- Title: VM-156
- Summary: CHOOSING THE CANDIDATES: CAPTURES THE EXCITEMENT & SPECTACLE THAT MAKES PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS A UNIQUE PART OF AMERICA'S ELECTORAL PROCESS.
- Description:00:27:23 - STILLS ELECTION PROCESS, EARLY CAMPAIGNS 00:28:56 - POV ON HORSE DRAWN WAGON CROSSING PRAIRIE, CONESTOGA 00:28:59 - EARLY ROAD BUILDING. RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION MONTAGE 1890s: CU STEAM ENGINE HEADS TOWARDS CAMERA. WHEELS SPINNING LOCOMOTIVES. 00:29:09 - 1924 NATIONAL CONVENTION: STATE PLACARDS. JOHN W. DAVIS, DEMOCRAT. CALVIN COOLIDGE WINS ELECTION. MONTAGE OF CONVENTION. CU FANATICAL WOMAN WAVING HANDS. PAN SPECTATORS 00:29:47 - MONTAGE 1928 CONVENTION: ROOSEVELT SPEECH AT CONVENTION INTRODUCES AL SMITH "THE HAPPY WARRIOR" 00:30:13 - SCENES AT 1932 CONVENTION. LINE OF CAMERAMEN FILMING 00:30:18 - 1948 CONVENTION: FIRST TELEVISED CONVENTION. SHOWING CONVENTION ON TELEVISION 00:30:26 - FLAGS CARRIED THRU CONVENTION HALL. DONKEY AND ELEPHANT DOLLS AT CONVENTION. CU PEOPLE'S FACES, DELEGATES 00:30:50 - 1936 ROOSEVELT INTRODUCED AT CONVENTION. 00:31:15 - THOMAS E. DEWEY INTRODUCED AT CONVENTION. 00:31:33 - JFK INTRODUCES ADLAI STEVENSON 00:31:44 - MONTAGE CANDIDATES BEING INTRODUCED INCLUDES BARRY GOLDWATER, JOHNSON, JOHN KENNEDY. ALL INTRODUCED AT THEIR VARIOUS CONVENTIONS 00:32:10 - BALLOONS DROP FROM CEILING. FLAGS WAVED, BANNERS CARRIED AND WAVED. CONVENTION MONTAGE 00:32:32 - SCENES FROM 1960 DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION ROLL CALL. CU PAPIER MACHE DOLL OF JFK 00:33:40 - FDR GIVES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT 1936 CONVENTION. 00:34:10 - REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE AL LANDON GIVES "VOTE FOR BREAD" SPEECH 1932 00:34:41 - 1948 DEWEY CAMPAIGN CONVENTION, 00:34:56 - TRUMAN CAMPAIGN, CONVENTION. SIGNS, FLAGS, BANNERS. SOUTHERN DELEGATES WALK OUT 00:35:48 - HENRY WALLIS & SINGING SENATOR GLEN TAYLOR FROM IDAHO SINGS WITH FAMILY AT CONVENTION "WHEN YOU WERE SWEET 16" 00:37:00 - TRUMAN DEFEATS DEWEY. GIVES SPEECH RECALLING HIS ALLEGED LOSING OF ELECTION. TRUMAN IMITATES ANNOUNCERS 00:39:03 - MONTAGE NATIONAL CONVENTION CU AL SMITH. CANDIDATES MONTAGE 1924-74: INCLUDING COOLIDGE, FDR, DEWEY, IKE PUTTING ON SOMBRERO, NIXON & KENNEDY SHAKING HANDS AT DEBATE 00:39:30 - MONTAGE 1976 CONVENTIONS: HUMPHREY, MUSKIE, ETC. PEOPLE AT 1976 CONVENTION. JESSIE JACKSON AMONG THEM.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1890
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-156