Roosevelt Xmas Party Dublin Issue (1942)

Titles read: “ROOSEVELT XMAS PARTY“ (Dublin issue). United States of America. Various shots of US President Franklin D Roosevelt carving a turkey at the Christmas party he gives each year for the inmates of Warm Springs Hospital. Several shots of patients eating. Roosevelt is driven away in an open car and is waved off by patients in wheelchairs (probably a polio hospital). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.