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McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio

18961 minUnited States
DocumentaryBiography

Synopsis

William McKinley steps out of his house to receive news from his secretary while his wife sits on the porch. The staged visit recreates the announcement of his presidential nomination.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:11
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · American Mutoscope and Biograph Company · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsWilliam Kennedy Dickson

Behind the scenes

The nomination had occurred weeks before filming in September 1896. The Biograph crew recorded McKinley at home on wide 68 mm film, presenting a candidate in a carefully arranged domestic setting.

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  • William McKinley — photographer; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a10814 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • Ida Saxton McKinley — Frances Johnston; This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a53351 . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing . · Public domain
  • George Cortelyou — US Postal service; http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/pmgs/ From Smithsonian postal history site · Public domain

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