PROJECT XX {PROJECT TWENTY}: THE INNOCENT YEARS (TV)
Summary
One in this series of irregularly scheduled documentaries. This program focuses on United States during the pre-World War I years of this century, with special emphasis on Theodore Roosevelt and his influence. Highlights of this program include the following: the arrival of immigrants to New York, and a tour of the city, including the streets, fire trucks, street cars, and children playing; President William McKinley's funeral; at Sagamore Hill, President Theodore Roosevelt is seen rowing, riding, and chopping wood; working conditions in factories, including the employment of women and children; the automobile and the assembly line; Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt; President Roosevelt mediates an end to the Russo-Japanese War; the U.S. fleet in 1907; Mark Twain; circus parades; leisure activities, including boating, dancing, and bathing; Coney Island (Luna Park); in 1908, William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan for the presidency; strollers on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and fashions for women; suffragettes parade for a woman's right to vote; the theater and vaudeville, including Lillian Russell; the movies, Thomas Edison, "The Great Train Robbery," nickelodeons and early stars; the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the 1913 Dayton, Ohio, flood; on his return from Africa in 1910, Roosevelt is paraded through New York; the 1912 presidential campaign, including Roosevelt's quixotic "Bull-Moose" campaign; Taft accompanies the new president, Woodrow Wilson, on Inauguration Day; Gen. John J. Pershing and U.S. troops go to Mexico to fight Pancho Villa in 1916; and a Fourth of July parade. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 21, 1957 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:51:53
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T81:0407
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Automobile industry; Automobiles; Circus; Coney Island; Dayton, Ohio - Flood, 1913; Fashion; Films; Labor and laboring classes; New York City - Description; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; San Francisco - Earthquake, 1906; U S - Elections - 1904; U S - Elections - 1908; U S - Elections - 1912; U S - Foreign relations - Mexico; U S - History; U S - Social life and customs; U S Navy; Vaudeville; Women's rights
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1954-1971
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Henry Salomon … Producer, Writer
- Donald Hyatt … Director
- Richard Hauser … Writer
- Silvio D'Alisera … Editor
- Daniel Jones … Researcher
- Judith Greene … Researcher
- Michael Blackwood … Researcher
- Robert Russell Bennett … Music by
- Alexander Scourby … Narrator
- William Jennings Bryan
- Thomas Edison
- William McKinley
- Pershing, John J. "Black Jack"
- Edith Kermit Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Lillian Russell
- William Howard Taft
- Mark Twain
- Pancho Villa
- Woodrow Wilson