President McKinley Inauguration Footage
President McKinley Inauguration Footage is the name given to two different short documentary films which were combined as one. The two titles are
President McKinley Taking the Oath and
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol. Both date from
1901. The two show president
William McKinley arriving at the
United States Capitol in order to take the
oath of office for
President of the United States.
Both were produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company, under the direction of Thomas Edison, and in 2000 the United States Library of Congress deemed the two "culturally significant" and selected them for preservation in the National Film Registry.