William McKinley Inauguration Footage

The William McKinley Inauguration Footage is a short movie from 1897, containing the images of the inauguration of u.s. president William McKinley. The movie is shot on 4 March 1897 and lasts just over a minute. On the movie shows how McKinley in an official parade on Pennsylvania Avenue runs while the crowd cheers him.

The movie is historically particularly because it is the earliest known film footage of an American president. The original is kept in the U.S. National Archives.The sound score was later incorporated; When the movie was shot there was no sound when recorded.

Thanks to a successful digitization is the movie to see nowadays on the internet. By the high old age and the fact that the American Government material goes, it is movie copyright-free.