WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 23963

Title: Focus on the Capitol

Alternate Titles:

Screen news digest,

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: 1971 (Release)

Original Summary:

"Presents a tour of the Capitol Building. Includes scenes of George Washington laying the cornerstone for the original building, the burning of the Capitol by the British in 1814, the inaugurations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and the opening of the ninety-second Congress." - Summary from Worldcat.

Screen news digest,, v. 13, no. 6.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 15 min 0 sec

Genres: Educational

Subjects: Presidents--Inauguration; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)

Name As Subjects: Washington, George,

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Production Company	Hearst Metrotone News, Inc.

Items ^x2

	Item	Description
	23963-1	Safety Film : Viewing print
	23963-2	Safety Film : Viewing print

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	4819	St. Louis Public Schools educational film library