Theodore Roosevelt-Shall We Prepare?

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Kitty
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Theodore Roosevelt-Shall We Prepare?

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Roosevelt shaking his cane at America. Without these intertitles, you'd think that he was scolding America for something. Perhaps not buying enough Teddy bears? Anyway, here's the real summary:

Two sequences of TR: Sequence 1: views of TR walking onto the porch of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y., facing the camera, and then speaking on military preparedness during WWI; Sequence 2: views of TR sitting at his desk in the Metropolitan Magazine office in New York City and speaking with a man who may be Carl Hovey, editor of the magazine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUKpb3bStX8
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Re: Theodore Roosevelt-Shall We Prepare?

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This is the first footage I've seen of TR. I've seen some Edison footage of McKinley (before his assassination—some of his funeral proceedings were also filmed), and also of Wilson. I believe Coolidge was the first sound film. I have that one somewhere in my iTunes library.

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Re: Theodore Roosevelt-Shall We Prepare?

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Interesting! I have not heard Coolidge, or seen footage of the other presidents you mention.
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Bully!
We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!

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