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Before he became the 26th President of the United States, Teddy Roosevelt was one of the original Rough Riders who stormed Cuba during the Spanish American War to keep North American safe for democracy! These are historical newsreel clips – some of the first ever shot of a US president. You will see classic images of this man's man before during and after his historic presidency.

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This Is The Most Complete Compilation Of Early
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This Exclusive DVD Contains Extremely Rare Film
Footage From The 19th Century!

Theodore Roosevelt: Soldier, Governor, President!

History of US Presidents: Teddy Roosevelt – Rough Rider is a DVD that provides a closer look at the man who redefined American politics at the dawn of a history-making new century!

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These Film Clips Follow Teddy Roosevelt From His Days
As A Soldier In Cuba To His Days As Governor - And
Eventually A Triumphant Presidency!

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The clips on this incredible DVD includes rare film footage of Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt as a Colonel leading his famous pack into battle, then as a governor, and progresses to show him ascending to the presidency after President William McKinley's tragic assassination.

These clips also include touching scenes of President Roosevelt with his sons, who were at the time fighting in World War I. You also get to see amazing footage of Roosevelt hunting!

Here is a complete track by track breakdown of exactly what you will see on this historic DVD:

Roosevelt's Rough Riders The first film in this collection shows a full charge of enthusiasm by Troop "I," the famous Rough Rider regiment, in Tampa, before departing for the Cuban front. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Sponsor: N/A Year: 1898 Length: 00:00:27 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Roosevelt And The Rough Riders Continuing to document the early years of the future president, this clip shows Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by Lieut. Greenway and other prominent officers of the Rough Riders, galloping up to headquarters, where he dismounts and walks into his tent. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Sponsor: N/A Year: 1898 Length: 00:00:30 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Governor Roosevelt And Staff After the Cuban triumph, Roosevelt returned to America and was elected Governor of New York. This film is taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn onto 72nd Street, with Grant's Tomb and decorated residences in the background. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Sponsor: N/A Year: 1899 Length: 00:00:55 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Terrible Teddy, The Grizzly King This film is a satire of Theodore Roosevelt while hunting mountain lions in Colorado. The clip opens in a very picturesque wood while Teddy is seen running down the hill with his gun in hand, followed by his photographer and press agent. Producer: Edwin S. Porter Sponsor: N/A Year: 1901 Length: 00:01:14 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Roosevelt At The Canton Station By 1901 fate had pushed Roosevelt into the presidency. This documentary begins by showing Theodore Roosevelt arriving with other mourners at Canton, Ohio for President McKinley's funeral. Roosevelt is shown leaving the station and getting into his carriage. The remainder of the film was photographed by panning the camera over the large crowd gathered in the area to watch the arrival of celebrities attending the funeral. Producer: Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1901 Length: 00:01:34 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Arrival Of Prince Henry [of Prussia] and President Roosevelt At Shooter's Island Prince Henry and President Roosevelt are shown in this clip walking up the gangway on Shooters Island to the stand where Miss Alice Roosevelt christens the German Emperor's yacht, Meteor. Following Henry and Roosevelt are Wallace Downy, owner of the shipbuilding firm of Townsend & Downey, the sailors and marines from the Hohensollern, officers from the United States Army and Navy, and invited guests of the President. Producer: Edison Mfg. Co. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1902 Length: 00:01:43 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Roosevelt At The Army-Navy game This film shows President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary of War Root, Secretary of the Navy Long, crossing the football field during half time of the football game. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Sponsor: N/A Year: 1902 Length: 00:00:23 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Roosevelt Reviewing The Troops At Charleston Exposition Next up, President Roosevelt is seen standing on a platform in front of an auditorium, photographed from across the street. At his left is Mrs. Roosevelt, holding carnations. Producer: Edison Mfg. Co. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1902 Length: 00:02:23 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Roosevelt At The Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition This is a very short newsreel that simply shows President Roosevelt at the speaker's platform and then preparing to enter a carriage. Producer: Selig Polyscope Co. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1903 Length: 00:00:17 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

