Summary

New Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin takes oath of office

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-6596
Clip SR005259_01_06.mov
Date 1/11/1955
Title New Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin takes oath of office
Description Title: "Griffin Takes Oath of Office" superimposed over Georgia Gov. Marvin Griffin at desk / MS outgoing Gov. Herman Talmadge shakes hands with Griffin in office / CU Talmadge grinning / Pan to Griffin standing in front of closed blinds / MS Edwin Dennis Martin, president of the Theater Owners of America and president of Martin Theaters of Georgia and Florida, stands between Talmadge and Griffin and shakes Martin's hand / MCU Tommy Thompson, president of the Georgia Theater Owners Association stand between Talmadge and Griffin and shakes their hands / MS inaugural stage in front of capitol with small crowd in front of stage and bunting hanging from capitol / MCU Judge B. E. Gardner of the State Court of Appeals swears in Griffin / high angle audience / swearing in / Pan down capitol, across inaugural stage and to audience / VS Griffin speaking from podium and stage, cutaway to audience applauding / Griffin steps down from podium / VS army jeeps drive toward and past camera in Peachtree Street parade driving past viewing stage / Griffin waves from stage, wife Mary next to him / VS tank and float with National Guard soldiers on it / parade crowd watching, Black people among them / VS beauty queens ride by on float with southern mansion / CU float "Georgia Becomes an Empire" with woman waving and sitting in front of painting of Southern plantation house / VS men on train engine drive past / float with men in Confederate uniforms / boat float goes past stage / CU beauty queens ride past on float / Griffin waves from stage
Personality Marvin Griffin, Herman Talmadge, Edwin Martin, Tommy Thompson, Mary Griffin, B E Gardner
Country United States
Province/State Georgia
City Atlanta

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