NEW MEMBERS OF ROOSEVELT CABINET [ETC.] Reel 4 · Part 2

Description

Summary: Reel 1, Part 1 (Pathe), newly appointed cabinet members Dern, Swanson, Wallace, Roper, and Ickes make brief speeches in 1933. Part 2 (Fox), Roosevelt introduces Hill, Farley, Cummings, Perkins, Dern, Swanson, Wallace, Roper, and Ickes. Part 3 (Fox), Pres. and Mrs. Roosevelt attend memorial services for the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, Va. Part 4 (Fox), Dern describes achievements of the NRA. Part 5 (Fox), he speaks on military preparedness and Part 6 (Fox), poses with Chas. Lindbergh. Part 7 (Fox), Dern addresses Sen. Newton Bakers committee on air mail policies. Reel 2, Part 1 (Fox), Babe Ruth presents baseball equipment to Sec. Dern at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C. Part 2 (Fox), the Roosevelts, Adm. Standley, Sec. Swanson, and Josephus Daniels, aboard the Indianapolis, view naval maneuvers. Shows battleships, the carrier Lexington, and other ships. The fleet passes New York City. Reel 3, Part 1 (Pathe), Dern makes an Army Day address in 1934. Shows reconstructed Fort Dearborn Chicago; staged scenes of Cavalry-guarded wagon trains; Gens Wood and Pershing; construction on the Panama Canal; Gen. Goethals; Waiter Reed Hospital, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, and the Library of Congress in Wash., D. C.; construction on Wilson Dam at Mule Shoals, Ala,.; troops evacuating flood refugees; CCC units 1546 cutting slash; Pres. Wilson speaking to Army pilots at the inception of air mail service; Army planes spraying cotton fields; Signal Corpsmen laying the Alaskan cable; Gen. Hugh Johnson; add a parade at West Point. Part 2 (Fox), cabinet members Hull Dern, Swanson, Cummings, Farley, Wallace, Ickes, and Roper make predictions for 1935. Part 3 (Fox), Dern presents the C.M.H. to Arctic explorer A.W. Greely. Reel 4, Part 1 (Fox)(si.) shows Sec. Roper in his office. Part 2 (Fox), Sec. Woodring speaks on military preparedness. Part 3 (Fox), Morgenthau, Woodring, Farley, Swanson, Ickes, Roper, and Wallace predict continued economic progress during 1937. Reel 5, Part 1 (Pathe), Woodring promotes Gen. Malin Craig as Chief Of Staff. Craig praises his predecessor, Gen. MacArthur. Part 2 (Fox), newly appointed Sec. Woodring pledges himself to work for peace. Part 3 duplicates Part 1 of Reel 3. Part 4 (Fox), Dern presents diplomas at West Point. Part 5,(Fox), Dern, debarks from the cruiser Chester at Yokohama and visits the War Ministry in Tokyo. Part 6 (Fox), Dern boards the Chester at Los Angeles.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Historical Films