- Title: P-16-65
- Summary: THE SUPREME COURT:
- Description:01:19:42 - THE SUPREME COURT BUILDING. 01:19:52 - SCULPTURES OUTSIDE BUILDING. GUARDIAN. CONTEMPLATION OF JUSTICE. 01:19:58 - CU CARVING IN BUILDING. EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW. 01:20:06 - MEN OPEN HUGE BRONZE DOORS. COLUMNS IN FRONT OF DOORS. 01:20:12 - INTERIOR. MASSIVE COLUMNS LINE CORRIDOR. 01:20:18 - PORTRAITS OF PREVIOUS CHIEF JUSTICES. JOHN JAY. 1790. FIRST CHIEF JUSTICE. JOHN MARSHALL. 1801 - 1835. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 1902 - 1932. 01:20:50 - CAPITOL BUILDING. FLAGS HANGING. INAUGURATION OF WOODROW WILSON. MANY PEOPLE GATHERED. 01:21:01 - DIGNITARIES PROMENADE. ASSOCIATE JUSTICES. 01:21:09 - CHIEF JUSTICE EDWARD D. WHITE ADMINISTERS THE OATH OF OFFICE TO WILSON. 01:21:16 - CU TAFT. 01:21:20 - HUGE, MASSIVE AMERICAN FLAG. 01:21:22 - TAFT GIVING SPEECH. READING FORM PAPERS. 01:21:31 - CHARLES EVANS HUGHES WALKING IN LINE OF PEOPLE. 01:21:36 - GIVING A SPEECH UNDER A FLAG. 1922 01:21:40 - SITTING. WRITING. HEADSET. 01:21:47 - LINE UP OF JUSTICES. MEN WITH CANES. OLDER MEN. DIGNIFIED. ALL DRESSED THE SAME. 01:22:01 - INAUGURATION OF DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER. 01:22:13 - CU CHIEF JUSTICE VINCENT SWEARS IKE IN. HANDSHAKE. 01:22:16 - EXTERIOR SUPREME COURT BUILDING. 01:22:19 - DOOR WITH POLICE ON IT OPENS. LINE OF POLICE AND CHIEF INSIDE. CAPTAIN GIVING INSTRUCTIONS. 01:22:34 - WASHINGTON D.C. PAGE BOYS. FROM THE BACK. 01:22:39 - CU FEET, SHOES, KNICKERS. 01:22:45 - WALK THROUGH A DOOR TO THE LIBRARY. 01:22:50 - LEGAL LIBRARY. INTERIOR. ORNATE MOLDINGS. COLUMNS. CHANDELIERS. DESKS. 01:23:02 - JUSTINIAN THE FIRST PLAQUE. 01:23:09 - HUGE BOOK SHELVES LINED UP. 01:23:14 - WOMAN USES OLD HISTORICAL PRESS TO INSCRIBE THE SEAL OF THE SUPREME COURT. 01:23:23 - CU OF SEAL. 01:23:27 - ATTENDANT OPENS DOOR TO THE SUPREME COURT WITH A ROPE. TRADITION. 01:23:34 - INTERIOR OF CHAMBER. MASSIVE WINDOWS WITH CURTAINS. GRAND. MAGNIFICENT. 01:23:39 - LINE OF CHAIRS AT MASSIVE DESK. EMPTY. 01:23:43 - CU OF SINGLE BLACK LEATHER CHAIR. 01:23:51 - CU EARL WARREN. CHIEF JUSTICE. 01:23:55 - JUSTICES POSE FOR PORTRAIT. IN ROBES. 01:24:00 - EXTERIOR OF BUILDING.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: P-16-65