TR at San Diego Exposition, 1915 /

Abstract

Theodore Roosevelt attends the Panama-California Exposition on Roosevelt Day, July 27, 1915. He arrives at the United States Government Building in an open touring car with two men in the rear seat. The man who is wearing a ribbon on his coat appears to be George W. Marston, park commissioner. Gilbert Aubrey Davidson, president of the Exposition, and others greet Roosevelt and his party. The final scenes are of him and his wife, Edith, speaking with various officials and a child on the steps of the building and a close-up of the group talking.Copyright: no reg.Reference print (copy 2) appears under Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR attends San Diego Exposition, 1915.Appearing: President Theodore Roosevelt, George W. Marston, Gilbert Aubrey Davidson, Edith Roosevelt.Interior title contains logo: film by Stineman, San Diego, Calif.Archival pos is longer than other films due to additional interior title. DLCIncomplete: ref print (copy 1) lacks one interior title; ref prints (copy 2 and 3) lack last sequence and two interior titles. DLCFilms occasionally out of frame; flash titles. DLCDuration: 0:31 at 18 fps.Sources used: Pourade, Richard F. Gold in the sun, 1965, p. 197-198; The New York times, 8/8/1915, pt. 1, p. 9.Received: 5/1968 from USDA lab; ref prints (copy 1 and 2), dupe neg, masterpos; preservation; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection.Received: 8/15/1995 from Bono lab; ref print (copy 3); preservation; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection.Received: 1967; transferred to LC from NPS, NPS acquired from RMA, RMA purchased from Ganahal; films occasionally out of frame; flash titles; ref print (cy 2) is shorter than ref print (cy 1) due to lack of last sequence; transferred to safety from LC nitrate at USDA lab: 5/1968