BIOGRAPHY (CBS): ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (23 Min., B&W)
The pioneer of all TV biography documentary series gives its usual standard-setting treatment of the lives of great men to this great woman and revered First Lady. Narrated by Mike Wallace.
PERSPECTIVE ON GREATNESS: FIRST LADY OF THE WORLD (1963, 50 Min., B&W)
A documentary winningly produced in the old school manner of substance over style, titled with the name unofficially given Mrs. Roosevelt by the great world body that was the U.N. which she served in the capacity as delegate from the United States and through whom she sponsored one of the great humanitarian documents of all time, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. with reverence and respect. Narrated by the eminent American actress and U.N. diplomat Celeste Holm.
THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY (1965, 90 Min., B&W)
Won The Academy Award for Best Documentary and The National Board of Review Award for Best English Language Film in 1966. An extraordinary, sensitive, poetic and admiring film, produced 3 years after her death, written by the eminent American poet and diplomat Achibald Macleish and narrated by Macleish, the great broadcast journalist Eric Severeid and Mrs. Roosevelt's childhood friend Francis Cole.