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Ex-President Roosevelt’s Feathered Pets

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What the papers said

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“Ex-President Roosevelt amongst the birds of Louisiana sea islands. Night hawks, purple martins, wild waterfowl, fledgling gulls, etc. A film of good interest and variable quality.”

The Bioscope · 11 May 1916

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Cast and crew

Cast
Theodore Roosevelt
Photographed by
Herbert K. Job

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More about this film

Filmed in
Louisiana (and possibly Florida)
Bowers’ notes
  1. This film was released in Great Britain by Thanhouser Films, Ltd. on June 12, 1916. The author located no record of its release in the United States. 2. See also these related films: The Spirit of Audubon (October 19, 1915), Wild Birds at Home (indexed under May 29, 1916), and Herons and Egrets (indexed under June 19, 1916).

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Ex-President Roosevelt’s Feathered Pets”. thanhouser.org/films/ex-president-roosevelt-s-feathered-pets/

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