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Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910 / [production company unknown].


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CREATED/PUBLISHED
[United States : s.n.], 1910.

SUMMARY
While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, TR is invited to fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri (1909-1913) and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, TR arrives in motorcade at Kinloch aviation field; man, who appears to be Hoxsey, inspects plane; medium shot of TR as he enters passenger seat of biplane; long shot of plane flying; TR alights from plane, joins waiting crowd, enters automobile and drives away in motorcade.

NOTES
Copyright: no reg.

Duration: 3:33 at 20 fps.

Arch Hoxsey, Herbert Hadley, Henry W. Kiel, Louis Nolte.

Roosevelt Memorial Association numbers: RMA 309-04-02; RMA 309-04-03.

MAVIS 1203936; Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910.

National Park Service acquire from Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA). RMA purchase from Thomas Jackson.

Sources used: St. Louis globe-democrat. 10/12/10:1-2; St. Louis republic. 10/12/10:1, 3; P&P portrait file.

Received: Feb. 1976 from LC lab; viewing print and dupe neg; preservation; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection.

SUBJECTS
Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919.
Presidents--United States.
Airplanes--Missouri--Lambert Field (Kinloch, Mo.)
Air pilots.
Aeronautics--Exhibitions.
Nonfiction films.
Short films.
Actualities (Motion pictures)

RELATED NAMES
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
Hadley, Herbert S. (Herbert Spencer), 1872-1927.
Missouri. Governor.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)

MEDIUM
1 film reel of 1 (267 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. viewing print.
1 film reel of 1 (267 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg.

CALL NUMBER
FEA 6729 (viewing print)
FPB 7136 (dupe neg)

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID
trmp 4087 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/trmp.4087

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