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Motion Pictures in the Public Domain:
Eleanor Roosevelt

Below is a list of motion pictures featuring Eleanor Roosevelt that are housed within the Audio/Visual Collections at the FDR Library and that are in the public domain. Click here to download the printable version.  

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TitleDescriptionLibrary ID
TitleDescriptionLibrary ID
Boettiger Family at Mercer Island, WA; Hyde Park, NY and Sun Valley

John Boettiger home movie

15 mins. (353 ft), silent, color, 16mm

Seaside and boat scenes with John Boettiger, John R. Boettiger, Curtis Roosevelt, , Eleanor Seagraves, Anna Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Malvina Thompson, Hyde Park: FDR driving with Anna and Princess Martha of Norway. Also Henry and Elinor Morgenthau. Sun Valley: Anna and John Boettiger hunting. Also Gary Cooper.

Donated by John Boettiger, Eleanor Seagraves and Curtis Roosevelt

MP78-11:13
Cairo and Teheran

Produced by US Signal Corps

8 mins. (819 ft), composite, b & w, 35mm

Sound track is read by FDR - he speaks on the strategic concepts of the Pacific war; the choice of Eisenhower to lead the European invasion; postwar treatment of Germany; relations with USSR and Stalin. Final caption: "This Film is Restricted."

FDR2594-22-1
Campobello and Hyde Park

Victor Hammer home movies - 1953, 1955

46 1/2 mins. (2115 ft, 6 reels), silent, color, 16mm

Includes shots of ER at Campobello and Hyde Park including Val-Kill Cottage; John Roosevelt, Sara D. Roosevelt II, and other Roosevelt grandchildren.

Donated by Victor Hammer

MP73-23:1-6
ER Addressing the United Nations General Assembly c. 1952

1 min. 50 sec. (63 ft), sound, b & w, 16mm

Excerpt from speech apparently given at end of session.

Donated by Estelle Linzer

MP81-1(1)
ER and Red Cross 4 mins. (142 ft), silent, b & w, 35mm FDR2594-23(1)
ER and Red Cross

9 mins. (392 ft), composite, b & w, 35mm

ER in New Zealand. Tells story about "Rover lost her pup" - trying to visit Elliott Roosevelt at base in England.

FDR2594-23(2)
ER at AFL-CIO Merger, 1955 - NYC

Presented to ER by the Glass Blowers Association

27 mins. (975 ft), sound, b & w, 16mm (Kinescope original)

ER's speech at the AFL-CIO merger meeting in NYC, Dec.1955.

Donated by Eleanor Roosevelt

MP58-9:1
ER at CornellUniversity - Feb. 16, 1933

Home movie

Videotape made from original 16mm print donated by Sylvia Diehl.

10 ft, (total length 24 ft), silent, b & w, 16mm

Donated to government

MP& VT 83-11
ER in Hawaii - August 1943

Source unknown

2 mins. (50 ft), silent, color, 16mm

ER with Adm. Nimitz and other Navy brass.

From President Roosevelt's collection

MP71-8:105
ER in Japan

Dwight M. Burkam home movie

1 1/2 mins. (35 ft), silent, color, 16mm

ER visits Itazuki Air Base, Fukuoka, Kyushu Island, Japan in 1953.

Donated by Dwight M. Burkam, USAF, Lt. Col. (Ret.)

MP78-5
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