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keywords: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR, WWI, President Woodrow Wilson

Synopsis: First Inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 with flashback to President Woodrow Wilson and the events leading to America entering WWI with a younger Franklin as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, scenes of WWI ground combat and the end of WWI with U.S. soldiers marching down Fifth Avenue in New York City victory parade...(read more)

  • Date: 1900's-1920's
  • Duration: 00:07:05
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States, Europe
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F.D.R. - Volume 1

Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) as the 32nd President of The United States on March 4,1933 and Roosevelt's first term as U.S. President.

1917. Scenes of American ship being sunk by German submarine. President Woodrow Wilson set his hand and seal on declaration of war with Germany. Shows troop transport ship with soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) leaving U.S. port. Franklin Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, sent to France by President Woodrow Wilson. Women aid the war effort. Women working in WWI defense factories and plants. Men working in WWI shipyard.

Scenes of troops charging across battle field in WWI, troops in battle. Brief image of railway (railroad) artillery gun firing. Shows field artillery gun firing. Airplane trailing smoke in spiral drive toward earth. Shows German soldiers firing at a tank. German soldiers wearing a Pickelhaube (helmet with ball-shaped finial rather than pointed spike ) firing a machine gun.

Shows masses of German POWs that surrendered.

The world celebrates end of WWI, newspaper headline reads "Germany Surrenders". Americans celebrate end of war in New York City.

1919. President Woodrow Wilson and General Pershing in France reviewing the troops. Shows Franklin D. Roosevelt in France. Soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) boarding troop transport ship for America. WWI victory parade in New York City. U.S. Soldiers march down Fifth Avenue in celebration of the end of WWI, the Great War.