Robert Todd Lincoln

[Laurie Verge]

A question was recently raised about Robert Lincoln ever appearing on film. I thought the logical time would have been at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. I contacted our film expert, Richard Sloan, and received this reply:

There is no listing among the newsreels in the Library of Congress for a newsreel of the dedication ceremonies for the Lincoln Memorial, May 30, 1922. There is only a record of a newsreel having been made of the laying of the cornerstone a few years earlier. It was an interesting question. Who asked it of you?
(My source: -- "The Civil War in Motion Pictues -- a Bibliography of Films Produced in the U.S. since 1897." Compiled byPaul C. Spehr and the staff of the Motion Picture Section, Library of Congress, Wash., D.C. 1961.)
Perh. the Nat'l Archives has a listing of its own?