Film, Video [Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919] Flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919 / Children visit TR's grave, 1920
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Title
- [Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919]
Other Title
- Flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919
- Children visit TR's grave, 1920
Summary
- On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. View of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots from different angles of memorial flag as it is borne by young men up the steep pathway to the gravesite; five girls sew the 48th and final star on flag at what is probably Cove School in Oyster Bay with group of children and Boy Scouts visible in background; view of children and adults on cemetery grounds. Final scene of Samuel Abbott, originator of memorial flag idea, placing flag on TR's gravesite.
Names
- Urban, Charles, former owner
- Roosevelt Memorial Association, former owner
- Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [United States : World Film Corp., 1919 and 1920?]
Contents
- The runners reach the Roosevelt grave in Oyster Bay. -- For the great American.
Headings
- - Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Tomb
- - Abbott, Samuel,--active 1919
- - Youngs Memorial Cemetery
- - Presidents--United States
- - Memorial rites and ceremonies--New York (State)--Oyster Bay
- - Flags--United States
Genre
- Newsreels
- Film clips
- Short films
- Silent films
- Nonfiction films
Notes
- - Duration: 1:10 at 16 fps.
- - Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) inventory list gives title as Children visit TR's grave, 1920.
- - Date of first sequence, children at the grave, is unverified.
- - Summary from The Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 24.
- - Probably originally part of a newsreel. On interior title: Kinograms. Kinograms were released by World Film Corp. from 1919-1921.
- - Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory number RMA 303-06-05.
- - Sources used: The Daily news, New York, October 25, 1919, p. 8; The New York times mid-week pictorial. v. 10, issue 10, Nov. 6, 1919, p. 10 viewed October 25, 2021 via the Internet Archive (sim_midweek-pictorial_1919-11-06_10_10); LC Prints & Photographs Division portrait file; The Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 24; Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) inventory list in M/B/RS Theodore Roosevelt Association acquisition file.
- - Appearing: Samuel Abbott.
- - Photographed on October 27, 1919 in Oyster Bay, N.Y. and in 1920 in Oyster Bay, N.Y.
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- - Collection transferred to LC from National Park Service in 1967. Previous owners: Roosevelt Memorial Association; Charles Urban.
- - The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986.
Medium
- viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (28 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
- non-viewing print 1 film reel of 1 (28 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- FAB 0988 (viewing print)
- FRA 5965 (non-viewing print)
Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- mp76000143
Online Format
- image
- video
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Contributor
- Roosevelt Memorial Association
- Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Urban, Charles