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1964 Romney Political: Romney candidates, Romney-Peterson, 1964, 1964
Motion Picture Films
The Motion Picture Films (8 linear feet) include a wide variety of material, from brief clips to extended footage to finished television programs. The clips, generally a few seconds to a few minutes long, may be the product of WWJ-TV in Detroit. They primarily show Romney or others responding to WWJ reporters' questions. A few of the 1962 clips relate to John Swainson, and not to Romney. Extended footage, from a few minutes to 60 minutes, documents Romney speeches and campaign activities. Some of the footage has been edited, but much of it has not. Finished programs include campaign commercials and local and network news specials on which Romney appears. Collections of 1966 campaign commercials include commercials made for Robert Griffin's United States Senate campaign. "Lenore," a film produced for Lenore Romney's 1970 campaign for the United States Senate, is the only visual record of that campaign in the collection. Programs with no connection to Romney include "The Cobo story: a report to the people of Michigan," from Albert Cobo's 1956 campaign for governor; "Wanted, one million jobs: the story of the unemployed Negro," an October 1962 NBC documentary that highlights the lives of four Detroit workers; "Don't curse the darkness: a look at youth crime in Michigan," probably made in 1964.
"George Romney announcing his candidacy for governor" footage, February 10, 1962
Inauguration ceremony and address, January 1, 1963
Sound Recordings
The Romney audiotape collection consists of 759 reel-to-reel and cassette sound tapes made in the period 1952-1969. Included are tapes of Romney speeches, press conferences, and political addresses and meetings. The collection also includes tapes made by the Romney staff of speeches and interviews of other political figures. The bulk of these tapes will be found in Romney's Gubernatorial Series with a smaller quantity (ca. 149 tapes) located in the Pre-Gubernatorial Subgroup.
To facilitate economy in storage, the tapes have been arranged by size and then chronologically. The seven-inch tapes, which comprise the bulk of the collection, include a separate subseries of audiotapes of press conferences. Although the chronological series of audiotapes includes many Romney press conferences, this subseries consists of tapes, many of which cover multiple dates. To avoid confusion in the chronological listing of tapes, therefore, it was decided to maintain these multiple date press conferences as a separate unit. For the researcher interested in listening to a specifically dated Romney press conference, he/she should first consult the chronological listing, then the listing for the multiple-dated press conferences.