Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1917 /
Summary
On July 4, 1917, French actress Sarah Bernhardt speaks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Mme. Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Mme. Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be her personal physician, Dr. Felix Marot, and woman who is probably her secretary and translator, Miss Elizabeth Ormsby, seated in car.
Duration: 0:10 at 14 fps.
Appearing: Sarah Bernhardt, Dr. Felix Marot?, Elizabeth Ormsby?
Photographed on July 4, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York.
May have originally been part of a newsreel.
Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory number RMA 307-04-14.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: LC Prints & Photographs Division portrait file; The Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 83; Castelot, André, Ensorcelante Sarah Bernhardt, 1973, p. 15.
Collection transferred to LC from National Park Service in 1967. Previous owner: Roosevelt Memorial Association.
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986.
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