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	Roosevelt, Theodore (American president, 1858-1919) [500329597]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	documentary film [300375156]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for motion pictures>) (AAT)

Provenance: Transferred to LC from NPS, NPS acquired from RMA, gift to RMA from Paramount; leader between some scenes; transferred to safety from LC nitrate at LC lab: Feb. 1976

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: video, film, performing arts

Sources and Contributors:
TR's inauguration, 1905 [1]	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)
	........ U.S. Library of Congress online (2005-)
Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration, 1905 [1]	........ [VP]
	........ CDWA online (1995-)
	........ U.S. Library of Congress online (2005-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... CDWA online (1995-)
	..... U.S. Library of Congress online (2005-)