Multimedia: Selected Clips

Below are selected clips highlighting the audio-visual collections at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. Please see our Audio/Visual Collections page to learn more about our multimedia collections.

Historic Motion Picture Footage Clips


Excerpts from President Roosevelt's first inaugural address, March 4, 1933. 7 mins. (256ft), sound, b & w, 16mm. Public domain archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library		Franklin D. Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, November 1940. 80 sec. (32 ft), silent, color, 16mm Public domain archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library


FDR Campaign Trip to Pittsburgh, 1940. 6 min. 41 sec. (63 ft), silent, color, 16mm. Public domain archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library		Eleanor Roosevelt Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, c. 1952. 1 min. 50 sec. (63 ft), sound, b & w, 16mm. Public domain archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library

Find us on YouTube! The FDR Library has a YouTube channel featuring archival film footage from our audio-visual collections. In conjunction with the Pare Lorentz Film Center, we add content to the channel regularly. Explore our footage and leave us your comments!

Historic Audio Clips

Sound Bytes: FDR's famous phrases

Browse through the following list of audio downloads to hear short clips of FDR's voice. These are portions of longer recordings available at the Library. The clips open as RealPlayer files and the largest is 2.31 MB.

Fear Itself

One Third of a Nation

Enlisted for the Duration

Arsenal of Democracy

Rendezvous with Destiny

Lighting the Christmas Tree

Attack on Fala

Four Freedoms

Government of Indifference

New Deal

Revive and Prosper

A Date Which Will Live in Infamy