The President's Carriage This film shows President Roosevelt in San Francisco, passing in the arrival parade on Market Street on Tuesday, May 12, 1903. The camera view is from the north side of Market Street, just east of Grant Avenue. Producer: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Sponsor: N/A Year: 1903 Length: 00:01:39 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt's Inaugural Ceremony, 1905 On March 4, 1905, Roosevelt was inaugurated for his second president term with much celebration and fanfare. During this amazing clip you watch the newly elected president ride in an open landau on Fifteenth St., and is escorted by mounted Rough Riders. Secret Service men and detectives walk on either side of the carriage. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1905 Length: 00:01:30 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Scenes And Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, NH The next clip shows scenes from the 1905 peace conference between the Russian and Japanese Governments, mediated by the U.S. Government at the invitation of President Roosevelt. There are images of the dignitaries and celebrities who are part of the conference. Producer: Edison Mfg. Co. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1905 Length: 00:14:09 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Greets French troops At Vincennes, France, 1910 This film shows Robert Bacon, American Ambassador to France, Roosevelt, Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, and General Jean B. Dalstein, Military Governor of Paris, arriving at the Château de Vincennes, a medieval castle and dungeon, where they greet French troops. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1910 Length: 00:03:44 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Is Invited To Fly In Arch Hoxsey's Plane in St. Louis, MO, 1910 Now we get to see historic footage of Roosevelt becoming the first president to fly in a plane. This isn't Air Force One! As the film unfolds we see Roosevelt participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, where he is invited to fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1910 Length: 00:03:34 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Shall We Prepare? This is a two-part film first showing Roosevelt walking onto the porch of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY, then speaking on military preparedness during WWI. Later we see Roosevelt 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. Producer: Paramount Pictures Sponsor: N/A Year: 1916 Length: 00:03:36 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Reviewing And Speaking To The 13th Regiment At Sagamore Hill, 1917 This short clip shows two views of Roosevelt addressing soldiers assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:00:54 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Reviews And Addresses Troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.]; Chicago, 1917 For the next clip we have two segments of Roosevelt during a Midwestern speaking tour in support of military preparedness on September 27, 1917 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Producer: Universal Film Manufacturing Co. Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:13:00 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt In St. Paul, Minn. [1917] Now we see the old Rough Rider at a large pro-war parade assembled in his honor in St. Paul, MN on Sept. 28, 1917. There is a long shot of a large American flag carried by women in the crowd. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:00:52 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917 The next newsreel is another short showing a close-up view of New York Governor Charles S. Whitman (1915-1918), Myron T. Herrick, formerly governor of Ohio and United States ambassador to France, and New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel (1914-1917) reviewing a parade of New York National Guardsmen from the balcony of the Union League Club in New York City. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:00:11 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Receiving Belgian Envoys At Sagamore Hill [1917] This clip shows Roosevelt entertaining members of the Belgian Mission at Sagamore Hill, Aug. 22, 1917. The mission is headed by Baron Ludovic Moncheur, former Ambassador to the United States and includes General Mathieu Leclercq, Commander of the Belgian Cavalry, Major Leon Osterrieth, Hector Carlier, Count Louis d'Ursel, and Jean D. Mertens. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:00:39 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

TR At Forest Hills, New York, 1917 [2] With war still on his mind, Roosevelt is shown here at Forest Hills on July 4, 1917, speaking in support of vigorous American war involvement. He attacks conscientious objectors in an address at the Forest Hills Gardens railroad station and later reviews the Forest Hills Rifle Club in a nearby field. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:05:46 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

President Wilson Arrives In New York To Lead Fourth Liberty Loan Parade [1918] This is a film about the fourth Liberty Loan ceremonies in New York City and Washington, on Sept. 1918. Inaugurating a national drive for the sale of Liberty Bonds, President Wilson, his wife Edith, and mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Bolling, arrived in New York on Sept. 27, 1918. Producer: Hearst-Pathe News Sponsor: N/A Year: 1918 Length: 00:02:22 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt Scenes [1917-1918] The next clip has images of Roosevelt at various public functions in support of the war effort. First Roosevelt stands with Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, fellow officer in the Spanish-American War, and speaks to the camera during an informal visit to Camp Mills, near Garden City, NY on Sept. 2, 1917. Later he is seen on the lawn of Sagamore Hill on Aug. 22, 1917. Producer: Hearst-Pathe News Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917 Length: 00:04:03 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Scenes Of Roosevelt And His Sons Quentin And Archie, 1917-1918 [2] The second to last track features unrelated segments of Quentin, Archie, and Roosevelt at various times and locations. There is a medium shot of Quentin wearing a WWI uniform standing by a wooden shed in Minneola, NY, May 1917; a long shot of Archie in uniform astride a horse possibly in 1917; a clip of Archie in uniform, with a cane, standing by a building in 1918; and a medium shot of Roosevelt speaking from the porch at Sagamore Hill. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1917-18 Length: 00:01:14 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Roosevelt's Sons' Regiments During War, 1917-1918 [1] The final film shows soldiers walking in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Because of the soldiers' heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt's regiment. Producer: N/A Sponsor: N/A Year: 1918 Length: 00:02:16 Audio: Silent Color: BLACK & WHITE

Running Time:
00:57:04

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