TR's inauguration, 1905 [1] / - movie film screenshot

Scenes of TR's second inauguration on March 4, 1905 in Washington, D.C.: long panning shots of crowds gathered at the Capitol; on a platform erected on the East Front of the Capitol, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller administers the presidential oath of office to TR as Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court James H. McKenney holds the Bible; TR speaks to crowd. Views of the West Point band and cadets, the Naval Academy band and midshipmen, men on horseback, and the Citizens Americus Club of Pittsburgh, carrying umbrellas, marching by and turning the corner off Pennsylvania Ave. onto Fifteenth St., NW. Views of the presidential escort, Squadron A of New York National Guard, mounted Rough Riders, Secret Service, detectives, and TR's carriage moving on their way to the Capitol. Beside TR in the carriage is Sen. John C. Spooner of Wis., chairman of the Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies; opposite but not visible are Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass. and Rep. John Dalzell of Penn., both members of the committee. On Pennsylvania Ave., two groups of officers on horseback, a civilian band, and cavalry and marching soldiers parade by.
President Roosevelt, John C. Spooner, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Dalzell, Melville Weston Fuller, James H. McKenney.
Duration: 4:33 (part 1), 3:48 (part 2), 1:13 (part 3) at 16 fps.
Film sequence is repeated and does not follow order of actual events.
Roosevelt Memorial Association numbers: RMA 301-01; RMA 301-2B.
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; Paramount.
Sources used: Washington, D.C. Inaugural Committee, 1905. Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States, March 4, 1905. [1905]; Washington post, March 5, 1905, p. 1-2; The New York herald, March 5, 1905, p. 2, p. 5; New York tribune, March 5, 1905, p. 1-3; LC Prints & Photographs Division presidential file; The Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 154-155.
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986.