Extra! Special! Roosevelt Inaugurated (1933)
1933 · Newsreel · 7 min
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Airplane takes off with film of FDR Inauguration, lands in New York City, views of the inaugural parade. "The First Sound Pictures Ever Shown of a Presidential Inauguration. Roosevelt as the 32nd President of the United States. Striking close-up views of President-elect Roosevelt's arrival at the White House to take President Hoover to the Capitol for the Inaugural ceremony, and the historic ride of the celebrated pair down Pennsylvania Avenue, with a Congressional escort, as cheering…
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★★★★ · Up-to-the-Minute Inauguration Coverage Delivered by Airplane! · Christine Hennig · 2006-07-28
This lively newsreel documents the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president. It starts with self-congratulatory crowing about how Universal Newsreels uses an airplane to deliver the film footage, so that it will be up-to-the-minute. Then we get to see the newly elected FDR and former President Hoover riding to the capitol together, and FDRâs inaugural address, in which he asserts that if Congress fails to cooperate with his policies, he wonât hesitate to ask for executive powers similar to those given the president in wartime. It shows how desperate things were that this didnât…